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Warwick Watkins is the CEO of LPMA, Surveyor General and Registrar General of NSW.Warwick Watkins

Warwick received a Dip Ag with Honours from Hawkesbury Agricultural College (now UWS) and gained further postgraduate degrees and diplomas from the University of New England, including a Masters Degree in Natural Resources. He also studied at the Harvard Business School in Boston, USA.

Positions Currently Held
  • Commissioner Soil Conservation Service of NSW
  • Norfolk Island Surveyor General
  • Deputy Chancellor of the University of Technology, Sydney
  • President of the Board of Surveying and Spatial Information (BOSSI)
  • Chair of the Geographical Names Board (GNB)
  • Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Land Information Council (ANZLIC)
  • Advisory Board Member of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultra-High Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS)
  • Chair, Australian Spatial Consortium Steering Committee
  • Deputy Chair of the CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship Advisory Council
  • Member, National Land and Water Resources Audit Advisory Council
  • Member, Australian Government's Consultative Committee on Knowledge Capital
  • Honorary Associate of the Graduate School of Government
  • Fellow of the Australian Property Institute
  • Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Surveyors of NSW
Previous Positions

Director General of the Department of Conservation and Land Management; Director General, State and Regional Development; Chief Executive Officer, Waterways Authority; and Director General of the Department of Information Technology and Management.

He also headed the NSW Electricity Reform Taskforce. He is a former Vice President of the World Association of Soil and Water Conservation and a former Deputy Commissioner of the Murray Darling Basin Commission; former Director of the CRC for Smart Internet Technology, former Director of Land and Water Australia and a past foundation Director of Landcare Australia Limited.

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