Biographies of Council Members
as at 5 December 2011
[In alphabetical order by surname]
CHARLES BAGOT, LLB (Hons)
Mr Charles Bagot is a commercial lawyer and company director. He practices in commercial and corporate law as a partner of Piper Alderman Lawyers and is National Head of that firm's Corporate Division. He is a graduate of the University of Adelaide and has also completed a business course at the Stanford Business School. Charles is a director of a number of companies.
GERALD BUTTFIELD
Gerald Buttfield is Manager, Health, Safety and Welfare. He joined the University in February 1983 and from 1995 to 2007 he managed various departments and schools in the Faculty of Sciences.
Gerald has a Graduate Diploma in Science and Technology Commercialisation from the University of Adelaide.
KATE CASTINE AUA, BSc, MEd (Admin), DipT. (Sec), Grad Dip Ed. Admin., FACE
Ms Kate Castine set up her own education consultancy after a successful career in the Department of Education and Children's Services as Principal of three large metropolitan high schools, as Acting Superintendent for ten schools and as Acting Superintendent Curriculum for the Department of Education. Under her leadership Marryatville High School won an SA Great Award for Music, was identified as one of Australia's leading schools by the Australian newspaper and gained international accreditation. Ms Castine is a Fellow of the Australian College of Education. Ms Castine has been a member of the Senior Secondary Assessment Board of South Australia and a member of St Marks's College Council. Passionate about education, Ms Castine has been an international marketer representing the State in Indonesia, Hong Kong, Korea and China. She has established links and exchanges with numerous schools overseas and setup a large international program in two schools. She has worked in Papua New Guinea in curriculum writing, undertaken evaluations in schools and coordinated national projects in Career and Enterprise Education.
Ms Castine is currently working with the Australian Principals Associations Professional Development Council (APAPDC) to write modules to train school leaders across Australia.
DIANNE DAVIDSON, M.Sc, B Ag Sc, Grad.Dip.Bus Admin, FAASTE, FAIAST, MAICD
Di Davidson is a Member of the Murray Darling Basin Authority. Di is an agricultural scientist, and a graduate of the University of Adelaide who has worked extensively throughout the Basin for 35 years. She has wide experience and a strong managment background in natural resources, particularly water and irrigated agriculture.
Di is also a very well known Australian viticulturalist, the founder and Managing Director of Davidson Viticulture. Di has worked in the Australian wine industry since 1975 and her consulting company has wide experience in all wine grape production regions of Australia, as well as in South Africa, New Zealand, India and China.
Di has controbuted hundreds of articles and presentations to industry journals, workshops and seminars in her career and is also the author of two books - 'A Guide to Growing Winegrapes in Australia' and 'The Business of Vineyards'. In addition to managing Davidson Viticulture, Di manages her own vineyards and contributes to several Australian Wine Industry committees and organisations. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Agriculture, Science and Technology.
CHRISTOPHER FINDLAY AM, B.Ec.(Hons), M.Ec, Ph.D(ANU), FASSA
Christopher Findlay took up the position of Executive Dean of the Faculty of the Professions in June 2011. Prior to that he was Professor of Economics and Head of School at the University of Adelaide.
Australia's economic relations with Asia are the theme of his research. A special interest is the reform and industrialisation of the Chinese economy. Professor Findlay has been especially involved in research on the textiles, steel and air transport industries in East Asia and on the implications of developments in those industries for Australia.
Since 2000, Professor Findlay has been a principal researcher in a series of major ARC-funded research projects on impediments to services trade and investment.
Professor Findlay has acted as consultant to the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, Ausaid and the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA).
His recent publications include:
- 'Transport Services', Chapter 9 in A Handbook of International Trade in Services, edited by Aaditya Mattoo, Robert M. Stern, and Gianni Zanini, Oxford University Press, 2008
- "The widening agenda of cooperation for Regional Economic Integration", ch. 25 in Hadi Soeasastro and Clara Joewono (eds), The Inclusive Regionalist: A Festchrift dedicated to Jusuf Wanandi, CSIS, Jakarta, 2007.
- 'The three pillars of stagnation: challenges for air transport reform', World Trade Review, 2006, 5(2), 251-270 (with David Round)
- 'Measuring the effects of food safety standards on China's Agricultural Exports', Review of World Economics, 144 (1), 2008 (with Chunlai Chen and Jun Yang)
Professor Findlay has a PhD and MEc from the ANU and an Honours Degree in Economics from the University of Adelaide. He became a Member of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2002 and a Member of the General Division of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2007.
