Professor Barry T Hart is currently Emeritus Professor at Monash University, Director of Water Science Pty Ltd, Board member of EcoFutures Consulting (an Alluvium Grooup company), and a member of Alluvium Research and Insights Panel. He recently completed terms as Chair of Alluvium Holdings and Alluvium Consulting (June 2024) and as Chair of the Goyder Institute for Water Research (December 2023). Previously, he was Director of the Monash University Water Studies Centre for over 35 years and Deputy Director Research of the CRC for Freshwater Ecology.

He has published over 220 refereed papers and 13 books, and is on the editorial board of 3 international journals. His most recent books are: Hart, B.T. & Doolan, J. (eds). (2017). Decision Making in Water Resources Policy and Management: The Australian Experience, Elsevier, Oxford, UK and Hart, B.T., Bond, N.R., Byron, N., Pollino, C.A. and Stewardson, M.J. (eds.) (2021). The Murray-Darling Basin, Australia: Its Future Management, Elsevier, Oxford, UK.

Prof Hart has established a national and international reputation in the fields of natural resources decision-making (water quality and catchment management, environmental flows, water policy), ecological risk assessment and environmental chemistry. He has worked hard over the years to get current research adopted in water policy and management. To this end, he has chaired or been a member of many scientific inquiries, reviews and advisory committees. In 2018 he completed 9 years as a Board member of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority. He has received several awards, including the Limnology Medal (1982) from the Australian Society for Limnology, the Environmental Chemistry Medal (1996) and Applied Chemistry Medal (1998) from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, Centenary Medal for services to water quality management and environmental protection (2003), and was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2012.