CEO, Pork CRC
Pork CRC Initiatives
Dr Campbell is CEO of the, CRC for High Integrity Australian Pork, which commenced in July, 2011 and is positioning the Australian pork industry and its products as high integrity, welfare optimal, premium quality, safe, nutritious and highly sought after.
Based at University of Adelaide’s Roseworthy Campus. he was also CEO of its predecessor, the CRC for an Internationally Competitive Pork Industry, which commenced in 2005.
From 1972 to 1988 Dr Campbell was a research scientist at the Victorian Department of Primary Industries at the Animal Research Institute, Werribee.
In the mid-80s he spent a year as a visiting scientist with the US Department of Agriculture in Beltsville, Maryland, doing world leading research, including on the effects of exogenous growth hormone on energy and protein metabolism in pigs. He spent a decade as general manager, technical services at Bunge Meat Industries, Corowa, NSW, then Australia’s largest integrated pork production company.
From 1999 to 2005 he was back in the USA, as CEO of Ausgene, a genetic technology company in Bloomington, Illinois. He was also a member of a research and innovation team for United Feeds, Sheridan, Indiana.