Board of Directors

Intersect’s Board of Directors are:

 

Emeritus Professor Wainwright AM

Emeritus Professor Wainwright is currently an Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of New South Wales following his retirement from the position of Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of New South Wales which he held for two years from April 2004.  He was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and International), from January 2001 and prior to that was Dean of the Faculty of Engineering from June 1991.

Professor Wainwright’s activities in higher education span more than 40 years since his appointment as Tutor/Demonstrator in the School of Chemical Technology at the then South Australian Institute of Technology. He currently holds a number of positions in the research and higher education sectors, including:

  • Chair, National Computational Infrastructure Steering Committee ANU (2007-    )
  • Chair, Intersect Australia Limited (2008-    )
  • Chair, New Horizons Project Collaboration Committee Monash University / CSIRO (2009-    )
  • Member, Queensland University of Technology Council (2009-    )
  • Chair, TAFE NSW Higher Education Governing Council (2009 -  )
  • Chair, NSW Selection Panel, General Sir John Monash Awards (2006- )
  • Director, Engineering Aid Australia
  • Member, Australian eResearch Infrastructure Council (2009 - )
  • Member, Smart Services CRC Board (2009 -   )
  • Member, Astronomy Australia Limited Board (2009 -    )

He has chaired the Australia-China Council since 2006.

Professor Wainwright holds an Honours Degree in Applied Chemistry and a Master of Applied Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Adelaide, a PhD in Chemical Engineering from McMaster University in Canada and a DSc for his research into skeletal catalysts from the University of South Australia. In 2007 he was awarded a Doctor of Science (honoris causa) by the University of New South Wales.

In 2000 he was awarded the Centenary Medal for service to Australian society in research policy and management and engineering education. In 2004, Professor Wainwright was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his service to chemical engineering as a researcher and academic, and to tertiary education.



Professor Attila Brungs

As Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Research), Professor Brungs has responsibility for research policy development and general oversight of the University's research activities, postgraduate education, industry liaison, intellectual property and commercialisation.

Professor Brungs has been a researcher in both industry and academia with interests in the area of heterogeneous catalysis. Prior to his appointment at UTS in September 2009, Professor Brungs was General Manager, Science Investment, Strategy and Performance at CSIRO. His role incorporated the determination of broad research direction and resource allocation, performance monitoring of CSIRO research programs including its flagship programs and the development and implementation of organisational strategy.

Before joining CSIRO in 2002 Professor Brungs was a senior manager at McKinsey and Co. managing teams in North America, Asia, New Zealand and Australia. He has also been on the board of a number of entities including not-for-profit organisations such as Greening Australia NSW.

Professor Brungs is a Rhodes Scholar, with a Doctorate in Inorganic Chemistry from Oxford University and recipient of the University Medal in Industrial Chemistry from UNSW.

 

Professor Mike Calford

Professor Mike Calford is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) of the University of Newcastle, with responsibility for management of the University's research and intellectual property, research training and strategic research planning. Mike is a member of the University’s Executive Committee and chairs the Singapore Advisory Committee. He is also Professor of Human Physiology.

Mike is an internationally recognised neuroscientist who heads a group funded by an NHMRC Program Grant to examine pre-clinical models of ischemic stroke therapy.  For information in relation to research undertaken by Professor Mike Calford click on http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/biomedical-sciences/research-informat....

Mike came to the University of Newcastle in 2000, and was the Pro Vice-Chancellor of the Faculty of Health from 2006 until 2009. Prior to moving to the University of Newcastle, he held research academic appointments at The University of Melbourne, City University of New York, Oxford, The University of Queensland, The University of California at Irvine, and The Australian National University.



Mr Andrew Wells

Andrew Wells is the University Librarian at The University of New South Wales.  He was appointed to this position in September 2001.  Since then, Andrew has overseen major changes to the University Library’s services, organisation and buildings.  He has taken a strong interest in improving facilities and steering the Library through a period of rapid changes in scholarly information.  Andrew has contributed services to many university activities, including a four year period as a Board member on the UNSW Union and Arc between 2004 and 2008.

Andrew has held senior positions in several major Australian libraries.  Prior to joining UNSW, Andrew was the Assistant Director General, Resource Sharing Division at the National Library of Australia (1996-2001).  At the State Library of New South Wales, he occupied senior positions in a variety of roles, building on major periods of service at the University of Queensland Library, Macquarie University Library and a previous stint at UNSW Library from 1982 to 1986.

Andrew has been active in the library profession through his involvement in a wide range of committees, professional bodies and activities. He was the President of the Council of Australian University Librarians from 2007 to 2009 and was Chairperson of CEIRC (CAUL Electronic Information Resources Committee) for 2006 and 2007. He will take up this position again in 2010. He was a mentor for the Aurora Leadership Institute for four consecutive years from 2003 to 2006.



Professor James Dalziel

James Dalziel is Professor of Learning Technology and Director of the Macquarie E-Learning Centre Of Excellence (MELCOE) at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. James is a leader in the fields of learning design, identity management, technical standards and open source software/open content for education. He is one of the authors of the Cape Town Declaration on Open Education.

