Donovan Burton is the Director of Informed.City and has more than 20 years’ experience helping organisations understand and respond to climate-related risks and opportunities. He has worked with financial institutions, central banks, insurers, infrastructure providers, governments, UN agencies and the private sector, delivering hundreds of projects and training hundreds of professionals across Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the Pacific.
Donovan specialises in climate governance, adaptation, climate risk, scenario development and strategic decision-making. He is known for translating complex climate issues into practical frameworks that help organisations navigate uncertainty and make more informed decisions. Internationally, Donovan was appointed by the UNFCCC as an expert under the UAE–Belém Work Programme on adaptation indicators and has contributed to climate adaptation, climate finance and risk management discussions through organisations including UNEP and the IPCC.
Chloe is a Climate Risk and Adaptation Specialist with more than ten years’ experience across over 90 climate-related projects. She helps councils and government agencies embed climate change in governance, risk management, strategy and monitoring, building the climate capability teams need for climate risk to shape everyday decisions about assets, services and communities. Over the past decade, she has assessed the climate governance of 340+ councils across five states and co-designed Informed.City’s award-winning climate governance platform.
She develops practical templates, guidelines and supporting tools that help clients apply climate-risk approaches within their existing processes. Chloe pairs technical analysis with clear, usable, adaptable guidance, so advice translates into action in each organisation’s context. For three City of Gold Coast projects, she co-designed risk assessment processes, scenarios, exposure dashboards and staff guidelines, developed an MEL framework, and reviewed its climate resilience measures of success.
Estefania is a climate adaptation and mitigation expert bridging science, policy and practice across Australia and Latin America. She serves on the Science Committee of the World Adaptation Science Programme (WASP) and has contributed to IPCC and UNEP processes. Her doctoral research developed a framework for closing the gap between adaptation theory and practice, which she has applied throughout her career to guide governments, cities and communities towards practical, evidence-based climate solutions.
Across local and state government, her experience spans climate policy, planning and implementation at multiple scales. She has supported informed decision-making and collaboration across institutions, translating climate science into real-world responses to emissions reduction, adaptation and resilience challenges. As a knowledge broker, she connects research, practical experience and professional networks, turning knowledge into action through know-how, know-why and know-who.
Ian is a Chartered Accountant and climate risk specialist with over twenty years’ experience in international financial services, including at UBS and Swiss Re. Director of Everbloom Consulting and an Industry Associate with Griffith University’s Climate Ready Initiative, he specialises in emissions accounting and target-setting, scenario development, and physical and transition risk analysis across Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific.
He has assessed climate risk exposure and developed a risk strategy for a major New Zealand bank, evaluated transition risk for a resource infrastructure provider, and shaped Auckland Council’s climate scenarios. More recently, he supported scenario analysis against Bank of New Zealand’s business strategy and helped develop physical and transition risk methodologies for BNZ Investment Services’ portfolios. He brings a multinational systems lens to how organisations respond to climate risk.
Tiago Cisalpino Pinheiro is an international consultant and researcher specialising in climate change mitigation and adaptation, nature-based solutions, carbon markets and socio-environmental economic analysis. With more than 20 years’ experience across Latin America and the Global South, he has led technical projects for the United Nations, the Inter-American Development Bank, GIZ, C40 and ICLEI, supporting governments, private sector entities and civil society to develop evidence-based climate policies, risk assessments and financial mechanisms.
He has designed mitigation scenarios, evaluated climate risk and structured financing for resilience and nature-based solutions, with expertise in MRV systems, carbon pricing and ecosystem service valuation. With a PhD in Geography and a background in Economics, Tiago combines academic training with practical delivery, bridging scientific rigour, public policy and international cooperation to support resilient, low-carbon development pathways.
Sherylin is a Senior Economist and Climate Finance Specialist with over 15 years’ experience across government, international development and multilateral organisations. Her expertise spans public finance, national budgeting, tax and regulatory policy, and economic appraisal of large-scale public investment programmes. She translates policy priorities into investable, evidence-based programmes aligned with fiscal sustainability, ESG principles and economic resilience.
As Programme Development Manager in Fiji’s Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, she supported a Green Climate Fund-approved project building resilience in tuna-dependent economies across 14 Pacific Island countries and a nature-based seawalls project for Fiji’s coastal communities. At Fiji Revenue and Customs Service, she contributed to rewriting the Income Tax and Customs Acts. She helped develop Fiji’s Sustainable Finance Roadmap for the Reserve Bank of Fiji and represented Fiji at COP negotiations.
