Biography John Leake has spent over 30 years of his working life in Asia, Africa and Australia in planning for development and natural resource management. This has evolved into an interest in experiential learning and in the social and biophysical processes leading to improved resource use and recycling in a world expecting to sustain 9 billion people in a time of accelerated climate change. He has consulted to a wide range of national and multinational clients and the private sector, including the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, AusAID, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Switzerland and many UN agencies, notably IFAD, UNDP, UNDCP, GEF and FAO/WB CP. He was an Associate Professor of Development Studies, Discipline of Anthropology, School of Social Sciences at the University of Adelaide since 2014 where he contributed to the education being provided through Development Studies by taking interns since 2008. He is now an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Professions, Centre for Global Food and Resources where he assists PhD and Masters students with research related to thesis writing in regions he is experienced including: 34 countries in Asia, (S.E, Central, East, and South Asia), Africa, mainly East and the Middle East, (Iran and the UAE). He is also experienced in most states and territories of Australia, particularly the Murray Darling Basin, the Northern Territory, the West Australian Wheat Belt and the Kimberly. . He was a speaker at the 2001 Adelaide Festival of