Dr Richard Price

Richard is Director of Kiri-ganai Research P/L, an Australian environmental research company recognised as a winner of a national Banksia Award for biodiversity research and a two time finalist for the National Museums' prestigeous Eureka Science Awards. He is an Honorary Associate Professor at the Fenner School of Environment & Society (Australian National University) having been a full Associate Professor previously with the School. He is also a Board member of Soap4Life, a US/Laos NFP, and an Advisor Director to Kids' Conference Australia.

Between 2017 and 2022, Richard was the Portfolio Director at the Centre for Invasive Species Solutions, following an appointment between 2014-2017 as the inaugural Research Director of the Australia-Indonesia Centre. In the former he established a $50m portfolio of invasive species research involcing over 200 researchers, will in the latter he established a portfolio of energy, health, infrastructure, water and agriculture research valued at over $20m and engaging over 400 researchers and students across Australia and Indonesia.

As Managing Director of Kiri-ganai Research, Richard has led international teams of multidisciplinary experts in the preparation of environmental policy, guidelines and regulations in Australia and for China's central and provincial governments. He helped establish inter-jurisdictional policy committees in China as a means of facilitating governmental cooperation in implementating national environmental policy. Globally, he has also worked as a lead evaluation adviser to the UNEP & UNDP, evaluating investments across Pacific Island nations.

As an Associate Professor at ANU Richard led research on climate change policy and institutional arrangements.

Within government, he worked for Australia's Ministries of Foreign Affairs & Trade and of Primary Industries & Energy where he jointly penned the Primary Industries & Energy R&D Act establishing 15 Rural R&D Corporations. Richard helped set up Land & Water Resources R&D Corporation where he established over a dozen national environmental research programs.

With a University of Tasmania team, Richard won an Australian Banksia Award for biodiversity research in 2008 and was part of teams reaching the finals for Eureka Science Prizes in 2011 & 2003. In 2013 he was made a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology. He has sat on Boards of Cooperative Research Centres and NGOs and Committees of the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering & Innovation Council.