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Director General
Warwick Watkins is the Director General of the Department of Lands, Surveyor General and Registrar General of NSW.
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.
