Prof Briony Rogers
CEO,
Fire to Flourish
Briony Rogers, Professor of Systems Change at the Monash Sustainable Development Institute, is a leader and expert at catalysing transformations to address the challenges of climate change. Through her work, she brings together people with diverse expertise and lived experience to develop hopeful visions and take action that has real-world impact for communities, cities and regions.
As CEO of Fire to Flourish, she leads a pioneering initiative to rethink our approach in the aftermath of disaster. Working closely in partnership with communities affected by the 2019/20 Summer bushfires, Fire to Flourish is piloting a model of holistic support for community-led recovery.
As Director of MSDI Water, Briony leads a team of boundary spanners with expertise in water, governance, sustainability and system change with experience in developing and implementing collaborative processes and diagnostic tools to support change in policy and practice.
Before this, Briony was the Chief Research Officer for the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities, where she led researchers from multiple universities to deliver an interdisciplinary research program spanning economics, governance, transitions, modelling, engineering and design.
Briony has an interdisciplinary background, with a PhD in Environmental Sociology, a Bachelor of Civil Engineering (Honours) and Bachelor of Science.
As CEO of Fire to Flourish, she leads a pioneering initiative to rethink our approach in the aftermath of disaster. Working closely in partnership with communities affected by the 2019/20 Summer bushfires, Fire to Flourish is piloting a model of holistic support for community-led recovery.
As Director of MSDI Water, Briony leads a team of boundary spanners with expertise in water, governance, sustainability and system change with experience in developing and implementing collaborative processes and diagnostic tools to support change in policy and practice.
Before this, Briony was the Chief Research Officer for the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities, where she led researchers from multiple universities to deliver an interdisciplinary research program spanning economics, governance, transitions, modelling, engineering and design.
Briony has an interdisciplinary background, with a PhD in Environmental Sociology, a Bachelor of Civil Engineering (Honours) and Bachelor of Science.