Dr James Bradfield Moody, Executive Director, Development.

Dr James Bradfield Moody: Executive Director, Development

Dr James Moody is responsible for CSIRO's Business Development activities, international footprint and connections in the innovation system.

• 18 March 2011 | Updated 14 October 2011

Overview

• Current activities
• Background
• Academic qualifications
• Professional activities

Current activities

With a background in strategic management and global partnerships, Dr James Bradfield Moody is CSIRO's Executive Director, Development.

In this role he connects CSIRO with Australian and international government and industry partners. 

This role combines Dr Moody's love for science with his experience in innovation and passion for the future.

Dr Moody is also a regular panel member of ABC TV's The New Inventors and is the co-author of The Sixth Wave: How to succeed in a resource-limited world.

Background

Trained as an electrical engineer, Dr Moody was previously Chief Systems Engineer for FedSat, the first Australian Satellite to be launched in 30 years.

For his doctoral work, Dr Moody undertook research on the application to the international and Australian satellite industries of Complex Product Systems (high-cost, complex systems embodying customised, interacting sub-assemblies and components). 

Dr Moody was formerly the Managing Director of Natural Resource Intelligence (NRI), which provided environmental, social and economic intelligence to assist organisations in monitoring and evaluating land and natural resources to meet their business and environmental objectives.

He joined CSIRO in December 2004 as Director, Divisional Business Strategy for CSIRO Land and Water, responsible for developing new business opportunities and improving business practices. 

Dr Moody was a member and executive secretary of the taskforce on Science and Technology for the Millennium Development Goals and was invited to attend the World Economic Forum as a Global Leader of Tomorrow in 2003.

Academic qualifications

Dr Moody has been awarded a:

• Bachelor of Information Technology from the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland
• Bachelor of Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineering, also from the Queensland University of Technology
• Graduate Diploma in Accounting from Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria
• Doctorate from the National Graduate School of Management, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.

Professional activities

Dr Moody is an Australian National Commissioner for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and was previously the co-facilitator and Australian representative of the 40-strong youth advisory council to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).

He was also a founder and co-chair of the Space Generation Advisory Council in support of the UN Program on Space Applications and a member of the Science and Technology delegation to the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002. 

In January 2005, he was selected by the World Economic Forum as one of their Young Global Leaders. He is also a member of the Forum's Global Agenda Council on the Intellectual Property System.

Dr Moody sits on a number of advisory boards, including the Australian Bureau of Statistics and previously the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. 

He is also a board member of the Brisbane Institute in Queensland and is a member of the Australian Museum’s Research and Collections Advisory Committee (RACAC) providing advice on directions for research and collections policy

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