Mel de Silva is an environmental sustainability advisor who has led decarbonisation and climate resilience programs for some of Australia's largest corporations and government agencies. She contributes to sustainability committees and conservation groups, and brings a background that spans finance, engineering and sustainability. This is a combination that informs both her technical analysis and her interest in the broader economic and political forces shaping the energy transition. Her writing reflects a systems thinker's instinct for seeing how things connect across disciplines and time horizons. When not working, she spends her time baking bread (sometimes successfully) and playing with her dog, Kaya.
