Fauna & Flora International president & vice-presidents

Lindsay Bury

President

Lindsay Bury became FFI's President in 2003 after holding the position of Chairman for 10 years. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College Cambridge and went on to carve out a distinguished career in the City. His interest in conservation was awakened many years ago by managing his estate in Shropshire, which consists of nearly 4,000 acres of mixed farmland and forestry. He has previously been a trustee of the (then) World Wildlife Fund and a regional committee member for the National Trust.

Baroness Amos

Vice-president

Valerie Amos is a Labour politician and life peer and was appointed to the post of United Nations Under-Secretary-General, Office of the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs in July 2010 following a distinguished career, most recently as the UK's High Commissioner to Australia. From 2007 to 2009, Ms. Amos was Chair of the Royal African Society and a Fulbright Commissioner. Between 2003 and 2007, she served as Cabinet minister, Leader of the House of Lords and Secretary of State for International Development.

Ms. Amos was born in Guyana, South America and came to the UK aged nine. Besides a number of Honorary Doctorates, she holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and a Master of Arts in Cultural Studies.

Baroness Amos became an FFI vice-president in 2010.

Sir David Attenborough^{(OM FRS)}

Vice-president

Sir David Attenborough is a broadcaster and naturalist. His career as the respected face and voice of natural history programmes has spanned more than 50 years.

He is best known for writing and presenting the nine "Life" series, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, which collectively form a comprehensive survey of all life on the planet. He is also a former senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC Two and Director of Programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s.

Sir David has been a member of FFI for more than 50 years and a vice-president since 1980.

Professor David Bellamy^(OBE)

Vice-president

David is an international consultant and author of more than 40 books. He has written and presented 400 television programmes on botany, ecology, and environmental issues. He is a Special Professor of Geography at the University of Nottingham, an Honorary Professor of Adult and Continuing Education at the University of Durham, and an Honorary Professor of the University of Central Queensland.

David is President of many organisations, including The Conservation Foundation (Durham), the Surrey and Birmingham Wildlife Trusts, Coral Cay Conservation, the National Association for Environmental Education and the British Naturalists Association. He is vice-president of the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers, the Marine Conservation Society and the Wild Trout Trust.

He is a trustee of the Living Landscape Trust, an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management and an Honorary Member of the Emirates Environment Group.

David has received The Dutch Order of the Golden Ark, the United Nations Environment Program Global 500 Award, The Duke of Edinburgh's Award for Underwater Research and a BAFTA (the Richard Dimbleby Award).

Professor Bellamy has been a vice-president of FFI since 1983.

The Lord Browne of Madingley^{(FR Eng)}

Vice-president

John Browne stood down as Chief Executive of BP in May 2007 after a career spanning more than 30 years. He has been a cross-bench member of the House of Lords since 2001 and at the end of 2010 he was appointed as one of the Government's Lead Non-Executive Directors.

Lord Browne's other positions include Managing Director of Riverstone Holdings LLC, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Fellow of the Royal Society. He is a past President of the British Science Association and in January 2009 was appointed as Chair of the Trustees of the Tate Gallery.

Lord Browne has been an FFI vice-president since 1999.

Field Marshal Sir John Chapple^{(GCB, CBE, DL)}

Vice-president

Field Marshal Sir John Lyon Chapple was a career British Army officer in the second half of the 20th century. He served as Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the British Army, from 1989 to 1992. He was also Governor of Gibraltar from 1993 to 1995.

He has served as President of the Zoological Society of London, is a Life Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and, amongst other current roles, is a Trustee of the UK Trust for Nature Conservation in Nepal, vice-president of The Conservation Foundation and Chairman of the UK Council of Ambassadors of WWF.

Field Marshal Chapple became an FFI vice-president in 2004.

Dame Judi Dench

Vice-president

Dame Judi Dench is a multi-award winning English film, stage and television actress. She made her professional debut in 1957 and is regarded as one of the greatest actresses of the post-war period, enjoying both critical and popular acclaim. Dame Judi holds a number of honorary degrees and fellowships and is a supporter of a wide range of charities in the fields of the arts, education, health and human rights including The Leaveners, the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, The Little Foundation and Survival International.

Dame Judi became an FFI vice-president in 2010.

