Dr Dan Norton (Chairman)

Dan Norton is an experienced CEO and company director with an extensive background in business and change management, contract negotiation and  business strategy.

He is Chairman of the Tasmanian Ports Corporation Pty Ltd, Chairman of the National Electricity Market Management Company, Director of TFG International Pty Ltd, Trinitas Pty Ltd and Freightlink Pty Ltd.

He was formerly CEO of Aurora Energy Pty Ltd and the Hydro Electric Corporation, Secretary of the Department of Premier & Cabinet (Tas), Deputy Secretary of the Department of Treasury & Finance (Tas), Secretary of the Australian Wheat Board and Director of the TT-Line Pty Ltd and Electricity Supply Association of Australia.

Dr David Boadle

David Boadle graduated in Medicine from the University of Tasmania in 1980 and, following specialty training in Tasmanian and interstate hospitals,  practised as a Consultant Physician specialising in Medical Oncology and Palliative Care in the north and north-west of Tasmania from 1988 until 2000.

He was the inaugural Medical Director of the Hospice in Launceston, and in 1993 was appointed as the Director of Medical Services at St. Vincent's Hospital Launceston. David was the Deputy Chief Executive (Clinical) at The Canberra Hospital from 2000-2002 prior to his current appointment as Chief Health Officer in the Department of Health and Human Services in Tasmania.

Professor Simon Foote

Professor Simon Foote obtained his medical degree in 1984 at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and in 1989 completed his PhD in Molecular Genetics studying the genetic basis of drug resistance of the malarial parasite.

He worked at the Genome Center at the Whitehead Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he produced the first physical map of a human chromosome and then a map of the entire human genome. Moving back to Australia, he headed up the Genetics and Bioinformatics Division at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia.

He was appointed Director of the Menzies Research Institute in 2005. Professor Foote’s research involves the study of genes involved in susceptibility to disease. He has significant interest in finding the reasons people die from parasitic disease as well as in mapping genes predisposing people to multiple sclerosis and epilepsy.

Sir Guy Green

Sir Guy Green was Chief Justice of Tasmania from 1973 to 1995, Governor of Tasmania from 1995 - 2003 and Administrator of the Commonwealth of Australia in 2003 when the office of Governor-General was vacant. He has held a number of offices including President of the Tasmanian Bar Association, Chancellor of the University of Tasmania and Chancellor of St. John Ambulance Australia.

He is currently chairman of the board of Ten Days on the Island, Chairman of Trustees of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, National President of the Order of Australia Association, Board Member of the Menzies Foundation, Chairman of the Steering Committee of the International Antarctic Institute, Honorary Antarctic Ambassador for Tasmania and Honorary Professor in the Antarctic and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre.

Sir Guy is the author of works in a variety of fields including sentencing, Antarctica, professionalism, legal education, judicial independence, criminal law, medicine, universities, history, constitutionalism and piracy and has entries in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, the Companion to Tasmanian History and the Oxford English Dictionary.

Professor Bob Williamson

Professor Bob Williamson became Professor of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, University of London, in 1976, where he remained until 1995 when he moved to Melbourne as Director of the Murdoch Institute and Professor of Medical Genetics.  He retired in October 2004, and now is an Honorary Senior Principal Fellow (Professor) of the Murdoch Institute, the University of Melbourne, and Monash University. 

Bob has over 400 refereed career publications, including about 40 in Nature, Nature Genetics, Cell and Lancet.  He was involved in the identification and cloning of genes for thalassaemia, cystic fibrosis, craniofacial abnormalities, heart disease and Alzheimer disease. 

More recently he has taken a major interest in national science policy and medical and scientific ethics, and has advised several Premiers, Health Ministers and Ministers for Innovation. Although he has retired, he still works with a small research group trying to coax cord blood stem cells to help treat cystic fibrosis in children. 

He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (where he is Secretary, Science Policy), a Fellow of the Royal Society, and an Officer of the Order of Australia.

Professor Jonathan West

After 18 years at Harvard University, in 2005 Professor Jonathan West returned home to join the University of Tasmania. At Harvard University, Dr West was Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Business Administration, where he taught in the fields of innovation, operations, and business strategy.

His doctorate and masters degrees are from Harvard University, and he holds a Bachelor of Arts majoring in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Sydney. His own research aims to understand the roots of comparative performance in national innovation systems, particularly in the life sciences and biotechnology.

He has served as a consultant to major corporations and several governments around the world. His research has appeared in many scholarly journals and several books.

Professor Judith Whitworth

Professor Whitworth is the Director of the John Curtin School of Medical Research and Howard Florey Professor of Medical Research at the Australian National University in Canberra and heads the High Blood Pressure Research Unit.

She is chair of the WHO Global Advisory Committee on Health Research  2004-2007) and a member of the Global Forum for Health Research.