Newsmaker – Peter Newman

Professor Peter Newman has been recruited by Curtin University to head up a research team on sustainability, having recently retired as director of the Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy at Murdoch University. Professor Newman is an author, researcher and scholar, and developed the WA State Sustainability Strategy, Australia’s first such strategy at the state level. He was also the first sustainability commissioner in NSW and was a Fulbright Scholar in 2006-07 in the US. Professor Newman is a member of the Science and Innovation Council, and will be based with other members of the research and teaching team in Fremantle.