Neil Gunningham

Neil Gunningham is a Barrister and Solicitor (Australian Capital Territory). Although initially trained in law, his subsequent post-graduate work was in interdisciplinary social science, and for the last ten years he has applied that training principally in the area of environment, with a focus on regulation.

In January 2002, he joined the School of Resources, Environment and Society at ANU. Previously, he was Foundation Director of the Australian Centre for Environmental Law at ANU; Visiting and Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley; and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation at the London School of Economics. He is also a recent consultant to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and to various environmental regulatory agencies in Australia.