James’ work in eResearch includes membership of the original NCRIS Platforms for Collaboration steering committee; the IT Strategy group for the NCRIS review; the National E-Research Architecture Taskforce (NEAT) and the ANDS Technical Working Group. He led the “MAMS” project that implemented the first Shibboleth Trust Federation is Australia (“MAMS Testbed Federation”) from 2005-2009 and he led the Shibboleth component of the Australian Access Federation project from 2007-2009. He led the Australian Service for Knowledge of Open Source Software (ASK-OSS), a national clearinghouse for open source software advice and governance (2006-2009) and the RAMP project on repositories and group workflow from 2007-2009, which included the development of the Muradora repository used by CSIRO and other research organisations around the world. MELCOE hosts the ARCS Authorisation service, building on the previous MAMS and RAMP teams and their expertise in authentication, authorisation and trust federations.

James has been a regular speaker at national and international eResearch conferences and workshops, including meetings hosted by Internet 2, NSF, JISC (UK), EDUCAUSE and eResearch Australasia. In addition to his role at Intersect, James is a Board member of the LAMS Foundation and LAMS International Pty Ltd.



Mr John Masters

John is a former partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Australia. He retired from PwC in December 2009 after 25 years as a partner. John is a qualified chartered accountant and lawyer.

John has specialised in financial services throughout his professional career. He held a number of leadership and management positions in his career with PwC, including Global Financial Services Tax & Legal leader, and Financial Services practice leader in Australia and Asia.

Over the years, John has undertaken major policy consulting to the Commonwealth and NSW Governments on Investment attraction, taxation, the establishment of government agencies, and financial services generally. He was a member of the Commonwealth Government’s AXISS Advisory Board. John continues to be retained formally by Government for advice and assistance in this area.

As a Director of Intersect Australia Limited, John chairs the Board’s Audit and Risk Management Committee.

John is the Chairman of the Board of Sirca which funds and supports post-graduate applied financial services research by its Australian University members. He chairs the Board’s Audit and Risk Management Committee.

John is currently a Director of ING Bank (Australia) Limited and chairs the Board’s Audit Committee.

John is President and Chairman of the Board of the Art Gallery Society of NSW. John is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Art Gallery of NSW Foundation.



Professor Sally Redman

Professor Redman is CEO of the Sax Institute. The Sax Institute is funded by NSW Health to increase the impact of public health and health services research on policy and practice.  It is responsible for the 45 and Up Study, Australia’s largest study on health and ageing, and has developed innovative approaches to increasing the use of evidence by policy agencies.

Professor Redman was previously the inaugural Director of the National Breast Cancer Centre, funded by the Australian Federal Government to improve evidence-based care & outcomes for women with breast cancer.  She received the Centenary Medal, for service to the health and welfare of Australian women diagnosed with breast cancer, 2003. Professor Redman is a public health researcher with an interest in evaluating programs designed to improve health and health care. She has over 150 publications in peer review journals.



Ms Gabrielle Upton

Gabrielle Upton is Legal Counsel at the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Prior to that she worked in New York as an Assistant Vice President at Deutsche Bank and Toronto Dominion Bank, and in Sydney as a banking lawyer at Freehills and Phillips Fox. She is a member of the Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee (CAMAC), the Australian Federal Government’s principal advisory committee on corporations and securities law.

She is a council member of the University of New South Wales, Australia and served as Deputy Chancellor of the University until January 2010. She is Deputy Chair of the Duke of Edinburgh Awards and a board member of the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute. She also serves on the General Sir John Monash Foundation New South Wales Awards Committee.

Gabrielle holds a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from the University of New South Wales, Australia and a Master of Business Administration from the Stern School of Business at New York University, New York. She is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and holds a Company Directors Advanced Diploma from the organisation.



Mr Warwick Watkins AM

Warwick Watkins is the Chief Executive Officer of the Land and Property Management Authority, Surveyor General of NSW and Registrar General of NSW.

He is a graduate of Hawkesbury Agricultural College and holds postgraduate degrees and diplomas from the University of New England in Armidale, including a Masters Degree in Natural Resources.  He also studied at the Harvard Business School in Boston in the USA.

Currently Warwick holds a number of positions, including: Commissioner of Soil Conservation; Norfolk Island Surveyor General; Commissioner, NSW Electoral Boundaries Commission; Deputy Chancellor of the University of Technology, Sydney; Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Land Information Council (ANZLIC); President of the Board of Surveying and Spatial Information (BOSSI); Chair of the Australian Spatial Council; Chair, Spatial Information Systems Limited; Director, AuScope Limited; Director, International Federation of Surveyors Foundation and Deputy Chair of the CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship Advisory Committee.

Warwick is also a member of a number state and federal committees and boards in fields of property, natural resource management and spatial information.



Dr Ian Gibson

Dr Ian Gibson is Chief Executive Officer of Intersect Australia Ltd. Ian has extensive experience at executive level R&D management. He has a strong track record in the research, development and commercialisation of new technology across a broad range of electrical engineering, computer science and digital imaging.

Previously Ian was a Division General Manager at CiSRA, the Australian R&D lab for Canon. There he built research capability over several years to deliver original, world leading technology into a wide range of Canon's major product groups.

Ian has a PhD from the University of New South Wales in Computer Science, a BE in Electrical Engineering (Hons) and a BSc, is on several industry advisory boards at Australian universities and is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Queensland.