Associate Professor Darla Hatton MacDonald is Associate Professor of Resource Economics at the Tasmanian School of Business & Economics at the University of Tasmania. She has over 100 publications including 50 journal articles,  book chapters, conference papers and project reports.  In 2000, she was hired by the CSIRO to work in water and subsequently spent 15 years working on the economics of water trading and other economic instruments for managing the environment.  She has extensive experience in research management as the Research Director for the Policy and Economic Research Unit in CSIRO from 2005 to 2009 before returning to research in 2010.