Bronwyn Price
Director, Australia
Bronwyn is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants of Australia and New Zealand, bringing over 30 years of experience to the Board. She is also a Certified Internal Auditor and Business Coach, with an in-depth understanding of businesses risks and the associated development of strong policies and procedures to mitigate them. Bronwyn also has extensive experience with not-for-profits and charities, ensuring robust financial management in this sector. She is passionate about wild and remote places, and their inherent natural and cultural diversity. Read More
She has a strong affinity to the Indigenous peoples of Australia, and lived for many years in Cape York, Northern Australia. An avid hiker, Bronwyn is excited about seeing unspoilt natural habitats around the world and helping to protect them for generations to come.
Pietro Girgenti
Director, 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. Read More
He was formerly the President for the Mareeba Chamber of Commerce and was a Ministerial Appointment to the Mareeba Shire Transfer Advisory Committee in 2012-13.
Pietro is passionate about rural Australia and believes we can do better for our rural landscapes and communities.
John McDonald
Director, Europe
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 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
holds the Financial Advisors International Qualification through the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). John also holds additional professional accreditations including Financial Services Regulations Rules & Ethics and Financial Protection. John is continuously advancing his professional development to ensure he maintains the highest standards of integrity, technical competence and business capability.
John has travelled the world and has a passion for the outdoors, wild landscapes and Indigenous cultures.
Fiachra Kearney
Director, Australia
Fiachra's career has spanned the globe, tackling some of 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 work towards healthy societies and biological diversity across the Earth's last remaining wildernesses. He believes we must think and act 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
Fiachra has a Master of Science from the University of Queensland, is a former research scientist with the CSIRO in the Rangelands & Savannahs Research team and regularly advises large foundations on their global conservation strategies.
Terry Carmichael
Director, Australia
An ecologist, Terry completed Australia’s first protected area management course at Queensland University, Gatton campus in the early 1980’s. After a short time as a park ranger he worked for over three decades on national captive breeding programs for endangered species and nature education programs, and worked extensively with print and visual media outlets emphasizing the plight of Australia’s threatened wildlife. Terry is deeply involved in conservation efforts of Northern Australia and specifically on the Wet Tropics World Heritage area. Terry has extensive networks in ecological science and government.
Annabelle Olsson
Director, Australia
Dr. Annabelle Olsson is a world-renowned veterinarian specialising in Australian wildlife. Annabelle has a strong research background, with a Master of Science on the health of free living spectacled flying foxes, and a PhD on the anaesthesia of estuarine and freshwater crocodiles. She has been admitted as a Member of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists in the chapters of Avian Health, and Medicine and Husbandry of Australasian Wildlife. Read More
She founded the first wildlife rehabilitation organisation in North Queensland in 1993, and joined Forever Wild (then WCTQ) in 2006 where she served as President from 2006-2018. Annabelle’s veterinary facility is a sentinel clinic for Wildlife Health Australia, and Annabelle is also on the board of the Australian Veterinary Association’s Veterinary Conservation Biology.