Professor Findlay is the Presiding Member and Chair of the Academic Board.
HON ROBERT HILL - CHANCELLOR
15th Chancellor of the University of Adelaide, appointed 26 July 2010 to 25 July 2012.
IAN JOHN KOWALICK AM, BSc (Hons), BEc
Mr Ian Kowalick is a director and consultant. He has had senior management experience in both the private and public sectors and was the Chief Executive of the Department of the Premier and Cabinet from 1995 to 2000. From 1997 to 2000 he was also the Commissioner for Public Employment. Ian Kowalick was the Chair of the State Opera of SA and a Director of the Australian Major Performing Arts Group. He is a Director of the Playford Centre and Playford Capital Ltd, a Trustee of the Adelaide Festival Centre Trust, a Director of a resources company, Arafura Resources NL, a Director of NuPower Resources Limited and a Director of Syngas Limited.
He has served on a number of boards and committees of public corporations, or institutions, such as the Advisory Council of the CSIRO, the CSIRO Institute of Information Sciences and Engineering Advisory Council, the Technology Development Corporation and various university socommittees. He chaired the SA Government's Biotechnology Industry Advisory Council in 2002.
Ian Kowalick has been involved over many years in activities to promote the development of new technology based industries and a venture capital market in SA. He was the Managing Director of Samic Ltd, one of the early attempts to establish a venture capital industry in SA.
From 1990 to 1993 Ian Kowalick played an important role in the analysis and resolution of the financial difficulties of the former State Bank of SA and was involved in the subsequent reconstruction and sale of the Bank.
Ian Kowalick's early career was with an international consulting and technical services firm that provided technical, project management and financial consulting services to the mining industry.
SIMON MADDOCKS BAgSci(Hons), PhD, FAIAST, FAICD
Prof. Simon Maddocks is the Director, Science Partnerships with South Australian Research & Development Institute (SARDI) - the research agency of the SA Department of Primary Industries and Regions.
Prof. Maddocks graduated from the University of Adelaide with a Bachelor of Agricultural Science (Honours) degree in 1984. As an undergraduate he was elected by the student body to the Adelaide University Union Council, and chaired the Council for a term. He completed a PhD in the area of Reproductive Physiology & Immunology in 1987, and was also the recipient that year of the prestigious Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Scholarship in Medicine, the first non-medical graduate to receive this award. He has since received a number of other awards for his contributions to the field of Reproductive Biology and has worked overseas in the UK, Europe and the USA including a term as a Visiting Scholar to the University of Virginia.
He was employed by the University of Adelaide for 13 years prior to joining SARDI in 2003, and served as Head of the University's Department of Animal Science before being appointed Director of the Roseworthy Campus in 1998. He was appointed Professor of Animal Science in 2000, and in 2002 he was also appointed Acting Director of the Waite Agricultural Research Institute. He has contributed actively to a number of University Alumni initiatives and in 2003 was made an Honorary Life Member of the Roseworthy Old Collegians Association.
He is a member of various state and national Boards and Committees across the agricultural and biomedical sciences, is a Director of the Menzies Foundation and is the Chairman of the Board of the Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin.
He is a passionate agricultural and science educator and has served on various TAFE and SASSAB curriculum review and accreditation panels. He regularly gives talks to secondary school students and community groups about careers in agriculture, and on the science and ethics associated with the application of leading biotechnologies.
JAMES ALEXANDER McWHA AO, BSc, BAgr (Hons) (Belfast), PhD (Glasgow), PhD (aeg) (Adel), DSc (hc) (Massey) - VICE-CHANCELLOR AND PRESIDENT
Professor James McWha is the University of Adelaide's 19th Vice-Chancellor since 1874. He took up his appointment on 5 August 2002 following a highly successful term as Vice-Chancellor and President of Massey University in New Zealand from 1996–2002. At the time of his recruitment to Adelaide, Professor McWha was also Chair of the New Zealand Vice-Chancellors' Committee.
Professor McWha has an outstanding record as a teacher, researcher, manager of research institutes, academic administrator and communicator. A native of Northern Ireland, he graduated BSc and BAgr (with Honours in Agricultural Botany) from Queen's University Belfast in 1969 and 1970. He received his PhD from Glasgow University in 1973, prior to taking up an appointment at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, where a period as a lecturer in the Department of Botany was followed by a term as Head of the Department of Plant and Microbial Sciences.
