Andrew Campbell Email & Phone Number

Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Honorary affiliate in the Faculty of Science, University of Melbourne.

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Andrew Campbell is the Managing Director of Triple Helix Consulting Pty Ltd, a consultancy firm specialising in the business of sustainability, helping progressive organisations in the public and private sectors to develop and implement more sustainable policies, programs and enterprises. Past clients include the Australian Government, catchment management organisations, large scale sustainable farming enterprises, international research bodies and Australian R&D corporations. Triple Helix Consulting was re-activated in 2024.

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Geneva, Switzerland

Montpellier, Occitanie, France

Andrew Campbell joined the CGIAR System Organisation as Interim Executive Managing Director in August 2023, following the retirement of Dr Claudia Sadoff. The CGIAR is a global agricultural research partnership dedicated to transforming food, land and water systems in a climate crisis. It comprises more than 9,000 scientists of 136 nationalities working in 109 countries, with annual budget exceeding USD$900m per year.

Canberra, Australia

The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) invests in applied research to improve agricultural productivity and sustainability, and food system resilience in developing countries. The Centre is Australia’s specialist international agricultural research for development (R4D) agency. It is an Australian Government statutory authority within the Foreign Affairs portfolio. ACIAR works with over thirty countries in the Indo-Pacific region through bilateral and multilateral research partnerships. We invest around $100m per annum with a wide range of research providers in Australia and partner countries. The beneficiaries of these programs include farmers, rural poor, consumers, researchers and policymakers. Australian farmers, agribusinesses and researchers also benefit tangibly through, for example, knowledge and technology exchange, preventing or solving problems before they reach Australia, and building linkages that can foster future trade relationships.ACIAR was established by the Fraser Government in 1982 via the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research Act (ACIAR Act), described at the time as ‘An Act to encourage research for the purpose of identifying, or finding solutions, to, agricultural problems of developing countries’.

Montpellier, Occitanie, France

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Chair, 2020-21

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

The Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) is an overarching and integrated network designed to serve ecosystem research in Australia. It builds on significant past investments by scientists and governments to understand Australian ecosystems. It does this by focussing on collating, calibrating, validating and standardising existing data sets. TERN is also funding new research infrastructure and collection systems, expanding observation and monitoring programs into unrepresented ecosystems, and building digital infrastructure to store and publish this information in a form that can be searched and accessed freely under licenses that acknowledge the data provider(s) and build collaborative research.

The Australian Council of Environmental Deans and Directors (ACEDD) is an association of people drawn from Australian universities and with line responsibility for environmental science and/or environmental studies programs and endeavours. It commenced informal operations in July 2008 and was formally constituted in March 2009.http://acedd.org.au/about/

Darwin

The Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods undertakes integrated biophysical, social and economic research with a focus on tropical and desert environments in Northern Australia and in similar climatic regions globally, with emphasis on Southeast Asia. The Institute aims to balance conservation and development, improving human well-being through responsible natural resource management.

The Fenner School of Environment and Society is a world-class, nationally-distinctive School at the ANU for interdisciplinary research and education on complex environment-society systems.

Future Farm Industries Cooperative Research Centre Ltd is an incorporated joint venture playing a crucial role in developing new and innovative farming systems and technologies to improve the resilience of Australian broadacre agriculture to climate change, salinity, climate variability and drought while improving productivity and sustainability. Future Farm Industries CRC was established in 2007 through the Australian Government’s Cooperative Research Centre Program.

