Katharina Surikow
Kat leads priority work across climate finance and economics, including Treasury engagement, sustainable finance reform, COP31 strategy, and tax and regulatory settings that support Australia’s energy transition.
Kat brings extensive experience in public policy, stakeholder engagement and multilateral forums, with a background in infrastructure and property. She previously served as Chief Corporate Affairs & Communications Officer and G20 Deputy at the Global Infrastructure Hub before its transition to the World Bank, and has also worked in the property sector and in Senator David Pocock’s office.
Contacts
Submission: Improving the efficiency of Australia’s climate-related financial disclosures
Submission | Katharina Surikow (IGCC) | 02 October 2026
IGCC welcomes government’s consideration of targeted measures to improve the efficiency of Australia’s climate-related financial disclosures regime without compromising the integrity, comparability and usefulness of disclosures. Climate change is a systemic risk to the economy and presents both financial risks and opportunities for investors’ portfolios. Managing climate risk requires good data on material impacts, consistently reported to agreed and comparable standards and a clear articulation of the strategic steps being taken in response.
Submission: IGCC responds to draft climate reporting roadmap for Aotearoa New Zealand
Submission | Katharina Surikow (IGCC) | 30 September 2026
IGCC welcomes and broadly supports the strategic direction and principles outlined in the External Reporting Board’s (XRB) draft roadmap. Climate-related disclosures aim to support the allocation of capital towards activities that are consistent with a transition to a low-emissions, climate-resilient future. By publicly reporting on their climate-related risks and opportunities, investors and other entities can demonstrate how they are considering them throughout their business models.
Advocacy Win: Renewables Receive Favourable Tax Treatment
20 August 2026
Government and the Greens agree to progress CGT legislation with an extended transition period for renewables
Safeguard Mechanism Reforms: How to Futureproof Industry
17 August 2026
New modelling by EY shows the lowest-cost, most-efficient settings for the Safeguard Mechanism to guide Australia's industrial base to long term success.Submission: One barrier might come down, but superannuation performance test reforms won’t unlock climate investment on their own
Submission | Katharina Surikow (IGCC) | 19 June 2026
Changing the superannuation performance test is not the single ‘silver bullet’ solution – in and of itself, reform of the performance test may remove a barrier to investment in some asset classes for some investors, but it will not act as an incentive for more investment. IGCC urges the government to consider any proposed changes to the performance test in the context of all other policy changes available to it that could, or seek to, influence investment in net zero.