Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA VIC) has welcomed chartered accountant Sarah Thomson to its governing board.
With a 25-year background in finance, governance and risk, Thomson has diverse professional and personal experience and a strong commitment to ethical and values-based leadership and governance.
“I am very much looking forward to making a contribution to safeguarding the environment for the Victorian community,” said Thomson.
In addition, she has broad-based executive experience primarily as a Chief Financial Officer and in strategy development, digital, customer and community engagement.
Thomson is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has degrees in Economics and Asian Studies from the Australian National University.
She has worked in diverse organisations in for-profit, for-purpose and government owned enterprises, primarily in the international community development and water sectors and has spent a year working in an aboriginal corporation in Kakadu, Northern Territory.
Thomson has completed a number of leadership courses including the Minister for Water’s Insights Executive Leadership and Williamson Community Leadership programs.
She has a strong commitment to her regional home of Shepparton and has been the chair of the Goulburn Murray Resilience Strategy for four years, a board member of the Rumbalara Football and Netball Club and a committee member of the Committee for Greater Shepparton (a business advocacy committee).
Kate Auty, Chair Professor, EPA, said, Thomson is widely respected in the water industry and her regional community and brings great skills to the board.
For more information, www.epa.vic.gov.au
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