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.
COVID-19’s wide-ranging social, environmental, and economic impacts has led to calls for policymakers to restore planetary health. The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies’ (IGES) COVID-19 position paper 3.0 aims to help policymakers translate support for a healthy planet into actionable recommendations and ambitious policy directions. A...
本事業では環境省が構築したアジア太平洋気候変動適応情報プラットフォーム（AP-PLAT） の3 つの柱の1 つである能⼒強化プログラムに関し、今後の活動に資する情報を収集・整理し、関係者との連携を模索することを⽬的として、以下の４つの業務をおこなった。
(1) 気候変動適応推進に必要な能力強化に係る現状及び課題の整理・分析1
(2) 気候変動適応推進に必要な能力強化に係る現状及び課題の整理・分析2
(3) 適応案件形成に向けたモデル的支援の実施
(4)AP-PLAT における能力強化支援ネットワーク強化のためのワークショップ開催
まず(1)ではアジア太平洋における既存の適応に関する能力強化研修に関し情報の整理をおこない、その
結果を(4...
This is a final report on the project for promoting Asian regional collaboration on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), under a lump-sum contract with Ministry of the Environment, Japan in FY 2020. The project consists of four components: i) study on policy and implementation of country EIA system in China; ii) operation of the information...
In the last few years, marine debris and plastic pollution have emerged as policy priorities in the ASEAN region. Political leaders have repeatedly expressed their determination to address these issues and in the last couple of years several ASEAN Member States (AMS) have adopted dedicated action plans. AMS governments have also declared their...
Starting in August 2019, the SWITCH Asia SCP Facility has provided technical support to Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) for development of the National Action Plan on Sustainable Consumption and Production (2021.2030) (NAP on SCP). The SCP Facility established a team of international and national experts to conduct an assessment on...
Climate smart agriculture (CSA) consists of more than 70 technological and behavioural changes that can help farmers mitigate and build resilience to climate change while generating sustainable yields. Despite this wealth of alternatives, CSA has not been adopted at large enough scales to realise its considerable promise. Studies explaining the...
The National Action Plan on Sustainable Consumption and Production for the Period of 2021-2030 in Vietnam was developed by the Ministry of Trade Industry of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam with the technical support from the working group of Vietnam (MOIT: Nguyen Thi Lam Giang - The Director General, Leader of the Group; The Government Office...
この数か月のうちに、新型コロナウイルス感染症（以下、COVID-19）は、地域における健康上の危機から、世界においてすべてを覆い尽くす世界的大流行（パンデミック）・経済災害へと大きく変化した。COVID-19の感染は急速に広がり、世界のほぼすべての地域の人々の日常生活が大きな影響を受けている。このことは、地方から国、国際的に至るあらゆるレベルの政府が、現状への対策および将来への復興プログラムについて、分野と国境を越えて調整し協力する必要性を明らかにしている。
グローバルな持続可能性の確保はIGESのミッションの中核である。このためIGESは、国境を越え、また個別課題を越えた視点で、現状への対応と将来への復興に資するよう取り組んでいくこととしている。本ポジションペーパーでは...
In a few short months, COVID-19 has morphed from a dangerous regional health threat to an all-consuming global pandemic and economic disaster. COVID-19’s rapid spread has had far-reaching implications on the everyday lives of people in nearly all corners of the world, and underlines the need for governments at all levels to coordinate cross-cutting...
On 1 May 2020, the National Institute of Urban Affairs, NIUA, (autonomous body under India’s Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs) and the National Mission for Clean Ganga, NMCG, (under India’s Ministry of Jal Shakti) organized an Ideathon on “The Future of River Management”. The purpose of this Ideathon was to use the current COVID-19 crisis as a...
