Following over three years of work as a Research Associate at the AIRC, Aleksandra Lejda  has recently enrolled in a PhD program on the topic of development of regional innovation capability in the Tasmanian agri-food sector.  She graduated in 2003 from the Oskar Lange University of Economic Sciences in Poland, majoring in Economics and European Integration. She arrived in Australia in 2004 and completed an MBA at the University of Tasmania in 2005.

 Aleksandra's main fields of interests are Regional Innovation Studies, Innovation in the Agri-food sector, organisational change, globalization, climate change and Antarctic studies.

Phone: +61 3 6226 7382

Email: Alexandra.Lejda@utas.edu.au