Jamie is a professor at The Australian National University and is the independent Chair of the ACT Natural Resources Management Advisory Committee. He has worked for environmental organisations in Australia and internationally. Among other roles, Jamie is a member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas and chairs the Eminent Scientists Group of WWF Australia. He is also President of Friends of Grasslands.
Jamie’s work focusses on better governance of the interlinked issues of water management, energy and food supply, responding to climate change and conserving biological diversity. He has extensive experience working with non-government organisations advocating for better natural resources management at the local to national scales.