Leonie Pearson is Associate Professor of Public and Policy at IGPA.
Leonie has over 20 years of research experience across academia, public, private and not-for-profit sectors in Australia, Thailand, UK, US and China. As an ecological economist she has held leadership roles across Australiasia, working collaboratively with governments, community and businesses globally.
She is known internationally for her work in applied ecological economics, sustainable development and public policy. Her work was the first to apply the concepts of sustainability and resilience to national accounts such as Inclusive Wealth, and Social and Environmental Accounting. She crosses scales and has focused on unpacking concepts such as; Sustainable Tourism, Sustainable Urban Agriculture, and Sustainable Urban Resilience in both developed and developing contexts. Specialising in issues of governance and public policy design and implementation.
Leonie’s diverse academic and professional experience equips her to create research with real-world impact, with collaborative research design and delivery and the translation of research for non-academic audiences. She is a respected researcher with global positions as Editor of the journal Ecological Economics and Chief Editor of the Stockholm Environment Institute reports. She has also organised events (e.g. TeDx Carlton), activities (e.g. podcasts) and written outputs (e.g. blogs) along with media engagement to ensure findings are shared widely and broadly.
Her work at IGPA will start with delivering a cross- University project on Creative Industries with the ACT government and Convening the Research Design post-grad course. She will continue her ongoing co-production work on Water governance in the Mekong, but she is keen to explore new opportunities – so please drop ‘by’ and connect.
Leonie is excited to be back from Thailand and is looking forward to reconnecting with old faces and meeting new people over the next year. Here are some questions answered about her.
What’s the ideal start to a Sunday? Gentle start or a jolt?
It is NOT getting a wet sandy dog landing on my stomach - but unfortunately this is a little too regular now that we are in lockdown and I'm located at the beach.
Some exercise to get the blood pumping?
Surfing, but its too cold at the moment, or I'm not acclimatised!
Larder essentials you can’t do without?
Hmmm. my favourite topic - food. I like to have salt, good extra virgin olive oil (everything's better with oil), tonight's dinner all made and spinach.
What’s the best thing you've watched on TV recently?
Oh I've thoroughly enjoyed 'Clarkson's Farm' its good family fun and reminds my kids about all the great times we've spent driving through regional areas.
And what’s your movie genre of choice?
Action - loving RED and RED2 in lockdown.
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