Danielle Clarke
Bachelor of Laws | Bachelor of Arts (Spanish and Development Studies) | Master of Environment (current)
Associate Consultant

• Bio
• Recent projects
• Qualifications

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Background
Danielle is passionate about building resilience to climate change. She is in the final semester of her Master's of Environment where she has majored in Climate Change. Her particular interest area is risk management in relation to climate change from both a community and business perspective. She has experience working with a broad range of stakeholders including local governments, corporate entities, not-for-profits and grassroots organisations. She contributes an understanding of business and the regulatory environment to First Person Consulting. This understanding coupled with her critical thinking skills allow her to articulate useful findings for clients.

Past employment
Prior to First Person Consulting, Danielle worked as a solicitor at both a corporate law firm and an indigenous' rights law firm. She has experience working with local government on urban planning matters and natural resource management, in addition to transactional commercial property matters and construction litigation. She also worked with indigenous communities on both historical land and natural resource management claims. She recently completed a placement at the City of Melbourne working on increasing the resilience of the municipality to extreme heat events.

Dani's recent projects:

• 2017-2018, Fresh Tastes Evaluation Support Services, ACT Health
  
• 2017-2019, Solar PV for Low Income Households Program Evaluation, Eastern Alliance for Greenhouse Action
• 2018, Evaluation of the Waterway Management Twinning Program, Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning
  
• 2018, Building Victoria’s Organics Recovery Final Evaluation, Sustainability Victoria
  
• 2017-2018, Knowledge Strategy Theme Evaluations, Office for Environment and Heritage
  
• 2017, Linking Landscapes Evaluation, Natural Resources Commission
  
• 2017, Partnerships Evaluation for the NSW Energy Efficiency Action Plan, Office for Environment and Heritage
  
• 2017, Final Evaluation of the Litter Hotspots Program, Metropolitan Waste and Resource Recovery Group
  
• 2017, Evaluation of the Rivers 2 Ramsar: Connecting River Corridors for Landscape Resilience Program, Peel Harvey Catchment Council
  
• 2017, Ride or Walk to School Evaluation, ACT Health
  
• 2017, Evaluation of four National Landcare Programme funded projects, North East Catchment Management Authority         
  

Qualifications
Danielle has a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts (majoring in Spanish and Development Studies) from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. She completed a Permaculture Design Certificate in 2015. She is currently studying a Masters of Environment at the University of Melbourne majoring in Climate Change.