Short Bio:
Monica Oliphant runs her own Consultancy and is an Adj/A Professor at the University of South Australia and a University Fellow at Charles Darwin University. She worked 18 years for an electricity utility as a Research Scientist, was President of the International Solar Energy Society 2008/09 and has participated on many Australian Federal and State Government Committees. In 2015 she was a team leader of a multi-national group looking at the feasibility of establishing a UN University in renewable energy in China and is currently on the IRENA (International Renewable Energy Agency) Coalition for Action Committee on Community Energy and Towards 100% Renewable Energy. Monica received an AO (Order of Australia), in the 2015 Queen’s Birthday Honours List in recognition of her work in Renewable Energy and was named 2016 Senior South Australian of the Year. She is also Patron of crowd funding Community Power group CORENA (Citizens Own Renewable Energy Network Australia) and in September 2018 received an Honorary Doctorate of the University of South Australia.
