BA (Kent, UK), CAM (London, UK)

With 12 years of environmental and conservation INGO experience, Kirstie's expertise includes a wide variety of arts and events management, in particular festival and exhibition management, and several areas of marketing and communications, including brand development, publications, web, photography, audio visuals and merchandise production.

Kirstie spent her childhood in Kenya and Denmark, consequently moving to the UK to study anthropology, specialising in Great Ape conservation. She has worked for a variety of UK based international NGOs, including The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund (now Gorilla Organization), Save the Rhino International, WaterAid, and the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) where she headed up their Creative Development Team.

Kirstie recently took a 2 year sabbatical in East Africa and the Middle East, where she worked on freelance communications and events projects with WWF and Greenpeace. Following this, she coordinated a series of NGO events for the TckTckTck coalition at the UNFCCC climate change summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, including the central '12th December' civil society march attended by over 100,000 people. She is currently project managing Greenpeace UK's partnership with the 2010 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Arts and Music.

Kirstie is passionate about the importance of creative communication in generating dialogue and debate amongst the players in the world of environmental conservation and development. Kirstie holds a BA in Social Anthropology from the University of Kent and a Certificate in Advanced Marketing and Communications (CAM) from London Metropolitan University Business School. She is a fluent Danish speaker.