Person

Green, Roy Montague (1935 - )

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Born
25 October 1935
Ilkestone, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Occupation
Environmental scientist, Science administrator and Science Policy Analyst and Researcher

Summary

Roy Green has made significant contributions to natural resource management and environment policy and research in Australia. Some of his positions have included head of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) (1995 - 1996), Director of the CSIRO Institute of Natural Resources and Environment (1988 - 1995), chair of multiple working groups for the Government Ecologically Sustainable Development Exercise (1990 - 1991), and chair of the National Land and Water Resources Audit Australia part of the Murray-Darling Basin Commission. Internationally Roy Green has served as the Australian delegate to the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and the OECD Committee of Science and Technology Policy. In light of these positions and other contributions Roy Green was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in June 1997 for services to scientific, technological and environmental policy in Australia and Marine Science.

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Chronology

1961
Education - PhD, University of Toronto, Ottawa, Canada
1971 - 1973
Career position - Director, WAITAID Ltd, Perth
1973 - 1975
Career position - Assistant Director, Bureau of Environmental Studies
1975 - 1982
Career position - Secretary, Australian Science and Technology Council (ASTC)
1980 - 1982
Career position - Member, National Commission for UNESCO
1982 - 1987
Career position - Deputy Secretary, Australian Department of Science
1984 - 1993
Career position - Member of Council, National Science Summer School
1986 - 1987
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences (FTS)
1987
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) [Awarded by AATS 1986]
1988 - 1995
Career position - Director, CSIRO Institute of Natural Resources and Environment
1990 - 1991
Career position - Chairman, Ecologically Sustainable Development Working Group, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
1990 - 1991
Career Position - Government Ecologically Sustainable Development Exercise
1995
Award - DSc (honoris causa), Curtin University
1995 - 1996
Career position - Chief Executive, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
1997
Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) - for service to scientific, technological and environmental policy in Australia and marine science [Award ID 886128]
1997 - 2003
Career position - Chair, Advisory Council, National Land and Water Resources Audit
1997 - 2004
Career position - Member, Advisory Committee, Natural Heritage Trust
2000 - 2003
Career position - President, Murray Darling Basin Commission
2001
Award - Centenary Medal - for contribution to national resource and environmental research management through CSIRO
2002 - 2003
Career position - Member, Technological Advisory Committee, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO)
2005 -
Career position - Chair, Nanochemistry Research Institute, Curtin University
2005 - 2007
Career position - Chair, Greenhouse and Energy Advisory Committee
2006 -
Career position - Chair, Technology Advisory Panel, Swan River Trust
2007 - 2009
Career position - Member, Western Australian Premier's Science and Innovation Council

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  • Who's who in Australia 2012 (Melbourne: Crown Content Pty Ltd, 2012), 2430 pp. Details

Elizabeth Daniels and Helen Cohn

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