Dr James Findlay has been appointed as the new CEO of the Australian Fisheries Management Authority.
Dr Findlay has been acting CEO of AFMA since 27 September 2010, since the resignation of the previous CEO, Glenn Hurry.
Dr Findlay has had a long association with the agriculture, fisheries and forestry portfolio, working in the former Bureau of Rural Sciences as General Manager of both the Climate Change, Water and Risk Sciences Branch, and the Fisheries, Land, Forestry and Social Sciences Branch.
He holds a PhD in Aquaculture from the University of Tasmania, where he was also a senior lecturer of genetics in the Department of Applied Science.
Dr Findlay’s appointment is on a full-time basis for five years.
