Professor John Rolfe is a resource economist in the School of Business and Law at CQUniversity at Rockhampton, and a fellow in the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. He has a number of research interests, but specialises in non-market valuation, regional development, and environmental, resource and agricultural economic issues. He is the Independent Chair of the Gladstone Healthy Harbour Partnership Independent Science Panel, the Independent Chair (Acting) of the Great Barrier Reef Independent Science Panel, a member of the Independent Expert Panel for the Great Barrier Reef, and on the Editorial Board for the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.