Gael Ogilvie is a Senior Principal with URS New Zealand and has more than 25 years’ experience in environmental investigations and reporting, gained as a consultant to private and public sector clients in New Zealand, Australia, Asia, and more recently - the Gulf Region.  URS New Zealand is part of URS Corporation – the world’s largest engineering design and environmental consultancy firm with more than 50, 000 staff and offices all around the world.

Gael is responsible for the URS New Zealand Climate Change business and has been actively involved in the preparation of more than one dozen carbon footprinting exercises - for a range of clients in the private and public sectors. URS New Zealand’s approach is to work closely with their climate change business  clients to provide learning opportunities (for example putting together a robust carbon footprint, understand their performance (for example through benchmarking) and prioritise carbon management strategies.

Gael has also assisted a number of clients develop policy and mitigation/measurement tools to respond to climate change and drafted specific responses to the central government energy and climate change discussion papers and draft legislation.   Gael’s climate change work has developed from her more general practice areas in assisting clients integrate sustainable business practices.   Gael also has a wide range of expertise in environmental management – developing and implementing environmental performance and  management systems, impact assessment, risk assessment, life cycle analysis and ecolabelling.