Experience

Director & committee roles

I have extensive experience in governance in commercial, government and non-governmental director and committee roles.

  • Non-executive founding director, Alt Resources Ltd, Jindabyne (2015 – 2020).
  • Member, NSW Housing Appeals Committee, Sydney (2005 – 2019).
  • Councillor, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra.
  • Director, Forest Stewardship Council, Australia, Melbourne.
  • Director, Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action, Brisbane, QLD (2007 – 2015).
  • NSW Aboriginal Housing Office, Sydney (present).

Education

  • Bachelor of law
  • Bachelor of Economics
  • Master of Laws
  • Candidate for Doctor of Philosophy (under examination)

Research contracts

  • United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
  • University of Sydney, Department of Criminology
  • Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory
  • NSW Attorney-general’s department, Aboriginal Child Sexual assault taskforce

International Advocacy

  • United Nations Human Rights sub-commission on Human Rights
  • Conference of Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity
  • Convention on Biological Diversity Ad-hoc Working group on Traditional Knowledge, innovations and practices
  • Convention on Biological Diversity Ad-hoc Working group negotiating the Nagoya Protocol
  • United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
  • United Nations World Intellectual Property Organisation, Intergovernmental Committee on Traditional Knowledge
  • United Nations Commission on Trade and Development
  • Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Publications

Elifuraha Laltaika and Neva Collings, ‘Update of the Technical Review of Key Intellectual Property-Related Issues of the WIPO Draft Instruments on Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions within the Framework of Indigenous Human Rights’, World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore, Forty-First Session Geneva, 8th to 12th February 8 2021. Doc No WIPO/GRTKF/IC/41/INF/10.

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Neva Collings, ‘Appendix: Case Studies’ in Community Protocols for Environmental Sustainability: A Guide for Policymakers, (United Nations Environment Program (2013), 42-96

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Neva Collings, Research on and Implementation of Mechanisms and Measures to Address the Underlying Causes of the Decline of Traditional Knowledge, Innovations and Practices, (United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, Ad Hoc Open-ended intersessional Working Group on Article 8(j) and related provisions, 2007) Doc No UNEP/CBD/WG8J/5/INF/9.

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Neva Collings, Indigenous Cultural and Spiritual Values in Water Quality Planning, (Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, 2009), 1-52.

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Neva Collings, ‘Native Title, Economic Development and the Environment’ (2009) (93) Reform 45.

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Neva Collings and Heidi Evans, ‘Access and Benefit Sharing-Protecting Biodiversity and Indigenous Knowledge’ (2009) 7(14) Indigenous Law Bulletin 11.

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Neva Collings ‘The Rights of Indigenous Peoples to Water: International Environmental and Human Rights Standards’ in The International Journal of Indigenous Policy, (2006) Issue 5, 1-18.

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