Dr Giz Watson - Vice President, Chair of Governance CommitteeDr Giz Watson is a foundation environmental science graduate from Murdoch University. She brings extensive knowledge of the WA environment – marine and terrestrial, as well as demonstrated a long history of commitment to environmental and political activism and skills in collaborative planning, team building and strategic planning.
Giz has served as secretary of the WA Forest Alliance for over a decade, helping to make WA the first State in Australia to end commercial logging of native forests.
Giz served as an Member of the WA Parliament for 16 years and held numerous portfolios including biodiversity, urban bushland, marine issues, forests and woodlands, waste management and agriculture. She also drafted, introduced and debated Bills on biodiversity protection, protecting Margaret River from coal mining, cat management and making WA nuclear free. She has served on numerous Parliamentary committees including chairing the Standing Committee on Estimates and Financial Operations for 8 years and as a Member, Select Committee on Native Title Rights in WA from 17 September 1997–10 November 1998.