Dr Megan Clark: Chief Executive and CSIRO Board member

• Profile
• Public presentations
• Curriculum Vitae

Profile

Dr Megan Clark is a member of the:

• St Vincent’s Hospital Foundation Board
• Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council
• Automotive Industry Innovation Council
• Great Barrier Reef Foundation Chairman's Panel.

She began her career as a mine geologist and subsequently worked in mineral exploration, mine geology, research and development management, venture capital and technical strategy areas with Western Mining Corporation for fifteen years.

More recently she was Vice President Technology and Vice President, Health, Safety, Environment, Community and Sustainability with BHP Billiton. Dr Clark served on the Expert Panel for the Review of the National Innovation System.

She participated in the 2008 Australia 2020 Summit discussing the future of the Australian economy.

Public presentations

• A new era of discovery - presentation by Dr Megan Clark
• ABC Radio Australia - interview with Dr Megan Clark [external link]
• Boosting the growth of the biotechnology sector - presentation by Dr Megan Clark
• Sustainable Agriculture: Feeding the World - presentation by Dr Megan Clark
• National Press Club - presentation by Dr Megan Clark
• ANU Conferring of Degrees - presentation by Dr Megan Clark
• Generating and transforming new industries - presentation by Dr Megan Clark
• The future of Australian manufacturing - presentation by Dr Megan Clark
• Reading the greenhouse future - presentation by Dr Megan Clark
• Growing the green collar economy - presentation by Dr Megan Clark
• Safeguarding agriculture and the environment - presentation by Dr Megan Clark

Curriculum Vitae

Dr Megan Clark DSc, PhD, BSc, FTSE, GAICD

Qualifications

• Bachelor Science with Honours in Economic Geology University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 1981
• Doctor of Philosophy in Economic Geology Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 1987.

Current positions

• CSIRO Chief Executive
• Member, Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC)
• Member, St Vincent's Hospital Foundation Board
• Member, National Research Infrastructure Committee
• Panel Member, Automotive Industry Innovation Council.

Previous positions

• Member of the Advisory Board of the Ian Wark Research Institute for Particle Science
• Member, National Innovation Review Panel – Australia
• Vice President Health, Safety, Environment, Community and Sustainability, BHP Billiton
• Vice President Technology, BHP Billiton, 2003-08
• Director, NM Rothschild and Sons (Australia), 2001-03
• Member of the Australian Research Council Collaborative Grants Committee in the areas of engineering and geosciences
• Various positions with WMC Resources till 1999 culminating in Manager New Business Technology
• Member of Board of A J Parker Co-operative Research Centre
• Director, Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing
• Member of the CSIRO Minerals Sector Advisory Council
• Prime Minister’s Science Engineering Innovation Council – Working Group on China and India.

Memberships

• Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
• Graduate of the Institute of Company Directors.

Awards and Honours

• Elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology Science and Engineering, 2006
• Honorary Doctor of Science Degree awarded by University of WA, 2006.

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• New Chief Executive of CSIRO (Media release 3 Sep 08)