Professor Peter Bridgewater (born 31 December 1945) is an Australian conservationist.

Biography

Bridgewater completed a Bachelor of Science in botany at

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in 1967. He stayed on to complete a doctorate at the same institution.

Career

Bridgewater was chief scientist of the UK

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1989–1990 and chief executive of the Australian Nature Conservation Agency and director of the National Parks and Wildlife Service (1990–1997). He was secretary of

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's Man and the Biosphere Programme and director of its Division of Ecological Sciences 1999–2003. He was chair of the

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from 1995 to 1997. From 2011 to 2014 he served as a visiting professor at the

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in Japan.

References

curriculum vitae
at the

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Australian conservationists 1945 births Living people Alumni of University College, Durham Academic staff of United Nations University {{environmentalist-stub