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Profiles of UKOTCF Council Members and Other Officers Profiles of UKOTCF Council Members and other Officers Council Members Victor Brownlees Victor worked in both the public and private sectors in the UK over almost 30 years. After initially training as a Chartered Public Finance Accountant with the National Audit Office and then with PwC in London, he held a number of senior roles in local government – for example, as Chief Executive of the former Armagh City & District Council in Northern Ireland (2001-2007), and Chief Executive of Telford & Wrekin Council in the West Midlands (2009-2011). For a number of years, he owned and managed his own consulting firm, working as advisor to a range of private sector companies supplying services to the public sector. From September 2014 to May 2017, Victor served as Chief Executive and Head of the Civil Service for the government of the island of Alderney – a Crown Dependency in the Channel Islands and part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey. In this role, he worked closely with the local environmental conservation charity – the Alderney Wildlife Trust (AWT) – and acted as Chair of the Board for the Living Islands project – a partnership comprising the AWT, the local heritage society (Alderney Society) and government. The project was funded jointly by the Alderney government (the States of Alderney) and the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts, and made significant progress in promoting Alderney's stunning wildlife and history to new audiences. At its heart was a recognition of the key roles for the island's significant environmental and heritage assets in growing the tourism industry and a commitment to prove that environmental conservation can go hand in hand with local economic regeneration. The success of Alderney's Living Islands initiative led to Victor and his colleague, Roland Gauvain (Director of the Alderney Wildlife Trust), presenting it as a case-study for other jurisdictions at the UKOTCF Conference in Gibraltar in July 2015. Victor was also invited by Dr John Cortés (Gibraltar's Environment Minister) to attend and participate in the first meeting of Ministers, and equivalents, from the UK Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies at the close of the conference. Victor continued his association with the Forum and hosted the second Ministerial meeting in Alderney in April 2017, which he co-chaired with Dr Cortés. Victor is passionate about knowledge-sharing and mutual co- operation between the UK Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. At the April 2017 meeting in Alderney, the various 13 jurisdictions represented agreed unanimously to progress work in this regard. Whilst Victor is relocating to the USA with his American- born wife and their son. he hopes to continue making a contribution to this work and to supporting the Forum generally. Liz Charter After 18 years as Principal Biodiversity Officer for the Isle of Man Government, Liz is now a freelance island biodiversity consultant. Her career in nature conservation spans 30 years, working first as a freshwater ecologist with the former Nature Conservancy Council. She established the successful Orkney Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group where she worked for 10 years as an adviser, publishing a handbook for farmers and introducing whole-farm nutrient balances to reduce pollution to lochs. In 1998, she and her family moved to the Isle of Man to set up the statutory nature conservation office within the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. She is familiar with the conservation issues of small islands, and with international conservation agreements, working within and outside the EU and for government and an NGO. Liz maintains her wetland involvement and has attended two Conferences of the Parties to the Ramsar Convention. Most recently, she has been involved in regional marine spatial planning discussions in the Irish Sea. Liz served as the chairman of the UKOTCF Europe Territories Working Group until 2014 when she took over the Chair of UKOTCF, until 2016. In her spare time she leads botanical tours and plays the flute. Sarita Francis OBE Sarita holds a BA in Geography and Linguistics and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education from the University of the West Indies. Sarita Francis took up the position of Director of the Montserrat National Trust in 2013 after retiring as Deputy Governor in the Montserrat Public Service. Her career in the Public Service spans some forty years during which she worked in Education as a Geography Teacher and Deputy Principal until 1993. She served as Director of Housing from 1999 to 2001, and was appointed Permanent Secretary to the Chief Minister in 2001. She was promoted to Chief Establishment Officer/Deputy Governor in 2007 and was instrumental in delivering the Public Service Reform Programme across Government. Mrs Francis played a pivotal role in the implementation of the changes brought about by the New Montserrat Constitution in 2008. Sarita Francis became involved with the Montserrat National Trust in 1985, and headed