Professor Steven “Travis” Waller is the Advisian Chair of Transport Innovation, Deputy Dean (Research) of Engineering and the Executive Director for the Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI) at UNSW. Prior to joining UNSW, he was on faculty at the University of Texas at Austin where he was the founding director for an U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/University Cooperative Research Center on Transportation and Electricity Convergence (focusing on electric vehicles). Past awards and recognition include the NSF CAREER award, MIT's Technology Review list of top 100 innovators in science and engineering worldwide, TRB's Fred Burggraf award, Hojjat Adeli award for innovations in computing and giving the C.C. Mei Distinguished Lecture at MIT. In the past 18 years, Prof. Waller has secured over $23m in total research funding. He has published more than 300 peer reviewed papers, supervised 22 completed PhD students and conducted over 60 funded research projects for 30 distinct sponsors worldwide.

Dr Carol Oliver is Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Astrobiology at the University of New South Wales. She is an Education Focussed continuing academic responsible for transforming a third level face-to-face course in astrobiology into technology-enhanced fully online mode. She is developing two more online courses – one in astrobiology and the other in science communication. She led three Australian government education and outreach grants totalling $5.5m between 2010 and 2015. Her research background is in science communication and she publishes in the education/science communication areas, with a focus on astrobiology and innovation in technology-enhanced online education. She developed Virtual Field Trips in astrobiology with NASA, MIT and ASU and an interactive VFT with UNSW’s iCinema team. She has also developed in adaptive e-learning with Smart Sparrow. She has industry-related experience in science communication - the first third of her career was as a print, radio and television journalist.

Dr Kris Kilian received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemistry from the University of Washington in 1999 and 2003 respectively. He worked for Merck Research Labs in the Methods Development group from 2000-2004 before travelling to Sydney, Australia to do his PhD with Justin Gooding at the University of New South Wales. In 2007, Kris joined the laboratory of Milan Mrksich at the University of Chicago as a NIH postdoctoral fellow to investigate new methods for directing the differentiation of stem cells. He was Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering (2011-2017) and Associate Professor of Bioengineering (2017-2018) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before returning to UNSW in 2018 as a Scientia Fellow between the School of Chemistry and the School of Materials Science and Engineering. Kris is renowned internationally for his expertise in the design and development of model extracellular matrices for stem cell engineering and fundamental studies in cell biology.

Ms Selena Griffith is Senior Lecturer Design Thinking, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Centre for Social Impact, Business School, UNSW Sydney. Selena, an education focused academic, has been working in tertiary education and active design practice for more than 20 years, applying Design Thinking to many commercial and institutional contexts in the faculties of Built Environment, Art and Design, Engineering and most recently, Business at UNSW Sydney. Prior to her academic career, she had a successful, international, career in Design Management working for a number of international brands. In her current role, Selena is leading research determining best practice for Work Integrated Learning experiences to students, leading innovation in designing and delivering online, blended and intensive learning experiences for the Centre for Social Impact and engaged in active teaching practice. 

Oliver Bown is senior lecturer and co-director of the Interactive Media Lab at UNSW Art & Design. He is a researcher and maker working with creative technologies, with a diverse academic background spanning social anthropology, evolutionary and adaptive systems, music informatics and interaction design, with a parallel career in electronic music and digital art spanning over 15 years. He is interested in how artists, designers and musicians use advanced computing technologies to produce complex creative works. His current active research areas include media multiplicites, musical metacreation, the theories and methodologies of computational creativity, new interfaces for musical expression, and multi-agent models of social creativity. He is a member of the advisory board for the International Conference on Computational Creativity, and the organising committee for the Musical Metacreation series of workshops and concerts and is a program committee member for the conference NIME and GECCO (art track) amongst others.

Professor Ramburuth teaches and researches in Cross-Cultural Management and Emerging Economies and publishes widely in these areas. Her leadership positions include Immediate Past President of the Academic Board, Associate Dean Education and Undergraduate Programs, Head of School (Management), and Director, Business School Education Development Centre. She is on the editorial board of the Academy of Management Learning and Education (A*), Journal for Multicultural Education, International Journal of Emerging Markets and Chinese Management Studies. She is Academic Lead Africa in the Institute for Global Development, and oversees projects in Transformative Academic Development (which she delivers), Health and Medical Education, Peace and Conflict, and Student Exchange at Gulu University, Uganda. She is collaborating with the Ugandan Ministry of Education to deliver Academic Development and Leadership programs at universities across Uganda, and aims to offer the programs at universities in Rwanda, Kenya, Malawi, Ethiopia, South Africa, via online and blended learning modes of delivery. 

Associate Professor kylie valentine is Research Director of the Social Policy Research Centre and Centre for Social Research in Health in the faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW. She conducts policy relevant research on human services design and delivery with a particular focus on families and children. She is a qualitative researcher and her interests include the application of methods and concepts from the sociology of knowledge to new areas and concerns, with a specific focus on social disadvantage and exclusion. Current and recent projects include the evaluation of the NSW Integrated Domestic and Family Violence Service, a study of best practice in early intervention violence prevention for women and children with disability, a review of Australian Safe at Home projects, and a qualitative study of housing pathways after domestic and family violence.

