Australian Council of Learned Academies
Evidence-based Interdisciplinary Research
Professor Jeffrey Soar Dr Jeffrey Soar holds the Chair in Human-Centred Technology in the School of Management & Enterprise at the University of Southern Queensland. He is a researcher in assistive technologies for ageing and aged care. Jeffrey came to academia following an extensive executive-level career in health information technology management for federal, state and…
Dr Erol HarveyFTSE Scientist, educator and entrepreneur Dr. Erol Harvey has made significant contributions to Australia through his world-leading export-oriented microfluidic engineering company MiniFAB, his distinguished academic career and his unwavering support for research commercialisation and entrepreneurship. He formed the Small Technologies Cluster, an incubator supporting commercialisation of new high-value medical device technology and has…
Dr Tony FischerAM FTSE Tony Fischer came from a wheat – sheep farm in southern New South Wales. He completed degrees in Agricultural Science at the University of Melbourne and a PhD at the University of California, Davis, USA. He worked as a crop agronomist and physiologist for the NSW Department of Agriculture and at…
Dean Parham Dean Parham is an expert on Australia’s productivity performance. He was long associated with Australia’s Productivity Commission where he developed and led the Commission’s ‘flagship’ program of productivity research. Since 2008, he has continued to investigate productivity trends and public policy issues in association with a number of government, academic and private-sector agencies…
Narelle KennedyAM Narelle Kennedy operates her own research and consulting company, The Kennedy Company Pty Ltd specialising in business innovation, new models of competitiveness and productivity, industry clustering, regional development, and regulation. Previously Narelle founded and led the pioneering, business-backed research think tank, the Australian Business Foundation as CEO for over 15 years. Narelle has…
Professor Kevin FoxFASSA Kevin Fox is a Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Applied Economic Research in the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales. He works primarily in the field of economic measurement, with a focus on productivity, prices and efficiency analysis. After studying Japanese in Tokyo…
Leslie ButterfieldBSc Civ Eng; MAICD, MAIPM Ms Butterfield is Chief Executive Officer of a specialist Project and Strategy Advisory company which operates in the business, property and infrastructure sectors with a client group spanning Government, large corporates, and not-for-profits. She is also Managing Director Australia for its NYSE listed company parent company. She has served…
Dr Bob FraterAO FAA FRSN Over more than 50 years, Dr Bob Frater has researched electronics, telecommunications, electroacoustics, radioastronomy instrumentation, electroacoustics and biomedical devices. In 1996, he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for his contributions to science, including his work on the construction of the Australia Telescope at Narrabri in northern…
Emeritus Professor Sue RichardsonAM FASSA Professor Sue Richardson is Emerita Professor at Flinders University and Adjunct Professor at each of Flinders University and the University of Adelaide. Sue taught for many years at the University of Adelaide School of Economics, and subsequently became Professor and Director of the National Institute of Labour Studies at Flinders University.…
Professor Nalini Joshi FAA Professor Nalini Joshi is Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Sydney. Nalini has taught mathematics at ANU, UNSW, the University of Adelaide and the University of Sydney. She has been a Visiting Professor at Kyoto University in Japan and the University of Leeds, UK. She was Head of the…