Maria Atkinson AM

Maria Atkinson AM, Sustainability Business Advisor, and Founding CEO, Green Building Council of Australia was a member of the concluding panel at the 5th LafargeHolcim Forum held in Detroit in April 2016.

Maria Atkinson was a member of the concluding panel at the 5th LafargeHolcim Forum held in Detroit in April 2016.

Maria Atkinson AM, Co-Founder, Green Building Council of Australia at the Global Holcim Awards jury meeting in Zurich, 2015

Maria Atkinson, Member of the Global jury and the Board of the LafargeHolcim Foundation commended the project for creating a skilled and motivated workforce through an educational program and the thoughtful deployment of specific construction techniques.

Maria Atkinson AM, Founding CEO, Green Building Council of Australia, and Sustainability Business Advisor, Australia and was a member of the Global Holcim Awards jury in 2015.

Maria Atkinson, administrator, Group Head of Sustainability, Lend Lease and Managing Director, Sustainability Solutions, Australia

“The Holcim Awards is an amazing opportunity to contribute ideas, but also to learn from others and to celebrate those that win.” Maria Atkinson AM, Co-Founder, Green Building Council of Australia at the Global Holcim Awards jury meeting in Zurich, 2012.

Hans-Rudolf Schalcher, civil engineer, Professor em. for Planning and Management in Construction at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland and Maria Atkinson, administrator, Group Head of Sustainability, Lend Lease and Managing Director, Sustainability Solutions, Australia at the Global Holcim Awards jury meeting 2012 in Zurich, Switzerland.

Maria Atkinson, Member of the Global Holcim Awards jury 2012, following the Global Holcim Awards jury 2012 meeting in Zurich, Switzerland.

Maria Atkinson AM, Sustainability Business Advisor, and Founding CEO, Green Building Council of Australia was a member of the concluding panel at the 5th LafargeHolcim Forum held in Detroit in April 2016.

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Maria Atkinson was a member of the concluding panel at the 5th LafargeHolcim Forum held in Detroit in April 2016.

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Maria Atkinson AM, Co-Founder, Green Building Council of Australia at the Global Holcim Awards jury meeting in Zurich, 2015

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Global Silver Awards 2015 prize ceremony – Post-War Collective: Community library and social recuperation, Ambepussa, Sri Lanka

Maria Atkinson, Member of the Global jury and the Board of the LafargeHolcim Foundation commended the project for creating a skilled and motivated workforce through an educational program and the thoughtful deployment of specific construction techniques.

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Maria Atkinson AM, Founding CEO, Green Building Council of Australia, and Sustainability Business Advisor, Australia and was a member of the Global Holcim Awards jury in 2015.

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Maria Atkinson, administrator, Group Head of Sustainability, Lend Lease and Managing Director, Sustainability Solutions, Australia

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“The Holcim Awards is an amazing opportunity to contribute ideas, but also to learn from others and to celebrate those that win.” Maria Atkinson AM, Co-Founder, Green Building Council of Australia at the Global Holcim Awards jury meeting in Zurich, 2012.

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Hans-Rudolf Schalcher, civil engineer, Professor em. for Planning and Management in Construction at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland and Maria Atkinson, administrator, Group Head of Sustainability, Lend Lease and Managing Director, Sustainability Solutions, Australia at the Global Holcim Awards jury meeting 2012 in Zurich, Switzerland.

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Maria Atkinson, Member of the Global Holcim Awards jury 2012, following the Global Holcim Awards jury 2012 meeting in Zurich, Switzerland.

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About

Maria Atkinson AM is a Sustainability Business Advisor, a Co-Founder and Founding CEO of the Green Building Council of Australia, of which she is now a Life Fellow.

She was awarded the Member of the General Division of the Order of Australia (AM) for “service to the construction and real estate sector, particularly as a leader and contributor to environmentally sustainable building development in Australia” in 2012.

She is the former Group Head of Sustainability for Lend Lease’s consulting business Sustainability Solutions in Sydney. She is Director of XO Pty Limited, which focuses on impact investments with the intention to generate measurable social or environmental impact alongside revenue growth and profitability.

She studied Environmental Biology, Aquatic Biology & Coastline Protection at the University of Technology (UTS), Sydney. She is also a graduate of the Executive Development Program at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

She is a member of the City of Sydney Design Advisory Committee; the Australian Government Department of Climate Change; the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Climate Adaptation Flagship Stakeholder Advisory Group; and Director of the St James Ethics Foundation.

She is a member of its Climate Change Think Tank, a Director of the United States Green Building Council, and a member of the US Studies Centre Council of Advisors. She was the Chair of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Sustainable Buildings and Climate Initiative until July 2011, and a member of the Singapore Building and Construction Authority’s International Panel of Experts for Sustainability in the Built Environment from 2007 until 2009.

She chaired the discussion about the Future of Sustainable Construction at the World Economic Forum inaugural Summit on the Global Agenda in Dubai in 2008, and spoke at the THINK 08 conference in London. Maria Atkinson was also a delegate to the Australia 2020 Summit in the Sustainability and Climate Change stream.

Maria Atkinson was appointed to the Board of the LafargeHolcim Foundation in December 2013. She was a member of the Global Holcim Awards jury in 2012 and 2015, and participated in the concluding panel of the 5th International LafargeHolcim Forum held in Detroit in April 2016.

She was a keynote panel moderator at the 6th International LafargeHolcim Forum for Sustainable Construction on “Re-materializing Construction” held in Cairo, Egypt in April 2019.