Justine Nolan is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Academic) in the Faculty of Law at UNSW Sydney. She is a Visiting Professorial Scholar at NYU. Her research focuses on business and human rights and she is one of the world’s leading scholars in the field. She teaches across a variety of courses including international human rights and business and human rights. She developed the Law Faculty’s first online course in 2017. She is on several NGO advisory boards and has acted as an expert advisory member for Australian government advisory bodies including most recently in 2017. Prior to her appointment at UNSW in 2004 she was the Director of the Business and Human Rights Program at Human Rights First in the US. She is an editor of the Australian Journal of Human Rights and the Business and Human Rights Journal

Professor Tony Butler is a leading expert on the health of offenders and has developed numerous policy-relevant projects in the justice health area. He is the program head of the Justice Health Research Program at the Kirby Institute and leads a team of twelve researchers including PhD and post-doctoral researchers. He is an NHMRC Principal; Research Fellow. He developed Australia’s only two national offender health data collection initiatives including the National Prison Entrants Bloodborne Virus Survey. He has led novel studies examining mental illness among prisoners, the role of head injury in offending, an RCT of a pharmacotherapy-based trial for impulsive-violent offenders, and text mining police domestic violence event narratives. He leads the NHMRC-funded Australian Centre for Offender Health Research. More recently he has developed two teaching initiative: ‘Public Health and Corrections’ aimed the nexus between health and criminology, and the popular ‘Inside the Criminal Mind’ course.

Dr Padmanesan Narsimhan is a medical doctor with a public health masters and research degree from UNSW Australia. He has a strong interest in utilizing digital health tools to strengthen health systems, especially among vulnerable and disadvantaged communities in rural and remote areas. Padma also leads research programs in Integrated management of diseases using mobile health in India and teaches rural and remote International health at UNSW. He also currently serve as the Assistant Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for eHealth at UNSW.

Professor de Leeuw is active in the Healthy Cities movement since 1986. Director of WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on Healthy Cities (1992-2001). She assists WHO regionally and globally in Healthy City evaluation, reporting, accountability. Known for her strong engagement with local health policies and politics and a welcome speaker at local community and global research events. She continues to be WHO European Research Director for Healthy Cities. Recent grant income (CIHR Canada, WHO) for $2M. Evelyne is Editor-in-Chief of the international peer-reviewed journal Health Promotion International and considered a leading global health promotion scholar, as evidenced by her appointments to high-level research panels (e.g., the Academy of Finland, and Science Ministries in Japan and Germany). Published several books (Healthy Cities - WHO and Springer; health promotion political science - OUP; consumer health democratisation - Edward Elgar) and over 120 peer-reviewed articles, plus several dozen book chapters.

Professor Judith Green is Chair in Sociology of Health at King’s College London. Her research interests are in the sociology of public health, with a recent focus on the relationships between transport systems and health; questions of how evidence travels from one setting to another; and methodological development.  She is co-PI of the Social Sciences and Urban Public Health Institute (SUPHI).   Professor Green edits the journal Critical Public Health, and is co-author of the textbook Qualitative Methods for Health Research. She joined King’s in 2016, following posts at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London South Bank University and the United Medical and Dental Schools (UMDS) of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals. Professor Green has an undergraduate degree in Anthropology and an MSc and PhD in sociology as applied to medicine.

Dr Leigh Aldous is a Senior Lecturer in Chemistry at King’s College London. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry & Chemical Engineering from Queen’s University Belfast in 2007, after which he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Oxford. In late 2011 he moved to UNSW Sydney to start his own research group, where he is currently an adjunct Senior Lecturer. He has been a Senior Lecturer at King’s College London since 2017 and his research interests include Thermo-electrochemistry and Biomass Utilisation (for waste energy harvesting and sustainability). He is currently investigating the conversion of chemicals into useful energy and combines this with the principles of ‘green chemistry’ or ‘sustainable chemistry.’

Dr Eka Ikpe is a Lecturer in Development Economics in Africa at King’s College London and the International Lead for the African Leadership Centre and the King’s Department of International Development. She has participated in a range of policy influencing projects including: contributing to a UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Africa Report on UK Trade with Africa in a Post-BREXIT era; co-authoring a research study on security and development in the Sahel for the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa; training of Liberian legislators on security sector reform oversight; contributing to the Economic Community of West African States Conflict Prevention Framework and co-authoring the Women Peace and Security Action Plan.  She is on the Advisory Committee for Understanding and Supporting Creative Economies in Africa: Education, Networks and Policy Research Network (funded by the AHRC) and is on the editorial review board of the Journal of Leadership and Developing Societies. She holds a PhD in Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Professor Bronwyn Parry is a Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London and Head of the School of Global Affairs. Her primary research interests lie in investigating how human-environment relations are being recast by technological, economic and regulatory change.  She has developed expertise in a number of key areas: the rise and operation of the life sciences industry, informationalism, the commodification of life forms, posthumanism, applied bioethics, legal approaches to the regulation of nature, and the public understanding and reception of science. Professor Parry has undertaken comparative work on the role of international regulatory regimes, and acted as a consultant for the UN and the UK government in this capacity. She was awarded a major grant from the Wellcome Trust to investigate the social, ethical, and legal complexities of human tissue banks in the UK and has completed a collaborative international bioethics project that investigates the production, consumption, and regulation of assisted reproductive services in rural and urban centers within India.

Rob McLaughlin is Professor of Military Security Law and Director of the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society at UNSW Canberra. Prior to taking up this appointment he was on the faculty of the College of Law at the Australian National University, and from 2012-2014 he served as the inaugural Head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime’s Maritime Crime Program (for which he continues to regularly consult). Before becoming an academic, Rob served in the Royal Australian Navy for several decades as both a Seaman officer and a Legal officer. He served in surface units and submarines, and deployed to East Timor, Iraq, and on maritime border protection operations. As a lawyer, he served as Fleet Legal Officer, the Strategic Legal Adviser, Director of the Naval Legal Service, and Director of Operations and International Law in the Department of Defence. In a reserve capacity he continues to serve as an Assistant Inspector General of the Australian Defence Force. He holds degrees in history, law, and international relations, and earned his PhD at Cambridge. His research areas are law of the sea, maritime law enforcement, the law of armed conflict, and national security law. 

