Name	Position/Organisation	Topic/focus	Presentation Date/time
Richard Denniss	Strategic Adviser to the Australian Greens.	‘Economists and environmentalists – Together at last?”	Monday 3 December, 9.15am - 9.45am
Russell Fisher	President of Environment Victoria	Topic to be confirmed	Monday 3 December, 1.15pm – 1.45pm
Sheridan Morris	Reef & Rainforest Research Centre	Topic to be confirmed	Tuesday 4th December, 9.00am – 9.30am
Steve Turton	JCU/CSIRO Tropical Landscapes Joint Venture Australian Tropical Forest Institute and Australian Tropical Science & Innovation Precinct	Impacts of urbanisation sprawl on the environment	Tuesday 4th December, 1.00pm – 1.30pm
Hugh Spencer	Australian Tropical Research Foundation	Topic to be confirmed	Wednesday 5th December, 9.00am – 9.30am

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Richard Denniss:

Dr Richard Denniss is an economist with a longstanding interest in social justice and environmental issues. He is currently the strategic adviser to the Australian Greens. He was previously the Deputy Director of The Australia Institute, a Canberra based think tank, was Chief of Staff to the then Leader of the Australian Democrats, Senator Natasha Stott Despoja, and lectured in Economics at the University of Newcastle. He has published widely in academic journals, writes regularly for newspapers and is the co-author of the recently published book Affluenza.

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Russell Fisher:

Russell Fisher is President of Environment Victoria, the largest and leading not-for-profit environment group in Victoria, and was formerly on the Board of the Alternative Technology Association of Australasia. Russell is also the director of Sustainability in Mind and works with a broad range of organisations helping them to find new ways of working and living more sustainably.

Before setting up his consultancy, Russell worked at the Victorian Environment Protection Authority for 6 years eventually taking a role as Principal Consultant Sustainability. He worked for a decade in indigenous community development, worked for a number of years in environment planning and management, spent a few summers and winters in Kosziuscko National Park working as a guide and ski teacher, and had a brief stint as a research assistant in New Zealand counting native robins and trapping the feral sleuth Mustela erminea.

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Hugh Spencer

 

Hugh Spencer is Co-founder/Director/CEO  Australian Tropical Research Foundation  (AUSTROP) and the Cape Tribulation Tropical Research Station (CTTRS). He graduated BSc ANU, did a post graduate course at Monash University, MSC and PHD at the University of Manitoba, Post doc UC Irvine, Lecturer (biology) Uni  of Wollongong, set up CTTRS in 1988 and has been at Cape Tribulation ever since. He was 'radicalised' during his stay in Canada in the early 1970's through joining Zero-Population Growth (ZPG)  and the lessons learned there have shaped his involvement in environmental matters since. He has also become one of Al Gore's "climate project" volunteers.

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Steve Turton:
Professor Steve Turton is the Executive Director of the JCU/CSIRO Tropical Landscapes Joint Venture. Prior to his current position, Steve was Associate Professor in Geography and Director of Research for the Rainforest Cooperative Research Centre, based at James Cook University. His research interests include tropical climatology, rainforest ecology and natural resource management. Steve has published over 90 scientific papers in these fields of study and has also supervised over 50 honours and graduate research students during his time at JCU. He is the co-editor of a major book in press: N.E. Stork & S.M. Turton (eds.) 2008. "Living in a Dynamic Tropical Forest Landscape". Steve is a former Councillor of the Institute of Australian Geographers and an ex officio member of the Wet Tropics Management Authority’s Scientific Advisory Committee. He was recently nominated to the position of honorary treasurer for the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Asia-Pacific Chapter

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Sheridan Morris:

Sheriden Morris is the Managing Director of the Reef & Rainforest Research Centre (RRRC), implementing the Marine and Tropical Sciences Research Facility (MTSRF).  Formerly Director of Water Quality and Coastal Development, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and Manager of the Great Barrier Reef program of CSIRO's Water for a Healthy Country Flagship.  She is experienced in tropical agriculture industry, natural resource management, environmental management and policy development.