- Glenn Wightwick
Glenn Wightwick , Distinguished Engineer, Director, Australia, Development Laboratory, (ADL), IBM Corporation Glenn is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Director of the IBM Australia Development Laboratory. Over the last five years, he has undertaken a number of assignments in Shanghai, Tucson and New York in areas ranging from large scale system design to managing a team defining the architecture of IBM's enterprise storage subsystems. - Andrew McEvoy
Andrew McEvoy is the new Director, Australia - a role that encompasses the continuing activities of See Australia, the New Zealand market and relationships with all Australian stakeholders. Andrew was previously the Executive General Manager - Western Hemisphere, after joining the ATC in this role in 2003. He has also worked with the South Australian Tourism Commission, where he was Deputy CEO, and with Tourism Victoria. - Rupert Posner
Rupert Posner Director, Australia Rupert Posner has almost 15 years experience in industry, government and the environment movement developing environmental policies and working in communications. Prior to joining The Climate Group he was Communications Manager for the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment. - Ian Lowther
Ian Lowther Director Australia Ian operates his own physiotherapy and podiatry practices in Perth Western Australia, as well as plays a contributory role in Teamworks ™ . Ian has been involved in sport since his youth, as a budding footy player to becoming the Physiotherapist for the professional Australian football team, The Fremantle Dockers. Ian spent several years with The Dockers as their team Physiotherapist but has also worked with numerous State and National sport teams. - Jenny Folley
Jenny Folley - Director, Australia. Charged with day-to-day operations and planning in Australia. - Robert Helpmann
Sir Robert Murray Helpmann CBE (April 9 1909 - September 28 1986) was an Australian dancer, actor, director and choreographer, Born "Robert Murray Helpman" he added the extra 'n' to avoid there being 13 letters in his name. He was born in Mount Gambier and also boarded at Prince Alfred College in Adelaide, South Australia. The Helpmann Academy, Adelaide's major provider of tertiary performing arts education in South Australia was named in his honour. - Mike Cadogan
Emergency Physician, Rugby Doctor and internet entrepreneur. CEO of HealthEngine.com.au, an health search engine designed to provide rapid contact with health professionals in Australia. CIO of Popfossa.com a world medical and allied health conference / scientific meeting resource. Emergency physician at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and resuscitation doctor for the Western Force. Passionate about medical education and running LifeInTheFastLane.com to help disseminate medical education. - Ian MacFarlane
Ian Macfarlane AC (born 22 June, 1946), Australian economist, and Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Australia's central bank, from 1996 to September 17, 2006. He is also former Chairman of the Payments System Board of the Reserve Bank and Chairman of the Council of Financial Regulators. Macfarlane was educated at Monash University, Melbourne and tutored in economics there before joining the RBA in 1970. - Dennis Olsen
Dennis Olsen (born February 28 1938 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia), is an accomplished pianist, actor and director. He is Australia's leading exponent of Gilbert and Sullivan operas. Dennis Olsen originally trained for a professional career as a pianist, but decided to become an actor and attended the prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, New South Wales. He has appeared with the following theatre companies: Old Tote Company, … - Sandy McCutcheon
Sandy McCutcheon (born 1947) is a prominent Australian author, playwright, actor, journalist and broadcaster. Sandy McCutcheon was born in Christchurch, New Zealand which, however, he did not discover until he was over fifty years old. He was adopted at a very young age and spent several years looking for traces of his family around Europe, before finding relatives living in New Zealand. - Richard Pestell
Richard G. Pestell is an American physician currently employed as Director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, an NCI-designated Cancer Center. Dr. Pestell has authored more than 270 original publications and book chapters and more than 175 published abstracts. His papers have been published in outstanding peer reviewed journals including Cell (journal), Science (journal), Nature Medicine, and EMBO. - Janine Shepherd
Janine Lee Shepherd, AM (born 1962) was a champion Australian cross-country skier until she suffered major injuries when hit by a car during training. Before the accident, she had been considered a strong chance to win Australia's first ever medal at the Winter Olympics. Though she was told she would never walk again or have children, and doctors had significant doubts as to whether she would survive at all, she defied all of these, … - Geoffrey Brennan
Geoffrey Brennan is an Australian philosopher. He is currently a professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a professor of political science at Duke University. Trained as an economist, Brennan has collaborated extensively with Nobel Prize winner James M. Buchanan and became the first non-American president of the Public Choice Society in 2002. - Michael Thornhill