Land & Water Australia was a statutory corporation from 1990-2009 within the Commonwealth Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry portfolio, established under the Primary Industries and Energy R&D Act and the Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act. Its primary purpose was to organise and fund research and development activities aimed at the productive and sustainable management of Australia’s natural resources. The Executive Director is the Chief Executive, a member of the Board and responsible to it for all aspects of the Corporation including: strategic direction and policy; leadership of a staff of ~40; research and development programs; partnerships for funding and managing R&D (~$35m per annum across 45 partners and 16 programs); communication and adoption of R&D outputs; management of knowledge assets; sound and effective financial management; and meeting all accountability requirements. Andrew Campbell’s seven year tenure saw considerable growth and development of the corporation, characterised by constructive collaborative engagement with stakeholders, closer connections with both policy and industry audiences, a focus on managing knowledge for adoption, developing new initiatives in building research capacity, doubling turnover while maintaining excellence across the research portfolio. The corporation published two books synthesising some of the lessons from this experience; The Australian Natural Resource Management Knowledge System (2006) and The Getting of Knowledge – a guide to funding and managing applied research (2007)

Canberra, Australia

Environment Australia at the time was the Australian Ministry of the Environment. The role of Assistant Secretary (SES1), Sustainable Landscapes Branch carried responsibility for the development and implementation of the $360 million Bushcare Program – the largest of the environment programs funded through the $1.5 billion Natural Heritage Trust (NHT). The role of managing Bushcare combined intense pressures to develop national policy, with the demands of designing, administering and accounting for a large operational program, managing a staff of over fifty professionals and overseeing a national network of more than 200 people. The position also entailed responsibility for a $40m NHT investment to secure the natural and cultural values of Cape York Peninsula; the $30m private land component of the Tasmanian Regional Forest Agreement; and the Bush for Greenhouse initiative to facilitate corporate investment in vegetation sinks.

The National Landcare Facilitator (NLF) project was a consultancy to the Australian Soil Conservation Advisory Committee which advised the Minister for Primary Industries. The consultancy arose out of voluntary work in mid-1988 to help the nascent alliance between the National Farmers’ Federation and the Australian Conservation Foundation to draft a proposal for the Australian government. This proposal secured bipartisan support for a Decade of Landcare built on assistance for group approaches and integrated planning at property and catchment scales. The NLF role involved meeting landcare groups and the people working with them throughout Australia, analysing their effectiveness, facilitating communication across state, disciplinary and institutional boundaries, and providing strategic advice to policy makers at State and national levels. It provided a unique opportunity to explore the full range of land management issues and participatory approaches to research and extension, and to develop a contact network of outstanding farmers, scientists and extension agents throughout Australia. This experience was the basis for the book “Landcare—communities shaping the land and the future”, published in 1994 by Allen and Unwin, Sydney.

The Potter Farmland Plan, funded by the Ian Potter Foundation, established fifteen model farms in Western Victoria to demonstrate how farm layout and management can be planned to incorporate ecological principles at a landscape scale. It was the single largest example of environmental philanthropy in Australia to that time. The position of Project Manager entailed responsibility for leading the implementation of the program; working with people (2 professionals, 15 families and 22 community groups); planning and delivery of extension activity; preparation of budgets and accountability for expenditure (~$1m); liaison with Government and other institutions with regard to monitoring, research and extension; development and extension of the concept of Whole Farm Planning; development, application and extension of efficient and effective techniques of revegetation on rural land; and development and delivery of a comprehensive public relations program and documentation of the project. This experience led to the writing of “Planning for Sustainable Farming”, published by Lothian Books, Melbourne 1991. The Potter Farmland Plan was selected as one of the three projects (out of more than 8,000) funded by the Ian Potter Foundation to be featured in the commemorative film for the Foundation’s 50th anniversary in 2014.

Postings to Stawell, Bendigo and Shepparton, with an emphasis on farm tree extension(including administration of the Tree Growing Assistance Scheme and the Farm Forestry Loan Scheme); forest recreation planning; fire protection planning, fire training and supervision of fire prevention works (including extensive involvement (mainly as a Sector Boss) in the fires leading up to and including ‘Ash Wednesday’); supervision of the road construction program in the Grampians National Park; and development of management plans for the Rushworth State Forest.

Msc (Distinction), Management Of Agricultural Knowledge Systems, Distinction

B. For.Sc (Hons), Forest Science

Activities and Societies: Optional course work in Rural Sociology and Extension (First Class Honours), and Australian Economic History.

Dip For (Cres), Forestry

Hsc

Activities and Societies: School Captain