Prof Rodney Keenan

Biography:

Prof Rod Keenan is an Honorary Professorial Fellow, and former Chair of Forest and Ecosystem Sciences, at the University of Melbourne. He graduated with a B. Sc. (Forestry) from the ANU and a PhD in forest ecology from University of British Columbia. He has research interests in sustainable forest management, forests and climate change, ecosystem services and forest policy. He has worked across Australia, in Canada, Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia. From 2009-14 he was Director of the Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research. He was a member of the UN-FAO Advisory Group for the Global Forest Resource Assessment from 2003 to 2015. He is currently a non-executive director of Sustainable Timber Tasmania and Chair of the Research Advisory Committee for Australian Forest and Wood Innovations.