Ms. Atkinson focuses on organisational effectiveness and operational improvement transformations across multiple energy and infrastructure industry verticals, including electricity and utilities, mining and metals and oil and gas. Across her international career, she has been a practicing engineer, project/program and portfolio manager, transformation leader and strategic advisor to asset-intensive clients.

Ms. Atkinson’s experience includes helping clients answer critical questions such as “where to play,” “how to win,” and “how to organise.” She advised an Australian electricity network on a future business model and operating model to enable their net-zero agenda by 2045; drove an enterprise-wide operating model diagnostic for an energy participant that identified 15-20% savings on addressable spend and increased value-for-money outcomes for industry participants; and lead an asset and operations operating model transformation for a major Australian utility, driving efficiencies in their multibillion-dollar infrastructure portfolio.

Prior to joining A&M, Ms. Atkinson served as a Partner with PwC’s Energy Transition practice, where she was instrumental in driving both supply and demand-side energy transition and decarbonisation strategies. Prior to that, she spent a decade with EY Consulting, focusing on business and infrastructure transformation in the built environment, energy and resource sector, and a decade with the global engineering consultancy Arup.

Ms. Atkinson earned a master’s degree in architectural engineering from the University of Wales, Cardiff. She is a Chartered Civil Engineer.