Land and Water Australia

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) https://au.linkedin.com/in/candrewcampbell