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Managing Director, Triple Helix Consulting; Chief Executive Officer, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research; Professorial Fellow, ANU Fenner School for the Environment and Society, Australian National University

Professor Andrew Campbell FTSE is Managing Director of Triple Helix Consulting Pty Ltd. He recently concluded a four-month role as Interim Executive Managing Director of the CGIAR, pending the commencement of Dr Ismahane Elouafi in December 2023. He reached the seven-year statutory limit of his term as Chief Executive of the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) in July 2023. ACIAR is a Commonwealth agency in the Foreign Affairs portfolio that invests around $100m per year in research in partner developing countries to improve agricultural productivity and sustainability, and food system security and resilience. Andrew Campbell was the 2021 chair of the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (64 member countries).

Andrew Campbell moved back to Canberra in 2016 after 5 years in Darwin, where he led the Research Institute for Environment and Livelihoods, the School of Environment and the Centre for Renewable Energy at Charles Darwin University. He was Executive Director of Land & Water Australia 2000-07, and was instrumental in the development of Landcare in Australia as the first National Landcare Facilitator (1989-92). He has written widely on landcare and sustainability. He has a Bachelor of Forest Science (hons) from the University of Melbourn and a MSc in Management of Agricultural Knowledge Systems from Wageningen Agricultural University in The Netherlands.

Andrew was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (FTSE) in 2018. He is also a Board Director of AgriFutures Australia, a Professorial Fellow in the ANU Fenner School, Principal Fellow in the Faculty of Science at the University of Melbourne, Fellow of the Australian Institute for Company Directors (FAICD), Patron of Landcare in Victoria, and former Board Member of the Peter Cullen Trust and the Future Farm Industries CRC. His family has been farming in western Victoria since the 1860s. Andrew has been managing the family farm (farm forestry, prime lambs and wool) with the help of a neighbour since 1987.

Experience

  • 2016–present
    Chief executive officer, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
  • 2011–2016
    Professor, Charles Darwin University
  • 2013–2015
    Head of school, Charles Darwin University
  • 2007–2010
    Managing Director, Triple Helix Consulting
  • 2000–2006
    Executive Director, Land & Water Australia
  • 1995–1999
    Assistant Secretary, Sustainable Landscapes, Environment Australia
  • 1989–1992
    National Landcare Facilitator, Landcare

Education

  • 1993 
    Wageningen Agricultural University, MSc, Management of Agricultural Knowledge Systems
  • 1983 
    University of Melbourne, Bachelor of Forest Science (Hons)
  • 1980 
    Victorian School of Forestry, Creswick, Diploma of Forestry

Publications

  • 2017
    Reflections on four decades of land restoration in Australia, The Rangeland Journal 39(6) 405-416 https://doi.org/10.1071/RJ17056
  • 2015
    Designing environmental research for impact, Science of the Total Environment Volume 534, 15 November 2015, Pages 4-13
  • 2008
    Food, energy, water: conflicting insecurities (and the rare win-wins offered by soil stewardship), Journal of Soil and Water Conservation USA. 63:5 pp149-151
  • 2008
    Managing Australian Soils: a policy discussion paper, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Canberra
  • 2008
    Managing Australian Landscapes in a Changing Climate, Department of Climate Change, Canberra
  • 2007
    The Getting of Knowledge: a guide to funding and managing applied research, Land & Water Australia, Canberra
  • 1994
    Landcare: communities shaping the land and the future, Allen and Unwin, Sydney
  • 1991
    Planning for Sustainable Farming: the Potter Farmland Plan story, Lothian Books, Port Melbourne

Professional Memberships

  • FTSE
  • FAICD

Research Areas

  • Environmental Management (050205)
  • Environmental Education And Extension (050203)
  • Environmental Politics (160605)
  • Land Use And Environmental Planning (120504)
  • Agricultural Land Management (070101)
  • Natural Resource Management (050209)
  • Research, Science And Technology Policy (160511)
  • Forestry Management And Environment (070504)
  • Agroforestry (070501)

Honours

FTSE