Robert Purves
Chair of Environment Business Australia and board member of WWF International
Robert is a businessman, farmer, philanthropist and conservationist. He has had a long involvement with conservation in Australia. He is the immediate past President of WWF Australia, and currently a board member of WWF International. Robert is also involved in a number of other environmental organisations, including chairing Australia’s leading environmental business association, Environment Business Australia (EBA). Robert is the co-founder and a member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists and he is a Patron of the Lizard Island Research Station on the Great Barrier Reef.
A former Chairman of DCA Group Limited, the leading provider of radiology in Australia and the largest private operator in aged healthcare, Robert has been the director of a number of other public companies in Australia and Asia.
Robert resides in Sydney, and has farming interests in both southern and northern Australia.
