• 2: About Us
• 3: Members
  • 3.1: Dr Neil Byron
  • 3.2: Mr Peter Cosier
  • 3.3: Prof Tim Flannery
  • 3.4: Dr Ronnie Harding
  • 3.5: Prof David Karoly
  • 3.6: Prof Hugh Possingham FAA
  • 3.7: Mr Robert Purves AM
  • 3.8: Dr Denis Saunders AM
  • 3.9: Prof Bruce Thom AM FIAG FTSE
  • 3.10: Dr John Williams
  • 3.11: Prof Mike Young FASSA
  • 3.12:
  • 3.13: FORMER MEMBERS
  • 3.14: Prof Peter Cullen AO FTSE
  • 3.15: Ms Leith Boully FAIC
  • 3.16: Prof David Lindenmayer FAA
• 4: Blueprints
  • 4.1: The Urgent Provision of Water
  • 4.2: Accounting for Nature
  • 4.3: Australia’s Climate is Changing Australia
  • 4.4: A New Model for Landscape Conservation in NSW
  • 4.5: Blueprint for a National Water Plan
  • 4.6: Blueprint for a Living Continent
  • 4.7: Optimising Carbon in the Australian Landscape
  • 4.8: Sustainable Diversions in the Murray-Darling Basin
• 5: Recent Papers
• 6: Science Program
• 7: Contact Us

Mr Robert Purves AM

BComm (UNSW)

Expertise

• Leadership of conservation organisations
• Public Company Director
• Rural property management
• Funds management

Background

• Member, Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists
• Immediate past President, WWF Australia
• Former Board Member, WWF International
• Chair, Purves Environmental Fund
• Chair, Environment Business Australia Limited (EBA)
• Grazing property holdings at Yass (NSW), Bungendore (NSW), Borroloola (NT)
• Patron, Lizard Island Research Station, Great Barrier Reef
• Former Chairman, DCA Group Limited

Publications & Speeches

Opening Address to the EBA Business and Sustainability Summit