Donovan is the Director of Informed.City and is a highly experienced climate change practitioner with a diverse portfolio of experience. Over the past 20 years he has worked on over 350 climate change projects in NZ, Australia, the Pacific and SE Asia. During this time, he has carried out work with financial organisations, property developers, infrastructure providers, transport networks, ports, information technology companies, insurers, UN agencies, research organisations and all levels of government.
His recent work in NZ has focussed on banking and investment sector exposure to climate risk, climate scenario development, climate risk model development and climate risk management. Donovan has been appointed by the UNFCCC as an expert to support the development of climate change adaptation indicators for the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA), a central workstream of the Paris Agreement. He is also a working group member of the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) World Adaptation Science Program (WASP) and an Associate of the Griffith University Climate Response Initiative. This diverse portfolio gives Donovan unique insight into cascading climate change risks.