Prof Andrew Campbell

Andrew Campbell is Managing Director of Triple Helix Consulting, based in Canberra. 

In August 2023, he retired from the position of Chief Executive of the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), having been appointed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs in 2016.

Among influential roles in sustainable agriculture and research management in Australia for over thirty years, Andrew Campbell was Australia's first National Landcare Facilitator, and was CEO of Land & Water Australia for seven years from 2000.  He is Patron of Landcare in Victoria, succeeding the late Joan Kirner in 2015.

Professor Campbell is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy for Technology and Engineering, a Professorial Fellow at the ANU Fenner School, and a Fellow of the Australian Institute for Company Directors.  He is a non-executive Director on the Board of AgriFutures Australia.

He represented Australia on the System Council of the CGIAR from 2016-23, and moved to Montpellier France to take up an interim role as Executive Managing Director of the CGIAR from August-December 2023.  He was until recently a Councillor, ACT Division in the Institute for Public Administration Australia, a Director of the Peter Cullen Water and Environment Trust, and Chair of the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA).

Andrew Campbell has written widely on landcare, sustainability and the science-policy interface.  He trained in forestry at Creswick and the University of Melbourne, then in agricultural knowledge systems at Wageningen University in The Netherlands.  Andrew Campbell is still involved in landcare work on his farm in south-eastern Australia, where his family has been farming since the 1860s.

Dip.For (Creswick), B.For.Sc (Hons) (Melb), MSc (Wageningen)

• The convergence of climate, water, energy and food security issues and responses
• Water, agricultural and environmental research policy
• Environmental and natural resources policy and its relationship to food, water and energy security
• Design, governance and management of collaborative applied research for impact
• Knowledge management and brokering within and across organizations
• Landcare and participatory models of extension, action research and communication
• Governance of international multilateral research collaborations
• Farm forestry and agroforestry systems