Karen is a Chartered Senior Principal Water Resources Engineer, Fellow of Engineers Australia and Registered Profession Engineer in Queensland with more than twenty-five years’ experience in surface water assessment and management, flood analysis, stormwater drainage and stormwater and floodplain management. Karen works for a large environmental and engineering consultancy called WSP. Karen has worked for WSP for 20 years and 12 of those years remotely.

During her career Karen has been involved in a range of projects from concept design through to detailed design. Some of the projects have been single lot projects and many have been large scale infrastructure projects, across NSW, QLD and ACT. Karen is the technical lead for a range of different projects from major infrastructure to energy transmission. These days her roles include mentor, flood emergency management technical champion and champion of future climate implications for flooding.