Visiting Fellow
Forest history and forest policy
Phone: +61 (0)2 6282 5256
Fax: + 61 (0)2 6125 0746
E-mail: rlnewman@webone.com.au

Bob Newman who is a Registered Professional Forester, graduated in Forest Science at the Melbourne University following attendance at the Australian Forestry School, Canberra, the precursor to ANU Forestry.

He also graduated in Business Administration at the Hemingway Robertson Institute in Melbourne. After graduating he held forest management positions in private industry in Tasmania and Victoria. With his initial background at the CSIRO Division of Forest Products in South Melbourne, he then pursued a career for some 10 years in sawmilling, veneer production and timber presentation, and timber marketing.

Since the 1970's he has been consulting with a wide spectrum of forestry and forest products briefs, both domestically and internationally and continues to do so.

His contribution to date for organisations supporting the forestry profession has been wide and includes Vice-President, Chairman and Fellow of the Commonwealth Forestry Association, President of the Association of Consulting Foresters of Australia and he has had a 50 year membership in the Institute of Foresters of Australia. He has had a long interest in Australian Forest Growers Inc and was Hon National Secretary for some 7 years.

He comes to the ANU to carry out research in two fields of interest: forest history in Australia with emphasis on the private sector contribution during the past twenty years, and also with the hope of contributing to the development of useful forest policy to ensure sustainable forest management continues as a major factor in the Australian economy.