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Jonathan Lloyd is a cousin of David Lloyd, who founded the Kasanka Trust in 1987 and took over the Chairmanship of the Trust from his brother Perry in January 2020. Jonathan is a retired Army officer who served in the Grenadier Guards and various staff appointments from 1973 to 2008 completing his service as the Military Adviser to the UK Ambassador to the United Nations in the rank of Colonel. On retirement from the Army he became the Chapter Clerk of Portsmouth Cathedral for 5 years. During his service and retirement, he has travelled extensively throughout the African continent. He has a degree in Politics and Economics from Durham University. He is a keen yachtsman and lives in Portsmouth.
Michael qualified is a chartered accountant with KPMG and has held senior financial positions in several companies including Whitbread, Time Warner, Focus Wickes and more recently the Pinnacle Group. Michael is a pluralist and uses his time to support and advise start up companies and is Executive of a large DB pension scheme and Trustee of the Ramblers. Michael has always had a passion for the outdoors and travelling and exploring the beauty of the natural world.
Fiona Mathews is Professor of Environmental Biology at the University of Sussex. Formerly chair of the Mammal Society, and currently chair of Mammal Conservation Europe, Fiona has a wide knowledge of the science underpinning effective wildlife conservation. She supervises post-graduate and undergraduate students studying conservation biology and animal behaviour at Sussex, and leads the University’s field trip to Kasanka. Fiona’s first trip to southern Africa was a summer spent in rural villages in Zimbabwe as an undergraduate, where she saw almost no wildlife. Since then, she has tried to ensure that students appreciate the critical importance of both protected areas and of community partnership in achieving conservation goals. Fiona has a passion for bats (meeting the beautiful orange-fingered Welwitsch’s bat at Kasanka was a career highlight) and she set up the Facebook Group Save Kasanka’s Bats to highlight the threats to the park. She also ran the Brighton Marathon in aid of Kasanka, and might be persuaded to give it just one more go!
Growing up alongside the Hudson River, 30 miles North of Manhattan in the Hudson River Valley, Alexandra was raised with a deep appreciation for the area's natural environment. Especially encouraged by her mother's active support of the area's wildlife, she was fortunate to witness the yearly spring arrival of the majestic Bald Eagle and other protected species. The Hudson River Valley is well-known for its emphasis on conservation and is home to a number of nationally recognized and well-known nature conservancies.
After graduating from the University of Virginia in 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, Alex returned to New York to embark on a 10+ year career in the entertainment industry, beginning in the Agent Trainee Program at William Morris Endeavor and thereafter moving to Los Angeles to become Director of Development at XIX Entertainment under Simon Fuller, the Creator of American Idol. While working for Simon Fuller, she assisted in the development of SERENGETI for BBC One, a dramatized Natural History series based on the daily struggles for survival of the animals that are unique to that spectacular region of East Africa.
Alexandra currently lives in Monaco with her husband where she is launching a human grade pet food company that will donate a portion of its proceeds to feeding shelter animals across Europe.
Rollo volunteered with the Kasanka Trust in 2013, spending time in Kasanka National park, Lavushi Manda conservation area and the Bangweulu Wetlands before going on to study Zoology at the University of Bristol. As a founder of Biome Productions in 2017 Rollo created state of the art virtual reality wildlife videos for the likes of Born Free to help raise funds for their Ethiopian Wolf conservation project. Since then Rollo has worked on documentary series for National Geographic, Disney and CuriosityStream.
Natural history documentaries bring the great outdoors into thousands of living rooms every day, raising awareness of the issues faced by nature - but also the great deeds done by those who hope to make a difference.
UK Chartered Accountant, Graduate of Edinburgh University (MA Philosophy & Eng Lit) and from Insead (MBA). Director of Gasfin Development, a specialist provider of infrastructure for liquefied natural gas distribution. Gasfin is currently developing sub-saharan Africa’s first LNG import terminal in Ghana. Roland lived for two years in Lusaka whilst working with CDC and has travelled widely around the country both for work and for leisure. He is a keen amateur naturalist – an interest he shares with his wife and three children and pursues whether home in Hampshire or abroad.