Australian Council of Learned Academies
Evidence-based Interdisciplinary Research
Professor Lesley HeadFASSA FAHA Professor Head is an ARC Australian Laureate Fellow and Director of the Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (AUSCCER) at the University of Wollongong. She is a geographer who has been President of the Institute of Australian Geographers and chaired the Geography committee of the Australian Academy of Science. Most recently,…
Professor Robert WilliamsonFAA Professor Robert (Bob) Williamson’s interest in technology started at age eight tinkering with electronics, and in the 1970s operated a ham radio station (call-sign VK4ARW). He studied electrical engineering at QUT, obtained a Master of Engineering Science and PhD (in electrical Engineering) from the University of Queensland and since 1990 has been…
Professor Libby RobinFAHA Libby Robin FAHA, is Emeritus Professor in the Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University. She is an historian of science, an environmental museum curator, and a pioneering scholar in the interdisciplinary environmental humanities. She has worked in universities and museums in Sweden, Germany, UK and Denmark. Her publications include…
Dr Thomas MaschmeyerFAA FTSE Dr. Thomas Maschmeyer, is Professor of Chemistry and serves as Founding Director of the Australian Institute of Nanoscale Science and Technology (AINST ) and of the Laboratory of Advanced Catalysis for Sustainability (School of Chemistry). He is Honorary Distinguished Professor at the University of Cardiff and Honorary CSIRO Research Fellow. In 2011…
Professor John LoughheadOBE FREng FTSE Professor John Loughhead is Chief Scientific Adviser at the UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. He was previously Executive Director of the UK Energy Research Centre and prior to that Corporate Vice President of the ALSTOM group. John is also a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering…
Professor R. Quentin GraftonFASSA GAICD Quentin Grafton is Professor of Economics, Chairholder UNESCO Chair in Water Economics and Transboundary Water Governance and Director of the Centre for Water Economics, Environment and Policy (CWEEP) at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social…
Professor Maria ForsythFAA Maria Forsyth graduated with a PhD in Chemistry from Monash University, Australia in 1990 and received a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on lithium and sodium battery electrolytes at Northwestern University in Evanston, USA. She returned to Australian in 1993 and shortly thereafter joined the Department of Materials Engineering at Monash University…
Dr Christina (Tina) ParolinPhD(ANU) Audit, Risk and Finance Committee Member of the Australian Council of Learned Academies Limited, Appointed May 2018 Dr Christina (Tina) Parolin is the Executive Director of the Australian Academy of Humanities. Tina has worked in a variety of policy and administrative roles across the higher education sector, including at IDP Education…
Dr John BeatonBA MA(UCLA) PhD(ANU) FASSA (1944 – 2018) Vale Dr John Beaton It is with great sadness that ACOLA recognises the passing of Dr John Beaton, Chair of the Board, ACOLA Secretariat Limited. John has been a longstanding member of ACOLA and made significant contributions to the organisation from its beginnings in the National…
Anna Maria Arabia Audit, Risk and Finance Committee Member of the Australian Council of Learned Academies Limited, Appointed 2018 Prior to Anna-Maria’s appointment as Chief Executive of the Australian Academy of Science, she was Principal Adviser to the Hon Bill Shorten. She has also served as General Manager of Questacon – the National Science and…