Nathaniel Kenneth Newlands

Dr. Nathaniel K. Newlands is a Senior Research Scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and Statistics Canada (Government of Canada) and an Adjunct Professor in Geography with the University of Victoria. His doctorate was in Resource Management and Environmental Studies, Masters in Astrophysics, and Bachelors Honours Degree in Physics and Mathematics.

His research work addresses public-good food-water-energy nexus issues and tackles broad, integrated, complex global problems to help support and advance global sustainable development. He received a prestigious Government of Canada Public Service Award of Excellence in Innovation, and in 2023, received the National Steward of the Year Award from the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PISPC). He was an invited International Researcher in Residence with Deakin University’s Centre for Regional and Rural Futures (CeRRF) and was awarded a prestigious international fellowship from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD’s) Collaborative Research Program (CRP) to collaborate with the Australian Government’s Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics (ABARES). He currently serves as an international co-chair of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO)'s Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group and Subgroup 2 Lead on UNDRR Sendai Framework Monitoring and Global Assessments and an international co-chair of a Global Expert Working Group in Agricultural Ecosystem Solutions led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). He is an elected member of the American Statistical Association’s International Relations Committee, President-Elect of the International Environmetrics Society (TIES). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Applied Statistics: Environmental Statistics and Data Science.