Early Life.
Born on 13 April 1937 in Wagga Wagga, Australia, where he spent his early years, he is one of six children of Samuel and Marjorie Ellyard. His parents were both teachers and school principals. After an early education in NSW State schools, he graduated from Sydney University in 1958 in agricultural science. He was awarded the William Farrer Memorial Scholarship and entered Cornell University, where he completed a Master of Science in micrometeorology, and a Ph.D in biochemistry, organic chemistry and plant sciences. After post-graduate studies at Brandeis University and the Charles F. Kettering Research Institute, he worked for a year in the advance staff in Senator Eugene McCarthy’s campaign for US president in 1968. This was followed in 1969 by work for the City of New York in the social justice program ‘Model Cities’. Following a new interest in public policy he commenced working in the emerging environmental sciences and environmental public policy domain, that commenced with the passage through the US Congress of the 1969 US National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
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