Professor Stephen Loo is Professor of Interdisciplinary Design and Art at UNSW Sydney. For more than 25 years, Stephen has researched, taught and practiced in the transdisciplinary nexus of art, architecture, design, philosophy, performance and science. He has published widely on biophilosophy, posthumanist ethics, ecological humanities and experimental digital thinking. Recent books include Deleuze and Architecture(2012) and Poetic Biopolitics (2016) and he is currently working on Speculative Ethologies (2018 with Dr Undine Sellbach). Stephen is a founding partner of award-winning design, architecture, interpretation and exhibition practice Mulloway Studio. He has a performance-philosophy based art practice and has shown internationally in Paris, Berlin, London, Sydney and Adelaide. Stephen has played a key role in national and international policy settings in architecture and design education as a past Chair of the National Education Committee, Australian Institute of Architects (AIA), and President of the Australian Deans of the Built Environment and Design (ADBED).

Professor Boyle joined UNSW in July 2015. He has held the roles of Pro Voice-Chancellor (Research) and Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research). In his role as the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the Division of Enterprise, he is responsible for the University’s engagement and entrepreneurship strategy.  This includes partnerships with industry, business, Government and strategic alliances including the Torch program and PLuS alliance, that he leads at UNSW.  Professor Boyle has published over 150 referred research papers in astronomy. His research interests include cosmology, quasars and astronomical instrumentation. He graduated with a BSc (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh in 1982 and obtained his PhD from the University of Durham in 1986. Professor Boyle was Director of Australia’s premier optical telescope, the Anglo-Australian telescope from 1996-2003 and Australia’s radio telescopes, CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility from 2003-2009. From 2009-2015, working with the Australian Government’s Department of Industry and Science, he successfully led Australia’s bid to co-host the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project, the world’s largest radio telescope. He led the establishment of the Murchison Radioastronomy Observatory in Western Australia (Australia’s site for the SKA telescope) and initiated the construction $188m Australian SKA Telescope at this site. Professor Boyle was elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 2006. He also shared in the 2009 Gruber Prize for Cosmology and 2015 Breakthrough Award in Fundamental Physics as a member of the Supernova Cosmology Project team for the discovery that the expansion of the Universe was accelerating. He was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2003 for services to astronomy and the Public Service Medal in the 2013 Australia Day Honours for his leadership of the Australian SKA project. 

Dr. Teresa Wu is a professor in Industrial Engineering Program at School of Computing, Informatics, Decision Systems Engineering of Arizona State University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. She is NSF CAREER award winner (2003) and ASU tenure and promotion exemplar (2006). Her main areas of interests are in Distributed Decision Support, Distributed Information System. Recently, she has been actively involved with Health informatics with collaborators from Mayo Clinic, Banner Alzheimer Institute, Duke CIVM Center, University of Nebraska Lincoln Medical Center. In 2011, she was appointed an associate professor of Radiology informatics at Mayo Clinic. She has published papers in NeuroImage, Information Sciences Journal, IEEE Transactions on Automation, Science and Engineer, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management ,  the Journal of Operations Management, ASME Transactions: Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering.

Dr. Vivoni is a hydrologist whose is interested in the interactions of water in the lithosphere, biosphere and atmosphere. His current research focuses on land surface ecohydrological processes in the semiarid southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, in particular during the summer monsoon season. Current field efforts include a small watershed study of ecohydrological interactions in the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, a regional basin study of the hydroclimatological impact of vegetation greening in the Rio Sonora in Mexico, and the study of the short and long-term effects of vegetation changes on the hydrological response in basins of northern New Mexico. In these studies, field observations and remote sensing data are used in conjunction with a distributed model to explore the underlying hydrological mechanisms and provide relevant predictions at the watershed scale. This research involves data analyses of observations, numerical modeling using parallel computing, and synthesis activities to test relevant hypotheses.

Dr. Kurt VanLehn is the Diane and Gary Tooker Chair for Effective Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. He received a Ph. D. from MIT in 1983 in Computer Science, was a post-doc at BBN and Xerox PARC, joined the faculty of Carnegie-Mellon University in 1985, moved to the University of Pittsburgh in 1990 and joined ASU in 2008. He founded and co-directed two large NSF research centers (Circle; the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center). He has published over 125 peer-reviewed publications, is a fellow in the Cognitive Science Society, and is on the editorial boards of Cognition and Instruction and the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. Dr. VanLehn's research focuses on intelligent tutoring systems, classroom orchestration systems, and other intelligent interactive instructional technology.

Dr. Sarah Stabenfeldt received her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Saint Louis University and her Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. She was awarded an NIH NRSA pre-doctoral fellowship for her doctoral thesis research on developing neural tissue engineering therapies for traumatic brain injury. As a NIH post-doctoral fellow at Emory University School of Medicine and Georgia Tech, she investigated fibrin-derived peptide-protein binding interactions, designing fibrin-based wound healing therapeutics. She joined Arizona State University’s School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering as an Assistant Professor in 2011 and leads her research team in developing regenerative medicine strategies for acute neural injury. Since joining ASU, Sarah has been awarded the Arizona Biomedical Research Consortium Early Stage Investigator Award, the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, and NSF CAREER Award.

