Fauna & Flora Australia

Mike retired from PriceWaterhouseCoopers after 35 years, giving him the time to follow his passion for the natural world. Mike graduated from Oxford University with a Masters in Natural Science and Botany and his time with PriceWaterhouseCoopers included six years working in Papua New Guinea, helping locals develop their business skills. He remains a keen traveller, joining the Board of FFI Australia in 2012 with the hope of seeing a number of FFI’s projects at first hand, and taking over as Chair of the Board in 2016.

Kristian spent the last two decades working with both community leaders and at the highest levels of policy, science, environment, sustainability and development and business, as well as building and leading innovative partnerships, and initiatives to improve the state of our planet. Most recently, in addition to his role as the global director of the Ocean Programme at the World Resources Institute, Kristian led the Ocean Action Agenda and Friends of Ocean Action for the World Economic Forum, and headed the Secretariat of the High-Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy with 17 serving heads of state and government. Kristian serves on the boards of a number of environmental, development and social initiatives, and has degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Cambridge University. In July 2023 Kristian became the CEO of Fauna & Flora.

Angela is the current University Ombud and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney Faculty of Law. Prior to academia, Angela practised as a Barrister and Solicitor in Victoria and Solicitor in NSW for 18 years.

Angela's particular research interest is in the area of Biodiversity Conservation, with her doctoral dissertation examining the use of the Precautionary Principle in the listing of species, ecological communities and Key Threatening Processes under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation 1999 Act (Cth).

Angela has published and delivered conference papers nationally and internationally in the areas of world trade and quarantine regulation; biodiversity conservation; threatened species listing priorities and processes; and the implementation of the Precautionary Principle in environmental regulation, weed regulation and enforcement of environmental law.

Her current affiliations include scientific member of the Royal Zoological Society of NSW and institutional member of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law. Angela was elected to the Board of FFI Australia in 2013.

Jonny Wright was appointed to the Board of FFI Australia by FFI’s Council of Trustees in 2020. He joined FFI in 2019 to lead our communications and fundraising teams. His love of wildlife, nurtured during his childhood years in India, ultimately led to his decision to study Biology at Manchester University. After graduating, Jonny worked for Reed Recruitment, where he obtained diplomas from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

Combining his professional skills in communications and marketing with his passion for the natural world, Jonny joined RSPB. He worked for the organisation for 17 years, during which time he managed various functions across membership recruitment and development, brand, communications and marketing. In his various roles at the RSPB, Jonny was instrumental in driving the growth in membership recruitment and increase in individual giving, and he also led the organisation through a significant rebrand.