Tony Peacock

Darwin got it right: “In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed”.

Tony Peacock is the Chief Executive Officer of the Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre (IA CRC). He is based in Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory.

The IA CRC's motto is "together, create and apply solutions". It is funded by the Australian Government's Cooperative Research Centres Programme and 41 Participants. The CRC gets funding to provide the "glue" between researchers, business, government and non-government agencies to reduce the economic, environmental and social impact of invasive animals.

Tony is a Professor at the University of Canberra. His passion is to see research used to benefit the community. He is currently on the Board of ASF Ltd, the non-profit company that pulls together the Australian Science Festival and he has served on the Board of a number of start-up biotechnology companies. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Company Directors; his degrees are from the University of Sydney and he has done postgraduate business training at the AGSM, Melbourne Business School, Mt Eliza Business School and Columbia University.

Tony travels extensively throughout Australia and the rest of the world and this blog is designed to introduce you to some of his feral thoughts.

Tony appears on ABC 666 Radio Mornings with Alex Sloan every alternate Thursday for "Feral Talkback". You can stream www.abc.net.au/canberra

Tony is married to Ros and has two boys, Max (12) and Sam (10).