Justice Preston is the Chief Judge of the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales. Prior to being appointed in November 2005, he was a senior counsel practising primarily in New South Wales in environmental, planning, administrative and property law. He has lectured in post-graduate environmental law for over 30 years. He is the author of Australia’s first book on environmental litigation and 161 articles, book chapters and reviews on environmental law, administrative and criminal law. He holds numerous editorial positions in environmental law publications and has been involved in a number of international environmental consultancies and capacity- building programs, including for judiciaries throughout Asia, Africa and the European Union.

Justice Preston is currently a Visiting Professor at Durham University (UK), an Adjunct Professor at the  University  of  Sydney, Western Sydney University and Southern Cross University, and a former Visiting Fellow at Corpus Christi College and Magdalen College at Oxford University (UK). His Honour was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the Australia Day Honour List 2025.

Linda is a senior advisor on sustainability with close to two decades of experience delivering high-impact work on a wide range of sustainability topics through policy- making, standard-setting., research and consulting for a broad range of entities in the public and private sectors internationally.

Early in her career Linda worked within the European Commission drafting the inaugural European Union’s climate change policies, worked closely with the European Environment Agency and international supranational organisations, and her extensive expertise is recognised in her current high-level appointments supporting the drafting of sustainable finance and corporate sustainability regulations and standards for Australia, European Union, and elsewhere. Linda is a co-author of and contributor to the EU, Australian, ASEAN and other sustainable finance taxonomies, EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Standards, among others and serves on the ISO committee on sustainable finance standardisation. She is likewise known for her work on climate resilience, natural capital, socially just transitions and many other sustainability topics.