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Louise Sylvan – President
BA MPA • 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 joined the Bush Heritage Board in 2009.
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Andrew Myer – Vice-President
MBA • Andrew has a long involvement with investment, film and philanthropy. He is Founder and Managing Director of the AV Myer Group, which has interests in property development, philanthropy, investment and film. He has produced and executive produced six Australian feature films and is Vice-Chair of the Melbourne International Film Festival. Andrew was 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.
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David Rickards – Treasurer
BSc, BEng, MBA • 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.
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Dr Steve Morton
BSc (Hons), PhD • Steve is an Honorary Fellow with CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences in Alice Springs, having recently stepped aside from CSIRO's Executive Team after 10 years of leadership service. His interests continue to be identification of pathways towards sustainability. Steve joined the Bush Heritage Board in 2003.
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Hutch Ranck
BScEcon • Hutch Ranck is a Director of Elders Ltd and recently retired Managing Director of Dupont Australia/New Zealand and 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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Mike Chuk
Mike Chuk currently works in planning for the natural resource management group Desert Channels Queensland and other land managers in the rangelands of Queensland. He has spent the past 30 years working in the agriculture, national parks, forestry and natural resources sectors. Mike has worked in the rangelands of New South Wales, South Australia, Queensland and the Northern Territory, with most of the time spent in the Lake Eyre Basin. Mike's particular areas of skill include weed management, arid zone horticulture, conservation and regional planning. Mike joined the Bush Heritage Board in April 2010.
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Chris Grubb
B.A, B.Comm • Chris has been involved in the funds management and broking industries for 40 years. He now specialises in investing in and advising companies in the investment management industry on investment and business strategies. He was a Director of the investment bank Jardine Fleming (now part of JP Morgan) for 22 years and represented them as Chief Executive both in Australia and Asia. Chris is currently a non-executive Director of several fund management companies. He is a Trustee of The Australian Museum Foundation and was formerly a Director of the Odyssey House McGrath Foundation. Chris has been a supporter of Bush Heritage's model for protecting areas of ecological sensitivity and biodiversity for some years. He joined the Bush Heritage Board in 2011.
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