Professor Peter Kanowski ‘The World’s Forests: State and Prospects’

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Thursday, 9 April 2015 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm

Peter will discuss Australia’s role in sustaining the world’s forests.

Professor Peter Kanowski is currently Master of University House, and Professor of Forestry, Fenner School of Environment and Society. Peter's roles comprise academic and professional leadership; research and teaching focused on forest and environmental policy, and on sustainability; and policy learning and development, and community engagement, associated with forest-related issues. Peter works extensively in each of these arenas with colleagues and partners, representing a diversity of forest- and environment- sector interests, internationally, nationally, and locally.

Peter was a Schlich Medallist at the Australian National University, where he completed an Honours degree in forestry, and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, where he completed a doctorate in forest genetics. He worked in forest management and research in Australia for 3 years, and lectured at Oxford University’s Forestry Institute for 7 years, before taking up the Chair of Forestry at ANU in 1995. Peter was Head of the ANU

Department of Forestry 1996-2001, foundation Head of the School of Resources Environment & Society 2001-2008, and Deputy Director of the Fenner School of Environment & Society 2007-2008. He spent two years as a Deputy Director General at CIFOR, the Center for International Forestry Research, 2012-2014, on leave from the ANU. Peter was a member of the Steering Committee of The Forests Dialogue 2006-12. He was a member of Australia's State of Environment 2011 Committee; the 2003-4 COAG National Bushfire Inquiry; and the Board of the National Arboretum Canberra. He was Education Program Chair of the CRC for Forestry for the life of the CRC.