Julie Petty has more than 14 years’ project management experience working in Australian agriculture, predominately horticulture and red meat, and is now working with SIA as the Policy and Project Officer – Aquaculture.

Julie’s career path has given her the opportunity to dabble in several areas including animal traceability technologies, industry strategic planning and development, project management, communications and event organisation. Julie has on the ground experience with practical research, development and extension (RDE) theory from her work with the Australian goatmeat industry and Meat and Livestock Australia where she managed the goat RDE program.