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ROBERT WALLER (1953- ) is President and Senior Risk Analyst with Protect Heritage Corp., a firm dedicated to helping organizations improve heritage management.  His career included 33 years with the Canadian Museum of Nature as Chief of Conservation and as Managing Director of the Collection Services.  He holds a Ph.D. in Conservation on cultural property risk analysis from Göteborg University and is accredited by the Canadian Association of Professional Conservators.  His research interest is risk analysis approaches to rational decision making for collection management and preservation.  Author of numerous papers and chapters on conservation, Robert Waller has taught, lectured, and consulted at museums and universities throughout the world.  A Fellow of the International Institute for Conservation, he received the Carolyn Rose Award in 2010 from the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections for lifetime achievement and, in 2016, the American Institute for Conservation’s Keck award for education of conservation professionals.