Independent Chair: Emma Jackson
Emma is the current NRM Regions Australia Chair and served as Chair of Cape York NRM for eight years prior to this role. She played a critical role in taking the national organisation from a working group to a legal entity and is continuing to strengthen and lead NRM Regions Australia forwards. Emma contributes to the local region in many ways and is dedicated to improving practices and opportunities across the industry.
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Julie Boyd
As Chair of NRM Regions Queensland and Reef Catchments Limited, and a former Mayor of Mackay, Julie Boyd has a long-standing interest and involvement in the natural resources sector. She is an experienced company director and has expertise in strategy, governance and the not-for-profit sector.
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Tony Ford
Tony has over 40 years' experience in Australian and international Agribusiness at the senior executive level and on boars, as a director and chair, in food manufacturing, aquaculture, horticulture and other institutions. He has been an executive, consultant and director in industry policy development and strategic planning across different industries, states and western pacific countries. Recently, he has chaired on of Australia's largest aquaculture companies and was associate business consultant at one of Australia's larger restructuring firms.
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David Greenhough
David is Chair of the Landscape SA Chairs Forum and Chair of the Hills and Fleurieu Landscape Board. David chaired the Glenthorne Partnership, working with the South Australian Department for Environment and Water, partnership members and the community to provide advice and guidance on the creation of Glenthorne National Park and precinct. He is a founding member and chair of the Friends of the Lower Field River, a group formed to reinvigorate and revegetate the Lower Field River, near Hallett Cove.
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Jamie Pittock
Jamie is a professor at The Australian National University and is the independent Chair of the ACT Natural Resources Management Advisory Committee. He has worked for environmental organisations in Australia and internationally. Among other roles, Jamie is a member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas and chairs the Eminent Scientists Group of WWF Australia. He is also President of Friends of Grasslands.
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Tess Herbert
Tess owns and operates a sixth-generation family farming business - cattle feedlot, lamb and wool production and crops, silage and hay production - in the central west of New South Wales. Tess has previously been the President of the Australian Lot Feeders Association- the industry council grain fed beef, Director of the Federal Agriculture Minister’s Red Meat Advisory Council, Chair of the Australian Beef Sustainability Framework Steering Group and Chair of the Red Meat Panel. Currently Tess is a non-executive director of Meat and Livestock Australia, the independent chair of the Grains Industry Sustainability Governance Council and the Chair of the Local Land Services State Board in NSW.
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John Carlson
John has been a company director and advisor since 1980. Specialising in behavioural economics and the application of psychology to driving behavioural outcomes, he has developed strategy for businesses large and small, government at all levels and the not-for-profit sector.
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Alastair Shields
A born and bred Territorian, Alastair is passionate about development that has good environmental outcomes, creates employment, and provides other tangible benefits for the Territory, especially outcomes that involve investment in the Territory’s unique natural landscape and flora and fauna. Alastair has formal qualifications in accounting, law and public administration, and joined Territory Natural Resource Management after a career of more than 37 years in the NT Public Sector.
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Peter Voller PSM
Peter worked for 25 years in Queensland Government as an agroforestry extension officer in inland areas and on delivery of vegetation management controls on farms. He moved to Tasmania in 2007, taking on the role of Manager Natural Values Conservation in DPIPWE, before retiring in 2018. In addition to the NRM Regions Australia board, Peter is the Chair of the West Tamar Landcare Group and of Cradle Coast NRM, plus a Director on Cradle Coast Authority Board.
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