Jack Rejtman
Chief Executive Officer
Jack Rejtman is the Biodiversity Council's Chief Executive Officer. He leads the organisation's work to put rigorous science at the centre of how Australia protects nature. His focus is on building partnerships and platforms that turn independent, evidence-based expertise into meaningful policy and action.
Jack has spent the past 18 years translating science into environmental, social and commercial outcomes. He looks for opportunities to apply scientific capability to achieve real-world environmental, social and commercial outcomes.
Before joining the Council, Jack was Chief Executive Officer of Eratos, Australia's leading science-based data platform. Appointed by the Board to lead the organisation through a structured wind-down, he secured bridge funding and delivered more than 20 at-risk national research projects to completion, including work for CSIRO and the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation. Earlier he co-founded The Conversation, the global publisher of research-based journalism, which today connects 220,000 academic authors with millions of readers across 13 international editions.
Jack's advisory and executive roles have spanned The University of Melbourne, CSIRO, Monash University's dengue-control program (now the World Mosquito Program), ASX-listed companies and social enterprises. He began his career as a news reporter and technology columnist at the Miami Herald, investigating crime, corruption and politics. He then worked as strategy consultant with Diamond Management & Technology Partners (now part of PwC) and as a digital product leader at Yahoo! News.
Jack holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Science in journalism and communications from the University of Florida.