In 1985 he returned to Northern Ireland to take up a joint appointment as Professor and Head of Agricultural Botany at Queen's University Belfast, and Deputy Chief Scientific Officer in the Northern Ireland Department of Agriculture. In 1989 he was appointed Director of DSIR Fruit and Trees in the New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, and in 1992 became foundation Chief Executive Officer of HortResearch (the Horticulture and Food Research Institute of New Zealand Ltd), a world-class fruit science company tasked with the commercialisation of publicly and privately funded research and development, including an active plant breeding program.
Professor McWha is actively involved in the higher education sector on a global level. He is the 2011–2013 president of Academic Consortium 21, an international network of leading research universities from around the world. The University of Adelaide will host the 6th AC21 International Forum in 2012.
He has served on the Council of the Association of Commonwealth Universities both for New Zealand (2001) and Australia (2005–2007), and as Honorary Treasurer of the ACU since 2007, he continues to serve on the ACU Council and on the Executive Committee. Beyond the Commonwealth, he was Secretary-General of the International Association of University Presidents from 2002–05. He played a formative role in the development of the New Zealand universities' quality assurance system, and was a Board member of the Australian Universities Quality Agency from 2003–2009.
His past and present directorships include the Board of the New Zealand Foundation for Research Science and Technology, the Board of the former New Zealand Dairy Research Institute (now Fonterra Research Centre), the Board of the American Chamber of Commerce in New Zealand, and numerous public and private companies including Industrial Research Limited and the National Institute of Agricultural Botany. He is presently a director of the Group of Eight Ltd, the coalition of Australia's leading universities, and represents the University of Adelaide on Universities Australia, the peak body representing the Australian university sector.
Under Professor McWha’s leadership, the University of Adelaide has developed and pursued interrelated strategies for growth, great research, and strong engagement with Government, industry and the wider community. The University has doubled in size to around 25,000 students, while Government-funded student places have increased by more nearly 50% since 2003, running parallel to the internationalisation of the curriculum and the student body. A four-year, $400 million capital program is now in its last phase.
Professor McWha was among the citizens of South Australia to be recognised in 2003 by the award of the Centenary Medal for his services to education, and in May 2004 was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science (honoris causa) from Massey University in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Massey and his advocacy for New Zealand's education system.
PAMELA JUNE MARTIN, LL.B
Ms Pamela Martin is a law graduate of the University of Adelaide (1970). She has practised as a legal practitioner in Adelaide since 1971 both in the private and public sectors, specialising in the commercial sector with a focus on major project work. In addition Pamela has tutored part time in Trusts at Adelaide University Law School and lectured and tutored at the Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice course.
She is currently employed by the Department of the Premier and Cabinet and holds the position of Commercial Counsel, Commercial Advice. Her duties in the Department have included the intergovernment relations area, chairing the State Statistical Priorities Committee and negotiating and managing complex major project work.
Pamela is a member of many government interdepartmental Task Forces and Committees. She is on the Board of the AustralAsia Railway Corporation, the Adelaide to Outback GP Training Program and is Chairman of the Walford Council of Governors. She has also been a Board member of the SA Affordable Housing Trust, South Australian Film Corporation, Land Management Corporation, Industrial and Commercial Premises Corporation, MFP Development Corporation and the South Australian Community Housing Authority.
FELIX PATRIKEEFF
Felix Patrikeeff completed his BA in History & Government at the University of Essex, and his D.Phil. in International Relations at St Antony’s College, Oxford. Before coming to the University of Adelaide, he taught at the Universities of Warwick, Oxford and Sydney, and from 1993-1994 served as Programme Director, International Studies at Kolej Antarabangsa, Penang, Malaysia. He has researched, supervised and published widely in the areas of Russian/Eurasian & Asian Studies, Geopolitics, Political Economy, Strategic Studies & International Relations. He is the President of the Australian Institute of International Affairs (SA Branch), Vice-President of The Australasian Association for Communist and Post-Communist Studies and is on the Management Committee of The Australasian Society for Inner Asian Studies
Research Interests
- Strategic culture, leadership and questions of identity in the International Relations of the Asia-Pacific region
- Hong Kong, China and the political economy of transition and accommodation
- The politics of Russia borderlands, Central and Inner Asia
- Émigré politics (with special reference to Russia)
- The political history of the Russian Far East
JOHN CLIVE RADCLIFFE AM BAgSc[Hons] (Adel), PhD (Oregon State) GAICD FTSE
Dr John Radcliffe, an Honorary Research Fellow in CSIRO, and Council Member of the University of Adelaide, is a former Commissioner of the National Water Commission, and was previously Deputy Chief Executive of CSIRO responsible for Divisions in the "Natural Resources Alliance" (Plant Industry, Land and Water, Marine Research, Wildlife & Ecology, Entomology, Atmospheric Research, Forestry and Forest Products). Prior to that, he was South Australian Director-General of Agriculture.
