Tony Arnel - World Green Building Council
Tony Arnel is the Chair of the World Green Building Council (WGBC), which is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The WGBC has 80 affiliated countries from around the globe and has experienced rapid growth in recent years.
Mr Arnel is also Chair of the Green Building Council of Australia and is Building and Plumbing Industry Commissioner for the state of Victoria, Australia, a role in which he is responsible for regulating the state’s building industry and advising government on building control and plumbing industry matters.
Over the past decade Mr Arnel has been a leader of the national and international sustainability debate, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region, advocating sustainable building as a means of reducing greenhouse emissions without impacting economic growth. In Asia, he has played a leading role in developing and nurturing key regional green building councils such as Singapore and China.
Mr Arnel is a Life Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects and in 2010 was awarded their national Leadership in Sustainability Prize. He is a Victorian Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia and a past Chairman and Director of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival – Australia’s largest arts festival. In 2009 he received the Australian Financial Review’s ‘True Leadership’ Award.
Mr Arnel is the longest-serving member of the Australian Building Codes Board and has overseen the implementation of new energy-efficiency standards into the national building code. He continues to play a key role in the transformation of the Australian property market to sustainable practices.
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