A conversation with Dr Andrea Hinwood

Chief Scientist United Nations Environment Programme

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Dr Andrea Hinwood serves as the Chief Scientist of the United Nations Environment Programme.

She is an environmental scientist with expertise in environmental exposures and impacts on human health.

Dr. Hinwood has a PhD in environmental epidemiology and served as the first Chief Environmental Scientist at the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) in Victoria.

She was Head of School, Natural Sciences, Edith Cowan University and held appointments as Deputy Chair of the EPA and as sessional member of the State Administrative Tribunal of Western Australia. Dr. Hinwood’s career has included provision of advice to international fora on a wide variety of environmental matters.