Our People
We're a non-political, mainly voluntary organisation governed by a council
of experienced conservationists, scientists, business and professional people.
Our staff work from our office at 32 Holden Street, Hindmarsh, South Australia.
Our Executives
PRESIDENT
Bob Lott is an owner and Director of Venue*Tix, Weslo Staff, Thebarton Theatre
and Quorn Quandongs. He is also a biochemist, producer and manager of
major events and a theatrical entrepreneur.
Bob has served on numerous boards and councils, including the Festival
of Arts, the Royal Show and was Deputy Chairman of the Jubilee 150
Board. He is an enthusiastic environmentalist and supporter of
Indigenous artists. He has been a Nature Foundation SA Councillor since
2003.
VICE-PRESIDENT
David Moyle AM
has occupied senior academic and leadership roles at Flinders
University and has been a leading environmental advocate in SA. He has
served extensively on statutory committees including Chair of the
National Parks and Wildlife Council and Deputy Chair of the Native
Vegetation Council. He is currently a Commissioner of the Environment,
Resources and Development Court and a lecturer in the School of Natural
and Built Environments at UniSA. David is also a past President of
Nature Foundation SA and the Nature Conservation Society of SA. He has
been a Nature Foundation SA Councillor since 1989.
HONORARY SECRETARY
Susie Herzberg is
the principal of Lambda Planning Solutions. She currently serves
on the Boards of KESAB and the Playford Memorial Trust and is a member
of the Planning Institute of Australia (SA) Policy Committee and of the
SA Wine Industry Association Environment Committee.
Susie has worked as an urban and environmental planner with the
Commonwealth, State and Local Governments and spent several years as a
lecturer in the Architecture and Planning Faculty at the University of
Adelaide. She was a member of the Board of the Botanic Gardens and
State Herbarium for fourteen years, three of those as Chairman. She
also has served on the Board of the South Australian Housing Trust, the
Patawalonga Catchment Management Board, the City-State Forum and the
State Cycling Council.
Susie is a Past President of the Australian Institute of Urban Studies
(SA). She has been a Nature Foundation SA Councillor since 2006.
HONORARY TREASURER
Stephen Warren joined Nature Foundation SA in 2010. We
will soon be posting current biographical information here.
Our Councillors
Dr Rob Morrison OAMis
a retired Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Flinders
University and has recently retired as the President of the Royal
Zoological Society of SA which is responsible for Adelaide Zoo and
Monarto Zoological Park.
Rob has written dozens of articles and 28 books on science and natural
history, and is co-author of 13 more. A science and environment
broadcaster for forty years on television and radio, he has won many
national and international awards, including a Churchill Fellowship,
the Michael Daley Award for Science Journalism and two Eureka Prizes.
In 2005 he was the inaugural winner of the South Australian Award for
Excellence in Science Communication. Together with Dr Deane Hutton, he
co-hosted the long-running national television program Curiosity Show, that screened in fourteen countries.
Rob is a member of the Board of the newly established Australian
Science Media Centre, Patron of National Science Week SA and in 2004
was awarded The Order of Australia for his Services to Conservation and
Science Communication. He has been a Nature Foundation SA Councillor
since 1995.
Dr David Hansman is
a semi-retired pathologist who was Director of Microbiology at the
Women's and Children's Hospital for more than 25 years. He has had a
lifetime interest in, and concern for, the natural environment. He has
belonged to and supported numerous national and state conservation
groups and has been an enthusiastic supporter of the acquisition and
maintenance of nature reserves in Australia and overseas. He has been a
Nature Foundation SA Councillor since 2003.
Dr Robert Sharrad is a field biologist who has spent much of his life in the bush
teaching trainee teachers and rangers or conducting wildlife surveys.
His particular interest is in small vertebrates, including reptiles.
Bob lectures in ecology and animal behaviour at the Flinders University
of SA. He has been an active participant in a number of scientific and
conservation groups including: Native Vegetation Authority, Reserves
Planning and Management Committee, Royal Society of SA, Chair of the
Fire Research Coordination Group, State Councillor of the Ecological
Society of Australia, Friends of Cleland (first Chair). He has been a
Nature Foundation SA Councillor since 1989 and a past president of the
Foundation.
Megan Dyson
Megan Dyson is a self-employed environmental lawyer and policy
consultant with over 15 years experience working predominantly in the
public sector. She has special expertise in the development and
administration of environment protection and water resource management
laws, and a long standing personal interest in native vegetation and
habitat protection. Megan is also a member of the Board of the South
Australian Environment Protection Authority (since 2003) and of the
Board of Zero Waste SA (since 2007). She has been a Nature Foundation
SA Councillor since 2008.
Chris Reed
Chris Reed has had a long term passion for the land and environment. He
is a fourth generation farmer from Burra and still runs a farm that has
been in his family since 1866. On leaving school, in addition to
working the farm, he became a professional woolclasser and worked in
many pastoral sheds across the rangelands of Australia. After spending
ten years in local government, he became involved in landcare through
the Eastern Districts Soil Board. He has just completed two terms as
the Presiding Member of the SA Arid Lands Natural Resources Management
Board and now, free of these duties, is looking forward to his
involvement with Nature Foundation as an Executive Councillor and
Chairman of the Property Management Committee. He joined the Foundation
in 2010.
Paul-John Mudie
Paul-John Mudie, known as ‘P-J’, is an accountant with local firm Cleland McFarlane Selth. P-J has fifteen years experience as an accountant and has an in-depth knowledge of income tax and accounting affairs pertaining to small and medium businesses from all sectors, especially primary producers. P-J is a Registered Tax Agent and holds memberships with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and the Tax Institute. Outside of the office P-J spends time tending to his own patch of native vegetation on an acreage south of Adelaide. P-J joined the NFSA Council in December 2010.
Our Staff
Chief Executive Officer – Andrew Reilly
Conservation Programs Manager – Alex Nankivell
Fundraising & Marketing Manager – Patrick Mentzel
Accountant – Georgie Fiedler
Donor Relationships Manager - Madeleine Wearne
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