Professor Anna Scaglione’s expertise spans the areas of statistical signal processing for communication, electric power systems and information networks. Her main research objective is advancing intelligent infrastructure, through information systems and data analysis. Specific topics include decentralized information processing in sensor networks and among social agents as well as cyber-security and demand response for reliable energy delivery.  She is a fellow of the IEEE, recipient of the 2013 IEEE Fink Award and 2000 Best paper award in the IEEE Signal Processing Society. 

Dr. Larkey’s research interests include testing theory-based methods of communicating health messages to underserved/low-income populations, community-based participatory research practices, and examining mind-body methods of alleviating symptoms in cancer survivors.

Dr. Goodnick is Deputy Director of ASU LightWorks. Steve Goodnick is an expert in solid-state device physics, semi-conductor transport, quantum and nanostructure devices and device technology, and high frequency devices. Goodnick is also the director of Arizona Institute for Renewable Energy (AIRE). Goodnick previously served as the interim deputy dean for the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering at ASU, and earlier as chair of the Fulton School’s Department of Electrical Engineering, and served as President of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association from 2003-2004. Germany, Japan and Italy are among the countries he has served as a visiting scientist.  Goodnick is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow. Other honors and awards he has received include the IEEE Phoenix Section Society Award for Outstanding Service (2002), the Colorado State University College of Engineering Achievement in Academia Award (1998), and the College of Engineering Research Award (Oregon State University, 1996). His publication record includes more than 165 refereed journal articles, books and book chapters related to transport in semiconductor devices and microstructures.

Dr. Davies is a British-born theoretical physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist and best-selling author. He is Regents' Professor and Director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science, co-Director of the Cosmology Initiative, and Principal Investigator in the Center for the Convergence of Physical Science and Cancer Biology, all at Arizona State University. He helped create the theory of quantum fields in curved spacetime, with which he provided explanations for how black holes can radiate energy, and what caused the ripples in the cosmic afterglow of the big bang. In astrobiology, he was a forerunner of the theory that life on Earth may have come from Mars. He is currently championing the theory that Earth may host a shadow biosphere of alternative life forms. In addition to his research, Davies is known as a passionate science communicator, and is in demand world-wide for media appearances and public presentations.

Dr. Baral is Professor and Chair of the School of Computing and Informatics Professor at Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering and Department of Biomedical Informatics, Biomedicine.  Dr. Baral’s expertise is in Bioinformatics Knowledge representation, reasoning and declarative problem solving. A systematic approach to designing and analyzing autonomous agents.

David Demeritt is Professor of Geography and is currently one of the editors for 'Environment and Planning A'. He is also a member of the NERC Peer Review College. Professor Demeritt's research interest are in flood risk management and climate change, risk communication, regulation and governance, and environmental politics and policy.

Dr Naho Mirumachi is Lecturer in Geography at the Department of Geography. She has research interests in the politics and governance of the environment, particularly water. Dr Mirumachi has fieldwork experience in the Orange-Senqu River basin in Southern Africa, Ganges River basin in South Asia, and the Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia, and most recently Tanzania.

Dr Linda Klavinskis is Vice-Dean of Postgraduate Research, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine. Her research interested are in both understanding and exploiting basic mechanisms by which dendritic cells control innate and adaptive immunity in the context of developing effective adjuvants for clinical use, and vaccines for infectious diseases such as HIV and Influenza A virus.

Dr Jim Bjork is a Lecturer in Modern European History and is Joint Review Editor on the Journal of Contemporary History. He has previously taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the US at the universities of Notre Dame, Rice, and Colgate. Dr Bjork's primary research and teaching interests are the social history of religion and the history of nationalisation in modern Europe.

Dr Dylan Owen is a Senior Lecturer, joint between the Department of Physics and the Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics. His research interests are in the structure and function of the cell membrane and how this regulates cellular signalling events.

Richard Holden is Professor of Economics at UNSW Business School and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow from 2013-2017. Prior to that he was on the faculty at the University of Chicago and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received a PhD from Harvard University in 2006, where he was a Frank Knox Scholar. His research focuses on contract theory, law and economics, and political economy. He has written on topics including: political districting, the boundary of the firm, incentives in organizations, mechanism design, and voting rules. Professor Holden has published in top general interest journals such as the American Economic Review and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He is currently editor of the Journal of Law and Economics, and is the founding director of the Herbert Smith Freehills Initiative on Law & Economics at UNSW. He has been a Visiting Professor of Economics at the MIT Department of Economics and Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. His research has been featured in press articles in such outlets as: The New York Times, The Financial Times, the New Republic, and the Daily Kos. Professor Holden appears regularly on PVO News Day on Sky News and writes for The Australian Financial Review. He also writes a weekly column analyzing global economic data called Vital Signs for The Conversation.

Maurice Pagnucco is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Deputy Dean (Education) of the Faculty of Engineering and Head of the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW. He joined UNSW in 2001 as a Senior Lecturer and has held the position of Head of School since 2010 and Deputy Dean (Education) since 2015. He has also held appointments at the University of Toronto, Macquarie University and The University of Sydney. He obtained his Bachelor of Science (Hons I) and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Sydney. During his undergraduate studies he also spent a year at the Department of Computer Science of The University of Milan, Italy. His research is focussed on Artificial Intelligence with particular emphasis on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Cognitive Robotics, Belief Change and Reasoning About Actions. Maurice was the programme director of the Decision Making theme in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems and a co-director of the UNSW iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research. His collaboration with the UNSW iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research resulted in a world-first interactive cinema piece controlled using artificial intelligence techniques that premiered at the Sydney Film Festival in 2011.

