About
Meet the team.
The bridge between academic knowledge and commercial decisions.
Dr Tim Barnes
Tim has a Physics PhD from UNSW and an Honorary Associate Professorship at the ANU. He's published 80+ peer-reviewed papers, with work appearing in Nature, and was lead author on the UN International Resource Panel's The Weight of Cities (2018). At CSIRO he was a Senior Scientist using IELab data for years, before co-founding FootprintLab.
Janet Salem
Janet's PhD (in progress at the University of Sydney) is on how to fit ESG data into the financial system. Before that, she led sustainability programmes at UNEP, UNESCAP, FAO, and UNIDO. Awarded the 2022 UNSW Women in Engineering Ada Lovelace Medal. She used IELab data at the UN before co-founding FootprintLab.
Jamie McKenzie
Jamie leads FootprintLab's commercial conversations from first enquiry through contract. Point of contact for customers, partnerships, and anyone scoping a data requirement.
Alan Shields
Founder of RFI Global. Author of The Startup Handbook. Advises on go-to-market.
Grant Johnstone
Ex-Global Head at Mastercard. Advises on commercial strategy.
Daniel Pappalo
CFO at Goterra. Advises on financial strategy.
Why FootprintLab exists.
We've both been using IELab data in our day jobs for years now. Janet at the UN, Tim at CSIRO. We understand what this data can do, but nobody outside government or academia had access to it. FootprintLab exists to close that gap. The longer game for us is to integrate ESG data into the financial system. Most environmental impact comes from financial decisions. The environmental data exists, but it lives in sustainability reports and academic papers, not in the systems where those decisions are actually made. We believe that people care, and would make different choices if the environmental cost was sitting next to the dollar cost.
-Janet & Tim
IELab, University of Sydney & UNSW
The Industrial Ecology Virtual Laboratory (IELab) is a joint research program of the University of Sydney and UNSW. Conceived at USyd's Integrated Sustainability Analysis group by Prof Manfred Lenzen. Operated from UNSW under Prof Tommy Wiedemann since 2014. Contributors include the University of Queensland, Griffith, Federation University Australia, University of South Australia, University of Melbourne, and CSIRO. FootprintLab holds the exclusive commercial licence to IELab's emission factor and impact factor data.
Prof Manfred Lenzen
Prof Tommy Wiedmann
Caleb Aryampa
Liyuan Wei
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