Jack Milbank is the Soil Carbon Program Manager and Independent Scientific Advisor at Select Carbon, a Shell company. He brings more than two decades of agronomic and natural capital experience across Australia, Southern Africa, the United States and the UK to the design and delivery of soil carbon projects under the Clean Energy Regulator framework.
Born and raised on a cattle and game farm in Zimbabwe, Jack completed a Bachelor of Applied Science in Agronomy at the University of Queensland and was awarded a Nuffield Scholarship in 2006. His scholarship thesis on agricultural production with a net benefit to regional ecosystems using renewable energy continues to inform his approach today. Adapted cattle genetics and grazing systems continues to shape his approach to integrating production, biodiversity and carbon outcomes on the same hectare.
Jack operates Hartwood Cattle near Bundaberg, Queensland, where the property maintains a Remnant Vegetation Restoration pilot on 40ha of Mangrove Wetlands. He is the President of Sanga International, founder of various AgTech and Biotech businesses, and producer of the Nature-Positive Production podcast.
At Select Carbon, Jack focuses on adaptive permanence: the principle that environmental outcomes persist most reliably when the underlying management practices are economically rational for the producer through positive economic returns, with carbon and biodiversity revenue providing additional reinforcement for positive environmental change.