Caitlin McConnel

Caitlin McConnel is a Senior Associate in the Agriculture & Food and Natural Capital Markets Teams at Clayton Utz, working across practice groups nationally in relation to the opportunities and risks of ESG investment and sustainable development on agricultural land, particularly emerging nature-based markets, renewable energy, and commodity diversification. She also specialises in agriculture, food & water legislation and policy, and agribusiness decision-making in the context of human rights. Caitlin is also a sixth-generation farmer who oversees the day-to-day management of her family property with her parents (beef, agrivoltaics & agritourism) in SEQ, Chair of the Future Farmers Network, the Subregion 15 Representative for the Cattle Australia Regional Consultative Committee, and a Member of the Cattle Australia Sustainable, Resilient Beef Systems Working Group, the National Farmers’ Federation Young Farmers’ Council, the Queensland Law Society Water & Agribusiness Law Committee, and the Agribusiness Australia Queensland State Council.