Sally Glen, Director, IPA Asia Pacific

An industry perspective on challenges associated with effective engineering practice and ensuring engineering capability

Bio

Sally heads up the Asia Pacific operation for IPA. In this role, she is responsible for continuing to strengthen IPA’s relationship with global and local clients in the region, including renewables, mining and minerals, oil and gas, power and infrastructure, new ventures, and other industries. Her focus is collaborating with client capital champions and decision makers to enable IPA clients to manage project risk and innovate and improve within their capital project systems. Sally was IPA’s Global Manager of Mining, Minerals & Metals (MMM) between 2021 and 2023 and strengthened IPA’s relationships with global and local clients investing in capital projects in the MMM sector following a long period of low investment in the sector.

As Director Sally has overseen the rebuilding of IPA Australia since 2020, after spending 5 years away from IPA working in the media and telecommunications sectors. She spent two of those years running the construction program for Australia’s National Broadband Network, the country’s largest infrastructure project. As a previous director and senior analyst at IPA Australia, and having started her career as a Project Manager at Rio Tinto, Sally has personally reviewed hundreds of capital projects, spent nearly 10 years delivering construction projects and has a particular interest in the study of leadership. Sally regularly teaches a range of capital effectiveness-related topics for the IPA Institute, including in India, Chile and Australia in the last 12 months. Outside of work, Sally is a trained, volunteer surf lifesaver and has two teenage daughters.