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Board of directors
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Hon Wayne Martin AC QC - Chair In 2012, he was appointed a Companion in the General Division of the Order of Australia "for eminent service to the judiciary and to the law, particularly as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, to legal reform and education, and to the community". He has held many positions as Chairman or Patron, and is also the Lieutenant Governor of Western Australia. He was appointed inaugural Chair of the Judicial Council on Cultural Diversity in 2013 and served in that capacity until 2017. He retired from the office of Chief Justice in July 2018. |
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Professor Peter J Leedman – Director |
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Dr Stephen Davis |
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Mrs Jan Stewart PSM |
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Mr Roger Port |
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Laurence Iffla Mr Iffla was Non-Executive Director of the Perkins from March 2005 and Chairman of the Board from 20 May 2009 until 31 December 2018. He is a partner in the legal firm of Iffla Wade and prior to that was a partner for 25 years with the national legal firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques. He practices primarily in the area of commercial property law, State taxes and trusts and joint ventures. Mr Iffla is a non-executive Director of the Perron Group and is Chairman of not-for-profit body Future Living Trust Inc. He is a former member of the Council of Law Society of Western Australia and previously held the position of Treasurer at the Society. |
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Professor Dawn Freshwater Professor Dawn Freshwater joined the Board in 2017. Professor Freshwater is the Vice-Chancellor of The University of Western Australia. Professor Freshwater received her doctorate at the University of Nottingham in 1998 and has been the recipient of numerous awards. She was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal College of Nursing in 2001. As an active academic Professor Freshwater serves on the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s Research Excellence Framework panel; reviews and acts in an advisory capacity for the National Institute for Health Research and Medical Research Council and to the National Institute for Clinical Excellence. She contributes to clinical academic fellowship panels and to awards of doctoral training centres. She sits on the NHMRC Women in Science Committee and leads the Athena Swan pilot for UWA. |
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Professor Steve Wesselingh Professor Wesselingh joined the Board in 2018. In October 2011 Professor Wesselingh took up the position as the inaugural Executive Director of the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI). Professor Wesselingh has also been appointed as the Infection and Immunity Theme Leader for the institute. Professor Wesselingh was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University, from 2007-2011. Prior to taking up the Deanship, he was Director of the Burnet Institute an independent medical research institute specialising in infectious diseases, immunology and public health. Professor Wesselingh undertook his undergraduate and doctoral training at Flinders University/Flinders Medical Centre in South Australia and his post-doctoral training at Johns Hopkins in the United States. Professor Wesselingh is an Infectious Diseases Physician and researcher in Neurovirology, HIV and vaccine development. |
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Professor Simon Biggs (alternate director) Professor Simon Biggs joined the Board in 2018. He is Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor at The University of Western Australia (UWA), a role he commenced in March 2018. His portfolio responsibilities include Science; Health and Medical Sciences; Engineering and Mathematical Sciences; Arts, Business, Law and Education; Human Resources; and Innovation and Industry Engagement. Professor Biggs has academic experience at senior levels in Australia and the UK. Before his UWA appointment, Professor Biggs was Executive Dean for the Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology at the University of Queensland. Previously, he was in academic roles at the University of Leeds (UK), the University of Newcastle (NSW Australia), and held post-doctoral positions at the Institut Charles Sadron (Strasbourg, France) and the University of Melbourne (VIC Australia). His undergraduate and doctoral education was undertaken in the UK at the University of Bristol from where he has a PhD in Colloid Science. He is an elected Fellow of both the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering. Professor Biggs is a director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities (CRCWSC) Board, and the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research Board. |
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