Maree Grenfell

For the past four years Maree Grenfell has been Melbourne’s Deputy Chief Resilience Officer for the 100 Resilient Cities Program, pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation, developing and now implementing Melbourne’s first resilience strategy. Maree is an accomplished change strategist focussing on complex multi-stakeholder initiatives, pioneering projects to build capability, confidence, and collaborative capacity at local, state and national levels.

A strategic and creative thinker, she brings a new mindset to old themes drawing on an eclectic background in urban design, psychology, sustainability and leadership to deliver transformational programs that shift mindsets and practice around inclusive communities and resilient environments. Her goal is a community centred future in which cities and human wellbeing are interdependent.