Michael Thornhill (born March 29 1941, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is a film producer, screenwriter, and director. He has a background in freelance journalism and publishing including working as a film critic for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian (1969 to 1973). He was a member of the WEA Film Study Group in the 1960s where he met writers Ken Quinnell and Frank Moorhouse. - Ian Castles
Ian Castles, AO is a Visiting Fellow at the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University, Canberra, he was the Australian Statistician (1986-94) and Secretary of the Australian Government Department of Finance (1979-86). He has also been Executive Director and Vice President of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (1995-2000) and President of the International Association of Official Statistics. - Nicolas-Charles Bochsa
Robert Nicolas-Charles Bochsa (born August 9, 1789 in Montmédy, Meuse, France, died January 6, 1856 in Sydney, Australia) was a musician and composer. The son of a musician, he was able to play the flute and piano by the age of seven. In 1807 he went to study at the Paris Conservatoire. He was appointed harpist to the Imperial Orchestra in 1813, and began writing operas for the Opéra-Comique. However, in 1817 he became entangled in counterfeiting, fraud, and forgery, … - Hannibal Hawkins MacArthur
Hannibal Hawkins Macarthur (1788 - 1861) Australian colonist, politician, businessman and wool pioneer Born in Plymouth, England, he accompanied his uncle John Macarthur to New South Wales in 1805, where he attempted to make a living by trading, with mixed results. However he gained recognition while caring for his uncle's merino sheep during his absences, and by 1817 was able secure land for his own merino flocks, and run a trading store. - Ahmed Fahour
Ahmed Fahour, 40, an Australian of Lebanese descent, is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian operations of the National Australia Bank (NAB). The eldest son & child of immigrant Muslim Lebanese parents, he studied at St Joseph's College in North Fitzroy, and later attended Redden College in Preston (now called Samaritan Catholic College). After high school, he attended Latrobe University in Melbourne from 1984. - Peter Weir
Peter Lindsay Weir (born August 21, 1944) is an Australian film director. Born in Sydney, Australia, Weir attended The Scots College before studying art and law at the University of Sydney. His interest in film was sparked by his meeting with fellow students, including Phillip Noyce and the future members of the Sydney filmmaking collective Ubu Films. - Bob Dwyer
Bob Dwyer (born 29 November 1940) is a rugby union coach. Educated at Sydney Boys High School, he coached Australia to victory at the 1991 Rugby World Cup. Dwyer, along with Duncan Hall then moved Leicester Tigers after the game turned professional in 1996. Tigers had immediate success, in 1997 reaching the Heineken Cup final, winning the Pilkington Cup but finished fourth in the league after player burnout stripped many of the key players. - John Farrow
John Farrow was an award-winning film director, producer and screenwriter. Born John N.B. Villiers-Farrow in Sydney, Australia, John Farrow began writing while working as a sailor in the 1920s. He moved to Hollywood to work in films as a marine technical advisor and stayed on as a screenwriter. He wrote for films between 1927 and 1959, and also directed between 1934 and 1959. Farrow was also a writer of short stories and plays. - Fred Schepisi
Frederick Alan Schepisi AO (born 26 December, 1939) is an Australian film director and scriptwriter who was born in Melbourne, Victoria. His credits include Last Orders, Roxanne, Plenty, Six Degrees of Separation, Fierce Creatures, The Russia House, and most recently Empire Falls, which won a Golden Globe for Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television, and for which he gained an Emmy nomination for best director. - Neale Fong
Dr. Neale Fong is a public servant, doctor, Australian rules football administrator and former amateur football player, and Churches of Christ chaplain in Perth, Western Australia. Dr. Fong was the chief executive officer for five years of WA’s largest private hospital, St John of God, when he was recruited by the State Government in 2004 to implement reform in WA’s public health system: Dr. - Ian D. Marsden
Ian David Marsden (Ian D. Marsden) (born August 24, 1967) is a cartoonist, designer and artist. Born in Greenwich Village, (New York City) Currently he resides and works in Los Angeles and Southern France with his wife Sheryl and their two daughters. Ian previously lived, studied and worked in Zurich, Switzerland / New York / Paris, France / Barbados, West Indies, Santa Monica and Culver City. - Bruno Grollo
Bruno Grollo (born 1942 near Treviso) is an Australian businessman. Grollo founded one of Australia's largest building companies, Grocon, whose credits include the construction of the then tallest building in Melbourne, the Rialto Towers. He then went on to build the even taller Eureka Tower. Today Grocon employs around 1200 staff, and in 2003 his sons Adam and Daniel were instated as joint managing directors. - Nicky Hayden
Nicholas "Nicky" Patrick Hayden, born in Owensboro, Kentucky, also known as The Kentucky Kid, is an American professional motorcycle racer and 2006 MotoGP World Champion. - Matthew Dewey
