ACIAR Research Directors identify opportunities and partnerships for international agricultural research and capacity development. They do not undertake research directly.
Dr Steven Crimp
Dr Steven Crimp joined ACIAR from the ANU Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions, where he was Deputy Head of Climate. His research has focussed on examining opportunities for improved climate risk management within primary industries, both in Australia and internationally. He has worked at a range of scales from individual farmer to multi-national and global food producers.
Steven has over twenty years of experience designing, implementing and managing research to improve climate risk management, for national and international primary industries. He has been a contributing author and expert reviewer of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 2001 and was a recent member of the IPCC TG-Data expert panel tasked with promoting improved data findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability for researchers.
Steven has over 10 years’ experience managing research partnerships focussed on enhancing the resilience of Indo-Pacific food systems to the impacts of climate change.
Dr Ingrid Van Putten
Before joining ACIAR, Dr Ingrid Van Putten was a senior research scientist with CSIRO, improving marine and fisheries management. In this interdisciplinary capacity she has worked in Australia, the Pacific and Asia, as well as South America and parts of Africa.
With a PhD in Economics and a Master of Environmental Studies from the University of Tasmania, Ingrid has extensive experience in economics and an interest in applying behavioural economics to address fisheries, climate change, and natural resources management problems. She has published over 180 peer reviewed papers and is topic editor for several journals.
Ingrid has worked as a Project Officer for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, a Research Officer for a Sustainable Forestry CRC and has consulted for various State and Commonwealth departments. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Marine Socioecology at the University of Tasmania, and she sits on several Scientific Advisory Committees, Steering Committees, and Boards.
