Graeme Kelleher, the ocean, and theBlu.com

Conversation with Graeme Kelleher - Times Square, May 4th 2012

Graeme Kelleher was born in Australia in 1933. Graeme's early career was in the structural design and construction of major civil engineering projects in Australia and Canada.

He then moved into water and soils management in Australia's Federal Government, before becoming a Commissioner on a study into the nuclear fuel cycle for the Government. The Commission determined aboriginal land ownership and defined the Kakadu National Park. He then advised the Government regarding the international proliferation of nuclear weapons.

In 1979 he became the first Chairman and CEO of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA); positions he held for 16 years. He worked with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature [IUCN] and became the first Vice-Chairman, Marine of its World Commission on Protected Areas. He still works with those organizations and is Senior Advisor to parts of them.

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