Walter Jehne is an internationally recognised soil microbiologist and innovation strategist. His extensive field and research experience includes soils, grasslands, agriculture and forests at local, national (CSIRO and Science Adviser to Australia’s National Soil Advocate), and international (UN) level. Walter’s specialisation is the role of soil microbes’ symbiotic processes in the ecology of diseases, plant health, nutrient and waste cycling, soil pedogenesis and the regeneration of bio-systems. He’s an expert in plant root ecology, mycorrhizal fungi, glomalin, and soil carbon formation.