13-14 December 2021, Canberra
Our 2021 conference speakers and chairs are listed below with biographical details. Their address abstracts and presentations have been added where available.
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The Hon John Anderson AO Chair Crawford Fund |
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Agnes Kalibata UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for the 2021 Food Systems Summit |
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Professor Prabhu Pingali Founding Director of the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition |
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Dr Rob Horsch Advisor, Global Commission on Adaptation at World Resources Institute |
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Professor Pablo Zarco-Tejada Remote Sensing & Precision Agriculture, School of Agriculture and Food & Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, The University of Melbourne |
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Dr Stacey Lynch Senior Research Scientist Virology Microbiology, Microbial Sciences, Pests and Diseases, Agriculture Victoria Research, Centre for AgriBioscience |
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Dr Andrew Barnes School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Queensland |
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Rob Kaan Managing Director For Australia & New Zealand, Corteva Agriscience |
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Professor Andrew Robinson Managing Director, CEBRA, The University of Melbourne |
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Irene Kernot Research Program Manager for Horticulture, ACIAR |
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Chris Dale Assistant Director, Plant Health Surveillance and Diagnostics, Plant Health Policy Branch, Biosecurity Plant Division, DAWE |
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Tarni Cooper School of Veterinary Science and Centre for Communication and Social Change, The University of Queensland, former Crawford in Queensland Postgraduate awardee, volunteer, RAID member |
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Professor Nicola Spence Honorary Professor, University of Birmingham, Defra’s Chief Plant Health Officer and Head of the National Plant Protection Organisation |
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David Gale Manager Data Management and Surveillance Communities, Plant Health Australia and former Crawford Fund awardee |
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Dr Jay Anderson Senior Research Fellow at Southern Cross University and former Crawford Fund scholar, volunteer and mentor |
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Dr Walter Okelo Research Scientist, CSIRO Land and Water |
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Dr Helen Scott-Orr AM Crawford Fund NSW Committee Coordinator and inaugural Commonwealth of Australia Inspector General of Biosecurity |
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Dr Colin Chartres CEO Crawford Fund |