Professor Craig Pearson

Director

Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute

Email: c.pearson 'at' unimelb.edu.au

Phone: +61 (03) 9035 8235

Address:

Southern Annex, Ground Floor Alice Hoy Building (Blg 162) Monash Road The University of Melbourne, Parkville Victoria 3010, Australia

Details:

Personal Expertise:
Strategic planning, institutional change management, research evaluation and management.

Technical areas: agricultural and environmental policy, grassland agronomy, cropping systems, sustainability, city greenbelt policy

Qualifications:
• BScAgric (University of Western Australia), MSc (Guelph), PhD (Macquarie University)
• Senior Management Certificate (Harvard University),
• Senior Policy Formulation Certificate (Australian Public Service)

Honors:
• Fellow of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology (FAIAST) 1994
• Australian Sports Medal for contribution to turfgrass education 2000
• Agricultural Institute of Canada Klink Memorial Medal 2002.
• Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship 2003.
• Graduate Member Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD)

Leadership positions:
• Director Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, Melbourne, from September 2009
• Presidential Advisor on International Programs, and Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Policy, University of Guelph 2007-9
• President, Canadian Faculties of Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine 2004-5
• Dean of Ontario Agricultural College, University of Guelph (during which, Guelph was ranked seventh in the world for research productivity in agriculture and related sciences) 2001-7
• Chief scientist, Bureau of Rural Science, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Australia 1999-2001
• Foundation Executive Dean of Natural Resources, Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, and Director, Gatton Campus, University of Queensland
• Coordinator, ACNARP (Australian Contribution to the National Agricultural Research Program of Thailand) education program, University of Western Australia
 
Board experience:
• Director, Greenwich Group Pty Ltd, since 1992
• 4H Canada 2002-7
• University of British Columbia Faculty of Land & Food Systems, British Columbia
• The Centre for Rural Leadership, Ontario
• Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Accounting
• Agrisearch Pty Ltd, Australia
• Austseed Pty Ltd, Australia
• Australian Wool Research and Development Corporation

Affiliations:
Held positions of professor or honorary/ visiting professor at University of Guelph, Canada; Northwest Agricultural and Forestry University, China; CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Australia; Australian National University, Australia; University of Queensland, Australia; University of Sydney. Australia; University of Western Australia; University of London, England; Charles Sturt University, Australia; Lund University, Sweden; Brawijaya University, Indonesia.

Consultancy Clients have included:
Australian Government (State of Environment Report 2006); All Australian rural research and development corporations; University of Buenos Aires; University of Melbourne; University of British Columbia.

Country Experience: Australia and Canada, Argentina, Brazil, China, England, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Sweden, Thailand, Ukraine, USA.

Key publications:
Ten books and more than 110 refereed articles in international journals, including:
• C.J.Pearson , S. Pilgrim, J. Pretty (2010) Urban Agriculture: diverse activities and benefits for city societies. Earthscan. pp120
• M. J. Hill, J. Fitzsimons, C.J.Pearson (2009) 'Creating land use scenarios for city greenbelts using a spatial multi-criteria analysis shell:  Two case studies'. Physical Geography 30, 353-82.
• C.J.Pearson, J.Nasby (2008) The Cultivated Landscape. McGill Queens University Presses. pp296.
• C.J.Pearson, D. Bucknell, G.P.Laughlin (2008) 'Modelling crop productivity and variability for policy and impacts of climate change in eastern Canada'. Environmental Modelling and Software 23, 1345-55.
• C.J. Pearson (2007) 'Regenerative, semi-closed systems: a priority for twenty-first century agriculture'. BioScience 57, 409-18
• C.J. Pearson, H.Zuo, I. Valentine, M. Unkovich (2003) Sustainability of grazing systems: feed base, grazing pressure and variability. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 1, 95-107 (2003).
• C.J. Pearson, R.L. Ison (1987, second edition 1997) Agronomy of Grassland Systems Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. pp222. Spanish translation 1992.
• C.J. Pearson, R. Brown, W.J.Collins, K.A. Archer, M.S. Wood, C. Petersen, B Bootle (1997) An Australian temperate pastures database. Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 48, 453-65
• M.J.T.Norman, C.J. Pearson, P.G.E. Searle (1984, second edition 1995) The Ecology of Tropical Food Crops. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. pp369.
• C.J.Pearson, D.W.Norman, J.Dixon (1995) Sustainable Dryland Cropping for Soil Productivity. Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Rome.
• C.J. Pearson (ed.) (1992): Field-Crop Ecosystems of the World. Elsevier: Amsterdam.