Anita Roper - Chief Executive Officer, Sustainability Victoria

Anita has more than 25 years experience working with business, governments and communities to turn sustainability concepts into effective action.

Working internationally for the past 10 years Anita has held the positions of Director of Sustainability for Alcoa in New York, where she was responsible for coordinating and integrating the concepts of sustainability throughout the company; Member of the Secretariat for the Global Mining Initiative (GMI) in London; Acting Secretary General and Chief Operating Officer of the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) in London and was Vice President of External Relations with the International Council on Metals and the Environment (ICME) in Canada.

Prior to working overseas, she managed WMC's public policy unit at the company's headquarters in Melbourne and worked with the then Australian Chamber of Manufactures in strategy and environment roles. Anita was also a Board member of the Women's Network for a Sustainable Future and delegate to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

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