Name Mark Burgman | ||
Education Macquarie University, University of New South Wales Books Applied Population Ecology, Risks and decisions for conser, Risk assessment in conser, The Western Australia, Ecology - Biodiversity and Conv | ||
Expert judgment in risk analysis by mark burgman
Mark A. Burgman is an Australian ecologist, Director of the Centre for Environmental Policy and Professor in Risk Analysis & Environmental Policy, Imperial College London. He was Director of the Australian Centre of Excellence for Risk Analysis (ACERA), latterly CEBRA, and Adrienne Clarke Chair of Botany at the University of Melbourne until 2017. He co-leads The SWARM Project at the University of Melbourne.
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- Expert judgment in risk analysis by mark burgman
- Early life and education
- Career
- Scholarly contributions
- Honours
- References
Early life and education
He was born in Wagga Wagga in 1956. He received a BSc from the University of New South Wales (1977), an MSc from Macquarie University, Sydney (1981), and a Ph.D. from Stony Brook University in the USA (1987).
Career
Burgman worked as a consultant ecologist and research scientist in Australia, the United States and Switzerland during the 1980s before joining the University of Melbourne in 1990.
He held the Adrienne Clarke Chair of Botany in the School of Botany (later the School of Biosciences from 2015) at the University of Melbourne, and became the foundation director of ACERA on its establishment in 2006-2013. ACERA and its successor, the Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis (CEBRA, 2013-2017) received millions of dollars of federal funding to research environmental and biosecurity risks, working with numerous partners.
Burgman has received research grants from the Australian Research Council, government agencies, industry and private foundations.
He is editor of Conservation Biology. He was also a founder of the University of Melbourne's Office for Environmental Programs in the early 2000s, which offers an innovative cross-Faculty environmental master's degree and now has over 400 students.
Scholarly contributions
Burgman works on applying model-based risk assessment to problems in conservation biology. His research has included models of a broad range of species including giant kelp, orange-bellied parrots, Leadbeater's possums, bandicoots, and banksias. He has worked in a range of environments including marine fisheries, forestry, irrigation, electrical power utilities, mining, and national park planning. Latterly he has worked on expert scientific judgements.
He has published four authored books, two edited books, and 185 research papers (as of April 2017), and more than 70 reviewed reports and commentaries. His work has been cited 15,000 times (as of April 2017).
His most recent book is Trusting judgements: how to get the best out of experts which appeared through Cambridge University Press in 2015.