XDI Cross Dependency Initiative
Physical Climate Risk Analysis powered by Climate Risk Engines
In 2011 the XDI vision was born; to make possible a systems analysis of how climate risk affects not just one organisation but all of its upstream and downstream interdependencies. This is XDI, The Cross Dependency Initiative. A whole system vision of climate impacts that accounts for all physical risks, powered by a world class benchmark of computational analysis.
Award Winning Physical Climate Risk Analysis
XDI’s analysis is underpinned by the Climate Risk Engines, developed through extensive commercial engagement with industry and government. From the outset, insights provided by the Climate Risk Engines have steered the conversation around climate change adaptation for a committed group of professionals who understood the need to find language and processes to incorporate climate risk and adaptation into decision making.
As the sophistication and power of the analysis evolved, a new understanding of more complex risks to larger businesses and governments began to emerge. Beyond individual assets, there was a need to analyse climate risk at an ecosystem level; to see the impacts of failures to power, water and transport infrastructure to people and organisations that depend on them.
Global Leaders for Climate Change
XDI strives for the highest quality in the information that companies and communities use to make decisions. Globally, XDI analysis ranks the highest for hazards covered, geographical reach, and capacity for analysis of large numbers of assets. With sophisticated online data visualisation, the XDI Platform is the most rigorous and flexible analysis tool available in the world.
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XDI Management Team
Rohan Hamden
Advanced MBA (International Finance and Management), B.Sc (Biotechnology) B.AppSc. (Cons & Park Mgmt.)
CEO
Rohan is the CEO of XDI: The Cross Dependency Initiative, which provides infrastructure risk assurance services based on climate change science, infrastructure engineering and advanced statistical methods. Rohan began his career as a fire fighter. After nearly 15 years in government, his last role was as the Director of the Climate Adaptation Program for South Australia. He designed and led the implementation of the state’s multi-award winning climate change adaptation program. This program has seen a transformation in how communities and industries work together to adapt to climate change. Rohan has advised various state and national governments on their climate adaptation programs in Australia, Canada, USA and the UK. In 2017 he co-founded XDI with a vision of mainstreaming climate information into infrastructure and financial decision making.
Ruth Tedder
BA Communications
Acting Director - Shared Services and Marketing
Ruth was a co-founder of XDI in 2016, and works closely with Directors Rohan Hamden and Dr. Karl Mallon to develop and implement business strategy. Her work touches many aspects of operations including Finance, People and Culture, and Marketing. More recently her work has focussed on scaling the organisation for growth, including the recruitment of key senior staff and establishment of systems to support the team’s effective delivery of strategic goals.
Roslyn Zucco
B.Bus. Marketing
Marketing Manager
Roslyn is an Integrated Marketing Strategist with over two decades of success in branding, business and marketing strategy development working with global, national and local businesses across a number of sectors. With a deep appreciation for business development and consumer engagement, Roslyn operates at a high level of abstract thinking that drives strategic solutions that are relevant, timely and targeted.
Alex McConville
BSc (Hons) Biological Sciences
Sales Manager
Alex is a business executive with over 25 years experience in business management, sales, and marketing. Alex hails from the UK and began his career as a biologist having worked on projects in Ecuador and the Galapagos. His love for travel has seen him work and live in more than 18 countries and he has experience in running businesses on 3 different continents.
Zafi Bachar
MSc (Environment and Planning)
Head of Client Services
Zafi Bachar brings 20 years of experience to his Project Manager role with XDI. He was one of the founders of the multi-award winning Green Steps program at the Monash Sustainability Institute, and later worked for Origin Energy, ICLEI, AECOM, and multiple municipalities in Victoria and South Australia. More recently, Zafi worked with the South Australian State Government Department for Environment and Water facilitating innovative urban adaptation partnerships.
Carla Thorn Wilson
B.Sc (Earth Sciences), B.Sc Honours Geomorphology
Lead - Special Projects
Carla is an experienced environmental, climate change risk and adaptation project management professional with a proven background in researching, designing, implementing and evaluating effective programs. A skilled communicator with extensive experience in stakeholder engagement and collaboration across a diverse range of stakeholders. Carla’s passion is to motivate staff and inspire a positive culture of achievement while delivering solution driven results, being positive and resilient.
