Ferdinand Balfoort

Ferdinand Balfoort is a PhD candidate in Law, under the supervision of Dr Ciprian Radavoi and Dr Mark Brady at the Faculty of Arts and Society at Charles Darwin University. His research project examines to what extent distributive justice principles are reflected in the deployment of e-scooters in Australia, through the perspective of sustainability frameworks and policies that have been established and deployed by governments globally to address climate change and comply with national greenhouse gas targets, seeking to establish how and why distributively (un)just sustainability initiatives can be, using micromobility and e-scooters as sustainable transport technology examples.

Ferdinand is a global professional advisor and academic researcher in the areas of ESG, sustainable transport and micromobility as well as governance, compliance, and financial and sustainable impact reporting. Ferdinand launched the Micromobility Research Partnership (www.themrp.org ) in 2022 and is a Senior Researcher at the MRP, collaborating on academic research projects with academics globally, focussed on researching issues related to sustainable transport, micromobility, urban planning and ESG. At the MRP Ferdinand authored the world’s first Gold Standard methodology for the verification and issuance of credits deriving from two and three-wheeled personal transportation.

The Methodology AMS III BM was co-published with Gold Standard on 13 January 2023. Prior to Ferdinand’s switch to ESG and sustainability project and academic efforts, he has been a practising Chartered Accountant (CA) and Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) for over thirty years, leading a range of complex audit and investigation projects globally for multinational companies and professional advisory firms, including financial, environmental, corruption and fraud investigations.