Fauna & Flora International 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.

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.

Nick Bubb is FFI’s Global Development Executive working to promote the organisation, build new partnerships and fundraise for its extensive programme of conservation work. His role has developed over the last four years from being an ambassador for the organisation whilst on an expedition in Antarctica in 2012/13 (retracing Sir Ernest Shackleton’s voyage from Elephant Island to South Georgia in original kit, replica boat etc.), to starting work full time with FFI at the beginning of 2014.

An engineer by qualification and with a huge passion for the natural world, Nick spent ten years as an ocean racer competing in various round the world and solo trans-Atlantic races, before moving into finance as a private client wealth manager. Although based in London, Nick’s main geographical areas of responsibility include the Caribbean, Singapore & Australia and typically he visits the regions each quarter. He was appointed to the Board of FFI Australia by FFI’s Council of Trustees in 2016.