Professor Louisa Jorm is Foundation Director of the Centre for Big Data Research in Health at UNSW. She is an Australian and international leader in research using large-scale linked health data, including hospital inpatient, mortality, Medicare and cohort study data. She brings a unique combination of senior leadership experience both within and outside government and high-level technical expertise in epidemiologic methods, data linkage, biostatistics, use of large administrative data sets, methods for analysis of longitudinal and cohort study data and facilitating the policy and practice uptake of research. In the last 5 years she has published more than 60 scientific papers and been awarded more than AUD10 million in research funding. She has played a key role in building infrastructure and capacity for health ‘big data’ research in Australia, including the New South Wales (NSW) Centre for Health Record Linkage, the Secure Unified Research Environment (SURE) data laboratory, the UNSW E-Research Institutional Cloud Architecture (ERICA) and the NSW Biostatistical Officer Training Program. She is a high profile advocate for more and better use of routinely collected health data and has contributed to driving related policy changes in Australia, through numerous advisory roles to government.

Bronwen Morgan is Professor of Law and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. She is a socio-legal scholar with a longstanding interest in regulation and governance, changes in state formation and the increasing economisation of political discourse and practices.  Her current research interests spring from a dual interest in the socio-political implications of ecological crisis on the one hand, and on the other hand, practices that mix elements of social activism and social enterprise. She is exploring the ways in which these practices engage with (socio)-legal and regulatory frameworks, particularly as they move along a trajectory of increasingly formalised activity. The empirical focus of her current research is on transport, energy, food and space (www.activismandenterprise.weebly.com), and previous work has focused on water and more broadly on the regulatory governance of essential services, especially in the Global South. She is also interested in the sharing economy, and the degree to which its trajectories may promote or undermine a social and ecologically sustainable economy. She is running a conference in August 2016 on these issues: Building the New Economy: Activism, Enterprise and Social Change.

Jill Bennett is Professor and Director of the National Institute for Experimental Arts (NIEA) at UNSW Art & Design. Her research and practice focuses on interdisciplinary arts-led approaches to the study of human experience. She leads the Memory Lab at NIEA, and is currently investigating (with a team of cognitive neuropsychologists and artists) the use of immersive visualisation technologies to assist memory retrieval. Her most recent projects have focused on memory loss and amnesia, building on earlier pioneering work on art and traumatic memory. Through her books (such as Empathic Vision, 2005 and Practical Aesthetics, 2012) and a series of exhibitions/public projects, she has investigated the way that art engenders productive forms of empathy and social connection. She now works on “engagement science”—designing multidisciplinary research projects, which interface with the public in innovative ways. She is currently developing a major festival of arts and mental health, focused on the theme of Anxiety.

Professor Tinney is founder and head of Exoplanetary Science at UNSW.  His research is focused specifically on the use of high-precision technologies for the discovery and study of planets orbiting other stars, with his team being directly responsible for the discovery of over 50 exoplanets – most notably including the closest potentially habitable planet discovered orbiting the nearby star Wolf 1061 in 2015.  Professor Tinney is closely involved with a number of professional organisations, chairing the Optical Telescopes Advisory Committee of Astronomy Australia Limited for over 5 years, and serving on the Giant Magellan Telescope Organizations Science Advisory Committee from 2009-2016.  He is a past Director of the Australian Centre for Astrobiology based at UNSW, providing a broad and interdisciplinary context for his team’s research on the most likely platforms for life orbiting other stars.

Professor Bennett Moses is from the Faculty of Law. Her research explores issues around the relationship between technology and law, including the types of legal issues that arise as technology changes, how these issues are addressed in Australia and other jurisdictions, the application of standard legal categories such as property in new socio-technical contexts, the use of technologically-specific and sui generis legal rules, and the problems of treating “technology” as an object of regulation.  She works extensively around the use of Big Data and data analytics used for law enforcement and national security purposes. Lyria is involved with IEEE (an international engineering professional association) and currently serves as Chair of the Australia Chapter of the IEEE Society on the Social Implications of Technology.

Professor Scott Kable is the Head of Chemistry at the University of New South Wales. His research is focussed at understanding fundamental reaction mechanisms and reaction intermediates in the gas phase, with a particular emphasis on atmospheric processes. Professor Kable is also a passionate teacher and educator. He is a founding Director of the Advancing Science by Enhanced Laboratory Learning (ASELL) Project, which shares best practice and provides professional development in laboratory education to chemistry, physics and biology academics around the country. Prof Kable is on the Board of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and has twice served on the Australian Research Council College of Experts.

Scientia Professor Katharina Gaus is an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Head of the EMBL Australia Node in Single Molecule Science and Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1999 and has led an independent research group since 2005. Her group investigates signal transduction processes in T lymphocytes with advanced fluorescence microscopy approaches. She has published more than 130 peer-reviewed publications including in Nature, Cell and Nature Immunology. She was awarded the Young Investigator Award from the Australia and New Zealand Society for Cell and Developmental Biology (2010), the Gottschalk Medal from the Australian Academy of Science (2012) and the New South Wales Science and Engineering Award for Excellence in Biological Sciences (2013).

Michael Luck is Professor of Computer Science and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Mathematical Sciences. He was Head of the Department of Informatics from 2011 to 2013, where he also works in the Agents and Intelligent Systems group, undertaking research into agent technologies and intelligent systems. He is Scientific Advisor to the Board for Aerogility. His research interests centre on intelligent agents, multi--agent systems, norms and institutions, trust and reputation and agent-oriented software engineering 

Professor Diana Bowman is an associate professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. Her research analyzes and informs the development of smarter governance and regulation of innovation in order to simultaneously enhance creativity, improve public health, and stimulate deliberation of the ethical, legal, and societal dimensions of emerging technologies.

