Presenters

Luke Salem, Senior Associate, King & Wood Mallesons
Luke Salem is Senior Associate in the Sydney Environment, Planning & Native Title Team. He assists clients to navigate all areas of environment and planning law including licences and approvals, pollution, contamination, waste, water, coastal management, biodiversity, heritage, compulsory acquisition, regulatory investigations and incidents. Luke advises on complex deals and projects. He prepares and negotiates bespoke agreements and acts in NSW Land and Environment Court and Local Court proceedings. His advisory, transactional and litigious work regularly involves major renewables projects, transformative infrastructure, and high stakes compliance issues. Luke has more than 10 years’ experience gained in private practice and in-house at the NSW Environment Protection Authority. Relying on his specialist legal expertise and knowledge of government processes, Luke delivers timely and robust solutions for clients engaging with environmental and planning regulation.


Michael Causer, Partner, King & Wood Mallesons
Michael Causer is a partner in the Sydney Environment & Planning and Native Title Team at King & Wood Mallesons. He primarily advises on environmental, planning, water and land access issues and regularly represents private and government clients in the NSW Land and Environment Court. His clients are primarily focused upon real estate, infrastructure, energy and resources projects. 


Mike Young, Professor Emeritus, School of Economics and Public Policy, University of Adelaide
Mike Young is Professor Emeritus in Water and Environmental Policy at the University of Adelaide, was the Founding Executive Director of its Environment Institute, is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and is a Distinguished Fellow of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. Mike is a specialist in water policy reform and his research led to the unbundling of Australia’s water licences and the resultant development of an efficient trading system and the Australian Government decision to transfer responsibility for the administration of the Murray Darling Basin’s water resources to an independent expertise-based authority. He played a key role in establishing Australia’s National Land and Water Resources Audit. Mike has held the Gough Whitlam and Malcom Fraser Chair at Harvard University, has served on Global Water Partnership's Technical Committee and the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Water Security. He was a founding member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists. In 2006, Mike was awarded Australia’s premier water research prize – the Land and Water Australia Eureka Award for Water Research. He has played a critical role in the consideration of options for the Murray Darling Basin. Prior to joining the University of Adelaide, Mike spent 30 years with CSIRO where, amongst other things, he established their Policy and Economic Research Unit. In 2003, Mike was awarded a Centenary Medal “for outstanding service through environmental economics”. His full curriculum vitae lists over 240 publications.