Pietro Girgenti

Board Member, Australia




Originally from rural Australia, Pietro brings a strong legal and business background. Having built and led a successful practice that serviced clients across Queensland and the NT in Commercial Law, Business Law, Corporations Law, and Agricultural Law he is now Director of a private IT enterprise. As a lawyer, Pietro was admitted to the Supreme Court of Queensland and the High Court of Australia.

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John McDonald

Board Member, Australia




John is based in the UK. He is an investment specialist and has extensive networks across Europe, Asia, and Africa, and brings a strong governance background. His professional background has given John wide-ranging exposure to multinational entities including the World Bank, UN, Asian Development Bank, the European Union, and a range of large corporations. John’s expertise assists to guide Forever Wild’s pathways for investors. John is a member of the Personal Finance Society and Read More

Misty Neilsen

Board Member, Australia




Misty is an ecologist/conservation biologist with experience in accounting, funding and business across the community and social services sectors.  She is passionate about the future of our planet and creating better ways of sustaining thriving environments and ecosystems (socially, economically and environmentally). She has previously led an economic recovery and resilience project for regional agricultural communities following natural disasters. Read More

Miguel Castillo

Board Member, Australia




Miguel is passionate about creating positive and long-term impacts on natural capital and communities through his strategic thinking related to emerging markets such as carbon and environmental markets. Miguel has nine years of experience in assisting organisations to understand, design, measure, and report financial and non-financial outcomes. Read More

Fiachra Kearney

Board Member, Australia





Fiachra's career has spanned the globe, tackling some of the planet’s most pressing environmental and societal challenges. He has extensive experience in Africa, Australia, and S.E. Asia working with diverse landscapes and cultures. He conceived and leads Forever Wild as he believes we must link natural and social capital with the economic system in a truly sustainable way, and implement new ways to produce food while protecting our planet. He advocates thinking at a spatial, societal, and temporal scale that is truly meaningful - if we don't think at scale we won't act at scale. Read More


Investment Committee, Forever Wild (Group)

John McDonald

Investment Committee





John's role with the Forever Wild Investment Committee includes liaising with impact investors, strategic investment analysis and aligning investment with the organsiation's charitable mandate.

Fiachra Kearney

Investment Committee





Fiachra brings a background in large-scale land management, landscape strategy, and natural capital to ensure impact investment is closely aligned with the ecological and social outcomes. He oversees the impact measurement framework.