Josh Spencer
Victoria
Wurundjeri Country
Josh is a highly experienced sustainability and built environment professional. He holds a degree from the Cambridge Institute of Sustainable Leadership and has a background in civil engineering. With 6 years of diverse experience in the built environment, he has gained expertise in decarbonisation and climate risk management. Josh adopts a collaborative and strategic approach in partnering with clients and provides innovative solutions to meet their sustainability needs. He excels in understanding and distilling client requirements into actionable solutions for individual assets or diversified portfolios. His experience in effectively collaborating with clients to ideate and extract insights, develop strategies, and deliver outcomes is noteworthy.
Josh previously worked for an international real estate company in London where he was responsible for two key accounts: Nuveen Real Estate with $5 billion assets under management, and CCLA with $2.5 billion assets under management. His main focus was to enhance the sustainable performance of their real estate investment trust (REITs) while reducing risk, increasing asset value, and identifying opportunities for a low-carbon economy. He worked across various asset classes internationally and successfully delivered strategic solutions that covered decarbonisation, legislative compliance and opportunity identification while streamlining capital investment and securing sustainable finance.