James Stuart is a Company Secretary, Non Executive Director and Chartered Engineer with 25 years of experience and deep understanding in the management of natural hazard risk and governance. His experience includes UK, Australia, Canada, and Peru in both the public, and public sectors.
He has held senior operational and executive roles in large corporations where he has been responsible and accountable for dam safety, community warning, crisis response and implementation of physical risk assessments and mitigation for projects. He also managed Queensland flood warning at the Bureau of Meteorology until 2012. Such roles require calm decision making under extreme pressure and provides tested experience as a basis to provide advice.
James is a Fellow of Engineers Australia, a Chartered Engineer in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is a certified Business Continuity professional and is currently co-opted to the International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD) Climate Change Committee and has been a Director of the USA National Hydrologic Waring Council since 2017.