Marianna works on investments and tech in energy, transport, mining and manufacturing that will prosper in the 2050 Australian economy. Marianna is a company director with governance roles across the public and not-for-profit sector including with the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (clean-tech enabler) and the McKell Institute (think tank). With a passion for gender equality, she is also a Chief Executive Women (CEW) committee member and a founding committee member of an organisation to promote gender equality in politics. In 2018, Marianna co-founded the McKell Institute in Queensland which promotes public dialogue around key policy challenges in areas such as housing, early childhood education, superannuation, productivity, and energy. Earlier in her career she worked at the World Bank in Washington, then as an adviser to the Prime Minister in Canberra and with green investment bank, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation.