Felicity Underhill

Felicity Jane Curran Underhill is a New Zealand energy specialist, and has experience working in the oil, gas and hydrogen industries in Australia and New Zealand. In 2024 Underhill was appointed to the New Zealand Climate Change Commission.

Education Underhill is Māori, and affiliates to Ngāti Raukawa. Her thesis was on the peace process in Bougainville.

Career

Underhill has worked in the oil and gas industries in Australia and New Zealand for more than twenty years. She worked for Shell for ten years, and was then General Manager of Future Fuels at Origin Energy. Underhill worked on hydrogen production for Fortescue Future Industries (FFI), a part of the Fortescue mining company. She was Director East Australia and New Zealand for FFI, and led Fortescue's investigations into producing "green hydrogen" at Marsden point oil refinery. Underhill was director and deputy chair of the Australian Hydrogen Council. In December 2024 Underhill was appointed to the New Zealand Climate Change Commission, alongside forestry and conservation advisor Devon McLean, and new Chief Commissioner Patsy Reddy. Underhill was considered to bring expertise in decarbonisation of energy, and transport industries.