Speakers
Ms Pornpen Payakkaporn
Co-founder of the Wild Animal Rescue Foundation
Born in Ranong (south of Thailand) 1950, she moved to Bangkok at age of 15, to complete high school and university education. Graduating with a BA in Business Management and MA at Chulalongkorn University in Mass Communication. She married to Thai businessman, Mr Akkapon Payakkaporn, they have 3 children, 2 boys and a girl.
Co-founder of WARF in 1992 with 8 other committee members, she previously worked at the Asian Institute of Technology, prior to taking up the honorary post of Secretary General. Currently a member of Board, National Committee on Wildlife Protection.
Andy Fryar is the founder and Director of OzVPM
(Australasian Volunteer Program Management)
Australasian Volunteer Program Managment is a consultancy, training and resource company specialising in volunteerism (www.ozvpm.com). Andy has contributed significantly to the Australian volunteerism community and his achievements include serving as President of both Volunteering Australia and Volunteering South Australia. In 1998, Andy convened the working party that later evolved into AAVA - the Australasian Association for Volunteer Administrators.
He is a co-author of Volunteer Management: an essential guide - Australia’s premier guidebook to volunteering, and currently serves on the editorial committee of the Australian Journal of Volunteering. He is also a member of the editorial team for e-volunteerism, an electronic journal of volunteerism (www.e-volunteerism.com) based in Philadelphia.
Andy travels extensively and has conducted volunteer management training and worked with volunteer involving agencies in many countries throughout North America, Asia, South Africa and the UK, where he is a faculty member with CSV’s Institute of Advanced Volunteer Management. He is a co-founder of the annual Australasian Retreat for Advanced Volunteer Management (www.vpmretreat.com.au) More recently he has taken on the role of Chairperson on the international committee overseeing the promotion of International Volunteer Manager Appreciation Day, celebrated on November 1 each year.
In 2003, Andy was awarded a Centenary Medal by the Australian government in recognition of his services to the volunteering movement in Australia. Andy can be contacted at andy@ozvpm.com
Ian Kiernan OA
Ian Kiernan is one of the most influential environmentalists in the world today. He is the spokesperson for Clean Up Australia and Clean Up the World and saw in 1993 30 million people in 80 countries participate in his initiative of picking up rubbish. By 1997 the event had grown to include 40 million people in 120 countries.
Ian Kiernan was Chairman of the Sydney Olympics 2000 Bid Community Relations Committee, is a member of the Premier’s Olympic Business Roundtable and in 1998 was named among 100 other leading Australians as a “National Living Treasure”. Ian Kiernan is an amazing man who in 1994 was named Australian of the Year and awarded the Order of Australia in 1995. His leadership and success is an inspiration to all.
Dr Lynn Webber
Dr Lynn Webber has over 15 years experience in academic research and working with rural and urban communities on land management and conservation programs and issues. As a graduate of the University of Sydney in Agricultural Science, Lynn undertook research in the Solomon Islands evaluating factors affecting community participation in the beef cattle industry.
Returning to Australia, Lynn worked on a number of pure and applied research project teams with universities and government agencies investigating natural resource management issues, before reading a PhD in community consultation at Macquarie University.
Joining the National Parks and Wildlife Service NSW in 1995, Lynn has worked in a number of management positions focusing on community involvement in protection and conservation of natural and cultural heritage, and is currently the Manager Conservation Partnerships in the Parks and Wildlife Group of the Department of Environment and Climate Change NSW. The Foundation for National Parks and Wildlife and the Department recently hosted the Parks Volunteer Network Australia Biennial Conference in 2006.
Senator Christine Milne
Australian Greens Spokesperson on Climate Change
Senator Christine Milne, Australian Greens Spokesperson on Climate Change, was elected to represent Tasmania in the federal parliament at the 2004 election after a distinguished career in the Tasmanian state parliament where she served as Leader of the Greens from 1993-1998.
Christine is a leader in the environment movement in Australia and overseas. She was appointed to the United Nations Environment Programme’s Global 500 Roll of Honour in 1990 and was elected at the World Conservation Congress in Amman, Jordan, to the Global Council of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and is currently one of four global vice presidents. She represented the IUCN at the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention at Montreal, Canada, in December 2005 and Bali in December 2007. Christine initiated the Senate Inquiry into Australia’s future oil supply and alternative transport fuels which was completed in February 2007. Her private members bill on climate change, setting a minimum 80% reduction on 1990 levels of greenhouse gasses by 2050, has been introduced into the senate and she has recently launched a report “Re -Energising Australia” which is available from her website www.christinemilne.org.au.
