The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

Mr Leonard A Davis AO

Dip Prim Metallurgy SAIT Hon DSc Curtin FRACI FAIMM

President

Nominee of The Walter and Eliza Hall Trust

Following a long and distinguished career with CRA, Mr Leon Davis became Chief Executive of Rio Tinto Ltd and Rio Tinto plc on 1 January 1997 and served in this capacity until April 2000. He served as Deputy Chairman from 2000 to 2005. In 2004 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Mr Davis has been Chairman of the Commonwealth Government’s Business RoundTable on Sustainable Development and a member of the Foreign Affairs Council. He is a Fellow of both the Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy and the Royal Australian Chemical Institute.

Mr Steven Skala

BA LLB (Hons) BCL Oxon

Vice President

Mr Steven Skala is Vice Chairman, Australia and New Zealand of Deutsche Bank. He is a former senior partner of Arnold Bloch Leibler, Lawyers and Advisors. A law graduate of University of Queensland, he completed his Bachelor of Civil Laws at Oxford University in 1980. Steven is Chairman of Hexima Limited and Live Events Wireless Pty Ltd and is a director of Max Re Ltd and Wilson HTM Ltd. He is former director of the Channel Ten Group, The King Island Company Limited and Rothschild Australia e-Fund Investors Pty Ltd. Active beyond law and commerce, Skala is Chairman of Film Australia Limited and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, a Member of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), a trustee of the Sir Zelman Cowen Cancer Foundation and a director of the Australian Ballet and the Centre for Independent Studies.

Mr Roger E Male

LLB DipAcctg FCA

Honorary Treasurer

Mr Roger Male was a partner of Coopers & Lybrand for over twenty years and retired from the firm in 1998 as a member of its National Committee and Melbourne Office managing partner. He is currently a Director of Goldman Sachs, JB Were Managed Funds Ltd, the Uniting Church Funds Management Ltd and Murigen Pty. Ltd; and Chairman of Warakirri Asset Management Pty. Ltd, the Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal Committee, the Andrew Ross Museum and of three syndicates for the CEO Institute Pty. Ltd.

Professor James A Angus

BSc PhD Syd FAA

Nominee of The University of Melbourne

Professor James Angus is the Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at The University of Melbourne. He has an extensive research record in cardiovascular and analytical pharmacology. Previously he held the Chair of Pharmacology and was Head of Department since joining the University in 1993. He has served as President of the University’s Academic Board and served on the Council of the University and the Council of the Australian Academy of Science. He currently serves on the Boards of St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research, the Centre for Eye Research Australia, the Bionic Eye Institute, the National Ageing Research Institute and the Howard Florey Institute.

Mr Michael C Fitzpatrick

BA (Hons) Oxon BEng (Hons)

Mr Mike Fitzpatrick was the founder and managing director of Hastings Funds Management Limited (Hastings). He has been a director of a number of Hastings managed investments, including Pacific Hydro Limited, Global Renewables Limited, Utilities of Australia, Australian Infrastructure Fund and Airstralia Development Group Pty Ltd (the holding company of Perth Airport). Prior to establishing Hastings in 1994, he was a director of CS First Boston. He also previously held positions with Merrill Lynch in New York, the Victorian Treasury and Telecom Australia. Mr Fitzpatrick was the 1975 Rhodes Scholar from Western Australia. A premiership captain with the Carlton Football Club (played 1975 – 83), he is currently Chairman of the Australian Football League (since 2007).

Dr Graham Mitchell AO

RDA BVSc FACVSc PhD FTSE FAA

Dr Graham Mitchell is a veterinary graduate of the University of Sydney and made major discoveries in immunology during PhD studies at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. After post-doctoral experience in California (Stanford), England (National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill) and Switzerland (Basel Institute for Immunology) he returned to Australia in 1973 and established a new program on the immunology of parasitism at WEHI, becoming Head of the Parasitology Unit. In 1990 he was appointed Director of the Royal Melbourne Zoological Gardens. He returned to biomedical research as Director of Research in the R&D Division of CSL Limited (1993 to 1996). In 1996, he founded Foursight, the four Principles of which serve as Chief Scientist for the Departments of Primary Industries and Sustainability and Environment of the Victorian Government. He is a non-executive director of Antisense Therapeutics Limited, Compumedics Limited, AgVic Services Pty Ltd, Adelaide Research and Innovation Pty Ltd, the Geoffrey Gardiner Dairy Foundation and the WA Institute of Child Health Research. He is an author of more that 350 publications, has received numerous awards for scientific achievements and was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia for services to science in 1993.

