Tony lives in Cape Town, South Africa, and has worked in government, private business and the not-for-profit sector, primarily in the agricultural and animal welfare fields. As a Principal Planner in the Restitution Research Directorate of the South African Department of Land Affairs, he was part of the team researching and advising the post-apartheid Commission on Restitution of Land Rights on the legal validity of land restitution claims filed by victims of South Africa’s racially-based ‘separate development’ policy. He has also served as a trustee of the Humane Education Trust, the South African affiliate of Compassion in World Farming, and as legal advisor to and Chair of the Cape Animal Welfare Forum. He currently also chairs the South African Minister of Environment’s Wildlife Wellbeing Forum.

Tony is now working with Humane World for Animals (formerly Humane Society International) as the Executive Director of African operations directing work across Africa in programs which protect wildlife, farmed animals, companion animals, animals used in testing, and those caught in disaster. He holds a Master’s degree in Animal Law from Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, and has presented on animal law topics at events in the USA, across Africa and China. Tony was a 2021 Centre for Animal Law Studies Ambassador and a Visiting Fellow at the Animal Law and Policy Program at Harvard Law School in 2023.