Karen Price

Karen is an experienced board Chair focussed on commercial SMEs. Her 20 year governance career has spanned a range of sectors such as structural, civil and water engineering, local government, architecture, electricity, adult education, environmental science, green energy certification, and horticulture. Karen is a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Directors and a member of its board.

Excited by innovation, Karen chose a pioneering career in climate change over 30 years ago. Karen is internationally recognised as a leading climate change lawyer advising on matters such as the design of the NZ ETS, securitization, cross border carbon trading, geosequestration, and transparency regimes for voluntary markets. She negotiated the only two Negotiated Greenhouse Agreements with the Crown. Karen has advised many companies, their boards and several governments about their climate risks with recommendations for how best to manage those risks.

Karen is also an entrepreneur who co-founded several successful private and public organisations – the NZ Society for Risk Management; the NZ Carbon Exchange Limited, and environment law firm ChanceryGreen. While she still practices as a lawyer, Karen spends a good proportion of her time serving on boards and providing coaching to CEOs and directors in Australasia.