Lara is an Australian with eight years’ experience in clean energy policy across Australia and Asia Pacific. She has driven key policies that have enabled mass deployment of new technologies such as energy storage, and held leadership positions in clean energy industry bodies.

Lara is taking a step back to focus on wider policy challenges, and her interests lie in energy, climate and supply chain. As an undergraduate Lara studied chemical engineering and languages. She recently spent six weeks in Yunnan, China, immersed in Mandarin and hiking.