Mel Cutler
Head of Purpose, Strategy & Environment
ANZ

Mel Cutler is a sustainability leader nearing 20 years’ experience delivering commercial and societal outcomes.
Currently employed with ANZ, Mel has led multi-disciplinary teams to deliver a number of “firsts” for the bank. These range from customer sustainability strategies, including a focus on the energy sector, to realising ANZ’s own renewable energy ambitions.
As a strategic thinker with a track record of embedding strategies that benefit people, planet and profit, Mel is also Deputy Chair of the Yarra Energy Foundation Board and an ANZ Community Foundation Board member.
Mel has worked across climate change, carbon management and sustainable finance roles within the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, Great Barrier Reef Foundation, Australian and New Zealand Governments and specialist consultancy firms.