Events

Finniss Group Key Influencer Roundtable - Ms Dianne Davidson, Murray Darling Basin Authority - 13 Feb 2012

Attendance at this event is by invitation only.

Ms Di Davidson is an agricultural scientist and horticulturalist who has worked extensively throughout the Basin for 35 years, with a wide range of crops, including vegetables, citrus, stonefruit, table and wine grapes, grains and pastures. Her clients have included private farming businesses, corporate agribusinesses, wine companies and state government agencies. She is particularly well known for her training, consulting and management work in the Australian wine industry. Ms Davidson is a fourth generation farmer in the Lower Lakes region of the Basin, and manages her own mixed agricultural business there, as well as carrying out consulting work throughout Australia and internationally.

Ms Davidson has wide experience and a strong management background in natural resources, particularly water and irrigated agriculture. She has also worked closely with rural communities and organisations throughout her career, most recently in steering the Lower Lakes community through the process of obtaining pipelines for drinking and irrigation water during the recent drought.

Ms Davidson is a member of the Council of the University of Adelaide, a former member of the South Australian Premier’s Climate Change Council, and previously served on the South Australian Murray–Darling Basin Natural Resource Management Board. She has broad Board experience across a range of sectors.

Event Location: Finniss Room, British Hotel, North Adelaide

Registrations Open: 1 Jan 2012

Registrations Close: 13 Feb 2012

Start Time: 6:30 PM

Price: AU $ 65.00 (Inc. GST)

Places Available: 2