Dr Flapper deploys technical and personal leadership attributes to navigate paths in complex relationships to deliver infrastructure for community impact. This is founded on technical and practical experience from policy and planning to procurement and delivery, across the full asset value chain in the built environment. This includes her commitment the Environment, Social and Governance and advancing STEM.

She is a global leader in water management, including optimisation, design, monitoring, digital, policy, operations. Therese has directed research programs that commercialised new technology. She has more than 30 years of honorary association roles advancing STEM every step of the way.