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The North Central Catchment Management Authority's key role is to provide leadership, coordination and integration of sustainable natural resource management for the benefit of our rivers and the
communities that depend on them.

Our Board leverages their diverse business and industry skills to determine our strategic direction
and to monitor the successful realisation of these benefits.

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Their responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Set the strategic direction of the organisation
Establish our vision and direction for integrated natural resource management
Set down our priorities and evaluate our results
Monitor the external and internal environment
Approve and monitor the financial performance of the organisation

Board Members

Ian MacBean (Chair Person)

Ian MacBean

Ian MacBean has a long interest in regional environmental issues dating back to his youth on a salt affected farm in the Barr Creek catchment.

Ian has had many involvements in regional and community development, and natural resource management in central and northern Victoria, and was employed at La Trobe University, Bendigo, in senior academic and management roles.

Ian was awarded an OAM in 1993 for services to town and regional planning and the environment.

Jenny Williams (Deputy Chair Person)

Jenny Williams

Jenny has been a bookseller in Echuca for 24 years and has over four generations of family connections to farming in the district. Prior to bookselling, she was a secondary school teacher with qualifications in environmental studies and commerce.

Jenny is actively involved in a number of community organisations and was a co-founder and is current President of the Echuca Landcare Group. Jenny has a strong commitment to ensuring that great ideas are converted into practical action on the ground.

John Brooke

John Brooke is a beef and walnut producer with a farm near Pyramid Hill. As a former Loddon Shire Mayor, he has experience in local government. He is also a director of Goulburn-Murray Water and the Chairman of Coliban Water.

A member of CPA Australia and the Institute of Chartered Accountants, he has wide experience in business management.

In 2005, John was awarded the Medal of Order of Australia for his contribution to local government, water resource management, the accounting profession and to education.

Stuart McLean

Stuart, a primary producer from Wycheproof, has been appointed for his third term on the North Central Catchment Management Authority Board. He has valuable experience in local government and is a councillor with the Buloke Shire. He chairs the Northern Grampians Buloke Shire Landcare Network and the Central Victoria Area Consultative Committee.

On a broader level, Stuart is the Vice President of the Livestock Saleyards Association of Victoria and a Board member of Workspace Australia. Stuart is very interested in integrated planning in natural resource management and sees this as a priority for the current Board.

Jean Sutherland

Jean operates an accounting practice at Cohuna and Boort, and is married to a dairy farmer in Cohuna. She is a member of the Ambulance Victoria Board.

Jean's interests include the effect of water trading, the drought and future land use, improving irrigation practices and linking the use of irrigated water to land use and the future of irrigation structures.

Yvonne Postlethwaite

Yvonne is a prominent member of the St Arnaud community, where she is the business manager of a grain farm. She is involved in a range of community groups including the Community Resource Centre and was a former North Central Catchment Management Authority Implementation Committee member.

Yvonne has a strong commitment to natural resource management through sustainable agricultural practices. She was awarded a PhD in that field and is a past Victorian Rural Woman of the Year for services to agriculture.

Jane Holt

Jane, along with her partner established, Berrys Bridge Vineyard in 1990 and Berrys Bridge Wines in 1997. Jane has an Associate Degree in Viticulture, a Bachelor of Science in Wine Science from CSU, and has been a self-employed book keeper for nearly 20 years.

Jock Leishman

Jock is a farmer from Ullina, near Clunes. He wants to help give the community a greater say in natural resource management and would like more effective on-ground works.