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Biography
Paul is a geographer working to support sustainable development under a changing climate. Paul operates at the science policy interface providing strategic advice to support government decision-making and the adaptation of complex systems.
For the past 8 years Paul has focused on disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation. He is currently developing integrated hybrid approaches to risk and opportunity assessment and novel approaches to systems governance, as part the Enabling Resilient Investment initiative (https://research.csiro.au/enabling-resilience-investment/).
Between 2019 and 2023 Paul was seconded into the Department of Home Affairs and the National Emergency Management Agency (EMA) to provide strategic disaster risk reduction policy and program support. During this time, he led efforts to develop a national disaster risk information platform, initiated the National Bushfire Intelligence Capability (NBIC- https://research.csiro.au/nbic/) as an EMA-CSIRO partnership, and provided significant input to the development of the first and second national action plans for national disaster risk reduction, and the design of the Preparing Australia Program, and the Disaster Ready Fund.
Since joining CSIRO in 2009, Paul has worked on the development of national information infrastructure across environment, agriculture, cities and climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction spaces. These efforts have focused on addressing the human dimension of socio-technical systems. To do this Paul developed and led a multidisciplinary ‘social architecture’ team researching and developing improved approaches to large scale collaboration and governance.
Prior to joining CSIRO in 2009, Paul worked for 15 years in more than 20 countries throughout Asia, Africa and Europe for the United Nations, and national governments, building and operating geospatial capability to support policy, and operational decision-making across a wide diversity of application areas in sustainable development and humanitarian response.
Professional Areas
Fields of Research
Academic Qualifications
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2013
Master of Applied Science (Geomatics) By Research
University of Melbourne -
1988
Bachelor of Science (Hons) Land Management
Reading University
Professional Experiences
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1988-2014
See Linkedin profile
http://au.linkedin.com/pub/paul-box/a/274/853/
Achievements and Awards
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2022-2022
Gold Good Design Award for Design Research - public private sector data sharing for disaster risk reduction
Good Design Australia -
2021-2021
Growing Our Impact Award
CSIRO Land and Water -
2017-2017
CSIRO Medal for Impact from Science
CSIRO -
2019-2019
Digital Culture
CSIRO Land and Water
Community and Corporate Citizenship
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2019-present
UN Global Geospatial Information Management - Academic Network - member
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2020-2024
Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group - member
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2020-2023
Advisory Board of the CODATA Centre of Excellence at the University of Arizona - member
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2020-2022
Location Inter Departmental Committee – Senior Officers Group
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2019-2023
CODATA International Data Policy Committee of the International Science Council - member
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2018-2019
AURIN Steering Committee - member
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2016-2019
UN Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) Working Group on National Institutional Arrangements - member
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2016-2018
CRC for Spatial Information Program 3 Board - member
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2016-2018
CSIRO Data Management Capability Enhancement Program Board - member
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2013-2015
NSW Government Enabling Information Sharing Working Group - member
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2012-2012
Australian Delegate Second Session of the UN Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) Committee of Experts
Publications
We have publications by Mr Paul Box