2021-01-18 GC - Item 1 - Attachment 1 - Noosa Biosphere Reserve Foundation 2019 20 Annual Report

                                                 NOOSA BIOSPHERE RESERVE FOUNDATION – 2019/20




THE NBRF BOARD

The Board currently consists of eight directors           strategies and successfully specialising in Web
each tasked with at least one priority area               Search Engine Optimisation.
project/s: Rex Halverson, Chair; Greg Schumann,
Deputy Chair and Company Secretary; Tom                   Rowan moved to Mallacoota in 2010, within the
Wegener, Noosa Council Representative; Rod                UNESCO Croajingolong Biosphere Reserve and
Smith; Jady Smith; David Dique, Duncan                    National Park, where he volunteered in several
Thompson and Rowan Rafferty currently in an               organisations/projects. The most successful and
acting position prior to his formal appointment as        exciting being the Australian Innovative Councils
a Director at this AGM. The board represents a            2013 Award-winning Kitchen to Compost (K2C)
broad cross-section of highly valuable                    waste management system.
professional, corporate and academic experience.
Please go to our website for individual board
members’ profiles.                                        2020/21 MOVING AHEAD


APPOINTMENT OF NEW DIRECTOR –                             ADVISORS TO THE BOARD
ROWAN RAFFERTY
                                                          As discussed at the last AGM, the board has
Rowan Rafferty has been acting in advisory                followed through on nominating Advisors to the
capacity to the board throughout this financial           board with the view to representing broader
year and has been put forward to be appointed as          perspectives on specific board meetings or
an official board director at this AGM. Born in           offering particular skillsets to project areas. While
Sydney, Rowan has lived in, and was formally              Advisors do not have voting rights they bring
educated in Canberra. Rowan spent 23 years, until         extremely valuable skills and lived experience that
1988, in a variety of roles in the Commonwealth           represents the community more holistically.
Public Service including considerable experience
in Central Agencies, namely the Public Service            The board recognises the current lack of youth,
Board and the Auditor-General’s Office –                  female and Indigenous representation on the
Efficiency Audit Division.                                board. To address this the board has invited
                                                          Tamika Sadler, Seed Indigenous Climate Action
From 1988 he worked in the IT industry in a               Group; Carly Vidal Wallace, International Fashion
variety of roles with corporate and government            Writer and professional fundraiser; and a Youth
clients and from 2004, operated his own business          Rep from the Noosa Environmental Education
as a Management Consultant specialising in taking         Hub Youth Advocacy group to join as Advisors in
businesses to the web, advising on existing web           2021.




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