Professor Andrew Campbell

Chief Executive, Australian Centre for
International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)

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Andrew Campbell is the Chief Executive of the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), appointed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs in 2016. 

Among influential roles in sustainable agriculture and research management in Australia for over thirty years, Andrew Campbell was Australia's first National Landcare Facilitator, and was CEO of Land & Water Australia for seven years from 2000.  

Professor Campbell is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy for Technology and Engineering, a Professorial Fellow at the ANU Fenner School, and a Fellow of the Australian Institute for Company Directors.  He represents Australia on the System Council of the CGIAR, and is Chair of the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA).

Andrew Campbell has written widely on landcare, knowledge management and sustainability.  He trained in forestry at Creswick and the University of Melbourne, then in rural sociology and agricultural knowledge systems at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. 

Andrew Campbell is still involved in his farm in south-eastern Australia, where his family has been farming since the 1860s.