Event Details

Join Infrastructure New Zealand and KPMG, on Wednesday 12 February at 5:30pm, to hear from domestic and global leaders in infrastructure resilience and climate adaptation in the lead up to INZ and Brightstar’s March Infrastructure Resilience conference. 

We know that responding to the biggest challenge of the twenty-first century will take a coordinated, whole of society approach, but how can we catalyse the level of collaboration needed to effectively adapt to and prepare for growing climate risks?

KPMG's Global Head of Infrastructure, Government and Healthcare, Richard Threlfall, will provide an overview of the global landscape for climate-resilient infrastructure, planning, and financing. Drawing on international examples, Richard will share case studies New Zealand can learn from.

Richard will then join a panel discussion that will focus on how we can leverage international thinking to tackle highly localised challenges. With the backdrop of changes to funding and financing of infrastructure, we will unpick the question of how we make infrastructure to support adaptation investable and effective.

Event Sponsor

We would like to thank KPMG for sponsoring this event.

Presenter Details

Vanessa Brown - Group General Manager of Transport Services, NZ Transport Agency

Vanessa is the Interim Group General Manager of Transport Services at the NZ Transport Agency.  Transport Services is the business group responsible for the planning, design, delivery and operations of New Zealand’s integrated transport system and is specifically responsible for the state highway.  

She has been at NZTA for nearly 12 years and in her substantive role as National Manager Te Toki Manawa Portfolio and Standards for the last four of those. Part of the Transport Services business group, the Portfolio and Standards team runs the portfolio office for Transport Services, sets the technical standards and creates the tactical plan for maintenance and renewal investment in the state highway.   

Transport Services is delivering a very large programme (~$40B),  for both capital investment and maintenance and renewals into the state highway over the next 10 years.  With a focus on delivery excellence, areas of focus include conversion to a new maintenance and delivery contract model, delivering 16 'Roads of National Significance', transforming the way we carry out the investigation and business casing phases of our work and embedding the P3M model into the business.