Avril Horne

Avril is a water policy specialist, with a rare combination of experience across economics, hydrology and policy.

With twenty years’ experience across a range of interdisciplinary projects, she has spent time in consulting, government and academia. As Assistant Director in the water group at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, she was heavily involved in the development of the water trading rules for the Murray Darling Basin Plan.

Avril returned to academia in 2014, and is currently working on projects that support adaptation and transformation under change and variability; allocation mechanisms and institutional arrangements for environmental water; and reallocation policies between water sectors. Avril is the lab group leader for the “Managing Change and variability Lab”.

Avril is the lead editor for “Water for the Environment: from policy and science to implementation and management”, a book that includes contributions from over 50 leading scientists and practitioners internationally.

Involved in:

• Stress-testing water availability in the Southern Murray-Darling Basin (November 2024)