Professor Simnett is Macquarie Group Foundation Scientia Professor of Accounting and Academic Director, Centre for Social Impact, at UNSW Australia Business School.  His work has had a major influence on policy particularly on standard-setting, regulatory auditing and assurance boards.  His research has significantly shaped international standard setting and regulation. Professor Simnett was the first academic appointed as a member of the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) and he recently co-chaired the task force that developed the assurance standard on greenhouse gas emissions disclosures for the IAASB (now adopted in over 80 countries).  He was a member of the International Integrated Reporting Council working group and technical task force during 2011-2014, to develop corporate reporting model beyond financial reporting.

Professor David Sanderson is the inaugural Judith Neilson Chair of Architecture and Design at UNSW.  David has worked for 25 years in development and disaster risk reduction across the world, working mostly for aid agencies.  David was trained in architecture and holds a PhD in urban livelihoods and vulnerability.  David’s research has focused on urban livelihoods, shelter and disaster risk reduction.  Between 1998 and 2006 he worked for CARE International UK as Head of Policy and was subsequently Regional Manager for Southern and West Africa.  Before that he worked for four years at the Oxford Centre for Disaster Studies.  From 2006-2014, he was Director of the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP) at Oxford Brookes University, which was followed by 18 months as Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).  IN 2013-14, David was Visiting Professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.

Professor Bill Randolph is Director of the City Futures Research Centre in the Faculty of Built Environment at the UNSW.  He is also Deputy Director of the UNSW/UWS AHURI Research Centre and leads a research team specialising in housing policy, urban development and metropolitan planning policy issues.  Bill has 30 years’ experience as a researcher on housing and urban policy issues in the academic, government, non-government and private sectors.  He was Director of the Urban Frontiers Program at the University of Western Sydney for six years and Head of Research at the National Housing Federation in London (the national peak body for non-profit affordable housing landlords) for eight years.  During this time he spent a period of sabbatical leave at the Australian National University researching housing affordability and community housing in Australia. Bill has also worked as a research fellow at the Open University and the UK Department of the Environment.

Professor Greg Leslie is a Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering at UNSW Sydney.  He is the Director of the UNESCO Centre for Membrane Science and Technology and is engaged in research water and nutrient recycling by improving the performance of membranes used for desalination and recycling water and nutrients from municipal and industrial waste.  In agriculture his development of a Reverse Osmosis Capable Drip Irrigation System, lets plants draw water through salt filters in irrigation pipes at their roots, using tiny amounts of energy naturally created by evaporation at their leaves.

Professor Treloar is the Director of the Centre for Social Research in Health at UNSW Sydney.  She has training in Social and Health Psychology and has almost 20 years of experience in public health, health services and translational research.  She is one of the leading international experts in social research in hepatitis C prevention, care and treatment and a leading social scientist working in the field of hepatitis C prevention, care and treatment.  She has published extensively on the decisions about hepatitis C treatment and barriers/facilitators of engaging in care including collaborative projects evaluating a number of hepatitis C treatment/care models.  She has extensive involvement with policy makers and community groups around issues of access to HCV care and treatment and the participation of people who inject drugs. Carla is the Chair of PLuS Alliance Fellows at UNSW.

Professor Fleur Johns is a Professor in Law at UNSW Sydney and publishes widely in the areas of international law, socio-legal studies and legal theory.  Currently, she is engaged in new work on the use of data analytics in humanitarian aid and development work.  She has served as Articles Editor of the Leiden Journal of International Law.  She was Co-Director of the Sydney Centre for International Law at the University of Sydney and also been Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto, a Leverhulme Visiting Fellow at Birkbeck College (University of London) and she has been invited to be Shimizu Visiting Professor of Law at the LSE in London.  Prior to commencing her academic career, she practised as a corporate lawyer with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, in New York, specialising in international project finance.

Professor Eileen Baldry is Chair of Criminology in Social Sciences, at UNSW Sydney.  She has pioneered multidisciplinary research and teaching in social justice and equity across social policy, criminology, disability studies, housing and homelessness, Indigenous studies and international, social and community development. In particular, Eileen’s teaching, research and publications focus on social justice matters including mental health and cognitive disability in the criminal justice system; education, training and employment for prisoners and ex-prisoners; homelessness and transition from prison; Indigenous social work; community development and social housing; and disability services.  Professor Baldry was awarded NSW Justice Medal for improving access to justice for vulnerable people. She was shortlisted in the category of Innovation in the 2016 Australian Financial Review's 100 Women of Influence.

Professor Frank Kelly holds the chair in Environmental Health at King's College London, where he is Director of the Department of Analytical, Environmental & Forensic Sciences. His other positions of responsibility are Director of the Environmental Research Group, Director of the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Health Impact of Environmental Hazards and Deputy Director of the MRC-PHE Centre for Environment & Health. From these multiple positions he is able to combine his two main research interests, namely free radical/antioxidant biochemistry and the impact of atmospheric pollution on human health

Carolyn M. Warner is a Professor of Political Science in the School of Politics and Global Studies at ASU. Warner’s research and teaching areas are religion and politics, and the political economy of corruption. The common thread is a long-standing interest in the role of beliefs and institutional structures in shaping the behavior of religious organizations, politicians and firms. Her recent work on religion has studied two facets of it, focusing on its role in conflict, on the one hand, and in social welfare on the other. Her work on corruption has examined how political and economic competition in the European Union has created incentives and opportunities for corruption, rather than reducing corruption. She is working on a new project about the politics of sex abuse in the Catholic Church and military in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom, looking particularly at how and why the institutions handle (or mishandle) cases of sex abuse and sexual assault as they do, and whether and, if so, how the state and civil society call the institutions to account.