Matthew Ingvald Dewey (born 1984) is an Australian composer and singer. - Axel Ullrich
Axel Ullrich born October 19, 1943) Lauban, Schlesien, Germany in is an German cancer researcher and has been the Director of Molecular biology at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany since 1988. His research has primarily focused on signal transduction. After taking a degree in biochemistry at the University of Tuebingen, Germany, he received a Ph.D. from the University of Heidelberg in Molecular Genetics in 1975. - Raj Reddy
Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy (born June 13, 1937 in Katoor, India, near Chennai) is a world-renowned researcher in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Human-Computer Interaction. After his undergraduate studies at the College of Engineering, Guindy (now part of Anna University) in 1958, he did a master's degree in Civil Engineering at the University of New South Wales, and a PhD in Computer Science at Stanford University in 1966. - Rodney Brooks
Rodney Allen Brooks (b. December 30, 1954 in Adelaide) is Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is Chief Technical Officer and sits on the Board of iRobot Corp. From July 1, 2003 until June 30, 2007, he was director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; prior to that, he was director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. - Rob Baan
Rob Baan (born April 1, 1943 in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland) is a Dutch football coach, recently appointed the role of Technical Director by the Football Federation of Australia. He previously served in this role with the Netherlands Football Association, Feyenoord Rotterdam and ADO Den Haag. He was also briefly appointed, as caretaker manager for the Netherlands in 1981. Career as coach 2007- - Technical Director, Under-23 coach, … - Eric Neal
Sir Eric James Neal, AC, CVO (born 1924) was governor of South Australia from 22 July 1996 until 3 November 2001. He is the Chancellor of Flinders University. He was previously a successful businessman, and was the first person from the business community appointed to the post of governor in South Australia. Sir Eric was created a Knight Bachelor in 1982 and appointed a Companion in the Order of Australia in 1988 and a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1992. - Basil Hetzel
The Honorable Dr Basil Hetzel AC (born 1922) is an Australian medical researcher who has made a major contribution to combatting iodine deficiency, a major cause of goitre and cretinism world wide. - Jeff Kennett
Jeffrey Gibb Kennett AC (born 25 July, 1948), Australian politician, was the Premier of Victoria (6th October, 1992 to 20th October, 1999). He is also the current Chair of beyondblue (the National Depression Initiative) and President of the Hawthorn Football Club. - Ian Temby
Ian Temby (born 1942) - Q.C., Officer in the Order of Australia (AO). First Commissioner of the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC). More recently commissioner in the Temby Royal Commission into the Finance Broking Industry (report tabled in 2002). Has lived in Summer Hill, New South Wales. - Paul O'Dette
Paul R. O'Dette (b. Columbus, Ohio, February 2, 1954) is an American lutenist, conductor, and music researcher specializing in early music. O'Dette began playing classical guitar, and while in high school also played electric guitar in a rock band in Columbus, Ohio, where he grew up. He eventually adopted the lute (as well as the related archlute, theorbo, and Baroque mandolin) as his primary instruments, … - Emily Kngwarreye
Emily Kame Kngwarreye (1910-2 September 1996) was an Australian Aboriginal artist from the Utopia community in the Northern Territory. The combined monetary value of her works are more than those of any other Australian Aboriginal artist. Her 1995 painting "Earth's Creation" set a record in 2007 for sale price of an Aboriginal work, at AUD$1,056,000 - Betty Churcher
Betty Churcher (born 11 July 1931 in Brisbane, Queensland) is best known as director of the National Gallery of Australia from 1990 to 1997. She was also a painter in her own right earlier in her life. She won a travelling scholarship to Europe and attended the London Royal College of Art receiving an ARCA in 1956. She received an MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London in 1977. Between 1972 and 1975 she was art critic for the Australian newspaper. - Donnie Maclurcan
Donnie Maclurcan is an Australian philanthropist noted for his support of The Fred Hollows Foundation. In 2002 Maclurcan ran from Perth to Sydney to raise money for The Foundation. His 3978km solo run – which began on January 6 and finished at the Sydney Opera House 67 days later, raised over $30,000 and set the Guinness World Record for the fastest journey on foot across Australia. - James Alexander Forrest
Sir James "Jim" Alexander Forrest (March 10, 1905-September 26, 1990) was an Australian lawyer, businessman and philanthropist. Born in Kerang, Victoria, Forrest was educated at Caulfield Grammar School in Melbourne before studying an articled clerk's course at the University of Melbourne. Although this course did not end with him receiving a law degree, Forrest became qualified to work as both a barrister and solicitor in Victoria.
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