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a/g Executive Director, Dr Jared Greenville
Jared is currently ABARES acting Executive Director. He joined the bureau in 2018, leading the Agricultural Forecasting and Trade Branch. Prior to joining ABARES, Jared worked for the OECD where he managed work related to agri-food trade policy, global value chains in agriculture and food security and risk (focusing on Southeast Asia) along with monitoring and evaluating agricultural policy developments in a number of OECD member and non-member countries. Jared has previously worked for the Productivity Commission on diverse issues ranging from Australia’s involvement in bilateral and regional trade agreements, domestic drought support policy to issues related to infrastructure policy and the challenges posed by an ageing population. Jared has a PhD in agricultural and natural resource economics from the University of Sydney.
Kurt Hockey, Assistant Secretary
Agricultural Forecasting and Trade branch
- Trade and biosecurity
- Global agriculture and food modelling
- Global value chains
- Growing Australian agricultural exports
- Agricultural outlook
- Agricultural macroeconomic analysis
- Agricultural commodity transformation
- Climate and agronomy
- Research and analytics platforms
- Data organisation
- Data ecosystems
- Data interoperability
- Emerging policy issues
- Conferences and events, strategic communication and publishing
Peter Gooday, Assistant Secretary
Farm Performance, Biosecurity and Information branch and Chief Commodity Analyst
- Productivity analysis
- Climate and price variability
- Farm surveys management
- Farm surveys policy insights analysis
- Climate change and the profitability of Australian farms
- Seasonal agricultural labour demand
- Invasive species
- Social sciences
- Biosecurity modelling
- Biosecurity risk management
- Biosecurity value
- Marine pests research
- Information systems management
David Galeano, Assistant Secretary
Natural Resources branch
- Spatial analytics.
- Forest and land information
- Forest and land synthesis and reporting
- Natural resources market measurement
- Natural resources trends and drivers
- Natural resources policy insights
- Fisheries economics
- Domestic fisheries
- International fisheries
- Socio-economic fish survey
Program Leads
Dr Tony Arthur – Biosecurity and Social Science
James Larcombe – Fisheries Science
Dr Caroline Gunning-Trant – Trade and Global Change
Dr Jane Stewart – Forest and Land Sciences
Dr Tom Jackson – Farm Data and Analysis
Stephanie Black – Natural Resource Economics
Dr Rohan Nelson – Agricultural Forecasts and Policy
Heather McGilvray – Emerging Policy Issues
Joanne Sullivan– Research Information Systems
Anna Chu – ABARES Impact and Engagement