the Environmental Education Committee. She was transferred to the Trust to work as Environmental Education in 1994. She was President of the Trust during the height of the volcanic crisis and had to assume management of the organization and was instrumental in relocating the Trust Office and Museum from Plymouth to its new headquarters in Olveston. Apart from her years of voluntary service to the Trust, Sarita has served on many Boards including the Montserrat Tourist Board, the Bank of Montserrat and Credit Union Boards, and UWI Guild of Graduates. She is a member of the Cultural Centre Committee and the Montserrat’s Arts Council. Sarita has one son, Dion, who is a Civil Engineer and Director of his Company, Engineering Design and Construction (EDC) Ltd, in Montserrat. Dace McCoy Ground (Chairman, Wider Caribbean Working Group) Dace McCoy Ground is a Harvard-trained American lawyer. She lived in the UK Overseas Territories from 1985 when she was hired by the Cayman Islands Government as Marine Parks Coordinator, responsible for establishing a marine parks system for those islands. That being achieved, she then worked to establish the National Trust for the Cayman Islands and became its founding Executive Director. For the following 20 years to 2012 she lived in Bermuda and the Turks and Caicos Islands, being closely involved with the National Trusts of those two jurisdictions. During that time, she has worked on several Forum projects, such as the Environment Charter implementation, an OTEP-funded project. In 2011, the Bermuda National Trust gave her the Silver Palmetto Award, the Trust's highest honour, to acknowledge her many years of exemplary service. In 2012, her husband Sir Richard Ground retired from his post as Chief Justice of Bermuda and they moved to live in Derbyshire, his favourite angling location. Sadly, Richard, a valued supporter of UKOTCF, died in 2014. Lady Ground continues to work closely with the Bermuda National Trust and the Forum. Nigel Haywood CVO (Chairman, Southern Oceans Working Group) Nigel retired from the Diplomatic Service in 2014. His last posting (2010-2014) was in Stanley, as Governor of the Falkland Islands and Commissioner for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. His previous postings include Ambassador to Estonia (2003-2007) and Consul-General in Basra (2008-2009). During Nigel’s time in Stanley he worked to bring together environmental work in the South Atlantic, as a founding director of the South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute (SAERI). This has proved valuable in developing areas of shared interest, most notably on Geographic Information Systems and fisheries conservation. His major environmental concern was South Georgia, establishing one of the world’s largest MPAs, and pushing forward, in conjunction with the South Georgia Heritage Trust, one of the most ambitious habitat restorations ever undertaken anywhere. Nigel has an MSc in Biodiversity Conservation from Bournemouth University. This focused on habitat requirements for specialist butterfly species which had become victims of environmental degradation. He wrote the species action plan for the Falklands fritillary, the Falklands’ only resident butterfly. He is working with Bournemouth University, Butterfly Conservation, SAERI and Falklands Conservation to see how that can best be implemented. Nigel lives in Corfe Castle in Dorset, in the centre of the most biologically diverse 10 kilometre square in Britain. He is currently undertaking research into reasons for the decline of the Lulworth skipper butterfly. Boyd McCleary CMG CVO (Chairman, proposed Climate Change & Renewable Energy Working Group) Boyd joined the Northern Ireland Civil Service in 1982 and served in the Department of Agriculture. In 1985, he was seconded to the Diplomatic Service as Agricultural Attaché at the British Embassy in Bonn, then capital of the Federal Republic of Germany. On leaving Bonn, Boyd transferred to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and spent the next forty years on the move, serving in Seoul, Ankara, Ottawa, Düsseldorf and Kuala Lumpur, before taking up the appointment as Governor of the British Virgin Islands (2010-14). His London postings included Director of Estates and Director of Roll-out for a major new accounting and procurement system for the FCO. Boyd has had a life-long interest in flora and fauna. As High Commissioner in Malaysia (2006-10), he worked closely with a number of organisations involved in researching and protecting the country’s environment, including the Royal Society’s South East Asia Rainforest Research Programme, which had a wonderful research centre in Danum Valley, Sabah. As Governor of the British Virgin Islands, Boyd was again heavily engaged in conservation issues, such as the head-start programme for the Anegada rock iguana and the eradication of non-invasive species to protect the magnificent frigate-bird colony on Great Tobago. He collaborated closely with the National Parks Trust of the Virgin Islands and local NGOs, with UKOTCF and with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and Kew Gardens.
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