Environment Protection Authority
Members as of 5 March 2008
Dr Andrew Tupper (Chair)
Dr Andrew Tupper has lived in the Territory for the last 17 years, apart from some periods overseas. He is the NT Regional Director of the Bureau of Meteorology, having previously worked in climate services, aviation hazards, and weather forecasting parts of the Bureau's NT operations. He has a Bachelor of Science with Honours in meteorology from the University of Melbourne, and a PhD in meteorology from Monash University. For his PhD research he examined remote sensing and dynamical modelling issues associated with volcanic clouds in the tropics, remote sensing of dust storms, the generation of severe thunderstorms above bushfires, and travelled extensively through Asia including a year as a guest researcher at Kagoshima University in southern Japan.
Dr Tupper is particularly interested in how humans live with natural hazards. He is currently a member of the NT Bushfires Council, is co-chair of the World Organisation of Volcano Observatories (a commission of the International Association of Vulcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior), and represents Australia on an operations group of the International Civil Aviation Organisation. He is married and has four Darwin-born sons.
Professor Donna Craig
Donna Craig was foundation Professor of Desert Knowledge at Charles Darwin University in Alice Springs (2004-2007). She is a Professor of Law, Head of the Department of Environmental Law and Director of the Indigenous Law and Natural Resources Program at Macquarie University. She has a Bachelor of Arts and Law Degree from the University of New South Wales, and a Master of Laws from York University in Canada. She has practised as a solicitor and barrister.
Along with extensive teaching experience, Professor Craig's academic experience is drawn from North America, Europe and Australia. She has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Arizona and has also undertaken many national and international environmental and Indigenous advisory roles. Donna was a member of the EPA Board that conducted widespread community consultation in the Northern Territory in 2006 on the form and function of an EPA.
Professor Gordon Duff
Professor Gordon Duff has been CEO of the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Forestry based in Hobart since October 2006. Professor Duff was formally CEO of the Tropical Savannas Management CRC at Charles Darwin University (CDU), and Professor of Environmental Science at Deakin University. He has a Bachelor of Science (Honours) from the University of Tasmania, a PhD in plant ecology from James Cook University, and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
At CDU Professor Duff conducted research in plant ecology and physiology. He has a wealth of experience in environmental management in northern Australia, and in managing complex organisations that collaborate with a diverse range of partners, and engage with an even larger number of stakeholders. Gordon was Chair of the EPA Board that conducted widespread community consultation in the Northern Territory in 2006 on the form and function of an EPA.
Mrs Judith King
Judith King has been a director of Northern Territory Power and Water Corporation since 2000 and is currently Deputy Chair. She has over twenty years’ board experience in the private and public sectors. She was formerly a director of Melbourne Water Corporation and Citipower Ltd and closely involved in the restructure and reform of the Victorian utility sector. Currently Judith is Deputy Chair of the Victorian Commission for Gambling Regulation. She has been an adviser to business and government on service industry strategy, trade and regulation, and was Executive Director of the Australian Coalition of Service Industries.
Judith is a director of the National Ageing Medical Research Institute; Swinburne Ventures Ltd. and Chair of the Victorian State Services Authority Audit Committee. She was awarded an Australian Centenary Medal in 2003. Judith was a member of the EPA Board that conducted widespread community consultation in the Northern Territory in 2006 on the form and function of an EPA.
