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Overview
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Experience
Introduction
Kate is a Partner in Ashurst Perkins Coie's Risk Advisory practice, advising clients on the practical realities of operating in complex regulatory and stakeholder environments.
Kate Wilson brings over 20 years of commercial experience, including more than a decade as a senior manager in industry, and is recognized for her deep experience in communities and social performance, land access, and ESG risk management. Kate has extensive experience negotiating and implementing agreements with First Nations groups and has built enduring industry partnerships with community organizations to drive meaningful social change. This on-the-ground experience informs her end-to-end understanding of Indigenous procurement ‒ from agreement negotiation through to compliance, reporting, and community capability building.
She has worked closely with project teams to deliver multi-billion-dollar projects, and has led complex negotiations with local government and community groups to strengthen social license to operate for major proponents.
- Mining organization | Defined impeccable ESG for an established miner's new large scale mining project to understand the project impacts in complying with impeccable ESG and implementing the operationalization of compliance.
- Confidential energy and resources client | Reviewed the current approach to community engagement, with a particular focus on Indigenous Stakeholders and the provision of strategic approvals advice.
- Confidential infrastructure client | To enable client to meet current and future obligations required under legislation relating to Aboriginal Cultural Heritage, engaged to undertake a current state assessment, gap analysis, develop recommendations and an implementation plan, with the key objective of uplifting the client’s risk and compliance through the implementation of a suite of controls. This included drafting a communities and social performance (CSP) standard to provide a baseline approach for engaging with land-connected stakeholders and defining the client’s "ESG story" communication strategy to support reporting and communications to external stakeholders, including employees, customers, investors, Traditional Owners and the wider community.