Brian Walker

Brian Walker Chairs the Board of the Resilience Alliance.

Born in Zimbabwe, Walker had his tertiary education in South Africa and Canada, was a Charles Bullard Fellow at Harvard, lectured at the University of Zimbabwe and was Professor of Botany and Director of the Centre for Resource Ecology at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg before moving to Australia in 1985.

He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, a Foreign Member of the Swedish Academy of Forestry and Agriculture, and a Fellow of the Beijer International Institute for Ecological Economics in the Swedish Academy of Science.