Senator Jon Kyl, JD, serves as senior advisor at Covington and Burling, LLP, and is a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also a distinguished fellow in Public Service in Arizona State University’s College of Public Programs, and Distinguished Scholar in the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. In September 2018, Senator Kyl announced he would be filling the Arizona Senate seat of the late John McCain. Previously, Kyl served eighteen years in the US Senate after serving for eight years in the House of Representatives. He was elected unanimously by his colleagues in 2008 to serve as Republican Whip, the second-highest position in the Senate Republican leadership, a position he held until 2013.

As a member of the Judiciary Committee, he helped write reforms to US patent law, the landmark Crime Victims’ Rights Act, as well as important provisions of the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, and other anti-terrorism laws.

As a member of the Finance Committee, he was a chief advocate of pro-growth tax policies, including low tax rates on income, capital gains, dividends, and estates. He was a member of the Joint Select Committee for deficit reduction, the so-called “Super Committee.”

Professor Irene J Higginson is Head of Department, Head of Division and Director of Cicely Saunders Institute, the first purpose built institute for research into palliative care. Professor Higginson has research interests and publications in the following areas: quality of life and outcome measurements, evaluation of palliative care especially of new services and interventions, epidemiology, clinical audit, effectiveness, psychosocial factors and care, symptom assessment, cachexia/anorexia, and elderly care.

Professor Michelle Moulds is a Professor and Director of the Master of Psychology (Clinical) program in the School of Psychology at UNSW Sydney.  Her research program is to advance understanding of how rumination and memory disturbances maintain depression.  She conducts basic science experiments in the laboratory with the long-term goal of translation to empirically supported, evidence-based interventions for depressive disorders.  In 2010 she received a Young Tall Poppy Science Award from the Australian Institute of Policy and Science, and was also named the Young Tall Poppy of the Year for NSW.  She was a finalist and first runner-up in the Scopus Young Researcher of the Year Award (Humanities and Social Sciences) in 2012 and in 2013 received the Early Career Award from the Stress and Anxiety Research Society and was made a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.

Professor Farrell is the Director of the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) at UNSW Sydney.  His research is in the area of understanding the epidemiology of alcohol and drug use, mental disorders, and harms related to alcohol and drug use.  He has contributed to the formulation of both UK and Australian national drug and alcohol policy as a researcher and advisor to Federal and state governments.  He has been an expert advisor to the WHO, and as Scientific Advisory Committee Chair of the European Centre of Drugs and Drug Addiction.  NDARC is now recognised as being amongst the top 5 international research centres on substance abuse.

Martin Prince is Professor of Epidemiological Psychiatry at the IoPPN and joint Director of the Centre for Global Mental Health, a collaboration between King’s and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His research focuses on mental health priorities in developing countries, with a strong focus on capacity building in policy, prevention, treatment and care of mental illness worldwide. He coordinates the 10/66 Dementia Research Group, a network of researchers from around the world, working together to promote research into dementia in low and middle income countries.

Amber Wutich, PhD, is an associate professor of anthropology at Arizona State University. Professor Wutich also is an affiliated faculty member for the Center for Biodiversity Outcomes and senior sustainability scientist for the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability.

Wutich’s research deals with the cultural, economic, and ecological dimensions of resource insecurity. She examines how inequity and injustice in social systems produce food and water insecurity. She also studies how people cope with resource insecurity, and what happens when they can no longer cope. Wutich’s research is based on rigorous ethnographic fieldwork, often based in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and Phoenix, Arizona. She also directs the Global Ethnohydrology Study, a long-term, collaborative, multi-site project that investigates water knowledge and management across cultures.

Wutich earned her bachelor’s degree in anthropology and Chinese language and literature and her PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Florida. In 2013, Wutich was the recipient of the Carnegie CASE Arizona Professor of the Year and the ASU Parents Association’s Professor of the Year.

Flavio F. Marsiglia, PhD, is Regents' Professor and the distinguished Foundation Professor of Cultural Diversity and Health at the Arizona State University’s School of Social Work. Professor Marsiglia is also the director of the Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center (SIRC), an exploratory center of excellence in minority health and health disparities research.

Marsiglia’s research interests include minority health and health disparities, youth drug abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention, and cultural diversity and social work. He has been the principal investigator of numerous clinical research studies, such as Familias Sanas/Healthy Families, a hospital-based intervention study aimed at improving the interconception care of Latina mothers funded by the Centers of Medicare/Medicaid Services. In partnership with several Arizona school districts and with support from the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the NIH, he and his collaborators developed and tested keepin’ it REAL – a substance abuse prevention model program for middle school students, which is now implemented across the US and internationally. The manualized and ASU-licensed intervention is now being implemented across the US and internationally.

Heather Bimonte-Nelson, PhD, joined the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at ASU in 2005 and is a Professor and behavioral neuroscience program director for the Department of Psychology. Her laboratory focuses on the cognitive and brain changes that occur during aging, develops strategies to attenuate mnemonic and neurobiological age-related alterations, and researches the role sex and hormones play in the brain and cognition during aging and neurodegenerative disease.

Bimonte-Nelson is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Arizona Alzheimer’s Consortium and has received numerous awards, including the Arizona Alzheimer’s Consortium Outstanding Young Investigator Award and the Outstanding Teacher Award from the City of Phoenix for mentoring high school students in the laboratory.

Elizabeth Wentz, PhD, is Dean of Social Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University. Professor Wentz also serves as a Professor and director of the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning and President of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science.

