Lisa is currently RN Head Climate Change & Sustainability:

creating and managing a climate change and sustainability

strategy to ensure climate risk resilience and environmental

management practises are undertaken.

Lisa has over 25 years’ experience within the marine industry.

Her experience ranges from working on board ships as an

engineer, teaching at foundation degree level, through to

working in the design approval office and as a consultant.

Lisa has developed deep, specialist knowledge of climate

resilience and sustainability, particularly in the maritime

domain. She is also a qualified marine engineer.

Lisa has deep experience in interpreting and designing ship

machinery systems for compliance with Class, MARPOL, IGF

Code for low flashpoint fuels, Ballast Water Management

Convention and SOLAS, as well as local legislation around the

globe. She has played an active role in policy working groups

at IMO.

Past projects have involved the design of on board

environmental systems, propulsion systems and HVAC for

cruise and defence; the development of newbuild

specifications and senior engineer for the machinery systems

design of a vessel specified to operate in extreme

environments on low flashpoint fuel.

More recently, Lisa has led a team of 7 environmental

protection and sustainability SMEs: working across climate

change, sustainability and environmental management topics.

She has undertaken environmental legislative compliance

assessments for defence platforms; various environmental

impact assessments of platforms and equipment; completed

gap analysis of RN environmental management systems

against ISO14001:2015 and presented on sustainability and its

wider meaning within the maritime and defence sectors.