Ken Moore manages NRM South's agricultural programs based in Hobart. He works with farmers to help them improve farm natural resource management and profit. Ken is a passionate believer in the application of science and technology in agriculture. He loves the use of drones, sensing technologies and social media.In 2012, he was a senior consultant for Inovact Consulting in Canberra with work comprising natural resource management, water and agriculture. Ken is an experienced research manager having worked with the former Land & Water Australia, the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation(RIRDC) and Indigenous Business Australia. During the Hawke and Keating Governments, Ken was a Senior Executive Service officer in the primary industries and energy portfolio. This was a period of major rural policy reform under the Minister, the Hon. John Kerin, AO. Ken served on several national boards and committees, was a member of Australian trade missions to Thailand (1988) and China (1989), and was one of two Australian delegates to the World Bank on the privatisation of agriculture in the former Soviet republics in 1991. Ken is also a former Executive Director with the Western Australian Department of Agriculture. He occupied the funder role in the WA Department and was responsible for research budget allocations, strategic planning, policy and government relations.Ken is an Adjunct Fellow at the Australian National University's National Institute for Rural and Regional Australia. He has been a regular speaker at conferences and seminars around Australia and interviewee for ABC regional radio on community development and natural resource management issues. Ken owns a farming property in south west Australia with two sisters and from 1996 to 2008 was involved in community development with his birth community, Northcliffe, WA.Specialties: Sustainable farming, natural resource management, project management and policy development.