Andrew Campbell

Andrew Campbell is an Honorary Professor at the ANU Fenner School, 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 and a Fellow of the Australian Institute for Company Directors.  He does occasional part-time consultancy work as Managing Director of Triple Helix Consulting. 

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 non-executive Director on the Board of AgriFutures Australia, and Councillor, ACT Division in the Institute for Public Administration Australia.  He is a former Director of the Peter Cullen Water and Environment Trust, Chair of the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA) and Chair of the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research network (TERN).

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.