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International Centre Protected
for Landscapes (ICPL) Staff
Who's Who At ICPL
Liz Hughes
ICPL's Executive Director Liz Hughes has a PhD from the University of Wales. Before coming to ICPL she worked in academic research in the fields of rural land management, landscape and socio-economic issues. Later she held the position of Co-ordinator of a Wales-wide sustainable community development programme.
Liz came to ICPL in 1995 as Programme Manager for the Centre's academic programmes and Co-ordinator of its activities in East Africa. She took over the role as Executive Director in 2003. In addition to directing operations, Liz manages the Centre's South African and South Pacific Darwin Initiative projects. With her strong social sciences background, she has a special interest in participatory & collaborative approaches to protected area planning and management, and broadly in the opportunities offered by protected areas for sustaining livelihoods and reducing poverty within a conservation framework.
Liz is Deputy Chair of the Wales Committee of UNESCO. She is also a member of WCPA and TILCEPA (IUCN)
Charlie Falzon
With over 20 years of training experience, Charlie Falzon is ICPL's Training Associate. A teacher by profession, he was a seasonal ranger in the UK's Peak District National Park (a category V Protected Landscape) before taking up a post of training and development officer, where he was involved in the training of site and area planning and management programmes. He remains an associate trainer at the National Park Centre there. More recently he has worked with key nature conservation and landscape agencies in the UK, on a wide range of emerging and challenging government policy themes.
Charlie has a Masters' degree in Protected Landscape Management. His UK research has centred on identifying indicators of landscape change in the Welsh countryside, His professional work and interests have also taken him to East and South Africa, the South Pacific Islands, Nepal and Southern Chile, as well as to many countries in Central Europe, where he carries out programmes of training and development for protected area agencies and related bodies.
Shaun Russell
Dr Shaun Russell is an environment and development specialist who has held academic posts at Fort Hare and Rhodes Universities (South Africa), the University of Namibia, the University of Kent at Canterbury and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. In addition to his work for ICPL he currently holds a post at CAZS Natural Resources at the University of Wales, Bangor. He has also worked for the British Antarctic Survey and is an Environmental Adviser with the British Council. Dr Russell is an Executive Patron of the VASS Medical Foundation which fights tropical disease in sub-Saharan Africa
Gareth Roberts
Until joining ICPL in April 2006 Gareth was Head of Resource Management at the Countryside Council for Wales, where he was in overall charge of four teams with responsibilities for agriculture, forestry and water policy; landscape and protected areas; planning and sustainable development; and maritime policy.
A geographer, artist, and planner by training he has over 30 years professional experience in strategic, local and management planning with District and County Councils in England and Wales and the Snowdonia National Park where he was head of Forward Planning for 10 years. He has been a Director of the Landscape Research Group since 1986.
Joyce Porter
Former Geography teacher Joyce Porter has worked as ICPL's Administrator since 2000. Joyce deals with a variety of clerical and administrative matters, given the wide range of the Centre's activities. In particular her role is to give office support to the Executive Director.
John Wilson
After graduating with a BSc in chemistry and physics at Liverpool University, UK, John Wilson trained as a pilot in the RAF before moving to London, where he worked as a writer in journalism and marketing. His clients include IBM, BP, Esso, BT and a number of smaller technology-based companies. John is now applying his expertise in PR and marketing to the conservation arena and is able both to support ICPL in its own development as a non-profit company and also to contribute to the Centre's training and capacity-building in relation to the 'business' of protected area management.
ICPL's Darwin Initiative Associates
Drummond Densham
Drummond Densham is the in-country Co-ordinator of ICPL's Darwin Initiative Programme for Sub-Saharan Africa. Currently based at the Centre for Environment, Agriculture and Development, Pietermaritzburg, Drummond has over 30 years' experience in protected area management in the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa. He has worked at various levels from Ranger, Warden-in-charge of Mkhuze Game Reserve, Chief Conservator and as a Deputy Director of the Zululand Region. Now playing a key role in the ICPL / CEAD partnership to develop an African masters' programme in Protected Area Management by Distance Learning, Drummond understands only too well the complexities of protected area management and the need for present-day managers in order to have a wide range of skills to manage their parks effectively.
Bill Aalbersberg
Bill Aalbersberg is the in-country Co-ordinator of ICPL's Darwin Initiative Programme in the South Pacific. Bill is Professor of Natural Products Chemistry and Director of the Institute of Applied Science at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji. He also helps to coordinate the 'locally-managed marine area network' (LMMA Network) in the southern Asia-Pacific region. In a previous Darwin Initiative programme, Bill worked with ICPL to develop the Pacific Island Community-Based Conservation Course. This ongoing programme is having a major impact in many countries of the region.