Dr Lee Durrell^MBE

Vice-president

Dr Lee Durrell has played an important role at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust (DWCT) for more than 30 years. She was involved in the growth of their overseas conservation programmes, particularly in Madagascar, as well as in the development of the wildlife park and the International Training Centre in Jersey. Dr Durrell has sat on the governing boards of a number of well known wildlife organisations, including FFI's Council, and has contributed to the field of conservation through books, articles and speaking engagements.

Lee assumed the mantle of Honorary Director at DWCT on the death of her husband, Gerald Durrell, in 1995, and now acts as an ambassador and fund-raiser for Durrell, as well as a member of their Board of Trustees. In June 2011 she was awarded an MBE for services to conservation and the environment.

Dr Durrell became an FFI vice-president in 2002.

Stephen Fry

Vice-president

Stephen Fry is a British actor, comedian, author, television presenter and film director. He presented the 'Last Chance to See' on BBC television, a series of six programmes in which he followed in Douglas Adams' footsteps twenty years on and joins Mark Carwardine in search of endangered animals, including the mountain gorillas of DRC and the Northern White Rhino. Later, after becoming a vice-president for FFI, Stephen personally witnessed the translocation of four Northern White Rhino from a zoo in the Czech Republic to Ol Pejeta, a reserve in Kenya - a last chance to save the genes of this Critically Endangered species.

Stephen Fry is an Honorary Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge, a Trustee of the Royal Academy Trust and a Patron of the Pure Trust. He became an FFI vice-president in 2009.

Rupert Goodman

Vice-president

Rupert Goodman is the Chairman and Founder of FIRST, a multidisciplinary international affairs organisation. Founded in 1984, it aims to enhance communication between leaders in industry, finance and government worldwide and to promote strategic dialogue. Mr Goodman was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce, and a was Trustee of the National Botanic Garden of Wales (2005-2008). Rupert Goodman is also a Trustee of the British-Kazakh Society, vice-president of The Algerian-British Business Association, a member of the International Advisory Council of Atlantic Publishing and a member of the Development Board of Artes Mundi.

Rupert became an FFI vice-president in 2011.

Edward Hoare

Vice-president

Edward Hoare retired in 2009 from a long career at C. Hoare & Co., a private bank in London. He continues to have an active involvement in its charitable activities and serves on the Family Forum of the Golden Bottle Trust.

Edward's interests include philanthropy, governance and accountability, raising standards, social entrepreneurship and changing the world. He is an amateur ornithologist and wildlife gardener. He enjoys countryside pursuits and has pioneered the introduction of location-based interactive guide technology in the early 1990s. He has been involved with FFI for many years and was its Treasurer from 1984 to 1996. He serves on FFI's Audit Committee and has been an FFI vice-president since 2007, with a particular interest in FFI's conservation programmes in Brazil.

Professor Frederick Kayanja

Vice-president

Professor Frederick Kayanja has served as Vice Chancellor and Professor at the Faculty of Medicine at Mbarara University of Science & Technology in Uganda since 1989. He is a renowned academic who has published extensively winning several awards including a Life Time Achievement Award from the British Government and the Palmes Academigue, the French highest recognition for individual’s outstanding performance.

Professor Kayanja is Chairman of the National Agricultural Research Organization (Uganda) and Chairman of the National Council for Higher Education (Uganda). He has been a vice-president of FFI for more than 15 years.

Professor Jonathan Kingdon

Vice-president

Jonathan Kingdon is a practicing artist, author and researcher. He is a research associate of the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford and was formerly a professor of fine art and of evolutionary biology. He was born in Tanzania and has lived in Africa for much of his life. He is a highly acclaimed scientist, author and artist with a deep and abiding concern for conservation issues, particularly in Africa. His most recent activities have been publishing two books on human evolution, preparing Field and Pocket Guides to African Mammals and initiating, compiling and joint-editing/joint-authoring a six volume handbook on the Mammals of Africa, to be published by University of California Press.

Dr Kingdon became an FFI vice-president in 2002.

Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands

Vice-president

Princess Laurentien is married to Prince Constantijn, the third son of Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands. Princess Laurentien has worked on sustainability and environmental issues for several years, most recently as Special Advisor to WWF and Fellow of the European Climate Foundation. She is also the initiator and author of a children's books series around a character known as Mr Finney that deal with issues such as sustainability and climate change. She is also UNESCO's Special Envoy on Literacy for Development.

Princess Laurentien has been an FFI vice-president since 2006, having previously served as a Member of Council during 2003 and 2004.

