ABOUT INSTITUTE BOARD & PRINCIPALS

Principal:

Andy Pearce

ANDY PEARCE - is a specialist executive and director in technology and knowledge-intensive businesses. After a 20-year career in environmental research he was appointed as the founding Chief Executive of Landcare Research. Andy led this Crown Research Institute from 1992 to 2005, including trebling shareholder wealth in the first decade. Landcare Research has been benchmarked in the top twenty companies in the world for its Sustainable Development Reports.

From 1994 to 2003 he was Deputy Chairman, then Chairman of Marsupial Co-operative Research Centre in Australia, a $10million/year research joint venture. He is currently Deputy Chairman of the Foundation for Research Science and Technology; Chairman of Terra Nova Trust; and a director of Wool Equities Ltd., Canesis Network Ltd., Keratec Ltd, and Migco Phamaceuticals Ltd.
Andy is regarded in both Australia and New Zealand as a leading strategist in science and technology, sustainable development and sustainable business.