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Entura Managing Director Amanda Ashworth celebrates 25 years with the business

2 October, 2025

Entura’s Managing Director, Dr Amanda Ashworth, marks 25 years with the power and water consulting business this month, having joined Hydro Tasmania Consulting (which later became Entura) in 2000.

Amanda’s service milestone highlights her depth of experience and her ongoing passion for Entura’s purpose and projects.

Over the decades, her career has spanned technical, commercial and leadership roles, beginning as a senior environmental consultant. She progressed to a team leader, then a business development manager, sales program manager, strategy manager, and Director of Strategy, Sales & Commercial. She was appointed Managing Director in March 2024.

Over the years, Amanda has developed deep institutional knowledge and built strong relationships with clients, partners and professional networks in Australia and internationally.  

Amanda has long championed capacity-building as a foundation for long-term sustainability of power and water projects. She has remained at the forefront of Entura’s knowledge-sharing initiatives, particularly through her leadership of the Entura clean energy and water institute (ECEWI). As the director of ECEWI, she has driven new training programs, partnerships and client engagements, helping to build local skills and capability in renewable energy, dam safety, and environmental management across the Indo-Pacific region.

She has also advocated for increased gender equity in the sector and is a generous supporter and mentor of emerging female leaders.

Amanda (centre) with Professor Datin Ir. Dr Lariyah Bte Mohd Sidek and Ir. Dr. Hidayah Bte Basri (at the second International Conference on Dam Safety Management and Engineering hosted by the Malaysian National Committee on Large Dams in 2023), both of whom have been long-term colleagues of Entura and ECEWI since undertaking training in Tasmania in 2015

Reflecting on her 25 years with the business, Amanda said: “I feel very fortunate to have spent most of my career at Entura, constantly developing my skills through new opportunities, working with exceptional colleagues, and partnering with clients on projects that improve lives and make a very meaningful contribution to the clean energy transition.”

At a celebration of the milestone, Donald Vaughan, Entura’s Technical Director Power, paid tribute to Amanda, noting her deep curiosity and problem-solving approach, and her genuine interest and concern for people – not only Entura’s employees, but also clients, contractors and particularly the participants in ECEWI’s training courses and capacity-building initiatives.

Outside Entura, Amanda is the Chair of the Board of the Association for Children with Disability (Tas.). She is a mother of teenage twins, balancing her busy career with family life in Tasmania.

Amanda has written or presented more than 25 academic journal articles and conference papers. She was an early contributor to the development of the International Hydropower Association’s development of its Sustainability Guidelines and Compliance Protocol, and led a major update of the Australian wind industry’s best-practice guidelines.

She gained her doctorate with a dissertation on social, economic and political reform in Lithuania, which was followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in the United Kingdom, focused on managing risk and perceptions of risk in the chemical and nuclear industries. She then returned to Tasmania, working for the Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources and then the Office of Energy Conservation and Planning.