Jill Riseley

Jill is Deputy Chief Executive Officer at Infrastructure Victoria (Infrastructure Victoria is the state's independent advisory body who provide advice to the Victorian State Government in Australia).  Prior to this Jill was Deloitte’s Asia Pacific Lead Partner for the circular economy and sat on a number of industry and government honorary roles (including as expert contributor to the Global Circularity Gap Report, member of the Circular Australia industry council and expert circular economy panel for the Climate Leaders Coalition). She was also a member of the subject matter expert panel in the development of the Global Circularity Indicators with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).

Jill is a highly accomplished sustainability Executive and Non-Executive Director with more than 20 years’ experience across public and corporate sectors and has extensive expertise in the provision of advice at Board, CEO and Ministerial level, including highly regulated and crisis environments.

Prior to joining Deloitte, Jill held executive roles in the corporate and public sector including as CEO of the Metropolitan Waste and Resource Recovery Group (the state government agency responsible for waste and recycling across greater Melbourne). She was appointed in 2019 to help navigate a recycling crisis and support broad circular economy reforms to deliver better outcomes for communities and industry. Her experience covers significant commercial and sector initiatives including the largest waste collaborative tender ever undertaken in Victoria (30 metropolitan councils) and the AUD $7 billion tender for a new energy from waste facility.

Jill is a passionate advocate of the circular economy, ESG and responsible business and she keenly promotes mechanisms which create measurable organisational value and strengthen intangible assets including reputation, brand, trust, and engagement. Jill’s academic qualifications include a Masters in Sustainability Leadership from the University of Cambridge, Graduate of the Circular Economy Masterclass at the University of Exeter Business School as well as Executive Business Qualifications from University of New South Wales.  Jill has been recognised through numerous awards and honorary appoitnments and in 2023 was the recipent of the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the King's Brithday Honours list for leadership in sustainability and her contribution to the not for profit sector.