He is currently Chairman of the Commonwealth Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Eminent Scientists Group which reviews import risk assessments and also chairs the Water Forum of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.
Dr Radcliffe has served on numerous Cooperative Research Centre boards and was Visitor to the CRC for Plant Based Management of Dryland Salinity. He served as Project Director for the ARC-sponsored Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering studies "Pesticide Use in Australia" in 2001-2 and Director and author of "Water Recycling in Australia" in 2003-4.
Among numerous other appointments, Dr Radcliffe has been a member of the SA Arid Areas Catchment Water Management Board, Chairman, Executive Council, CAB International [Wallingford, Oxon.] and Chair of the Board of the South Australian Research and Development Institute. From 1985 to 1992, he was involved with establishing the Murray Darling Basin Commission, being an SA Deputy Commissioner and Commissioner. Dr Radcliffe was a foundation Trustee of the History Trust of South Australia from 1982 and its Chairman 1987-1990.
SUSIE ROBINSON BAppSci, Bsc (Hons), PhD (Cantab), GCert (Monash)
Dr Susie Robinson has most recently worked as the Acting Director in the SA Government Public Sector Performance Commission, dealing with government reform and performance issues. In that role, she had oversight of the South Australian Executive Service, building senior leadership capacity in the public sector. Former roles in the SA Government include Principal Policy Officer in both the Cabinet Office and the Department of Further Education, Employment, Science and Technology. Her early career as a civil servant was with the UK Government, in their prestigious Fast Stream Career Programme, as a senior policy adviser in innovation.
She is one of the Board of Directors for Novita Children's Services, one of South Australia's premier children's charities and a recognised and celebrated world leader in the research, development and provision of quality services to children with disabilities.
She holds a PhD (Biology) from Cambridge University, UK, and held a variety of teaching positions with colleges of the University. She also has postgraduate business management qualifications from Monash University.
She is the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, and is a Fellow of the 21st Century Trust (allianced with the Salzburg Global Seminar), an international organisation acknowledging and bringing together the rising generation of leaders worldwide from government, business, NGOs, academe, the media and other sectors.
Susie's early career involved work as an Occupational Therapist, predominantly in neurological rehabilitation and domiciliary care, including volunteer work in Thailand.
ANDREW SHEPHERD
Andrew is currently in his final year of a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) degree at the University of Adelaide.
He has been actively involved in a variety of educational medicopolitical organisations throughout his time at university. These have included the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, the Australian Medical Students’ Association, the Australian Medical Association (South Australia) and the Adelaide Medical Students’ Society.
Andrew is currently a member of the AMA(SA) Council and was last year a director and member of the Executive of the Australian Medical Students’ Association.
LOEWN STEEL
Ms Loewn Steel is the Chief Executive of Kojo Group Pty Ltd, a leading South Australian based Digital Media, Marketing and Entertainment business with offices in Adelaide and Melbourne and an international and national client base.
Prior to joining Kojo, Lowen established @radical.media, an international television commerical and content production company.
With an extensive background in Advertising and Marketing, she has had a dynamic career and brings with her strong strategic thinking skills and a vast experience in marketing in traditional and digital media in both local and global markets.
She is currently a member of the SA Motor Sports Board Advisory Committee. Previously she was President of the Adelaide Advertising and Design Club (AADC), Member of Screen Producers of Australia (SPAA) Executive, Board Member of Carrick Hill and Variety Club Executive Committee.
XU TING
Postgraduate student representative - elected 6 March 2010; re-elected 6 March 2011 - term ends 5 March 2012.
