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Dr Neil Byron (Former Member)

Bachelor of Science (Forestry) (Hons 1); Master of Arts (Economics) (Brit. Col.) Doctor of Philosophy (Resource Economics) (Brit. Col.) Graduate Aust Institute of Company Directors (Canberra)

Expertise

Expertise

Natural Resources / Environmental Economics and Policy

Strategic planning of natural resources

Priority setting and impact evaluation

Environmental, economic and social impact analysis

Background

Member, Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists

Adjunct Professor, ANU’s Crawford School of Economics & Government and Fenner School of Environment & Society;

Visiting Fellow, University of Melbourne; and Wolfson College, Oxford University.

Director, Earthwatch Institute Australia

Director, Tiaki Forestry Company, New Zealand

Member, Independent Science Panel for Great Barrier Reef

Member Agricultural & Resource Economics Society

Previously

Commissioner, Productivity Commission 1998-2010

Chairman, Trust for Nature Foundation

Member, IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas

Assistant Director General, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) Indonesia

Director of Graduate Studies in Environment and Development, Australian National University, Canberra

Chief UN Technical Adviser, Bangladesh Ministry of Finance and Planning, Dhaka.

Senior Economist, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Canberra.

Selected Publications

Productivity Commission (2003) Industries, Land Use and Water Quality in the Great Barrier Reef Catchment. Canberra.

Productivity Commission (2004) Impacts of Native Vegetation and Biodiversity Conservation Regulations. Canberra.

Byron R.N. (2001) The Economics of Sustainable Forest Management and Wildlife Conservation in Tropical Forests. in Fimbel, Grajal and J. Robinson (eds) The Cutting Edge: Conserving Wildlife in Logged Tropical Forests.Columbia Univ Press, New York.

Byron R.N and D. Peterson (2001) Creating Markets for Biodiversity – A case study of Earth Sanctuaries Pty Ltd. in D. Biller (ed) Creating Markets for Biodiversity OECD Paris and World Bank Washington

Byron R.N. and J.E.M. Arnold, (1999) What Futures for the People of the Tropical Forests?World Development 27 (5) 789-805