Fauna & Flora International Australia Board Of Directors

Kevin Skelton ^B.Econ

Managing Director Head of Investment Banking Merrill Lynch International (Australia) Limited

Kevin is the Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking at Merrill Lynch International (Australia) and has over 30 years experience in investment banking. Kevin is the chairman of FFI Australia's Advisory and Board of Directors thus providing consistency and continuity between the two groups. Kevin is a keen surfer and is heavily involved in the revegetation of land in and around Byron Bay.

Lisa Gay ^B.Econ

Non-executive Director

Until May 2010 Lisa Gay was General Counsel & Managing Director of the Goldman Sachs Group. In addition to sitting on the Board of Directors of FFI Australia, she is a Trustee Board member of the Victorian Trust for Nature, Chairman of ASIC Market Disciplinary Panel and a Member of the Australian Securities Exchange Disciplinary Tribunal and Appeal Panel.

Lisa and her husband Ric have a 250 acre property in the Victorian high country where they share a passionate interest in revegetation and erosion prevention, having planted over 5,000 trees in the last three years on the property. They have been proud and loud eco-warriors since the early 80s.

Timothy King ^CFA

Managing Director, Head of Research, Deutsche Bank

Tim King is Managing Director and head of Australian Company Research at Deutsche Bank, and also has responsibility for Carbon and ESG Research. He has over 15 years of sell-side research experience. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank in April 2003, Tim was head of Aust/NZ Telecommunications and Construction Materials Research at a major global investment bank. Prior to this, he ran pan-Asian capital goods research for a broking firm in Singapore for two years, and before that worked for an investment bank in Sydney as a top rated Australasian building materials analyst for six years.

Tim has an MA (First Class Hons) from the University of Canterbury (NZ), and studied finance and economics at the Institut fur Weltwirtschaft (Kiel, Germany) and University of Rochester (USA). He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). Tim has considerable experience in REDD projects, and recently returned from 4 months working with the Government of Ecuador on a National REDD strategy.

Mark Rose

CEO, Fauna & Flora International

Mark has been a Board member of FFI Australia since 2008. As a trained zoologist, he spent the early part of his career as a wildlife officer and field biologist, specialising in the sustainable conservation management of wildlife, particularly crocodiles in Papua New Guinea. Mark has been at the helm of three Conservation Not for Profit organisations in the United Kingdom and is CEO of Fauna & Flora International since 1993, responsible for all the society's conservation operations across the world as well as for its financial and administrative management.

He is also a Board member of FFI Inc. in the US and of several local trusts and foundations in the Americas and Africa.

Deborah Snelson

CEO, Volunteer Service Abroad, New Zealand

Deborah Snelson is a zoologist by training and has worked for the past 25 years for international conservation and development NGOs and as a consultant - based in New Zealand since 2001 and prior to that in Eastern Africa for 16 years. Her links with FFI were formed when she worked as the Deputy Director of the African Wildlife Foundation (1987-1997) and then as the Eastern Africa Regional Representative of WWF (1997 – 2000) collaborating with FFI on the flagship International Gorilla Conservation Programme. Subsequent to her becoming the CEO of New Zealand's Volunteer Service Abroad links continued with a VSA volunteer working on an FFI project in Halong Bay in Viet Nam. She has a strong interest in NGO organisational development and is excited to have joined the Operating Board at a time when FFI Australia is working on a range of innovative and creative conservation initiatives both within Australia and its global programme.

Luca Tacconi ^{BEc (Siena), MCom (UMelb), PhD (UNSW)}

Director, Environmental Management and Development Program Crawford School of Economics and Government

Associate Professor Luca Tacconi has more than 15 years of experience in research and development assistance in international and national institutions, as a researcher, adviser, and consultant on rural development, participatory resource management, forestry, marine resources, watershed management, land tenure and land use planning, capacity building, and biodiversity conservation. Luca has wide experience in policy analysis, program and project identification, design, appraisal, implementation and review.

John Taberner ^{MA (Hons), LLB, LLM (George Washington)}

Consultant, Freehills

John Taberner is a consultant in the Sydney office and has exclusively practiced environmental law for over 27 years. He is recognised as a leading practitioner in the field. His experience includes all matters involving environmental legal issues. These include issues relating to land-use planning, pollution control, contaminated land and climate change. John served for four years as Secretary of the National Environmental Law Association of Australia, and for four years as a member of the Executive Committee of the International Bar Association's Committee on Environmental Law. John brings this unique and extensive knowledge to the fledgling but rapidly growing FFI Australia.