Dr Bryan Jenkins is an Australian environmental planner

Environmental planning

Environmental Planning is the process of facilitating decision making to carry out development with due consideration given to the natural environmental, social, political, economic and governance factors and provides a holistic frame work to achieve sustainable outcomes.-Elements of environmental...

. He has a Ph.D in environmental planning from Stanford University, a Master's degree in civil engineering from Adelaide University and a Master of Administration from Monash University.

Biography

Dr Jenkins has more than 30 years' experience in environmental planning and management, including 20 years in the private sector

Private sector

In economics, the private sector is that part of the economy, sometimes referred to as the citizen sector, which is run by private individuals or groups, usually as a means of enterprise for profit, and is not controlled by the state...

 as a consulting engineer

Engineer

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 and environmental planner. Jenkins was Director

Management

Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...

 of Environment

Natural environment

The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally on Earth or some region thereof. It is an environment that encompasses the interaction of all living species....

, Economics

Economics

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 and Planning for Kinhill Engineers, Adelaide

Adelaide

Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...

, from 1989 to 1994, undertaking projects involving the Steel Authority of India, the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation

Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation

The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation is a statutory body of the Australian government, formed in 1987 to replace the Australian Atomic Energy Commission. Its head office and main facilities are in southern outskirts of Sydney at Lucas Heights, in the Sutherland Shire...

, water

Water

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 and wastewater

Wastewater

Wastewater is any water that has been adversely affected in quality by anthropogenic influence. It comprises liquid waste discharged by domestic residences, commercial properties, industry, and/or agriculture and can encompass a wide range of potential contaminants and concentrations...

 treatment plants in China

China

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, and the third runway at Sydney Airport

Sydney Airport

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.

He spent seven years (1994-2001) as chief executive of the former Western Australian Department of Environmental Protection, involved in preparation of an Air Quality

Emission standard

Emission standards are requirements that set specific limits to the amount of pollutants that can be released into the environment. Many emissions standards focus on regulating pollutants released by automobiles and other powered vehicles but they can also regulate emissions from industry, power...

 Management Plan for Perth

Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

, and development of an Environmental Protection

Environmental protection

Environmental protection is a practice of protecting the environment, on individual, organizational or governmental level, for the benefit of the natural environment and humans. Due to the pressures of population and our technology the biophysical environment is being degraded, sometimes permanently...

 Policy and Environmental Management

Environmental management

Environmental resource management is “a purposeful activity with the goal to maintain and improve the state of an environmental resource affected by human activities” . It is not, as the phrase suggests, the management of the environment as such, but rather the management of the interaction and...

 Plan for Cockburn Sound

Cockburn Sound

Cockburn Sound is an inlet of the Indian Ocean on the coast of Western Australia. It extends from the south of the mouth of the Swan River at Fremantle for about 25 km to Cape Peron near Rockingham and is located at...

, Western Australia

Western Australia

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's most polluted marine water body. In 2001-2003 he was director of Murdoch Environment, the environmental consulting and education unit at Murdoch University

Murdoch University

Murdoch University is a public university based in Perth, Australia. It began operations as the state's second university in 1973, and accepted its first students in 1975...

. He was appointed CEO of Canterbury Regional Council in June 2003 and finished as CEO February 2011. and reappointed for a further term of five years in March 2008. He has prepared over 200 professional and conference papers and keynote addresses including being a keynote speaker at the New Zealand Planning Institute

New Zealand Planning Institute

The New Zealand Planning Institute is a professional body for planners, resource managers, urban designers and environmental practitioners in New Zealand, primarily serving the interests of town and spatial planners...

Conference, 2007.
In November 2010 he was appointed the inaugural Professorial Fellow in Strategic Water Studies (commencing March 2011) at the Waterways Centre for Freshwater Management, a joint Centre of the University of Canterbury and Lincoln University .