Meet Our Team
Roger KnightExecutive OfficerRoger grew up on a citrus orchard near Barham and has worked in a range of natural resource management (NRM), agriculture and food manufacturing functions. Roger's role with WMLIG is to foster relationships and collaboration with stakeholders on programs that support the adaptive capacity of the community. Underpinning this role is his Landcare experience in capacity building, project and contract management. Roger worked at a dairy manufacturing plant at Leitchville, Northern Victoria for 15 years in quality, food safety, food manufacturing, process improvement, wastewater treatment and irrigation re-use, environmental monitoring and systems management.
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Rick EllisProject Officer:Grazing Technology & Environment ServicesRick has Lifetime (50 + years) experience in pastoral stock work. Co-ordinator of the Central Murray BestWool BestLamb Group since 2012. Held various office bearing and project management roles with a local Landcare and Producer Group, the Western Murray Land Improvement Group (WMLIGH) since 2004.Local industry partner in an Old Man Saltbush grazing research project with the CSIRO. Project Officer for a large grazing and dryland fodder species trial titled, Economically Viable Options for Retired Irrigation Land’. Currently a Project Officer for the WMLIG focusing on community capacity building, grazing management, and environmental rehabilitation.
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Kate O'NeillAgrisystem Program StrategistKate holds a Bachelor Degree in Urban Planning and has in excess of 13 years of experience working in diverse Government and private sector planning roles. Kates skills and experience include strategic land use planning, development facilitation, feasibility analysis, stakeholder engagement, policy review and project management.
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