Prof. Karen Hussey is the newly appointed full-time chair of the Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee, an independent statutory committee with responsibility for ensuring the integrity of the ‘methods’ in Australia’s ACCU Scheme. Before taking on the ERAC role, Karen was Deputy Director General in the Queensland Government Department of Environment and Science, with responsibility for policy, strategy and legislation relating to the environment, conservation, climate change, and heritage. A political scientist and economist by training, Karen was an academic for the first 15 years of her career, first at the Australian National University and later at the University of Queensland.