The Great Barrier Reef Foundation aims to channel private investment into projects that address both the most pressing threats to the Great Barrier Reef; to do this successfully requires close collaboration with the scientific community and the institutions that study and manage the Reef.
To this end, the Foundation is directly advised by an International Scientific Advisory Committee (or ISAC). In ISAC, the Foundation assembles the most important and influential leaders of the Great Barrier Reef research and management sector at one table, around a shared purpose. The Committee, chaired by Professor Paul Greenfield AO, plays a critical role in the development and implementation of research projects.
ISAC members
• PROFESSOR PAUL GREENFIELD AO, Chair
• DR ANDREW JOHNSON, Group Executive – Environment, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organisation
• DR RUSSELL REICHELT, Executive Chairman, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
• DR JOHN GUNN, Chief Executive, Australian Institute of Marine Science
• PROFESSOR CHRIS COCKLIN, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, (Research & Innovation), James Cook University
• PROFESSOR OVE HOEGH-GULDBERG, Director, Global Change Institute, University of Queensland
The Committee is supported by a Secretariat led by Dr Eva Abal, Chief Scientific Officer.