Karen is the Managing Partner of Palisade, one of Australia’s largest renewable energy investors with a portfolio of 2GW of operating wind, solar and BESS. She was previously an Associate Director with Macquarie Bank in London where she invested in global renewables projects. Prior to this, she was a renewables and climate change lawyer with Baker & McKenzie, a senior policymaker and UN climate change negotiator with the Australian Government, and an engineer with CH2M Hill. Karen is a director on several boards including the Clean Energy Council and Intera Renewables. She holds a Bachelor of Laws (1st Class Honours) and Bachelor of Chemical Engineering (1st Class Honours) from the University of Sydney, and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.