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Professor Alan Robson AM is the former Vice Chancellor of The University of Western Australia.

A former Chair of the Group of Eight Universities (2007-2010), he was Deputy Chair of Universities Australia (2005-2011); Deputy Chair of the Council of the National Library (1998-2005); a member of the Western Australian Science Council (2003-2009) and the CSIRO Board (2003-2008).

Professor Robson is a former winner of the Australian Medal of Agricultural Science.  In 2003, he was made a Member of the Order of Australia, and awarded a Centenary Medal.  In 2009, Professor Robson was made a Citizen of Western Australia and was Vice Chancellor of UWA for eight years

Emeritus Professor John Ralston is an internationally recognised expert in colloid and surface chemistry and their application in metallurgical engineering and technology. He is also the founding Director and driving force behind the establishment of The Ian Wark Institute at the University of South Australia.

Throughout his career he held invited Professorships in Cape Town, Lulea, Bristol, Utah and Florida and holds an Honorary Doctorate from the Abo Akademi in Finland, as well as Honorary Professorships in Materials Science and Engineering at Tianjin University in China and the Graduate School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo.

Professor Chris Baker is the Ohio State Research Scholar in Integrated Sensor Systems at The Ohio State University.

Until June 2011 he was the Dean and Director of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the Australian National University (ANU). Prior to this he held the Thales-Royal Academy of Engineering Chair of intelligent radar systems at UCL.

He has been actively engaged in radar system research since 1984 and is the author of more than 200 publications. He is the recipient of the IEE Mountbatten premium (twice), the IEE Institute premium and is a Fellow of the IET. He is a visiting Professor at the University of Cape Town, Cranfield University, UCL, the University of Adelaide and Wright State University.

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith attended The London Hospital Medical School in Whitechapel gaining an MBBS from London University.

She trained as a histopathologist with a Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists and an interest and further Fellowship in Oral Pathology.  Dr Lomax-Smith has a PhD in renal immunology from the University of Adelaide and has worked in London, Adelaide and Boston in laboratory research, clinical pathology and private practice.

She was Lord Mayor of the City of Adelaide from 1997-2000 and was elected to the South Australian Parliament (House of Assembly) in 2000, serving as a Minister eight years. More recently she has been the Chair of the Higher Education Base Funding Review for the Australian Government and is currently the Chair of the Board of the South Australian Museum and a member of the Board of Directors of the Jam Factory.