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Advisory Board Members Deputy Chair Members
Professor Malcolm McCormick As Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science Malcolm is responsible for the overall management of the Faculty. This includes developing and implementing policy in a strategic setting, managing the Faculty's budget and its academic programs and planning for its future. The Faculty has around 350 staff and teaches around 5,000 students. They have students on the City Campus, in Bundoora, in Vietnam, in Indonesia and in Singapore.
Professor
Henry Allen Nix With a background in Agricultural Science, Henry has played a pioneering role in development of simulation models of crop, pasture, forest and natural systems and their practical application. This role has been confirmed by his elect to Chairman of a WMO/FAO Task Force on Crop-Weather Models in Geneva in 1982. Much of Nix’s work has had practical significance. Early crop-modelling research identified dryland cropping potential in eastern inland Australia that is now being realised. His critical assessment of the national land resource base has played a part in formulation of land development, population and energy policy.
Ms Sharan Burrow In May 2000 Sharan Burrow became the second woman to be elected ACTU President. In October 2000 Sharan also became the first ever woman to be elected President of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions Asia Pacific Region Organisation. In 1995, Sharan was elected Vice-President of Education International. Education International is the international organisation of education unions representing 24 million members worldwide.
Mr Neil Byron Byron was appointed Commissioner of the Productivity Commission by the Governor General to preside over national inquiries into any aspect of national economic policy, at the request of the Cabinet of the Australian Government in July 1998. Byron is the Specialist Environment Commissioner. Byron’s background includes work in numerous international positions as a consultant and director for environmental projects. He is currently a member of Institute of Foresters of Australia, Society for Ecological Economics, and the Economics Society of Australia.
Professor
Paul Clarkson After an early career in the private sector, including 17 years with the aluminium manufacturer Comalco Limited, Paul Clarkson was appointed Director of the Victorian Ministry for the Arts (later Arts Victoria) in 1980, a position he held until 1994. During that time he also served as Vice President of the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, a Commissioner of the Victorian Tourism Commission, Trustee of the Royal Exhibition Buildings and was for fourteen years a member of the Council of the Victorian College of the Arts, including a period as Vice President. Since 1994 he has acted as a consultant to a number of arts organisations
and currently holds the positions of; Since 1996 Paul Clarkson has been an Adjunct Professor of RMIT University, attached to the Faculty of Education, Language and Community Services where he is a member of the Faculty Review Commitee and lectures on Cultural Policy and Practice in the Master’s Degree Course on Arts Administration.
Dr John Cole Dr John Cole, 48, is Executive Director of the Queensland Environmental Protection Agency’s Sustainable Industries Division. For nearly twenty years he has served in a variety of senior public and industry positions including Chief Executive Officer of the Environment Management Industry Association of Australia and the Keep Australia Beautiful Council (Qld). John is an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering, Queensland University of Technology. He serves on the advisory Boards of the CRC for Coal in Sustainable Development and the CRC for Sustainable Tourism. In 1999 he was a guest of the US Government’s International Visitor Programme looking at sustainable development in a cross section of US communities. John has been a member of the Australian Government’s Advisory Council on Environmental Employment, the Australian Government’s Advisory Group on International Environment Issues and the Queensland Environment Protection Council. John has a Ph D in Australian demographic history. He is married with two children.
Ms Lindley Edwards In 2001 Lindley was named one of Australia’s Top 40 Bankers under
40. Lindley is passionate and committed to assisting Australia’s wealth
of intellectual and knowledge capital being utilised as the basis to build
for the present and future.
Professor
Neil Furlong Neil presently holds the following positions: Within these positions Neil is responsible for:
Mr
Andrew Hewett Andrew Hewett is Executive Director of Oxfam Community Aid Abroad. Prior to taking on this role, he held the position of Oxfam Community Aid Abroad's Director of Public Policy and Outreach for ten years. In addition to acting as an NGO Adviser to the Australian Government for the World Summit for Social Development in 1995, Andrew was also a member of the World Bank NGO Committee for four years.
Professor George Littlewood George provides public affairs advice to major Australian companies, particularly in the minerals and banking industries. He is a member of the Board of Earthwatch, the Programme Committee for the Myer Foundation’s Cranlana Programme and is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.
Mr Alistair Maitland Alistair Maitland is a consultant to corporations and Governments and a professional company director. He is Chairman of the Education Trust Victoria ltd, Member of the Federal Government’s National Multicultural Advisory Council and Trade Policy Advisory council. He is Chairman of Folkestone Limited, Mawson Capital Pte Ltd, Bevington Consulting Ltd, Australia-India Business Council, Centre for Practice of International Trade, Melbourne Business School and Australian Centre for International Business, University of Melbourne.
Andrew
McCallum In 2001 Andrew McCallum was elected President of ACOSS. He was the past President of the Victorian Council of Social Service (VCOSS), and during 1999 - 2001 Board and Executive Member of the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS). Andrew has held many board positions on state and national bodies including five years as President of the Children’s Welfare Association of Victoria (CWAV) and Chairperson of the Child and Family Welfare Association of Australia. In 1999 Andrew was awarded life membership of CWAV.
Mr
Michael Naphtali Michael is involved in the complete range of activities that Hindal undertakes – acquisitions, divestures, capital raising, refinancing, general strategic advice, succession planning and dispute resolution. Michael has acted as a key advisor and business consultant, predominantly to large private clients on strategy, financing succession, restructuring and tax matters. Michael provides highly sought after and innovative advice to a range of acquisitions, asset disposals and capital raising projects. In addition to his role as Director of Hindal Corporate, Michael is heavily involved in numerous community and charitable activities. He is President of the Jewish National Fund Inc. of Australia, a committee member of the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council, a former Chairman of the Melbourne Chapter of the Young Presidents Organisation and formerly Deputy President of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry. Michael is also a member of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Victoria Task Group.
Mr Ian Porter
Mr Michael Rae Michael is the Program Leader for Resources Conservation, WWF - World Wide Fund for Nature. Michael is involved in sustainable development research and policy development for WWF in Australia and for WWF-International. Michael has been an advocate for WWF at a number of international conferences, including mining, climate change, international trade and forests.
Mr John Tabart, is Chief Executive 0fficer of the VicUrban, responsible for public outcomes and private investment at Melbourne Docklands, an $8 billion development of 200 prime hectares of land and water in Melbourne’s CBD, Victoria. John is also CEO of the Urban & Regional Land Corporation, an urban developer of outer suburban estates and complex redevelopment in the established urban and regional areas. John has previously held the following positions: - Development Director of Brisbane’s International Airport; He is a civil engineer: - University of Tasmania BE (Civil);
Ms Jackie Van Vugt Jackie is a strategically minded marketing professional with extensive
communications and brand management experience gained from a range
of corporate, advertising and consulting roles as well as tertiary
teaching.
Dr Stuart White Dr Stuart White is the Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures. He has worked and undertaken research in sustainability for over twenty years, specialising in the use of least cost planning for utilities and the advocacy, design, implementation and evaluation of programs for improving resource use efficiency. In 2000 he was requested by the NSW Minister for the Environment to undertake an Independent Review of Container Deposit Legislation and has written and presented widely on sustainable futures including taxation, participatory decision-making and public policy.
Mr Peter Woodgate Prior to heading the CRC for Spatial Information Peter was the CEO, Peter has also helped create and run Natural Resource Systems Corporation, a small corporation of about 70 people owned by the State Government. Peter has also been involved a researcher in a range of natural resource issues including tree cover change, greenhouse, salinity and old growth forests. Peter has a background in forestry and in remote sensing.
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