Keynote Speakers
Australia, Asia Pacific
Prof Tim Flannery, BA, MSc, PhD
Director, South Australia Museum, Adelaide, Australia.
Australia
Tim Flannery is Director of the South Australian Museum
and a Professor at the University of Adelaide.
A prize-winning scientist, conservationist, and public
academic, he is the author and editor of numerous books,
including definitive ecological histories of Australia
(The Future Eaters) and North America (The
Eternal Frontier). His pioneering research as a
field biologist in New Guinea prompted Sir David Attenborough
to say of him, "Tim Flannery is in the league
of the all-time great explorers like Dr David Livingstone."
He writes regularly for The New York Review
and Times Literary Supplement, and is the Australasian
representative for the National Geographic Society.
In 1998-9 he held the Chair of Australian Studies
at Harvard University, where he taught in the Department
of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. In 2002 he was
invited to give the Australia Day address to the nation.
Often provocative, sometimes controversial, but never
strident, his views on environmental and population
issues encourage broad-ranging debate within all sectors
of society and are drawn from a deep commitment to a
sustainable and equitable future for Australia.
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