Dr. Mark Burgman

Biography

Mark Burgman is an Emeritus Professor specializing in Risk Analysis at the Environmental Policy Centre of Imperial College London. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Conservation Biology. His career includes a prestigious position as the Adrienne Clarke Chair of Botany at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Burgman's work focuses on expert judgment, ecological modeling, conservation biology, and risk assessment. He has developed models for biosecurity, medicine regulation, marine fisheries, forestry, irrigation, electrical power utilities, mining, and national park planning. He obtained his BSc from the University of New South Wales in 1974, MSc from Macquarie University in Sydney in 1981, and PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1987. Burgman has worked as a consultant ecologist and research scientist in Australia, the United States, and Switzerland since the 1980s and joined the University of Melbourne in 1990. He became a part of the Centre for Environmental Policy in February 2017 and has published over 150 refereed papers and book chapters, as well as seven authored books. In 2006, he was elected to the Australian Academy of Science.

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