People on the move – 16 February 2015

People on the move – 16 February 2015Graham Coutts, JLL’s head of Strategic Consulting for Asia-Pacific, returns to Australia; Tony Arnel is the new President of the Energy Efficiency Council; Digby Hall joins Umow Lai; Colliers International appoints Karen Wan and Damien Stone; and Ken Snell appointed market leader – Defence at GHD. Graham Coutts returns to Sydney in his current role as JLL’s Asia-Pacific head of Strategic Consulting, coordinating the firm’s activities across the region, with a focus on China and Australia.Coutts led the Australian Consulting business in the early 1990s and early 2000 before being based in the Middle East and Asia. He has spent the past three years living in Shanghai, where he was associated with some of the largest urban development projects across China. Several of the Chinese development groups he worked with are increasingly involved in landmark projects in Australia.Tony Arnel is set to take up the reins as President of the Energy Efficiency Council. Arnel is currently Global Director of Sustainability at Norman Disney & Young and a trustee of the Sustainable Melbourne Fund. He is a former chairman of the Green Building Council of Australia and the World Green Building Council. Between 2000 and 2012 he served as the Victorian Building Commissioner.Umow Lai’s Sydney office has announced that Digby Hall has been appointed principal sustainability consultant leading the firm’s Sustainability team. Hall specialised in designing green buildings and large-scale urban development and transport infrastructure while running his own architecture and consulting practice. He has also become a vocal advocate for a sustainable Australian property industry.Hall has been closely associated with the Green Building Council of Australia since its inception, and since 2007 has been a Faculty and Assessor panel member. He will be delivering a paper titled ‘Carbon Neutral: Do it with meaning’ at the Green Cities conference held in Melbourne from 17-19 March.Colliers International has added to its Victorian team with two new starters.Karen Wan joins Colliers International’s Project Services team in the Melbourne CBD in the role of project manager. She has experience in the commercial, retail and residential sectors and counts projects in Australia, Singapore and the UAE as among those she has delivered successfully.Damien Stone joins Colliers International’s Melbourne East Investment Sales team in the role of executive. He has four years’ experience with Opteon Property Group, where he specialised in mortgage valuations throughout Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs.Engineering, architecture, environmental and construction services company GHD has announced it has appointed Ken Snell as market leader – Defence.Snell’s appointment is expected to bolster GHD’s relationship with defence clients. He was previously engagement manager at defence think tank RPDE and served in the Australian Army for 25 years before joining the consulting industry. Among his skills are strategic planning, operations management, project management and human resources management.