Board Directors
Mara Bún | Chair of the Board
Mara Bún is a Company Director and strategy consultant who works with people who share her optimism about a positive future, despite all evidence pointing to challenges ahead. Mara is a Director of the Board of GreenCollar and the Australian Ethical Foundation, a Board Member of DFAT's Council on Australia Latin American Relations (COALAR), and is a Faculty Member of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. She was President of the Australian Conservation Foundation from 2018-2021.
Trevor Thomas | Non-Executive Director
Trevor joined Ethinvest in 1997 after spending 6 years in South America working in economic development. Prior to that he was employed as an economist with one of Australia’s major banks and AP Dow Jones Telerate. Trevor is a trustee of a number of philanthropic organisations, including the John T Reid Charitable Trusts and the Community Impact Foundation, and assists a number of charitable trusts and not for profit organisations with their investment strategies.
Past Directors
Norman Gillespie | Retired Director
Norman is passionate about working with extraordinary people to realise their vision of creating and developing enterprises which bring about sustainable positive economic, social and cultural change. He has held positions including Chief Financial Office and Deputy CEO of Optus Communications, CEO of the Sydney Opera House, Deputy Chair of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, CEO of UNICEF Australia, Chairman of Pinchgut Opera, and Chairman of Omega Ensemble.
Kristina Stefanova | Retired Director
Kristina has nearly two decades of experience working with public and private sector in Australia, North America, the UK, and across regions. Kristina has worked for the World Bank, US Agency for International Development, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and the Global CCS Institute. She has also helped start-up the largest environmental markets investment business in Australia; was Founding CEO of Brand Ethics, Australia’s first ethical fashion ratings agency; and more recently is co-leading an impact investment firm with an eye on social projects.
Professor Graeme Samuel AC | Retired Director
Graeme is a Professor in the Monash Business School. He has excelled in a professional career spanning senior roles in law, investment banking and public service, sport, health, the arts, business and public policy in economic reform and regulation. Graeme's many appointments have included Chairman of the ACCC (2003-2011) and Chairman of Opera Australia (1995-2000). He completed a major review of the Commonwealth EPBC Act in 2020. Graeme was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2010.