The Board
The Board of The Natural Step New Zealand includes:
Dr Wayne Cartwright has been Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Auckland since 1988. Before that, he established the marketing departments at both Auckland and Massey Universities. Since 1990, Wayne has served on a number of boards, including Forestry Corporation of New Zealand, Direct Capital Partners, Nobilo Vintners, Auckland Uniservices and NZ Dairy Research Institute.
Wayne also works as a strategic management consultant and has consulted to a wide range of organisations in the manufacturing, health, energy and services sectors, and has worked for many years with the land-based industries (dairy, meat, and kiwifruit) and research institutes.
Dr John Craig is Professor of Environmental Management at the School of Environmental and Marine Sciences at Auckland University of Auckland. John has been involved in The Natural Step since 1997 and was Chair of TNS NZ 1998-2004.
John is currently establishing a network of Auckland businesses interested in using the Natural Step Framework, and runs a consultancy, Green Inc, which specialises in environmental and business services. His background training is in ecology, and he has a long research history in biodiversity conservation, serves on a number of Boards and Trusts and was recently awarded the Charles Fleming medal by the Royal Society of New Zealand for environmental achievement. John has been involved in training The Natural Step's advisors and has worked closely with a number of the Pathfinder companies.
Dr Lin Roberts is a Board member of TNS New Zealand and represents NZ on the board of TNS International. In 2004 she was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of TNS NZ. She has been involved in The Natural Step since 1996, is an accredited TNS adviser, and established and managed the Pathfinder Programme 2000-2003. She is Director of Business and Environment Consultants, and served as a member of the Environmental Risk Management Authority 2002-2004.
Lin teaches an MBA course at the University of Canterbury entitled "Building Sustainable Businesses" and is an honorary lecturer at Lincoln University. Previous activities includes membership of an international Expert Panel on Trade and Sustainable Development; a Claude McCarthy Fellowship at Victoria University; and employment as Manager of Hazards & Waste Policy Directorate at the Ministry for the Environment in Wellington, and as a scientist at DSIR Entomology Division.
Peter Townsend, Chief Executive, Canterbury Employers Chamber of Commerce, Christchurch, has had extensive business management experience in various sectors and strongly supports and encourages sustainable business practice. Peter has been a Board member of Recovered Materials Foundation, promoting waste minimisation and kerbside recycling in Christchurch. He has chaired Canterbury Dialogues, a cross-sector community forum directed at maintaining and enhancing the quality of life in Canterbury.
Dr Phil Hart is the Lincoln Regional Manager at Landcare Research which is a Crown Research Institute focusing on sustainable management of land resources for primary production and for conservation. Phil also leads the Institute's sustainable tourism portfolio of research.
Pam Williams is the immediate National Past-President of the New Zealand
Association for Environmental Education (NZAEE), a Board member on the Enviroschools
Foundation Trust, and a representative on a number of national advisory groups concerned with sustainability issues and environmental education. Pam is an active member of the IUCN Commission on Education and Communication, with a focus on education for sustainable development and is closely involved in the NZ response to the UN Decade for Education for Sustainable Development (DESD).
Currently Pam has the position of Research Fellow and Advisor in Environmental Education at the University of Victoria, Wellington, and is also working (part-time) on her PhD in ‘Sustainability education in New Zealand tertiary institutions’. In recent years she has been involved in a range of contracts for coordination, educational training, tutoring and writing resources in the fields of Environmental/Sustainability Education.
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