In 1997, she came to ASU to focus on the design, implementation, and evaluation of Geographic Information Science technologies, such as geographic information systems, remote sensing, and spatial analysis. Wentz's most current projects concentrate on water resource management and urban remote sensing.

Kerry Smith, PhD, is an emeritus regents’ professor and emeritus professor of economics for the W.P. Carey School of Business as Arizona State University and is a distinguished sustainability scientist for the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability. Professor Smith also directs the Center for Environmental Economics and Sustainability Policy in the L. William Seidman Research Institute, which serves as a link between the local, national, and international business communities and the W.P. Carey School of Business.

Before joining ASU in 2006, Smith was a distinguished professor and the director of the Center for Environmental and Resource Economic Policy at North Carolina State University.

Smith is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a university fellow at Resources for the Future, a nonprofit think tank based in Washington, D.C. He is also a fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and of the American Agricultural Economics Association.

Smith has a bachelor’s degree and doctorate from Rutgers University. His research interests include economics, modeling and simulation, land use and land cover, econometrics, climate change and adaptation, and conservation policy.

Christiana Honsberg, PhD, joined the electrical engineering faculty at Arizona State University (ASU) in 2008 and is a professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at ASU. Professor Honsberg also is a senior sustainability scientist for the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute for Sustainability at the university.

Honsberg holds a BS, MS, and PhD from the University of Delaware. Prior to joining the ASU, she was an associate professor and director for the high performance solar power program at the University of Delaware. Honsberg’s research interests include solar energy systems, semiconductors and photodetectors. She currently holds one patent in the US, Japan, and Europe and three patents are pending.

Gary Dirks, PhD, is the director of the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University and director of LightWorks, an ASU initiative that capitalizes on the university’s strengths in solar energy and other light-inspired research. Dirks is also the Julie Ann Wrigley Chair of Sustainable Practices, professor of practice in the School of Sustainability, and a distinguished sustainability scientist.

Dirks received his PhD in chemistry from ASU in 1980, and returned to ASU as the director of LightWorks in 2009. His expertise includes but is not limited to energy efficiency, conservation, and policy, bioenergy, alternative fuels and vehicles, renewable energy, and artificial photosynthesis. He was the first doctorate student to work in the Center for the Study of Early Events in Photosynthesis (now the Center for Bioenergy and Photosynthesis). 

Dirks is the former president of BP Asia-Pacific and president of BP China. In China, Dirks grew BP from an operation of fewer than 30 employees and no revenue to more than 1,300 employees and revenue of about $4 billion in 2008. He has served on the boards of the India Council for Sustainable Development, the US/China Center for Sustainable Development, and the China Business Council for Sustainable Development.

In 2003, Dirks received China’s “Friendship Award” and an honorary CMG (Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George) from the United Kingdom in 2005. In 2008, he was recognized by the People’s Daily as one of the 10 most influential multinational company leaders of the last 30 years of China’s economic development. 

Professor Evelyn Welch is Vice-Principal (Arts & Sciences) and Professor of Renaissance Studies in the Department of History, School of Arts& Humanities. Her early work centred on Renaissance Milan and fifteenth-century court culture. She later became interested in issues of consumption and went on to work with colleagues in Economic History and Cultural History, resulting in my publications on shopping, marketplaces and pedlars. Her current research interests include Renaissance and Early Modern Material culture, consumption in Early Modern Europe dress and fashion in Early Modern Europe and smell and the senses in Early Modern Europe.

Professor Sir Robert Lechler is Vice-Principal (Health) and is Executive Director of King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. His research interests revolve around transplantation tolerance; the central aim of his research is to persuade the immune system to “tolerate” the foreign organ while retaining full capability to fight off infections and cancer. He is Chair of the Clinical Trials Expert Advisory Group, as well as a member of the Academy of Medical Sciences, Medical Schools Council.

As University Dean for Educational Initiatives and CEO of EdPlus, Phil Regier is responsible for guiding Arizona State University’s expansion into online learning and establishing its leadership role in education innovation. Phil previously served as executive dean at the W.P. Carey School of Business at ASU. He’s also an accounting faculty member and has published research in leading academic journals on postretirement benefits, corporate restructuring and market-based accounting.

Mark Searle is Executive Vice President and University Provost at Arizona State University and holds the rank of Professor in the School of Community Resources and Development. Prior to this current administrative appointment, Dr. Searle served as Interim University Provost, Deputy Provost and Chief of Staff, and Vice-President for Academic Personnel. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. Earlier in his career at ASU, Mark served as the Founding Dean of the College of Human Services and as Vice President and Provost of ASU’s West campus.

Dr. Searle joined ASU after an extensive career in Canada where he was the Founding Director of the multidisciplinary Health, Leisure, and Human Performance Research Institute and head of an academic program in Recreation Studies at the University of Manitoba. Prior to his university appointment, Dr. Searle served in various management positions within municipal and provincial government. The Provincial Government of Manitoba, the National Therapeutic Recreation Society and the University of Manitoba have honored Dr. Searle for his achievements. He has been elected as a fellow of the Academy of Leisure Sciences and the Academy for Park and Recreation Administration. Dr. Searle is widely published on the relationship between leisure behaviour and the psychological well being of older adults.

Professor Edward Byrne AC is the President & Principal of King’s College London. He joined King’s from Monash University, the largest university in Australia, where he was President and Vice-Chancellor. Professor Byrne held that role from 2009. Professor Byrne is a neuroscientist and clinician by background. Professor Byrne has held many prestigious clinical and research positions in Australia and the UK, as well as advisory roles for a number of charitable bodies relating to his clinical and scientific expertise.