ANTHONY W. THOMAS FAA
After obtaining his PhD at Flinders University, Prof. Thomas spent 11 years in Vancouver and Switzerland where he held positions as a staff member at the TRIUMF laboratory and at CERN. He returned to a Chair in the Physics Department at the University of Adelaide in early 1984 and received a DSc from that University in 1986. He served as elected Head of the Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics from 1988-91 and President of the Australian Institute of Physics from 1991-93. He was appointed Elder Professor of Physics in 1989 (the post held by Prof. Sir William Henry Bragg, Nobel Laureate), elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 1990 and served as Vice-President from 1994-95. During the first decade at Adelaide, Prof. Thomas built a research program of sufficient international recognition that, with Prof. A. G. Williams, he was awarded an ARC Special Research Centre, the Centre for the Subatomic Structure of Matter (CSSM) in 1997. In 2004, Prof. Thomas was invited to take up the position of Chief Scientist and Associate Director for Theoretical and Computational Physics at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, one of the US Department of Energy's two major fundamental nuclear physics laboratories. As well as having line management responsibility for over 300 scientists and engineers he held responsibility for the quality of the entire scientific program of the laboratory, with its more than 1200 international scientific users. He has served as the Chair of the Working Group on International Cooperation (WG.9) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics since its inauguration in 2005.
In 2009 Prof. Thomas returned to the University of Adelaide as an ARC Australian Laureate Fellow, one of only two appointed from outside Australia. He is now Director of the University Research Centre for Complex Systems and the Structure of Matter. Prof. Thomas is also the Director of the Adelaide node of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Particle Physics at the Tera-scale, established in 2011. This Centre will coordinate Australian research at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
GERALDINE YAM LLB (Hons), BA, Dip Lang
Geraldine Yam has been Legal Counsel and Copyright Officer of the University since mid-2007. In that role, she has attained a broad understanding of the University’s activities across all Faculties and Divisions, particularly within the health sciences fields. Geraldine is well-experienced within the tertiary education sector, having previously worked at the University of South Australia for 3 years and through active involvement in the national Society of University Lawyers.
Outside of the University, Geraldine has been a long-standing participant, volunteer and administrator at several community sporting organisations.
Geraldine is a graduate of the University of Adelaide. A firm believer in lifelong learning, she is currently undertaking a Masters of Arts (International Studies) on a part-time basis.
ERIC FAN YANG
Eric Yang is in his fourth year of study for the degrees of Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical & Electronic) and Bachelor of Economics.
He has held various positions in different student groups and is a director of the Adelaide University Union.
He was awarded an Adelaide Outstanding Achiever Scholarships International in 2008 and is also a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society.
STEPHEN YOUNG, BEc, FCA, FAICD
Mr Young is the Executive Chairman of E & A Limited, a publicly listed South Australian based investment company which owns 8 operating businesses, Blucher Australia Pty Ltd, Equity & Advisory Ltd, E & A Contractors Pty Ltd, Fabtech SA Pty Ltd, Heavymech Pty Ltd, Ottoway Engineering Pty Ltd, Quarry & Mining Manufacture Pty Ltd and ICE Engineering & Construction Pty Ltd.
Mr Young is also a director of A Raptis & Sons Group, Shaw and Smith Pty Ltd and Common Ground Adelaide Limited and a council member of The University of Adelaide.
Previously Mr Young was a director of ASC Pty Ltd (formerly Australian Submarine Corporation Pty Ltd) and a member of the Premier’s roundtable, ETSA Corporation and Land Management Corporation.
Mr Young is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Institute of Company Directors and is a member and former South Australian Chapter Chairman of the Young Presidents Organization.
In prior years, Mr Young has been a member of the Premier’s Roundtable, a Director of the Adelaide Football Club, including the two premiership years of 1997 and 1998, Chairman of Michell Australia Group, a Director of ASC Pty Ltd (formerly Australian Submarine Corporation), a Member of the Boards of ETSA Corporation and Land Management Corporation and a Council Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, South Australian Division.
Mr Young was a Partner of Allert Heard & Co from 1983 to 1989, Managing Partner of Arthur Andersen, South Australia from 1989 to 1997, Partner in Charge of the Corporate Recovery Division of that office from 1989 to 1992, a member of the Worldwide Insolvency Core Group from 1990 to 1992 and Partner in Charge of the Corporate Finance Division in Adelaide from 1993 to 1997. He was a member of the Arthur Andersen Worldwide Advisory Council for a two year term commencing in 1991.
Mr Young was also a member of the board of the Adelaide Football Club from 1997 to 2000 including the two premiership years of 1997 and 1998.
Mr Young is married with 3 children and plays polo.
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