James Moody

James Moody is the President of the International Young Professionals Foundation. He was formerly Managing Director at Mitchell Resource Intelligence (MRI), Australia's first publicly listed Environmental Spatial Information company. MRI provides environmental, social and economic intelligence to assist organizations in monitoring and evaluating land and natural resources to meet their business and environmental objectives. In the last five years James has been heavily involved with the United Nations, and is co-facilitator and Australian representative of the 40 strong youth advisory council to the UN Environment Program (UNEP). This council consists of young people from all around the world working to advise the United Nations on environmental affairs. He was also a member of the Science and Technology delegation to the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development earlier this year and has been invited to attend the World Economic Forum as a Global Leader of Tomorrow in 2003.

In 2000, James was named Young Professional Engineer of the Year. While holding this title he promoted the engineering profession and his particular brand of 'socially conscious engineering'. In 2000 James was also awarded Young Queenslander of the Year and in 2001 was awarded Young Australian of the Year in Science and Technology. James is passionate about the supporting role that young socially conscious businesspeople can play in society. He actively works towards communicating these views to the general community and makes regular appearances at industry conferences, schools and other events. He believes that issues such as sustainability and environmental management are only going to become more important in society.