Rolf Gerritsen has headed the Central Australian Research Group for a decade. He has taught at various other universities, including the ANU, in the Graduate Program in Public Policy. He also worked as Director of the Australian Centre for Regional and Local Government Studies for five years, as a Ministerial staff member at both the National and Territory levels and ran his own research consultancy from 2000-2002. Between 2002 and 2006 he was Director Social/Economic Policy in the Chief Minister’s Department in the NT and then worked at the Tropical Savannas CRC before joining CDU.