Wendy Craik

Wendy Craik (born 1949) AM FTSE is an Australian scientist, public policy adviser and company director. Gwenneth Jean Steele Craik was born in 1949 in Canberra, the second of four daughters of commerce graduate, Audrey Mavis (née Ion) and Duncan Robert Steele Craik, who later was Commonwealth Auditor-General.

Quotes

• "Climate change is a risk management issue and putting in place good measures to mitigate it is a prudent course of action and one which has shown to be very worthwhile in the past"
• "Also, if government policies change, how will that affect your operations and what you do?"
• "There have been a lot of changes in climate policy over the past decade or so. A lot of questions are not clearly resolved and that creates challenges"
• "If you are trying to get a handle on the costs of uncertainty, if that cost was fully passed on to households, the average household bill would have been $46–$68 a quarter higher than it otherwise would have been. In our report, we said policy uncertainty was a significant driver of that."
  • Interview — Dr Wendy Craik: Climate change is a risk management issue. Number 7, Government Institute of Australia. Zilla Efrat, Retrieved: 17 November, 2023.