our staff

Natalie is a highly-regarded advocate for regional Australia, agriculture, renewable energy, innovation and women’s leadership.

An experienced cross-sectoral executive and board director, Natalie’s most recent role was CEO for Food and Fibre Great South Coast and Quartz Group, where she is an executive coach.

Her career highlights include being awarded Telstra Business Woman of the Year – Victoria (Community and Government, 2013) and Woman in Renewables of the Year (2018) for business transformation in dairy and energy respectively.

Natalie has spoken at the United Nations, managed over $1.2bn of corporate contracts, negotiated seven bilateral agreements, including Australia’s first treaty with an organisation, NATO, and was previously Chair of Women in Renewables.

Natalie’s other career highlights include managing Rural Affairs for the National Farmers’ Federation, and leading Telstra’s Corporate Affairs for Victoria and Tasmania.

Rosie has over five years of experience working in philanthropy and high-value stakeholder management. She has led the grant and corporate partnerships work at two previous not-for-profits. Alongside these directorships, Rosie has worked at Farmers for Climate Action for two years in the fundraising team. Rosie moved to Farmers for a pivot to the climate action space, after beginning her career in the youth development sector. In addition to her fundraising work, Rosie is experienced in not-for-profit strategy and evaluation.
She has a love for systems management and evaluation processes.

She has facilitated workshops, training, and field days for thousands of young people, with a focus on developing key professional and citizenry skills in young regional students. In addition, she has led teams in research, strategy, and grants development. Rosie has a keen sense for professional development and mentoring that has continued from her time in youth development sector.

Rosie is also a recent graduate of an arts and social impact degree and has also worked in regional outreach and consultancy. Outside of Farmers for Climate Action, Rosie is a writer and a researcher.

Ellen and her husband live on the family property in the arid lands of South Australia near Lake Eyre. With her family they run cattle and sheep on the pastoral rangelands. Before moving back to the property Ellen worked as a mixed animal veterinarian and was passionate about herd health and helping farmers with their animal health issues. After moving back to the station Ellen completed a masters of sustainable agriculture and a Nuffield agricultural scholarship where she studied the effects of climate change on pastoralism in the arid rangelands. The global travel associated with this scholarship highlighted the fundamental importance of effective policy frameworks in creating efficient and effective agricultural production systems. Ellen hopes to help position agriculture as the solution to mitigating and adapting to climate change and she believes this starts with engaged farmers.

Peter is a third-generation farmer in south east NSW, growing crops such as canola and wheat, as well as running sheep for wool. Peter is also a member of the Climate Kelpie – a central location for farmers after practical information and tools with which to manage climate change risk and impacts. Peter has an extensive knowledge and first hand experience with the strategies farmers can use to manage and adapt to climate change.

Paul grew up in Toowoomba, Queensland, with farming being fundamental to his upbringing. He enjoys regular working visits to his family farm in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, where they graze cattle. He is a recent graduate in both Law (majoring
in Climate Law with First Class Honours) and International Relations.

Coming from a farming background, Paul understands the knowledge and wisdom that already exists in farming communities in matters of land and environment and firmly believes that embracing this wisdom, in partnership with innovation, policy change, and
scientific evidence, empowers farmers and regional communities to embrace sustainable action and lead the way for decarbonisation and climate friendly practice in Australia.

When he’s not on the farm or developing agriculture-friendly policy, Paul can be found enjoying a run or catching up with friends.