Keith Bradby OAM
Chief Executive Officer

Keith is a long-time advocate for the ecological values of south-western Australia and the strength of grass roots locally led work. As a community-based activist in the early 1980s he helped halt the clearing of some 3 million hectares of public land for marginal agriculture and as a concerned local he was involved with establishing some of Australia’s earliest landcare groups. His family background is in the building industry, and as a businessman he has managed beekeeping and native seed businesses, consulted to the mining sector and worked in local enterprise development.

Keith has worked directly for two State Cabinet Ministers and indirectly for a third – across the political divide. This included representing the WA Minister in development of the initial National Landcare Program. As a public servant in the 1990s he managed and reformed the Peel-Harvey catchment program and then drove the process that ended large scale land clearing in south-western Australia.

Keith has consulted to emerging large landscape efforts in New Zealand, southern Africa and Mexico, and is a former Chair of the WA Landcare Network and a former Deputy Chair of the National Landcare Network. He has authored and co-authored numerous academic publications, produced one book and involved in the production of two documentary films and a number of video shorts.

Keith was instrumental in establishing Gondwana Link in 2002 and has led the program since.