Jeff Bennett is emeritus professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. He is a fellow of the Academy of Social Science of Australia and a distinguished fellow and past president of the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. Bennett has published widely in the fields of environmental, resource, and agricultural economics. He has a particular interest in private-sector initiatives to supply environmental goods and services, as reflected in his book Protecting the Environment: Privately (World Scientific Press). Most recently he published (with G. Scheufele) a book on the use of markets to protect biodiversity: Buying and Selling the Environment: How to Design and Implement a PES Scheme (Academic Press). Bennett is a member of the Biodiversity Conservation Advisory Panel of the NSW Government and the Social and Economic Advisory Board of Food Standards Australia and New Zealand. He consults for business and government clients and with his wife, Ngaire, operates a farm producing super-fine merino wool.

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