Carbon Market Institute announces new Chief Executive Officer
The Board of the Carbon Market Institute is pleased to announce it has appointed Dr Sasha Courville as its new Chief Executive Officer.
Sasha was the inaugural Chief Impact Officer with Bank Australia, responsible for embedding sustainability across the bank. This included leading the implementation of the bank’s climate action strategy, and enabling lending into high integrity carbon and biodiversity projects through its nature and biodiversity strategy.
She also held several key climate, sustainability and social impact roles at National Australia Bank, including Social Impact Executive, Head of Social Innovation, Head of Corporate Responsibility, and Project Director, Natural Value Strategy.
In these roles, she drove the integration of sustainability into core business strategy, focusing on creating commercial opportunities in response to societal challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and affordable housing. She led NAB’s decarbonisation pathways work, strengthened banker capability to support clients in transition, and designed NAB’s natural capital strategy focused on integrating biodiversity and ecosystem services considerations into risk management, agribusiness customer engagement and product development.
She is also a former Executive Director of the London-based ISEAL Alliance, which serves as the global hub for a range of sustainability standards and certification initiatives, defining best practice for credible standard-setting, assurance and impact measurement.
Most recently, Sasha was a principal consultant with Natural Capital and Climate, a member company of the B-Corp certified Alluvium Group.
Sasha did her Doctorate at ANU, focusing on incorporating social and ecological costs into international trade. She did her Master of Science dissertation at the London School of Economics, focusing on eco-labelling, and has also studied at Toronto’s York University.
Sasha will take up her new role on 1 November.
Comments attributable to Kerry Schott AO – Chair of the Carbon Market Institute
“Dr Courville has extensive experience in developing and deploying integrated solutions to complex climate change and sustainability challenges.
This makes her the ideal person to lead the Carbon Market Institute as Australia buckles down to the critical task of implementing net zero. The role of reliable carbon markets on that journey is increasingly important.”
Comments attributable to Dr Sasha Courville, incoming Chief Executive Officer
“I am thrilled to be part of the Carbon Market Institute, which brings together a diverse range of organisations that are committed to ambitious action on climate change.”
