Peter was Attorney General for the Overseas Territories of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands from 2014 -2017. Peter qualified as a lawyer over 20 years ago and began his career as corporate/ M&A lawyer before taking his first Board level appointment in the public sector in 2002.  Peter has held a number of senior leadership roles – executive and non-executive - in the Public, Higher Education and Third sectors since then. 

Peter holds a Bachelor’s degree and postgraduate qualifications in English Law and a Master’s Degree in International and European Law. He is a accredited Civil and Commercial Mediator and Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.

Paul is currently the Executive Director at SAERI as well as a Director and Chairman of SAERI (Falklands) Limited and a Reader in Biological Sciences at the University of Aberdeen. Paul formed part of the initial task-and-finish group which reognised the need for a world-class research institute in the Falkland Islands and the wider South Atlantic Overseas Territories, and has led the organisation since its inception in 2012. He has taken the organisation from a starting point of one-and-a-half employees and a small grant from FIG to the organisation it is today.

Paul’s interests include shallow marine ecology, community ecology and biogeography of small isolated islands particularly those in the South Atlantic. Paul is an active scientific diving member of the Falkland Islands-based Shallow Marine Surveys Group.

Stuart is Professor of Molecular Ecology & Evolution and the Director of Research in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Aberdeen.

His research interests are in using DNA variation among individuals, populations and species to gain novel insight into the behaviour, evolution, conservation and biology of a broad range of animals from both marine and terrestrial habitats. He has published over 150 articles in scientific journals as well as several book contributions.

He has been elected as Fellow of a number of learned societies, and sits on the editorial boards of several international scientific journals. He also Chairs key national and international research grant awarding bodies. In his spare time, he enjoys diving, climbing and photography.

Richard is currently serving as the Director of the ICOS Ocean Thematic centre based at NORCE (the Norwegian Research Centre) in Bergen Norway and as a senior scientist at the UK National Oceanography Centre (NOC), a position he has held since August 2019. Prior to that he was the chair of the NOC Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems group between 2012 and 2019, a research scientist in NOC between 2000 and 2012 and a PhD student and graduate researcher in the department of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia between 1993 and 2000. He has broad research interests in the ocean carbon cycle including the biological carbon pump, the mechanisms by which the ocean stores carbon biologically, sea surface carbon fluxes, fluxes of organic Carbon from land to ocean via rivers and the storage of carbon on land in coastal habitats. Recently he undertook fieldwork in the Falkland Islands associated with the latter elements.

Tracy qualified as a Chartered Certified Accountant and worked for nearly 41 years in a top ten audit and accountancy firm in their Bristol Office. She spent 35 years auditing organisations of varying sizes from small owner/managed business to multi million pound entities. She spend the final years of her working life helping many organisations to prepare their financial statements. For over 25 years she specialised in working with the not for profit sector both as an audit manager and a manager in the accounts and business advisory department. Tracy was a member of the firms Charity Sector group and trained the local team in the specialist areas for charities accounts. She was part of the local team providing seminars to charity clients.

Tracy was a school governor for eight years, the last two of which she was chair. She is currently a committee member for her local Townswomen’s Guild.

Amandine is an Assistant Professor in Infectious Disease Ecology in the Department of Public and Ecosystem Health at Cornell University and a faculty member of the Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Wildlife Health. She studies wildlife ecology, and in particular investigates how host ecology shapes pathogen dynamics in wildlife communities, with a particular focus on island ecosystems.

Her research includes field-based projects across the Southern Ocean, with ongoing work in the Falkland Islands since 2018. Her work combines field ecology, wildlife epidemiology, and quantitative modeling to understand pathogen transmission, inform biosecurity planning, and guide wildlife conservation strategies. Recently, she has contributed to international efforts on highly pathogenic avian influenza, and serves on expert working groups of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research and the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels.

Chris is a scientist at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Bangor, UK. He studies the cycling of carbon and other nutrients in terrestrial, freshwater and coastal marine ecosystems, with a particular focus on the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions from peatlands. His work includes field-based monitoring and experiments, modelling, remote sensing, and close engagement with land-managers and policymakers. 

In the UK, he leads large government-funded research programmes on mitigation of emissions from lowland agricultural peatlands, and his work supported the inclusion of peatlands in the UK’s national emissions inventory. In 2015, this led him to the Falkland Islands, which hold around 10% of all the peat under UK jurisdiction, and since then he has been returning regularly to support projects by SAERI, Falklands Conservation and others to quantify and mitigate land-use and climate impacts on peatland greenhouse gas emissions, water quality and water resources. Chris was a Lead Author of two IPCC reports, received an MBE for services to ecosystem science in 2020, and is a current member of the UK Climate Change Committee, representing land, food and nature.

Gary is a geologist who has worked in universities and in a commercial training business. He has held positions at universities in London, Liverpool, Prague and Svalbard and has carried out field-based research on sedimentary rocks in many parts of the world, including the Arctic and Antarctic. In addition to teaching and research, Gary worked in curriculum development, instructional design and quality assurance as a Graduate School Dean. More recently he has been working for an energy and environment consultancy designing training programmes for geoscientists and engineers.

He has been on the councils of national and international learned societies and has been a trustee of a research charity, CASP (formerly the Cambridge Arctic Shel Programme) including a period as chair. Gary currently holds a research position at the University of Portsmouth.