Australian Council of Learned Academies
Evidence-based Interdisciplinary Research
Professor Graham FarquharAO FAA FRS NAS Distinguished Professor Graham Farquhar has undertaken and led research across a broad range of fields and scales, from integration of photosynthesis with nitrogen and water use of plants, stomatal physiology, isotopic composition of plants and global change. He is a fellow of The Australian Academy of Science and of…
Peter LaverAM FTSE HonFIEAust FAusIMM Peter Laver currently is Senior Advisor at the Academy of Technology and Engineering (previously Vice President) and a Director of the Australian Centre for Innovation. He worked for 40 years with BHP in a variety of senior management positions covering steel, iron ore, transport, research, external affairs, safety and environment.…
Professor Göran Roos Göran Roos is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering as well as of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). He is a member of the Council for Flinders University and also a Stretton Fellow appointed by the City of Playford at University of Adelaide; Adjunct…
Michael Small Michael Small was Canada’s High Commissioner to Australia from September 2010 until December 2014. Before his posting to Australia, he served in Ottawa in the headquarters of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade as Assistant Deputy Minister, Global Issues and then Assistant Deputy Minister, Human Resources. He served as Canada’s Ambassador…
Professor Kym AndersonAC FASSA Kym Anderson is a Professor of Economics at the University of Adelaide and at the Australian National University’s Crawford School of Public Policy. He was on extended leave at the research division of the GATT (now WTO) Secretariat in Geneva during 1990–92 and at the World Bank’s Research Group in Washington…
Professor Joanne DalyPSM FTSE Joanne Daly is a CSIRO Strategic Advisor and a former Group Executive of Agribusiness and Chief of Division. Her activities focus on strategy for national research collections and in agricultural sciences, and assisting with the developing science precinct in Canberra with the ANU in the area of transformational agriculture. She has…
Professor Kate Darian-Smith Kate Darian-Smith is Professor of Australian Studies and History, Faculty of Arts and Professor of Cultural Heritage, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. Her cross-disciplinary expertise spans history and cultural heritage, and she has led major research projects and published widely in these fields, including on the…
Professor Richard WaterhouseFAHA FASSA Richard Waterhouse is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Sydney. He was previously Bicentennial Professor of History and Head of the School of Philosophical and historical Inquiry at the same institution. He is the author of five books and more than 70 chapters and articles on aspects of the…
Professor Bronwyn HarchFTSE Professor Bronwyn Harch has a dual role at Queensland University of Technology as Science and Engineering Assistant Dean—Research and Deputy Director, Institute of Future Environment. Her focus is on research and development across STEM and with industry and government. She has developed multi-disciplinary research, engagement and commercialisation strategies with state and federal…
Professor Rachel Ankeny Rachel A. Ankeny is a professor in the School of Humanities at the University of Adelaide, and Associate Dean Research for the Faculty of Arts. She is an interdisciplinary teacher and scholar whose areas of expertise cross three fields: history/philosophy of science, bioethics and science policy, and food studies. She has major…