The TLC Board contribute their time and considerable expertise voluntarily. We are exceedingly fortunate to be guided by their diverse expertise from a range of professional backgrounds.
Julian Von Bibra
Board Chair
Julian runs his family farm at 'Beaufront', in the Midlands of Tasmania. For the past 30 years he has endeavoured to balance productive agriculture with conservation and biodiversity. In his farming business Julian practices partnership and collaboration to achieve shared outcomes.
Clare Bower
Board Vice Chair
Clare has 25 years’ experience providing financial and operational audit, governance and risk advice to Australian and global organisations, most recently as a senior partner at Deloitte. She was a founding Director of the Deloitte Foundation and a recognised advocate of workplace diversity as an executive of the firm’s Inspiring Women program.
Professor Greg Lehman
Professor Greg Lehman is a well-known Tasmanian art historian, curator, poet, essayist and commentator on Indigenous identity and place, who is descended from the Trawulwuy people of north-east Tasmania. Greg is Pro Vice-Chancellor, Aboriginal Leadership at the University of Tasmania.His research spans Indigenous cultural values, land and fire management to representation of Indigenous people in colonial art.
Professor Ian Cresswell
Ian is an adjunct professor with the University of Western Australia following a long career managing environmental science programs in terrestrial, marine and freshwater ecological science. He chairs the NESP Resilient Landscapes hub nationally, the Western Australian Biodiversity Science Institute, and the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Advisory Panel. Within Tasmania, Ian is a board member of the Environmental Protection Authority and the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens.
Professor Jan Mcdonald
Professor Jan McDonald is an environmental and climate law specialist based at the School of Law and Centre for Marine Socioecology at the University of Tasmania. Jan has worked with local, state and national governments and NGOs on environmental and climate change adaptation issues, in Australia and the Pacific Region.
LISA MILLER
Lisa studied Advanced Science specialising in the fields of zoology and evolutionary biology before starting her career as a scientist at the Australian Museum. After transitioning into tech in 2004, Lisa has spent the last 18 years developing products and scaling leaders and teams at some of the fastest growing companies in Australia, including Canva. She has now united her passion for conservation and technology by establishing Wedgetail: an organisation devoted to conserving and restoring biodiversity through sustainable investment.
Dr Libby Pinkard
Libby is a principal senior research scientist with CSIRO, with interests that span forest science, climate change adaptation, sustainable land management and natural capital assessment and accounting. She has led large biodiversity and nature science portfolios focused on meeting the needs of government and industry in measuring, monitoring and reporting on nature.
Libby has served as an independent member of TLC’s Conservation Science and Planning Advisory Council since 2019.
Patrick Kelly
Patrick has 30 years of experience in financial and management roles across a broad range of industries - from tourism and the arts to media and public policy. Most recently Patrick served as CFO, Co-CEO and CEO of Mona. Patrick has called Tasmanian home for nearly 20 years and is currently involved in nature and cultural guiding.
Simon Foster
Simon Foster is an experienced land manager and Company Director. For 30 years he has run a family farming business at Campbell Town in Tasmania’s Midlands, producing sustainable merino wool on significant and diverse areas of high conservation value. Since 2002 Simon has been a Director of the North Australian Pastoral Company, a leader in sustainable natural resource management and environmental stewardship.
Professor Vanessa Adams
Professor Vanessa Adams is a Professor in Conservation and Planning at the University of Tasmania. Her research focuses on modelling dynamic social-ecological systems to inform conservation decisions that improve ecosystems and the communities they support. She has worked in roles ranging from actuarial analyst for global consulting firm Mercer HR to research scientist at universities. Vanessa regularly partners with relevant government agencies and NGOs to develop solutions for a range of conservation problems.