Dr Graham Mitchell is a veterinary graduate and University gold medallist of the University of Sydney. At The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) he made discoveries in immunology and obtained a PhD in 1969. Mitchell is recognised as one of Australia’s leading biological scientists. He is an author of more that 350 publications, has received numerous awards for scientific achievements and, in 1993, was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia for services to science.

Ms Linda B Nicholls AO

BA (Econ) Cornell MBA Harvard Hon AIBA FAICD

Ms Linda Nicholls is a corporate advisor and a director of a number of leading Australian companies and organisations. Appointed Chairman of Australia Post in September 1997, she is also a director of St George Bank, Perpetual Trustees, Sigma Pharmaceutical Group and Healthscope, where she is Deputy Chairman. Ms Nicholls is a Trustee of The Conference Board in New York. Ms Nicholls runs her own corporate advisory practice specialising in business strategy in financial services and health care. She has an MBA from Harvard Business School and more than 30 years experience as a senior executive and company director in Government owned and private sector banking, insurance and funds management in Australia, New Zealand and the United States.

Professor Peter Rathjen

BSc Adelaide PhD Oxon

Nominee of The University of Melbourne

Professor Peter Rathjen is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Melbourne and was Dean of Science (2006-8). He has a longstanding involvement in Embryonic Stem (ES) cell research, at the University of Oxford and the University of Adelaide and was a founding member of the Australian Stem Cell Centre. Professor Rathjen was previously at the University of Adelaide, where he was the Chair of Biochemistry (1995-2006), foundation Head of the Department of Molecular Biosciences (2000-2) and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Sciences (2002-2005). In 2005 he was the recipient of the inaugural Premier's Award for Scientific Excellence (Research Leadership) in South Australia.

Ms Kate Redwood

BA BSW(Hons)

Nominee of Melbourne Health

Ms Redwood has held a number of senior management positions including CEO of the Australian Physiotherapy Association, Executive Director of Australian Red Cross Victoria, and Executive Director of the Victorian Council of Social Service. A former Councillor for the City of Melbourne, Ms Redwood has chaired a number of standing committees as well as the Yarra/Melbourne Regional Library Board, the Melbourne Disability Advisory Committee and for many years was President of the Carlton Senior Citizens Centre. Kate is currently a member of the Melbourne Health Board. She chairs the Melbourne Health Community Advisory Committee. Ms Redwood was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001 for services to local government and the community.

Mr Christopher W Thomas

BCom (Hons) MBA Melb FAICD

Mr Chris Thomas joined the executive search firm Egon Zehnder International in 1979 and was Managing Partner of the Melbourne office from 1986 to 2003. He has been Head of the Firm’s Board Consulting Practice Group since 1997 and Chairs the Firm’s twice yearly Partners' Meetings. He has a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) degree from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Business Administration from the Melbourne Business School. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management. Mr Thomas has served on the Board of the Corps of Commissionaires (Victoria) and the Council of the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. He was a member of the Board of the Heide Museum of Modern Art for 9 years (and its Chairman for 3 years); Chairman of the Victorian Community Foundation (now the Melbourne Community Foundation) and President of the Melbourne Business School Alumni.

Ms Catherine M Walter AM

LLB (Hons) LLM MBA Melb FAICD

Ms Catherine Walter is a non-executive Director of the Australian Stock Exchange, ORICA, the Australian Foundation Investment Company, the Melbourne Business School and The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and Chairman of the Australian Synchrotron. She is also a member of the Federal Government Financial Reporting Council and Chairman of the Business Regulation Advisory Group. In 2003, Catherine was appointed a Member in the Order of Australia for her service to business, particularly as a Director for a range of public companies, to the arts, to the law, and to the community through the Melbourne City Council.

Professor Ingrid M Winship

MB ChB MD FRACP

Nominee of Melbourne Health

Professor Ingrid Winship is the inaugural Chair of Adult Clinical Genetics at the University of Melbourne and Executive Director of Research for Melbourne Health. Professor Winship has a wide range of clinical and research interests in inherited disorders. A medical graduate of the University of Cape Town, she completed postgraduate training in genetics and dermatology before combining an academic position at the University of Cape Town with a clinical position from 1989-1994. In 1994 took up an academic position at the University of Auckland where she later became Professor of Clinical Genetics, Clinical Director of the Northern Regional Genetic Service and Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (2000-2004). She is currently Deputy Chair of the Victorian Cooperative Oncology Group (VCOG) Committee, and Chair of their Cancer Genetics Advisory Committee; Chair of the Clinical Services Committee and the Cancer Special Interest Group of the Human Genetic Society of Australasia; and a member of the Victorian Cancer Agency.