Petra has close to 30 years of experience working across academia, government, and the not-for-profit sector, all with a common thread of promoting evidence-based solutions to environmental and societal sustainability challenges.
With a passion for incentivizing collaborations around scientific solutions to global environmental challenges, she has always gravitated towards roles at the intersection of science, conservation, innovation, and impact. She holds a Ph.D. in molecular ecology and has spent many years working on issues relating to the impacts of climate change on coral reef related socio-ecological systems in East Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and Australia.
She is an adjunct Associate Professor in Sustainability at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia.
The page was updated in December 2024.