Mr Adrian Turner

Mr Adrian Turner Mr Turner is the CEO of Data61, a CSIRO entity that is the largest data innovation group in Australia. He is a successful and influential Australian technology entrepreneur who has spent 18 years in Silicon Valley. He is also co-Chair of the Australian Cyber Security Growth Network and a member of the…

Professor Kathryn North

Professor Kathryn NorthAM FAHMS Professor Kathryn North is Director of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the David Danks Professor of Child Health Research at the University of Melbourne. She is trained as a physician, neurologist and clinical geneticist and, in 1994, was awarded a doctorate for research in neurogenetics. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship…

Professor Catriona McLean

Professor Catriona McLeanFAHMS Professor Catriona McLean directs the Department of Anatomical Pathology, the Victorian Neuromuscular Service and the Solid Tumour Division of the Molecular Pathology Unit for Alfred Health and the Victorian Brain Bank, Florey Neurosciences. She is also the pathologist for the Victorian Melanoma Service and the Australian National Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease Registry. With expertise…

Professor John Mattick

Professor John MattickAO FAA FRSN FAHMS HonFRCPA Professor John Mattick is the Director of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. He spent much of his career at the University of Queensland, where he was Foundation Director of the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, the Australian Genome Research Facility, the ARC Special Research Centre for Molecular and…

Professor Emma Kowal

Professor Emma Kowal Professor Emma Kowal is Professor of Anthropology in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University. She is a cultural anthropologist who previously worked as a medical doctor and public health researcher in Indigenous health settings before completing her PhD in…

Dr Carrie Hillyard

Dr Carrie HillyardFTSE Dr Carrie Hillyard is currently Chairman of Fitgenes, a company dedicated to preventive health care, Chairman of FizzioFit Pty Ltd and Deputy Chairman of the Mater Medical Research Institute. Previously, she was a co-founder of venture fund CM Capital Investments and a director of several of its investee companies and led its…

Professor James (Jim) McCluskey

Professor James (Jim) McCluskeyFAA FAHMS James McCluskey is Deputy Vice Chancellor Research at The University of Melbourne. He trained in Perth as a physician and researcher at the National Institutes of Health (USA). He has held academic positions at Monash University, Flinders University and the Australian Red Cross Blood Service in Adelaide, South Australia. He…

Professor Nick Martin

Professor Nick MartinFAA FASSA FAHMS Nick Martin graduated with honours in Genetics from the University of Adelaide in 1972 and obtained his PhD in genetics at the University of Birmingham. In 1978 he returned to a Research Fellowship at the Australian National University where he founded the Australian Twin Registry. After 3 years in the…

Dr Stephen Duckett

Dr Stephen DuckettFASSA FAHMS Dr Stephen Duckett is Director of the Health Program at Grattan Institute. He has a reputation for creativity, evidence-based innovation and reform in areas ranging from the introduction of activity-based funding for hospitals to new systems of accountability for the safety of hospital care. An economist, he is a Fellow of…

Professor Susan Dodds

Professor Susan Dodds Professor Susan Dodds is Dean of Arts and Social Sciences and Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. She is also an Adjunct Professor in Philosophy at the University of Tasmania and Chief Investigator and theme leader of the Ethics, Policy and Public Engagement theme of the…