Our Associates
Delwyn Jones — Mount Tamborine, Queensland, Australia
Delwyn, Evah's founder, creates globally-adopted sustainability benchmarks, databases, guidelines, specifications and EPDs. Her national firsts include LCA Auditor to the Olympic Coordination Authority and LCA of NSW Supply green procurement contracts. Other national firsts include LCA of products, public buildings, infrastructure, EPDs (ThermoShield). Her briefs achieved the first 5-star Australian Building Greenhouse Rating. Her global firsts include LCA of whole-life net-positive-carbon building design and piloting construction-sector virtual-modelling LCA software at Stanford University USA and on KPMG Head Office in Holland.
Mathilde Vlieg — San Sebastian, Spain
Mathilde has world leading, recognised experience developing LCA for 3rd party certified ecolabels and EPDs. A 3rd party LCA and EPD verifier, Mathilde is a MSc Industrial Ecology graduate from the TU Delft and University of Leiden in the Netherlands. Since 2015 she has been an Evah Associate. To conferences she has spoken about LCAs of timber and bioplastic vs recycled plastic and has given webinars on the future of LCA including Benefit Assessment for the Forum for Sustainability through Life Cycle Innovation (FSLCI). An expert OpenLCA user. Living in Spain since 2020 she continues her Evah Institute work as well as European LCA and Life Cycle Thinking initiatives.
Direshni Naiker — Durban, South Africa
Direshni, an Evah Associate since 2019, is the Principal of Environmental Consulting in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal of South Africa. Direshni is passionate about integrating LCA in South African business practice. She develops Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Sustainability Reporting, Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP) and Sustainability Strategies, Environmental Product and Building Certifications, Greenhouse Gas Reporting, UN Life Cycle Management Capability Maturity Model (LCM-CMM), Water Footprinting, Enterprise Environmental Management Information plus Energy and Environmental Management Systems.
Rochelle Bright — Mount Tamborine, Queensland, Australia
Rochelle is Evah's Communications Associate who joined us late in 2021. A writer all her life, Rochelle has spent years working in communications in government, and for organisations like the Australian Red Cross Blood Service and Headspace. As a linguist she is passionate about developing positive messaging literacy and numeracy for Nature Positive Initiatives in all of the arts and sciences. Rochelle is a professional communicator, educator and coach with experience in strategic and operational roles across the public, tertiary education, and not-for-profit sectors. Her academic background includes a BA (Linguistics), BPhil (Politics, Hons 1), and a Diploma in Editing and Publishing, and she is certified in communication and performance coaching, neurolinguistic programming, and group facilitation. Obsessed with the relationship between language, communication, and behaviour, Rochelle is a self-confessed idealist who is on a mission to help Evah save the world.
