Dr. King started his career in the Soil Conservation Authority in the state of Victoria and became the Land Studies Coordinator in Victoria’s first Ministry for Conservation. He spent some time at the Environment and Policy Institute, East West Center in Hawaii and then set up his own environmental consulting company. Following some successful work for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) as a consultant in the period 1984-88, he started work with the ADB in March 1991 as an Environment Specialist in the Office of Environment. He established a sound reputation as ADB’s leading natural resources management (“green”) expert, with personal responsibility for over 50 loan and TA projects. In 1998, he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (Environmental Science) degree from Murdoch University in Perth, with a thesis entitled “Integrated Economic and Environmental Planning at the Sub-national Level in Asia.” In 2005, he took early retirement from ADB and is currently a Senior Policy Advisor for the Institute of Global Environmental Strategies, heads the Asian Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Network secretariat, is a member of the Climate Change Asia Coordination Group, and is Team Leader, Adaptation Project Preparation and Finance on the USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific project.
Environmental science, project management and financing, integrated economic and environmental planning, integrated water resources management, environmental assessment, regional development, environmental planning, land use planning, watershed management, urban and rural development, coastal resources management, strategic planning, environmental policy, land degradation and desertification.
• B.Sc. in Agricultural Sciences, Melbourne University, Australia (1970)
• M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences, Monash University, Australia (1977)
• Ph.D. (Environmental Science), Murdoch University, Australia 1998)
Additional Trainings::
Fundamentals of Management (Columbia University); Manager Development Program Modules I-IV (Cornell University); High Performance Teams; Environmental Impact Assessment of Development Projects; Emerging Systems Perspectives for Management and Development; Economic Analysis of Environmental Impact; Project Performance Management System; Project Framework; Project Implementation and Administration; Innovative Approaches to Protecting the Environment; Macroeconomics Module 1; COSTAB for New Users; Gender and Poverty.
