Professor Ken Baldwin was the inaugural Director of the ANU Energy Change Institute and founding Director of the ANU Grand Challenge: Zero-Carbon Energy for the Asia-Pacific. His main focus is to drive the energy transition, particularly for Australia’s future export industries based on renewable energy. His current appointments include chair of the Industry Advisory Board for the ACT Government’s Energy Innovation Fund, non-executive director of the Australian Hydrogen Research Network, and chair of the Australian Council of Learned Academies Steering Committee for the Australian Energy Transition Research Plan. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics (UK), the Optical Society of America and the Australian Institute of Physics, and a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Professor Kate Darian-Smith

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Kate Darian-Smith is President, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. She is Professorial Fellow in History at the University of Melbourne, where she previously held Chairs in History and in Cultural Heritage; and was Executive Dean and Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Tasmania (2017-24).  

With a distinguished international reputation for research in Australian history and Australian Studies, Kate has been Chief Investigator on 15 ARC and many other external grants.  Her publications include 30 authored/edited books, and over 150 scholarly chapters, journal articles, and essays in top-tier journals and with leading scholarly publishers.

Kate has served in advisory and board capacities for government and other cultural and heritage institutions and organisations, including on the Board, Australia-Japan Foundation (DFAT), and the Council, Museum of Democracy, Old Parliament House. She was a former co-editor of Australian Historical Studies, and President of the International Australian Studies Association.