Judith Ajani

Economist, Fenner School, Australian National University

Judith Ajani is an economist based at the ANU’s Fenner School of Environment and Society. She has nearly 30 years of forestry industry research and policy experience in both government and academia. Judith contributed to the successful forest policy outcomes in Queensland, Western Australia and the Otways in Victoria and maintains an active engagement in the ongoing native forest and plantation forestry public policy debates. This engagement provided critical resource material for her book – The Forest Wars, published by Melbourne University Press in 2007. Judith’s contribution to the forest debate has been to bring the silenced plantation processing industry to our attention so we are able to make informed choices about the future for native forests. Judith is currently working with colleagues on how native forests and plantations should be incorporated in climate change policy.

Experience

–present

Economist, ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society
1989–1996

Economic Consultant, Self employed
1982–1988

Manager/Industry Researcher, Victorian Department of Business and Employment
1980–1982

Economist/Research Assistant, Port of Melbourne Authority
1979–1980

Research Officer, Bureau of Industry Economics

Education

2003

Australian National University,  PhD, Environmental Science and Resource Management
1979

School of Economics, University of Melbourne,  Bachelor of Arts (Honours)
1978

Melbourne State College,  Higher Diploma of Teaching (Secondary)
1976

University of Melbourne,  Diploma of Physical Education

Research Areas

Forestry Management And Environment (070504)
Public Policy (160510)