Andrew Campbell retired in August 2023 after seven years as CEO of the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), reporting to the Foreign Minister.
Among influential roles in sustainable agriculture and research management in Australia for over 30 years, Andrew was Australia’s first National Landcare Facilitator, and CEO of Land & Water Australia. Most recently, he was Interim Executive Managing Director of the CGIAR, based in Montpellier, France. He chaired the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases in 2020-2021.
Professor Campbell has served on the boards of the Peter Cullen Trust, and the Future Farm Industries CRC. He chaired the Board of the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network and has previously served as President of the Australian Council for Environmental Deans and Directors. He is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy for Technology and Engineering, a Professorial Fellow at the Australian National University Fenner School, a Principal Fellow in the Faculty of Science at the University of Melbourne, and a Fellow of the Australian Institute for Company Directors. He is also Patron of Landcare in Victoria.
Andrew has written widely on landcare, sustainability and the science-policy interface. He is still actively involved on his farm in western Victoria, where his family has been farming since the 1860s.
Dip.For. Creswick, B.For.Sc (Hons) Melbourne, MSc (Distinction) Wageningen.
Appointed on 1 October 2023.