Parks Victoria Annual Report 2000-01

Jane GilmourPhD, FAICDExecutive Director,Earthwatch InstituteAustraliaDr Gilmour brings to theBoard extensive experienceas Director of EarthwatchAustralia, an organisationthat supports a significantinternational program ofnatural and environmentalfield research. Dr Gilmour isa member of the NationalEnvironmental ConsultativeForum, has served on anumber of boards and wasa member of the Cultureand Heritage ReferenceGroup for the FederalGovernment’s first Stateof the Environment Reportreleased in 1996.Jane TongsB.Bus., MBAChairman, NetwealthInvestments Limited& MHSC LimitedMs Tongs is a past Directorof Heine ManagementLimited and its relatedcompanies, the VictorianWomen’s Trust and is apast member of the AlpineResorts Co-ordinatingCouncil. A former partnerat PriceWaterhouseCoopers,she has had significantexperience with theinsurance, fundsmanagement andsuperannuation sector.A member of the Instituteof Company Directors,the Institute of CharteredAccountants and theInstitute of InternalAuditors, Ms Tongs is alsoan independent directorof the GovernmentSuperannuation Office,Mayne Finance Ltd,Netwealth InvestmentsLimited, Bayside HealthServices and RMITUniversity Limited.Pam RobinsonOAMPam Robinson hasextensive experience infarming, forestry, localgovernment andcommunity development.She is a former memberof the Land ConservationCouncil and the NationalLandcare AdvisoryCommittee and wasChair of the StatePlantations Impact Study.A former shire president,Ms Robinson hasparticipated at all levelsof local, regional, state andnational decision-makingbodies, particularly innatural resourcemanagement. She wasawarded the OAM in1990 for services to localgovernment andconservation. NowMelbourne-based, sheretains agricultural landin Victoria’s north-east.Dr Geoff WescottB.Sc. (Hons),M.Sc. (Melb).M.Sc.Dip Nat Cons (Lond)PhD (Deakin), MIB,FEIA.Associate Head of School,Ecology and Environment &Associate Professor, Facultyof Science and Technology,Deakin UniversityDr Wescott is the formerConvener of the NationalParks Advisory Counciland has a Ph.D. inEnvironmental Policy andManagement, a M.Sc. inNature Conservation, aM.Sc. in Marine Zoologyand is the author ofnumerous park publicationsincluding A Field Guideto Wilsons PromontoryMarine and National Park.Mr Don SaundersB.AgriSc.Mr Saunders was theDirector of National Parksfor 15 years, a formerChairman of the LandConservation Counciland the EnvironmentConservation Council andnow works part time as theconservation co-ordinatorof the Bird Observers Clubof Australia. Among hismany roles, he has beena member of the NationalParks Advisory Council,Reference Area AdvisoryCommittee, Murray DarlingBasin Commission, NationalLandcare AdvisoryCommittee and acommissioner of theAlpine Resorts Commission.He is currently a Trusteeof the Trust for Nature.His many awards for hiscontribution to parksinclude the 1996 PublicService Medal – AustraliaDay Award, the 1998 ParksVictoria Kookaburra Awardand a Churchill Fellowship.13