Trustees

Flora Fairbairn

is particularly interested in promoting and launching undiscovered artists. Her idiosyncratic style was pioneered at her 2000 show at the top of Erno Goldfinger's Trellick Tower in West London. Subsequent projects include 'Gimme 5', which launched the gallery at Westbourne Studios under the Westway flyover, and collaborations with the organisation 'Measure' in curating two site-specific shows in Clerkenwell - 'We love to kill what we love' (Sep 2003) in a disused abattoir, and 'Mementoes & Other Curiosities' (June 2004) in an old Victorian warehouse. Flora's more recent shows include 'Heart of Glass', the central show in the inaugural year of CONCRETE AND GLASS music and arts festival.

Melanie Salmon

was educated at Gordonstoun and St Andrew's University and has a life-long love of the oceans. She has worked for many of the world's leading environmental organisations and produced her first event on marine tourism for Green Screen, London's International Environmental Film Festival, in 1994. She also advises governments on managing their marine resources. In 2000 she co-wrote a book about marine life titled, Deep Water, and she would like to stop our suicidal destruction of ourselves and the Planet.

Glen de Unger

worked at KPMG for 5 years where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. He is currently a director at an investment bank, Rabobank International. He has a strong interest in the environment and in particular marine life, which he has pursued through his extensive travels. Glen is also a keen diver.

Robin White

is a lawyer with the firm, Addleshaw Goddard and specialises in civil litigation. He was educated at Glenalmond College in Perthshire and read languages and philosophy at St Andrews University. He is a keen surfer and diver and vehement supporter of marine conservation.

Paul Lynn

graduated from Cambridge University in 1994 with an MA in mathematics. He is currently in Hedge Fund Sales at public company, HSBC. His previous work was senior trader at Hedge Fund, Brevan Howard.

Board of Advisors

Tony Juniper

has been an environmental campaigner for nearly 20 years. Since 2003 he has been Executive Director of Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland and from 2000 has been the Vice Chair of Friends of the Earth International, the global federation of 68 national Friends of the Earth organisations.

Tony has worked with Friends of the Earth since 1990 and played a prominent role in many of its most high-profile campaigns. He initially led the tropical rainforest campaign.

Tony has worked not only to shift public opinion and government policy but has also been very active in successfully changing the policies and practices of international companies. He is now active in the Friends of the Earth campaign to change UK and international law so as to promote more sustainable companies.

He has worked with children to promote environmental awareness and is experienced in fieldwork (including the Middle-East, Africa and South America).

Dr Sidney Holt

is a British marine scientist who began his career in 1947 at the Fisheries Laboratory in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, working on the dynamics of commercially exploited fish populations; he is co-author of the most widely read book on this subject that has gone through four editions during the 60 years it has been in print. Sidney moved in 1953 to the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN (FAO), in Rome, where he eventually became Director of its Division of Fisheries Resources, Environment and Operations. He subsequently served as the Secretary of UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and of its Marine Sciences Division in Paris. Since his retirement from the UN system Sidney has engaged actively in global efforts to bring an end to commercial whaling, and has served as advisor to several national delegations to the International Whaling Commission as well as to non-governmental organizations. He has held professorial and fellowship positions at the Universities of California, Rhode Island, Malta and Cambridge, UK.

Sidney Holt was one the groups of environmental activists that secured the indefinite moratorium on commercial whaling, in 1982, the designation of the Indian Ocean as a whale sanctuary in 1979, and the similar declaration for the entire Southern Ocean, in 1994. He has won several awards, including the World Wildlife Fund's prized Gold Medal, the Royal Netherlands Order of the Golden Ark, and appointment to the Global 500 of the UN Environment Programme. While retaining his concern for the protection of the whales and the restoration of the Southern Ocean ecosystem, Sidney has recently returned to his original involvement in the management of sea fishing to ensure sustainable food supplies from the sea for future generations. He lives and farms in Umbria, Italy. (Photograph by Tim Holt ©)

Venetia Hargreaves Allen

graduated from Oxford University in Biological Sciences in 2002 followed by an MSC in Environmental Technology from Imperial College, London. Currently she is researching and writing a policy document for the World Fish Centre for the World Trade Organisation negotiators.

In 2004, she filmed and produced conservation films in Indonesia and Kenya for the Brock Initiative. Subjects included campaign films highlighting problems caused by foreign trawlers, environmentally-friendly practices for local communities and general education films about local ecosystems above and below water. She has also worked with Coral Cay Conservation, Aldabra Marine Program, BBC Natural History Research Unit, Diversitas (a global biodiversity initiative co-funded by UNESCO) and the Ecologist Magazine.

Erich Hoyt

has spent more than 30 years working with whales and dolphins and focusing on global marine conservation, especially in the areas of whale watching, marine ecotourism and marine protected areas. Erich is currently Senior Research Fellow with WDCS, the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, in the UK and helps direct the killer whale study in eastern Russia, a collaboration with young Russian researchers and conservationists. The project recently won the Kluh Prize for Innovation in Science from Germany.

Erich currently sits on the ACCOBAMS scientific committee - a marine mammal conservation agreement for the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Erich's most recent book Marine Protected Areas for Whales, Dolphin and Porpoises (Earthscan, London, 520 pages) has been called the most important book on whale conservation written to date - a grassroots handbook for marine habitat conservation worldwide.

Having written 10 books on cetaceans, Erich is an authority on whale-watching, consulting for WDCS, WWF, Greenpeace and IFAW, and for the British, German and Australian governments. He helped frame the debate within the International Whaling Commission (IWC) through papers and reports for WDCS and IFAW. An American-Canadian dual citizen, Erich currently resides in Scotland.

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