The Superpower Institute is pleased to welcome Katie McKenzie, Dr Fraser Thompson and Frankie Muskovic to our board.
Their appointments bring valuable experience across energy systems, economics, investment, public policy, infrastructure and industrial transformation – areas central to TSI’s work helping Australia seize the extraordinary opportunities of the post-carbon world.
Says Baethan Mullen, CEO, TSI:
"Katie, Fraser and Frankie are each highly respected in their fields, and we’re fortunate to have them join the Board. They bring experience from across the systems TSI works with every day – energy, investment, economics, policy and industry – and their perspectives will be enormously valuable to our team.”
Says Rod Sims, Chair, TSI:
“Australia is spectacularly well placed to prosper in the post-carbon world, but the opportunity is not self-executing. Katie, Fraser and Frankie bring the kind of practical experience that turning opportunity into outcome will require. I welcome them to the Board."
Katie McKenzie is a senior energy leader with over 15 years’ experience shaping energy, decarbonisation and infrastructure policy, planning and investment.
She is currently Group Manager – WA System Design and Transformation at AEMO, where she leads development of long-term energy outlooks and transition planning for WA’s main power system.
Prior to joining AEMO, Katie held senior advisory roles to government, including as Principal Policy Adviser to two successive WA Energy Ministers, and with EY and Climate-KIC supporting decarbonisation pathways and infrastructure investment.
Katie has also served as a member of the WA Government’s Energy Transformation Taskforce and Renewable Hydrogen Council, President of the Australian Institute of Energy, and Vice-President of the United Nations Association of WA.
Dr Fraser Thompson is an economist and entrepreneur, passionate about public policy and finding solutions to tackle sustainability challenges.
He is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Cyan Ventures, a specialist sustainability project development and advisory firm focused on creating Big Bets to accelerate the transition to a green, low-carbon economy.
He also serves on the board of the Climateworks Centre and as the domestic Chair of the Low Carbon Fuels Alliance in ANZ.
Prior to Cyan, Fraser co-founded Sun Cable — the development of the world’s largest solar farm, largest battery storage facility, and longest undersea HVDC cable, designed to deliver renewable electricity from Australia to Singapore.
Earlier, he co-founded and subsequently sold AlphaBeta, an economic strategy firm headquartered in Singapore, and spent nine years as a consultant at McKinsey & Company across the Middle East, London, and Singapore. This included leading McKinsey Global Institute, the economic research arm of McKinsey, on sustainability and resource efficiency topics.
Fraser began his career as an economist at the World Bank and as a lecturer in economics at the University of Oxford. He holds a Doctorate in Economics from Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
A longstanding advocate for deeper Australia–Southeast Asia ties, Fraser was the founder and inaugural President of the Australian Chamber of Commerce in ASEAN, which was launched with Prime Minister Turnbull in Singapore in 2017.
Frankie Muskovic is a senior sustainability and public policy executive with strong public policy skills and networks across climate, energy, investment and the built environment.
Her experience includes a diverse range of roles from technical engineering consulting and international development work, to government and industry roles focused on energy and climate change policy.
She is currently the Executive Director, Policy at the Investor Group on Climate Change, a Non-Executive Director of the Australian Building Codes Board and co-host of the popular climate and energy podcast Let Me Sum Up.
Frankie is passionate about diversity, ethics in leadership, championing social justice issues and advocating ambitious public policy to support the transition to a zero emissions economy.
