Professor John Shine was Executive Director of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research from 1990 to 2011. He is Professor of Molecular Biology and Professor of Medicine at UNSW Sydney. The ‘father of gene cloning’, Professor Shine was the first to clone human hormone genes and the first to sequence the replication of a cancer-causing virus.
Professor John Shine
Director, ACOLA (Chair)
President, Australian Academy of Science
Professor Hugh Bradlow
Director, ACOLA
President, Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering
Hugh S. Bradlow is President of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering. He is also a independent Non-Executive Director of Silicon Quantum Computing Pty Ltd.
He is globally recognised as a thought leader in telecommunications and was elected as the joint 2009 Australian Telecommunications Ambassador of the Year, named by Global Telecom Business as one of the most 100 most influential telecommunications executives in the world and Smart Company designated him as one of the 12 most influential people in Australian ICT.
Professor Jane Hall
Director, ACOLA
President, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
Jane Hall is Distinguished Professor of Health Economics and Director, Strategy in the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation at the University of Technology Sydney. She established the Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (CHERE) in 1990 and served as Director until 2012.
Lesley Head
President, Australian Academy of the Humanities
Lesley Head is a geographer whose research examines human-environment relations, both conceptual and material
Ryan Winn
Director, ACOLA
Ryan Winn is Chief Executive Officer at the Australian Council of Learned Academies.