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 and has made important contributions to the development of Australian science and innovation policy.
Currently he chairs the Program Steering Committee for the public policy research program, Securing Australia’s Future, being managed by the Australian Council of Learned Academies.
He is an adjunct professor in the UTS Business School and serves on several boards including chairing the Advisory Board of the National Computational Infrastructure.
[March 2016]