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Louise is Aurecon’s Chief Operating Officer, responsible for driving all areas of the business to achieve the Group’s strategic goals. Reporting to Aurecon’s Group CEO, Louise is a member of the Group Executive Leadership Team.

Louise became the first female Executive Director on Aurecon’s Global Board in 2013 and is Aurecon’s global spokesperson for Women in Leadership. She is passionate about the role quality infrastructure can play in improving societal outcomes and also how organisational diversity underpins the innovation and creativity required to achieve it.

In October 2021, Louise was appointed by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade as one of three inaugural Business Champions to further two-way trade and investment opportunities to business communities in Vietnam and Australia and was also invited to be one of the inaugural Champions for the Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Chamber Change program, highlighting Louise’s advocacy for female leadership and equality within STEM.

Louise is also a member of both the National Advisory and Fiduciary Boards of Infrastructure Partnerships Australia, was previously the Chair to Consult Australia’s Champions of Change group and is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology & Engineering (ATSE). In 2020 Louise joined over 50 business leaders working under the guidance of the Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry alongside Global Vic, to develop the Victoria Summit – a playbook on the state’s strategy to 2050. In 2018 Louise was awarded a Chief Executive Women (CEW) Scholarship to attend the Wharton Business School and in 2020 she became a member of Australia’s CEW Group.

In recognition of her commitment to her industry and her advocacy Louise has received numerous awards including the prestigious Sir John Holland Civil 2023 Engineer of the Year Award from Engineer Australia’s Civil College, the 2022 Excellence in Engineering accolade at the Women in Industry Awards and a 2021 Deakin University Alumni of the Year Award. In November 2020, whilst in the role of Chief Executive for Aurecon across Australia and New Zealand, Louise was named the Australian CEO of the Year as part of The CEO Magazine’s Executive of the Year awards.

As a Chartered Civil Engineer, Louise has over 20 years’ experience managing and designing works in both civil and multi-disciplinary projects in land development as well as technical advisory for project planning. With a background in stormwater management, flood risk assessment and mitigation, Louise has undertaken work in the public and private sectors as well as part of emergency relief efforts.

In previous roles, Louise has led major civil and multidisciplinary projects in the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, Iran, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Singapore, Guyana, North America, Pakistan, Libya, Qatar, and the UAE.