| Nick Austin is Chief Executive Officer of ACIAR. He took up the position in July 2009. As Chief Executive Dr Austin is responsible for developing and implementing ACIAR’s strategic and operational plans, and for managing the Centre’s operational functions. More |  |
| Simon Hearn is ACIAR’s Principal Adviser, Strategy and Policy. He is responsible for a variety of strategic planning and budgeting activities, including identifying strategic directions and providing high-level oversight for ACIAR's research and development program. Dr Hearn also acts as a senior point of contact for ACIAR inter-derpartmental and government relations activities. More |  |
| Chris Barlow is Research Program Manager for the Fisheries Program. The Program focuses on both wild harvest fisheries and aquaculture, with activities spread across a variety of production strategies and environments, aimed at solving key problems constraining the productive use and sustainability of fisheries and aquatic resources. More |  |
| Les Baxter is Research Program Manager for Horticulture. The program focuses on improving the productivity, profitability and sustainability of fruit,vegetable and ornamental crop production in developing countries and Australia. In addition, Mr Baxter is Principal Regional Coordinator for Papua New Guinea and the Pacific. More |  |
| John Dixon is Senior Adviser, Cropping Systems and Economics (CSE) program. The program aims to improve food security through enhanced productivity and sustainability of field crop farming systems using collaborative R&D partnerships for biophysical and economic research and development. In addition, Dr Dixon is Principal Regional Coordinator for South Asia and Africa. More |  |
| Paul Fox is Research Program Manager for Crop Improvement and Management. The Crop Improvement and Management Program focuses on the protection of horticultural crops, cereals, food legumes, forages and oilseeds, with an increasing focus on biosecurity. More |  |
| Doug Gray is Research Program Manager for Animal Health. The program focuses on issues that enable smallholder farmers to refine their livestock management toward production and income-generation, in contrast to 'keeping' livestock solely as an asset. The emphasis is on diseases of regional significance, including transboundary diseases, zoonotic diseases, diseases affecting production and diseases affecting trade and market access. More |  |
| Tony Bartlett is Research Program Manager for Forestry. The Program supports the establishment, management and sustainable utilisation of forests through a central theme of developing Australian tree germplasm.. More |
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| Peter Horne is Research Program Manager for Livestock Production Systems (LPS). LPS aims to build a better understanding of the biological, social and economic aspects of smallholder livestock systems (small and large ruminants, pigs and poultry). In addition, Dr Horne is Principal Regional Coordinator for Indonesia, East Timor and the Philippines. More |  |
| Gamini Keerthisinghe is Research Program Manager for Soil Management and Crop Nutrition. The program focuses on land and cropping systems and soil management, and concentrates at the field scale. In addition, Dr Keerthisinghe is Principal Regional Coordinator for the Mekong and China region. More |  |
| Caroline Lemerle is Research Program Manager responsible for Agricultural Systems Management. The Program commissions integrative economic, social and biophysical research within a systems context. More |  | |
| Richard Markham is Research Program Manager for Pacific Crops. The Crop Sciences Program is divided into two parts, with Pacific Crops focusing on improving the productivity, profitability and sustainability of horticultural, root and tree crop-based farming systems in Papua New Guinea, selected Pacific Island countries and Australian. More |  |
| David Shearer is Research Program Manager for the Agribusiness Program. The program aims to improve incomes and productivity for farmers and agribusiness in Indonesia. It is linked to the AusAID-funded Support for Market-Driven Adaptive Research (SMAR) initiative. More |  |
| Mirko Stauffacher is Research Program Manager for Land and Water Resources. The Program focuses on water management and the interface between agriculture and environmental quality, with a broad scale concentration on these issues. More |  |
| Debbie Templeton is the Program Manager for the Impact Assessment program. The program is responsible for monitoring, evaluating and assessing the impact of ACIAR-funded research. More |  |
| Albert Blair is Chief Finance Officer for ACIAR. His responsibilities include providing strategic financial advice to the Executive and Board, and oversight of the Finance Section’s operations. More | |
| Lisa Wright is Director, Corporate. The primary role of the Director, Corporate is to manage the provision of all corporate services to enable ACIAR to efficiently, effectively and successfully meet its corporate objectives and discharge its responsibilities, including government and statutory reporting obligations. More |  |
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