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Dr Campbell Gemmell is Chief Executive of the Environment Protection Authority, South Australia’s independent environment regulator.
Before taking up the position in January 2012, Dr Gemmell was Chief Executive of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA).
In his earlier career, he worked in the fields of economic development and environmental consultancy. During the 1980s he held a post-doctoral research lectureship at Christ Church, Oxford and was involved in a range of scientific expeditions and field studies in Alaska, Iceland, Kenya, Norway and Switzerland.
In the 1990s Dr Gemmell was Chairman of Landwise, and member of Scottish Ministerial groups dealing with Forestry for People, Rural Focus and Sustainable Development. He was a member of Scotland's Government Resilience and Emergency Planning Bodies for 10 years and led SEPA's frontline delivery process, designing and implementing reform of rural delivery service across Scotland.
Dr Gemmell has a first-class honours degree in Geography and a PhD in Glaciology from Aberdeen University. In 2007 he was appointed Honorary Professor of Environmental Regulation and Policy at Glasgow University.
He is a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a former Member of Court (governing body) at Stirling University.
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