Experience

Conserve Global

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder & Director

  • Aug 2020 - Present

  Conserve Global (www.conserveglobal.earth) has been established by a team of committed conservation professionals to tackle the escalating crisis of vacant and neglected wildlife concessions in Africa. These areas comprise 66% of sub-Saharan Africa's protected area estate but with the steep decline of the hunting industry many now lie unmanaged and economically fallow and are therefore highly vulnerable to being degazetted or degraded. Not only will this have severe consequences for ecosystem function and landscape connectivity but will also impact very negatively on many rural communities whose livelihoods are inextricably linked to the land. The aim, therefore, is for Conserve to rapidly emerge as a solution to this crisis by securing key concessions and delivering the necessary management effectiveness to secure landscape integrity and ecosystem function whilst simultaneously unlocking value for the benefit of local people. Conserve's vision is an Africa where wilderness and its constituent biodiversity is effectively secured and recognised as a valuable public good, both in Africa and the world as a whole, by fulfilling its potential to provide enduring benefits to humanity. Show less



Conservation Capital

• Partner



Chuilexi Conservancy

• Mozambique

• Executive Director

  • Jan 2012 - Present

  Executive Director to Chuilexi Conservancy, one of the largest private sector conservation initiatives in Africa. Instrumental in the concept, design and development of Chuilexi, specific services include oversight to the development of administrative systems and policies; oversight to the implementation of financial management systems and policies; effective planning procedures producing five-year plans, annual action plans and associated budgets; design and oversight of infrastructure and capital development plans and implementation; support and oversight to effective security and anti-poaching operations; facilitation and oversight of wildlife monitoring systems and related GIS mapping capabilities; design and development of strategies and approaches to local communities and other stakeholders, and oversight and mentorship to implementation of related activities; and engagement and facilitation with the tourism sector over tourism joint venture partnerships, sub-contractual arrangements and associated investments. Show less



Conservation Capital

• United Kingdom
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Partner

  • Jan 2012 - Aug 2020

  Conservation Capital works to stimulate, design and develop active linkages between biodiversity conservation, commercial investment finance and private sector business. Using a variety of innovative financing mechanisms and the provision of related advisory, management and governance services, it has led the development of more than 75 high-impact conservation enterprises in 25 African and European countries with a combined capital investment value of more than US$ 220 million. These businesses generate annual revenues of more than US$ 40 million, direct annual cash contributions for conservation of more than US$ 6 million, employ more than 2,500 people, work with > 125,000 contracted rural outgrowers and engage with > 400,000 customers per year. Together, they are actively supporting the conservation of c. 3 million acres of critical natural habitat and have been nominated for nearly 50 international awards. Show less



Fauna & Flora

• United Kingdom
• Environmental Services
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Programmes Manager NE Africa / South Sudan Country Director

  • Jan 2001 - Jan 2014

  Following the secondment to NRT, returned to Fauna & Flora International as Programmes Manager North East Africa to manage and develop FFI programmes in the region with a particular focus on South Sudan, northern Mozambique and northern Kenya. With the pioneering development of a programme in South Sudan, appointed Country Director South Sudan for Fauna & Flora International to support the restoration of the conservation and tourism sector in South Sudan with a particular emphasis on the restoration and management of protected areas, and introduction and engagement of community-based conservation activities. Under very challenging circumstances facilitated donor support, including engagement with USAID. Show less



Northern Rangelands Trust

• Chief Operations Officer

  • Jan 2006 - Jan 2010

  Seconded by Fauna & Flora International as Chief Operations Officer for Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT); a community conservation NGO operating in northern Kenya. With 15 community conservancies over 6 districts, NRT provided support to community institutional development; security, infrastructure, planning, rangeland and livestock management, ecological monitoring, enterprise development and micro-credit, and fundraising. Over this formative period managed the growth and development of NRT, including the administration and management of a wide portfolio of donors, such as USAID and US Fish & Wildlife Service; and steered NRT to becoming the largest and leading community-based natural resource management initiative in East Africa Show less



Africa Resources Trust

• Project Coordinator

  • Jan 1990 - Jan 1997

  Project Administration & Accounting Officer to Africa Resources Trust (now merged with its South African equivalent into Resource Africa), a leading advocacy NGO bringing a voice and issues concerning community-based natural resource management to international conventions and fora (CBD, CITES etc.). Duties included the financial administration of all projects, including administration of two EU grants; the preparation and submission of project progress and financial reports at key milestones; liaison with donors and other work including technical inputs on projects, relations with partners in Southern Africa, research and development activities; and the administration of conferences and seminars. Show less



Integrated Rural Development & Nature Conservation

• Project Coordinator

  • Jan 1990 - Jan 1997

  Project Co-ordinator for IRDNC, a Namibian NGO, supporting a community-based natural resource management and community conservancy programme in the Kunene and Caprivi regions of Namibia. Responsible for leading community engagement activities initially in East Caprivi and later included management and oversight of West Caprivi, which collectively included support and maintenance of 6 Field Officers, over 60 Community Game Guards and 20 Community Resource Monitors (locally appointed women), and Environmental Education and Social Science teams. These early years of consistent engagement with local communities and traditional authorities laid the foundation for the subsequent establishment of community conservancies and the recovery and conservation of wildlife in Caprivi, and to the region becoming a core component of the community conservancy programme nationally. Show less