Board & council
Ros Harvey, President
Ros is an activist, innovator and entrepreneur. She has held leadership roles in private, trade union, government, university and community sectors. She was the Founder/CEO of The Yield, which uses AI to grow food more profitably with less environmental impact.
Ros founded the International Labour Organisation’s Better Work program for improving working conditions in apparel supply chains. She brings an international perspective having worked for the United Nations. Ros was named in 2018 as one of the Australian Financial Reviews 100 Most Influential Women.
Ros is an Australian Institute of Company Directors graduate.
Stephen Lightfoot , Vice President
Stephen is a doctor who brings an important medical perspective to the Board. His focus is on the relationship between nature, a safe climate and our physical, mental health and wellbeing. He is uniquely qualified to lead the Board’s work in this space, having postgraduate degrees in health and environmental management, and he is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Stephen is an advocate for sustainable healthcare, and experienced in NGO governance, having served previous terms on ACF Council. He has extensive experience in community engagement leading the ACF Eastern Sydney group. Stephen is passionate about protecting our natural places and working towards a healthy environment, where both nature and Australian communities thrive.
Shar Molloy, Vice President
Shar has over 25 years’ experience working in environmental organisations and her qualifications are in finance, management, governance, mediation and campaigning.
Shar led the Environment Centre of the Northern Territory from 2017 to 2022 and has served on the board of the Environmental Defenders Office (NT) and the Darwin Asylum Seeker Support and Advocacy Network (DASSAN).
Shar designed and delivered the 10GW Vision in collaboration with Beyond Zero Emissions, and the successful and award-winning Repower NT campaign in 2020, which changed the conversation about renewable energy in the Northern Territory.
Terence Jeyaretnam, Treasurer
Terence is Director at Foresight Consulting Group specialising in climate change and sustainability based in Melbourne. For the past decade he was Partner and APAC Leader of EY’s Climate Change and Sustainability team. He is an environmental and sustainability advisory and assurance specialist with over 30 years’ experience in advising governments and corporations on sustainability issues. Until its acquisition by EY in 2014, Terence was Founder/Executive Director of Net Balance, Australia's largest standalone sustainability and climate change practice at the time, one of Australia’s first B Corporations.
Terence is a member of the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board of Australia, a Councillor of the Royal Society of Victoria and is the Chair of Amnesty International Australia and Global Citizen Australia. He is also a Professor at Monash Business School.
Leon Cermak, Secretary
Leon has worked in policy roles in energy, climate change and sustainability. Currently working at Tesla across VPP and DER policy and programs, Leon has extensive knowledge of energy systems, economics and finance. Prior to joining Tesla, Leon worked in various ministerial, policy and political roles across state and federal government.
Leon is passionate about ensuring that the transition to sustainable energy is socially equitable and that Australia leads the world in supporting nature. Leon has been an ACF Councillor since 2018, is a BA (Public Policy), MBA, GCM and AICD graduate. He lives and works on Kaurna land.
Hayley Conway, Board Member
Hayley is the CEO of Pride Cup and has over 15 years of experience working for LGBTQI+ inclusion and equality in Australia and overseas.
Prior to joining Pride Cup, Hayley held a range of roles across the federal parliament, for-purpose, and private sectors specialising in communications and campaigns. She has served on the board of Equality Australia for the past five years, before which she was a director of The Green Institute. She holds a Masters with Distinction from RMIT, is a 2022 Leadership Victoria Williamson Fellow, and served as a volunteer firefighter with the Victorian Country Fire Authority for several years.
Sarah English, Board Member
Sarah has led campaigns and communications in environmental, human rights, and political organisations for fifteen years, working with both grassroots groups and national organisations like Amnesty International and GetUp.
Sarah is an advocate for a fast and fair transition to renewable energy in order to address the climate and nature crises, generate jobs and affordable energy, and prevent further damage to First Nations sites. Sarah has served on the ACF Council since 2018, and was elected to the Board in 2022.
Sally Fisher, Board Member
Sally is a Community Organiser with the Real Deal Geelong Alliance on Wadawurrung country. Being raised on a farm increased her appreciation of how fragile our land is and how we all need to care for it.
Her interest in community organising comes after a career in health which saw her work across three states. Living in SA during the Millenium drought increased her understanding that our economic systems are drivers of climate change and inequality and need to be urgently addressed.
Sally is an ACF Geelong Community group leader and passionate about a just transition to a fair economy.
Alice Hardinge, Board Member
Alice is an environmental campaigner with over ten years of experience in grassroots and professional environmental advocacy. With a background ranging from front-line direct action, to directing strategic litigation, to political and corporate lobbying, Alice is passionate about using a variety of tactics and working with communities to achieve environmental and First Nations justice.
Alice is currently working as the Campaigns Manager for the Wilderness Society Tasmania as well as volunteering on the Lawyers for Forests executive. She is thrilled to join the ACF Board and Council and to create real solutions together for a better future.
Susanne Legena, Board Member
Susanne is CEO of Plan International Australia - a child and girls' rights organisation - and a transformative leader in global social change. She is known for bringing bold, future-focused thinking to complex challenges, including climate change, global poverty, and gender inequality.
A passionate feminist and advocate for youth empowerment, Susanne believes lasting change begins with listening, partnership, and a shared vision for humanity. Her environmental activism began in the student movement, campaigning for a nuclear-free Pacific, and continues today through her commitment to climate justice and protecting the places she loves. For Susanne, meaningful change is built by ordinary people standing up for what they care about - and holding governments and corporations to account for people and the planet.
Alongside her CEO role, Susanne is Chair of the Emergency Action Alliance and a Board Director for CommUnity Plus, supporting grassroots development in Melbourne's West. Her earlier public sector career included senior roles with the Victorian Government, advising on energy, arts, and resource policy.
Outside work, Susanne draws inspiration from nature as a keen gardener and beekeeper and bodysurfs with the Silver Salties in Anglesea. She brings that same sense of community, resilience, and love of nature to her role on the ACF Board.
Gautam Raju, Board Member
Gautam is a campaigner and political strategist with over fifteen years of experience working across government relations, movement building and systems change spanning Australia, the United States, India, Kenya and across Europe.
He is Chair of the Australian Democracy Network and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Through senior roles in global advocacy organisations and multilaterals including the Office of the United Nations Secretary-General and Oxfam International, he has led teams of campaigners, strategists and technologists to deliver complex public mobilisation campaigns across four continents on issues spanning global health, inequality, digital rights and civic participation.
Gautam holds a Masters of International Development from the University of Melbourne and was previously a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University's Internet Institute. He is passionate about the role of civil society in building the political conditions for lasting environmental and social change.