Australian Council of Learned Academies
Evidence-based Interdisciplinary Research
Dr Ziggy SwitowskiAO FAA FTSE Dr Ziggy Switkowski AO is chairman of the Suncorp Group, and NBN Co, and chancellor of RMIT University. He is a non-executive director of Tabcorp, Oil Search and Healthscope. He is a former chief executive of Telstra and Optus, the former chair of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation,…
Professor Aibing YuFTSE FAA Professor Yu is the Pro Vice-Chancellor and President of the Monash University-Southeast University Joint Research Institute in Suzhou, China. Specialising in process metallurgy, Professor Yu obtained a Bachelor (1982) and Master of Engineering (1985) from Northeastern University, a PhD in 1990 from the University of Wollongong, and a doctor of Science…
Mr Kevin Hobgood-Brown Mr Kevin Hobgood-Brown is the Managing Director of HHK Advisory Pty Ltd, a corporate advisory firm which works on transactions involving Chinese enterprises in the global mineral resources industry. Previously, he was an international law firm partner for 18 years, in which capacity he had postings in Beijing, San Francisco, Taipei and…
Dr Marlene KangaAM FTSE Dr Marlene Kanga is a leading engineer and director of Innovation Australia, Sydney Water Corporation, Asialink, and iOmniscient Pty. Ltd. which has developed patented technology for intelligent video analytics. Dr Kanga is an executive board member and will be president of the World Federation of Engineering Organisations (WFEO) in 2017. In…
Neville RoachAO Neville Roach is Chairman of the Advisory Board for ANZ, Tata Consultancy Services, India’s largest IT company.He was previously Chairman and CEO of Fujitsu ANZ. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2000 for his contribution to business, and the development of Australian Multiculturalism. He was a member…
Professor Anthony ReidFAHA Anthony Reid, FAHA, is a Southeast Asian historian, once again based as emeritus Professor at the Australian National University, where he also served as Professor of Southeast Asian History for many years before 1999. In between he was founding Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA (1999–2002) and of…
Professor Stephen GartonFAHA FASSA Professor Stephen Garton was appointed as the Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney in August 2009. He is a graduate of the University of Sydney (BA) and the University of NSW (PhD) and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Academy of the Social…
Emeritus Professor Cindy GalloisFASSA Professor Cindy Gallois is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Queensland. She served as Executive Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (2008–09, Deputy Executive Dean 2006–07), and was Associate Dean (Research) from 2003–07. Professor Gallois was founding Director of the Centre for Social Research in Communication…
Professor Majella FranzmannFAHA Professor Franzmann was Pro-Vice Chancellor Humanities at Curtin University from 2010–15, after previous positions as Associate Dean (Research) and Chair of Academic Board at the University of New England (2004–06), and Pro Vice-Chancellor Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Otago (2008-early 2010). She gained her PhD at the…
Professor Michael BarberFAA FTSE Professor Michael Barber retired as Vice-Chancellor of Flinders University in 2014 after over twenty-five years in senior executive roles in universities and CSIRO. Educated at the University of New South Wales and Cornell University in the USA he is internationally recognised for research in statistical mechanics, material science and computational mathematics…