Board of Trustees

	Camilla Graves (Chairman) BA, DipEd, Grad Dip AppSc (Horticulture), Grad Dip App Finance, MAICD Camilla joined Trust for Nature’s Board in 2004 and became the Chairman in 2010. She has worked in education, financial markets (UK), catering, tourism and as a consultant horticulturalist. She has had a lifelong involvement in the family business of primary production. Camilla is a strong advocate for sustainable land management and the conservation and protection of significant natural assets and ecology on private land, for the benefit of future generations.
	Anthea Hancocks (Deputy) BSc, MA, MBA Anthea has an extensive background in business development, communications, education, strategy and relationship and services marketing. She is currently the Chief Marketing Officer for law firm Herbert Geer where she is responsible for the firm’s brand, positioning, marketing and business development. Prior to this role, she managed the office of the Chief Operating Officer of the National Australia Bank. She has worked as General Manager, Corporate, for the Melbourne Business School, responsible for leadership, strategy and management programs with over 100 top Australian and international companies and before that she was the National Business Development Director for Deloitte. For 10 years she lived in the USA where she was an Associate Professor for Museum Studies at the University of Arizona.
	Rikki Andrews BSc (Botany), Grad Cert Env Mgt, MSocSc (Philanthropy and Social Investment) Rikki has a background in sales, business development and grant-making within trustee companies. In particular, she has experience in assisting high net-worth individuals and their advisors on choosing the best philanthropic option to suit their giving requirements. She is currently working with a private family foundation. In 2010, Rikki was invited to be a sessional lecturer for the Asia-Pacific Centre for Social Investment and Philanthropy’s new Master of Commerce program. She is also employed as a seminar developer and presenter at Philanthropy Australia the peak body for philanthropic organisations in Australia. In her spare time Rikki endeavours to ensure her CBD-living daughter, Annabel, encounters as much of the natural world as possible.
	Rod Gowans PSM BSc, Dip App Sc Rod Gowans joined the Board in late 2007. He has extensive experience in the management of natural resources on public and private land. In 2007 he was awarded the Public Service Medal for outstanding public service to the conservation of biodiversity and to the management of national parks. He has worked in various executive leadership roles responsible for the management of parks and reserves and the conservation of marine and terrestrial biodiversity. He has both national and international experience in programs for nature conservation and natural resource management. Rod has served on a number of management Boards in Victoria relating to natural resource management.
	Sylvia Geddes BA (Hons) Sylvia’s close association with Trust for Nature arose from her work in philanthropy, particularly as the CEO of The RE Ross Trust from which she retired in 2008 after eight years. Prior to this she was Manager, Charitable Services, ANZ Trustees. Sylvia’s career also encompassed working at senior Australian and Victorian public service levels in various areas of policy and program management and managing her own consultancy business. She has served on state and Australian Government advisory committees for vulnerable children, young people, families and those who are homeless and was a council member of the Australian Red Cross Victoria, including a period as Vice-Chair.
	Dr Gregory Moore BSc (Ed), BSc (Hons), MBA, Ph.D Greg has a strong interest in horticultural plant science and ecology. From 1988 to 2007 he was the principal of Burnley College in the Faculty of Land and Food Resources at the University of Melbourne. Prior to this he was a senior lecturer in Plant Science and Arboriculture from 1979. He was Head of the School of Resource Management at the University from 2002 to 2007. Greg was inaugural president of the Society of Arboriculture, Australian Chapter and contributed to Australian Standards in pruning and amenity tree evaluation. He has published more than 100 papers and articles; written one book on tree biology and management; and was the inaugural president of Arboriculture Australia.
	Lisa Gay LL.B, BA Until 2010, Lisa was General Counsel and Managing Director of the Goldman Sachs JBWere Group. Lisa is currently Chairman of the ASIC Markets Disciplinary Panel which is the main forum for hearing disciplinary matters against stock market participants for breaches of the Market Integrity Rules. Lisa is also a Director of Flora & Fauna International (Australia) and a member of ASIC Market Supervision Advisory Panel. Lisa, her husband Ric and two children, Winnie and Sam, own a 101ha property in the Victorian high country where they share a passionate interest in revegetation and erosion prevention and have planted over 5,000 trees.
	Dr Rik Thwaites BSc, Ph.D Rik is a senior lecturer in ecotourism, a social scientist and member of the Institute for Land, Water and Society at Charles Sturt University. Trained as a geologist, Rik worked as a glaciologist with the Australian Antarctic Division before turning his hand to photography and photo-journalism. Rik has been an active environmental advocate for many years and following a consultancy to develop a strategy for Sustainable Development for Albury Wodonga, Rik embarked on a Ph.D to study land degradation and sustainable land management on the steppe grasslands of Inner Mongolia, China. He has been part of several projects and consultancies on ecotourism, protected area and natural resource management in local and Indigenous communities. Rik is currently Faculty of Science, Sub Dean (International) at Charles Sturt University.
	Mick Lumb BAgSc, Ph.D Mick has had an extensive career in government and natural resource management and in 2006 he was awarded the Order of Australia Medal. Mick is the principal of an environmental services consulting firm that specialises in land use policy and strategy development with a strong focus on climate change. During his years in government he was the Director of the Land Conservation Council, various planning, conservation and natural resources divisions and finally, the Office of the Environment. Mick is a former Chair of the Port Phillip & Westernport Catchment Management Authority and a member of the Central Coastal Board. He has had a long interest in propagating and growing Australian plants and regularly travels through the deserts of Australia.