[2] [non-primary source needed] Werner Falk had fled Germany prior to World War II and was studying and lecturing at the University of Oxford.
[3][non-primary source needed] The family moved to Australia when Jim Falk was young, when his father worked at the University of Melbourne.
[citation needed] One of Falk's books, co-authored with Joseph Camilleri, was launched by UNDP head, the Hon Helen Clark, in Sydney, Australia in February 2010.
[6][7] Falk has made a number of media appearances in relation to the nuclear accidents at Fukushima and the implications for future energy policy.
scholarly work is on the proposals associated with geoengineering, which were the subject of a seminar he presented at the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies in Yokohama, Japan, in October 2013.