Our Board

Louise Sylvan BA MPA - President

Louise Sylvan was appointed a Commissioner of the Productivity Commission on 1 August 2008. Since 2003 she had been Deputy Chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, appointed as the member with expertise in consumer affairs.

Louise has served internationally on the OECD Consumer Policy Committee and nationally on the Federal Government's Expert Group in Electronic Commerce and the Australian Statistics Advisory Council to the ABS. She is Deputy President of the Council of the Medical Foundation of the University of Sydney, and on the Board of the Diplomacy Training Program established by The Hon Jose Ramos Horta. Louise has a BA and MPA from universities in her original homeland of Canada. Louise joined the Bush Heritage Board in 2009.

Andrew Myer Grad Dip Bus Mgt, MBA  - Vice-President

Andrew has a long involvement with investment, film and philanthropy. He is the Founder and Managing Director of Sestriere Investments Pty Ltd, a private investment vehicle established in 1985, with interests in equities, property development and management and is a director of numerous private companies.  He has produced and executive produced Australian feature films and is a board member of the Melbourne International Film Festival. Andrew is a Trustee of The Sidney Myer Fund and for five years held the position of Director and Co-Vice President of The Myer Foundation.  Andrew joined the Bush Heritage Board in 2007.

David Rickards   BSc, BEng, MBA - Treasurer

David is Executive Director and Head of Research at Macquarie Bank, coordinating a team based throughout Australia, Asia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Before joining Macquarie he was responsible for establishing in Australia the risk management company BARRA International. He also worked as a consulting structural engineer with Maunsell and Partners Pty Ltd. David is an authority on the equities market with particular expertise in strategic analysis. David joined the Bush Heritage Board in 2006.

Dr Steve Morton  BSc (Hons) PhD

Steve is Group Chair of Environment and Natural Resources at CSIRO and one of Australia's most respected ecologists. He has twenty years experience with CSIRO as a research scientist in tropical northern Australia, arid central Australia and the southern temperate zone as well as intergrating biodiversity conservation into land use for grazing and agriculture. Steve joined the Bush Heritage Board in 2003.

Dr Guy Fitzhardinge  B Ag Economics,  M Ap Sci

Guy is currently a member of the Commonwealth Threatened Species Scientific Committee and chairman of the CRC for Beef Genetic Technologies. He has previously been a director of Meat & Livestock Australia and The Meat Research Corporation, vice president of the Australian Rangelands Society, and advisor to CSIRO Wool and Textiles Division, the wool industry, WWF and a ministerial appointee to the NSW Biodiversity Advisory Committee. He has a long involvement with Landcare in NSW, and currently manages three properties and a large cattle herd in central western NSW. Guy joined the Bush Heritage Board in 2003. 

Dr Sue McIntyre BSc (Hons) PhD

Sue is a Senior Principal Research Scientist with CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems. She currently leads a research group working on sustainability in agricultural landscapes. Sue’s 27 years of research experience has resulted in numerous publications on weed ecology, landscape ecology, conservation biology and integrative conceptual models. Throughout her career Sue has sought to render complex ecological concepts into simple principles that enable land managers to apply science into practice.  Sue joined the Bush Heritage Board in 2007

Hutch Ranck  BScEcon

Hutch is currently Managing Director of DuPont Australia/New Zealand and Group Managing Director for DuPont operations in ASEAN. He is a director of both the Australian Pesticides & Veterinary Medicines Authority and the National Association for Crop Production and Animal Health (AVCARE). Hutch is the Business Council of Australia representative on the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council and is a member of the Business Roundtable on Sustainable Development. He has also worked in a variety of roles with DuPont in the United States of America and in Hong Kong. Hutch joined the Bush Heritage Board in 2006.

Keith Tuffley BEc, LLB, LLM

Keith has been an investment banker for the past 17 years, the last six of which have been as a Managing Director with Goldman Sachs. In 2003 he was appointed Head of the Investment Banking Division and a member of the Board of Goldman Sachs in Australia, and in 2007 Keith relocated to London to lead the Industrials business across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In recent years, he has completed the Advanced Management Program at INSEAD, and the Goldman Sachs Non-Profit Leadership Program at Harvard Business School.  Keith recently retired from the investment banking industry to pursue his interests in environmental issues. He is also a Director of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation and a Governor of WWF-Australia. Keith joined the Bush Heritage Board in 2006.

 Leanne Liddle  LLB BASc

Leanne Liddle is both a scientist and a lawyer. She works for South Australia's Department for Environment and Heritage as the Aboriginal Parks and Wildlife Programs Coordinator. Leanne manages a unique wildlife project in two indigenous communities in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands called Kuka Kanyini.

She has also worked as a senior project officer at the Aboriginal Lands Trust and a Senior Constable in the South Australian Police Force.  She is a member of the Arid Lands Natural Resource Management Board, the Natural Resources and Mines (NRM) Aboriginal State Wide Advisory Committee and the NRM Volunteers Committee. Leanne has a Bachelor of Applied Science (with a Major in Environmental Science) from the University of South Australia and a Bachelor of Laws and Legal Practice (Honours) from Flinders University.  Leanne joined the Bush Heritage Board in 2009.