Section 2 - Sugar Research and Development Corporation

SRDC PEOPLE
Dr Tracy Henderson B App Sc, GDip (Econ), PhD
Director (non-executive)
Appointed 27 May 2011 for a three-year term.
Dr Tracy Henderson has extensive experience in research strategy,
management and evaluation and is a former consultant, academic
and research manager. Tracy was awarded a PhD in Agricultural
Research and Development Evaluation from the University of
Queensland in which she developed a strategic evaluation framework
to manage and improve the performance of sugar research.
Tracy was formerly a Federal Councillor of the Australian Agricultural
and Resource Economics Society and currently works with CSIRO
Performance & Evaluation.
Annette Sugden B App Sci (App Geo); Grad Dip App Sci (Res Man);
Master Sust Man; ALIA
Executive Director Appointed on 28 May 2010
Ms Sugden joined the SRDC in 2008 as a Senior Investment Manager
responsible for strategic R&D investment planning.
Tertiary qualifi ed in natural resource management, highlights of
her successful career in the primary industry sector include the
management of the deer, pasture seed, fodder crop, and organics
research and development programs within the Rural Industries
Research and Development Corporation, and management of the
Australian Government’s Farm Innovation Program, the Rural Financial
Counselling Service and the Southern NSW Regional Forest Agreement
Social Assessment process.
In addition to providing secretariat services to three multi-state
Ministerial Committees (SLWRMC, SCARM and ARMCANZ), and
working on the Commonwealth component of the Murray-Darling
Basin Initiative, including the Commonwealth input to the Murray-
Darling Basin Ministerial Council and Commission meetings, Ms
Sugden was the Commonwealth representative at the Cape York
Peninsula Land Use Strategy (CYPLUS), and was the Murray-Darling
Basin program specialist on the Natural Heritage Trust’s South
Australian grants program.
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