Anastasia Martinez
BSc (Env. Sc.), BSEn
Project Manager
Anastasia works closely with a wide range of organisations to marry XDI technology with the complex data and analysis requirements of clients. She specialises in water sensitive urban design, cost-benefit analysis and urban heat microclimate modelling. Anastasia brings to XDI her expertise on the impacts of green infrastructure and tree canopies to urban heat sinks and human liveability.
Michael Bojko
BSc
Senior Analyst
Michael leads the team in scientific research and the detailing of asset data with climate hazards, exposure and vulnerability. He specializes in land use planning data in high growth corridors for XDI land use planning analysis. Recent projects he has lead consider climate impacts on human health, liveability, the environment and infrastructure, and assessing the effectiveness of different adaptation strategies to reduce these impacts.
Climate Risk Science & Technology Team
Dr. Karl Mallon
B.Sc. (Physics), Ph.D. Mech. Engineering. University of Melbourne
Director, Science and Systems
Karl is a founding board member of The Climate Bonds Initiative (London), Co-Director of XDI and Director of Science and Systems at Climate Risk Pty Ltd. In his role at Climate Risk, he developed the Climate Risk Engines that underpin XDI’s analysis. Since 2006, Karl’s work has focussed on developing systems to understand the complex play of climate change variables that impact an organisation’s physical assets, human resources and management processes. From 2011, Karl and his technical team have been engaged in developing qualitative and quantitative processes that capture this complex challenge. A major focus has been the integration of hazard, engineering and financial data into high-speed cloud computing software to provide decision support systems for governments and corporations.
Karl has worked in climate change mitigation, policy and technical analysis since 1991 in Europe and Australia, and specialised on climate adaptation since 2005. His interests vary widely, from working on policy issues with international government and non-government organisations; financial issues in the insurance and institutional investment sectors; and the risks to infrastructure, local government and residential assets. Karl is editor and co-author of ‘Renewable Energy Policy and Politics: A Handbook for Decision Making’ published by Earthscan (London) and a contribution author for ‘Practical Adaptation Studies’, published by Wiley.
Jacquelyn Lamb
B.Env.Sc. & Mgmt (Geology)UoN
Head of Product
Jackie’s work matches Climate Risk Engine’s tech innovation with XDI project needs. She is the chief technical expert on XDI Globe and AdaptXDI and leads training for clients. Her expertise covers urban water distribution, telecommunications, property insurance and local government. She specialises in data acquisition, spatial analysis and modelling. Jackie has lead recent work modelling the impacts of extreme weather and climate change to urban infrastructure as well as cost benefit analysis of multi-control adaptation measures.
Max McKinlay
B.Env.Sc UTS
Head of Innovation
Max manages the analytics team, interpreting climate and client data for analysis within the Climate Risk Engines. He leads analysis on company data worldwide for TCFD reporting, and has lead the development of new hazards capabilities. Max has also worked to develop the application of the Climate Risk Engines for assessing climate risk on the market value of residential property at address and portfolio level. He studied Environmental Science at the University of Technology Sydney, graduating with First Class Honours.
Ned Haughton
B.Sc (Biology, Mathematics) Newcastle, BSc Honours (Climate science) UNSW, Ph.D., UNSW
Chief Scientist
Working deep within the computational functions of the Climate Risk Engines, Ned’s work marries the numbers end of analysis with the user end of the products. He works closely with the analytics team to implement further hazard analyses and climate datasets into the system. Ned submitted his PhD in land surface model evaluation at the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of NSW in 2018.
Tim McEwan
B.Sc. (Nanoscience) UTS
Chief Technical Officer
Tim provides oversight of technology development and manages a stable of coders to keep the Climate Risk Engines updated and computing smoothly. Tim leads development of the apps used to access and visualise analysis produced by the Climate Risk Engines.
Ethical Statement on Fossil Fuel Related Assets
XDI advocates for the end of the exploitation of fossil fuels and their rapid phase out as a source of energy. We will not support fossil fuel companies to:
- Expand or develop new or existing projects
- Develop adaptation actions for existing assets.