Rove McManus

Vice-president

Rove McManus started his entertainment career as a stand up comedian but has gone on to become Australia's most successful talk show host and one of its biggest producers of entertainment television. He has also been a three-time recipient of Australia's most prestigious television award, the Gold Logie for Most Popular Personality.

Rove has a genuine passion for wildlife conservation and has visited a number of FFI's project sites since becoming an FFI vice-president in 2008.

Sir Mark Moody-Stuart ^{KCMG PHD FGS}

Vice-president

Sir Mark Moody-Stuart was chairman of Anglo American plc, a global mining and natural resources company, from 2002-2009. Following a doctorate in geology from Cambridge University, much of Sir Mark's working life prior to joining Anglo was spent with the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of companies, becoming Chairman from 1998-2002. During his career Sir Mark worked with many NGOs to improve companies' commitment to socially responsible activities and he is Chairman of the Global Compact Foundation, which since its establishment in 2006 raises funds from the private sector to support the work of the United Nations Global Compact.

Sir Mark is also Chairman of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, a fellow of the Geological and Royal Geographical Societies and a holder of a number of honorary degrees. He was appointed as an FFI vice-president in 2010.

Lisbet Rausing

Vice-president

Dr Rausing holds honorary doctorates from Uppsala University, Imperial College and SOAS, is a fellow of the Linnean Society, and the Royal Historical Society and an honorary fellow of the British Academy. She was educated at the UC, Berkeley and Harvard, where she also taught for eight years. She is the author of Linnaeus: Nature and Nation (Harvard, 1999) as well as numerous scholarly articles. Lisbet founded the Arcadia Fund in 2001, with her husband Professor Peter Baldwin, and has been an FFI vice-president since 2000.

Hugh Sloane

Vice-president

Hugh Sloane is co-founder of Sloane Robinson LLP, which was founded in 1993 and manages assets in a variety of products, primarily focused on long/ short equity in Emerging, Pacific and European markets. He was educated at Bristol University and Oxford, where he undertook a Masters in Economics. Hugh has had a lifelong interest in the natural world and has been a committed supporter of FFI's Halcyon Land & Sea fund since 2008. He was elected as an FFI vice-president in 2011.

Jon L Stryker

Vice-president

Jon Stryker is the Founder and President of the Arcus Foundation, a private foundation with offices in Kalamazoo, Michigan, New York City and Cambridge, UK. The mission of the Arcus Foundation is to achieve social justice that is inclusive of sexual orientation, gender identity and race, and to ensure conservation and respect of the Great Apes.

He is a founding Board Member of the Ol Pejeta Wildlife Conservancy in Northern Kenya, Save the Chimps in Ft. Pierce, Florida and Greenleaf Trust in Kalamazoo. Mr. Stryker is also a registered Architect in the State of Michigan and is President of Depot Landmark LLC.

Jon was elected to serve as an FFI vice-president in 2006.

Dr Charlotte Uhlenbroek

Vice-president

Dr Charlotte Uhlenbroek is a British zoologist, writer and broadcaster. She studied Zoology and Psychology at Bristol University and then spent four years living in Gombe National Park in Tanzania studying wild chimpanzees for her PhD on chimpanzee communication. She has presented several TV programmes for the BBC, notably Cousins, a series that traces primate evolution, Talking with Animals, a series that unravels the mysteries of animal communication, and Jungle, a series exploring rainforest ecology.

Most recently Charlotte presented a series on ape behaviour called Among the Apes for Channel 5. In addition to numerous articles she has written three books, one on animal communication, one on rainforests and has recently finished an encyclopedia of animal behaviour called Animal Life. A keen conservationist, Charlotte is patron of the Kathmandu Animal Treatment Centre and supports many other wildlife organizations and charities including the Ape Alliance, the World Development Movement and The Woodland Trust. She has been a vice-president of Fauna & Flora International since 2004.

Dr Uhlenbroek has been a vice-president since 2004.

The Rt Hon Baroness Young of Old Scone

Vice-president

Barbara Young became Chief Executive of RSPB in 1991 after a number of senior level posts in the health service. She was created a Life Peer in 1997 as Baroness Young of Old Scone and became Chair of English Nature in 1998 before joining the Environment Agency in 2000. She led the establishment of the Care Quality Commission before being appointed Chief Executive at Diabetes UK, a post she took up in November 2010.

Baroness Young has also served as Vice Chair of the Board of Governors of the BBC and taken senior roles in various bodies concerned with wildlife, the environment and sustainable development. She has been an FFI vice-president since 1998.