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Selina Short

EY Markets Leader, Oceania

Sustainable cities champion. Intelligent buildings innovator. Passionate about helping our clients seize the upside of disruption.

Future industries and sustainable cities champion. Connector and innovator. Passionate about the power of integration to help people and planet.

Selina is part of Oceania Executive Leadership Team. She has spent two decades helping some of the world’s biggest companies to grow, transform and succeed. As EY Markets Leader for Oceania, she leads our industry and client teams across Australia and New Zealand, bringing together talent, technology, innovative ideas and industry-specific insights.

With a background in the built environment and expertise helping companies at the backbone of Australia’s economy, she has deep background in the economics and strategy of urban placemaking and its role fuelling prosperity, liveability and resilience.

Selina sits on several high-profile boards, including the Green Building Council of Australia.

Selina holds an M Commerce, B Economics and a Dip Education, as well as credentials in disruptive strategy from Harvard Business School and in climate change strategy from the University of Cambridge.

How Selina is building a better working world

Selina believes decarbonisation is the defining issue for our generation and is determined to help companies drive down emissions and seize the opportunities of the energy transition.

Selina believes the integrated power of technological innovation and human ingenuity can solve the climate change challenge and fuel future industries and thriving communities.

As a vocal champion of sustainable cities, Selina helped to establish the EY Net Zero Centre in 2021. This integrates the EY intellectual property with its strategic insight, expertise and deep knowledge in energy and climate change leadership.

As the EY Markets Leader for Oceania, Selina brings together diverse talent and leading-edge tools, innovative ideas and industry-specific insights to grow future industries and drive transformation with humans@centre.

Selina is helping EY clients to rethink their approach to transformation from a one-off event to a constant evolution – whether that means embedding a culture of transformation into their day-to-day practices or building adaptable and future-ready strategy.

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