Robyn Alders is an Honorary Professor with the Development Policy Centre at the ANU Crawford School, a Senior Scientific Advisor with the Chatham House Centre on Global Health Security, Chair of the Kyeema Foundation.

She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Infectious Disease and Global Health, School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University and Chair of the Upper Lachlan Branch of the NSW Farmers’ Association.

For over 30 years, she has worked closely with family farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, SE Asia and Australia and as a veterinarian, researcher and colleague, with an emphasis on the development of sustainable infectious disease control in animals in rural areas in support of food and nutrition security.