Rob Gell Profile
Robert A. GellB.Sc (Hons)
FEIANZ, FRGS
Executive Summary
Rob is a Director of World Wind Pty Ltd and director of his own companies Breakthrough Productions Pty Ltd and Gellignite Pty Ltd. He is also a director of ICES (International College of Environmental Sustainability).
Rob Gell is a geographer and specifically a coastal geomorphologist, specialising in the environmental processes that continually shape our coastlines. As such, he has an expert understanding of the Victorian coastline and its formation and completed his Science Degree at Melbourne University in the early seventies. In his professional life today, Rob works as an environmental and communications consultant.
Rob taught Environmental Science and Physical Geography at Melbourne State College and Melbourne University. Rob is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an Inaugural Fellow of the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand. He is a member of the Victorian Coastal Council, President of Greening Australia Ltd, Chairman of the Mornington Peninsula and Westernport Biosphere Reserve Foundation, and a member of the Reference Group for the Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability, Victoria. Rob also serves on the boards of Surfing Victoria and WPC Group Ltd.
He is Patron of the Geography Teachers Association of Victoria, Wildlife Victoria, Life Education Victoria, Sustainability Street, and a supporter of Cool Melbourne. He is a Life Ambassador for Australia Day for the State of Victoria and was Environmental Ambassador to the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games.
In 1979 Rob Gell’s Four Day Forecast revolutionised the way television weather information was presented. For twenty-five years he brought innovation, information, credibility, and authority to television news introducing satellite image sequences, integrated pressure analyses and explanation and accountability rather than simply a presentation of Weather Bureau forecasts by a personality. He presented on National Nine News for sixteen years from 1988 and previously on Eyewitness News. He currently presents weather information with the Seven Network.
He is a published author and photographer. He has been a local government councillor and was a councillor of the Australian Conservation Foundation for almost a decade. Rob Gell is a uniquely qualified individual who has the respect of government, business, environmental groups and the community for his approach to sustainable development. Importantly he is also an excellent communicator who can get the message across.
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