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
AC PresAA
Director, ACOLA (Chair)
President, Australian Academy of Science
Professor Hugh Bradlow
FTSE
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.
Professor Jane Hall
FASSA
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.
Professor Lesley Head
Director, ACOLA
President, Australian Academy of the Humanities
Lesley Head is a geographer whose research examines human-environment relations, both conceptual and material
Laureate Professor Ingrid Scheffer
AO FAA PresAHMS FRS
Director, ACOLA
Ingrid Scheffer AO is a physician-scientist whose work as a paediatric neurologist and epileptologist at the University of Melbourne and Austin Health has led the field of epilepsy genetics over more than 20 years, in collaboration with Professor Samuel Berkovic and molecular geneticists.
Ryan Winn
Chief Executive Officer, ACOLA
Director, ACOLA
Ryan Winn is Chief Executive Officer at the Australian Council of Learned Academies.