Board of Governors

The Honourable Michael Egan (Chair)
Mr Egan is currently the Chancellor of Macquarie University and is a former Treasurer of NSW. During his 25-year parliamentary career, Mr Egan held a number of ministerial positions and still remains the longest serving Treasurer of NSW (1995-2005).

Mr John Samaha (Deputy Chair)
Mr Samaha has advised business and government on legal and strategic matters and risk management since 1984. He has represented clients in disputes, Court proceedings, mediations and regulatory investigations. He was at a leading firm, Mallesons Stephen Jaques, from 1988 to 2007 where he was a partner from 1995 to 2007.

Dr Teresa Anderson
Dr Anderson is the Director of Clinical Operations, Sydney South West Area Health Services. She is on the State Surgical Taskforce and a Board member of the Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, University of UNSW and was previously the General Manager of Liverpool Hospital.

The Honourable John Brown AO FAMI
Formerly the Member for Parramatta in the Federal House of Representatives for 13 years from 1977, Mr Brown held various Ministerial portfolios including Arts, Sports, Environment and Territories. In 1986, he was named Australian of the Year by The Australian newspaper and was the founding Chairman of the Tourism Task Force (now the Tourism and Transport Forum) and is the Founder and Patron of the Sport and Tourism Youth Foundation.

Mr Joseph Carrozzi
Mr Carrozzi is a National Managing Partner at accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is responsible for managing relationships with some of the largest organisations in Australia, both ASX100 listed companies and also a number of major multi-nationals operating in Australia. Mr Carrozzi has lead PwC's client service program in Australia, focusing on the strategy for growth and service quality. He has supported a number of the firm's charity partners such as Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. He is admitted as a Barrister at Law in NSW, a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and a Fellow of the Tax Institute of Australia.

Mr Alastair Davidson MICA (Scot)
Mr Davidson has held executive positions in the banking and financial services industry for 15 years in the UK, US and Australia. He is currently Managing Director of Aurora Funds Management in Sydney. Prior to this, Mr Davidson was at Salomon Smith Barney in Sydney, where he spent eight years as co-head of its new product group, specialising in equity derivatives.

Professor John Horvath AO
Professor Horvath is the Chief Medical Officer for the Australian Government. He is the principal medical adviser to the Minister of Health and the Department of Health and Ageing across the full range of professional health issues, including health and medical research, public health, medical workforce, quality of care, evidence-based medicine, biosecurity issues and an outcomes-focused health system. Prior to his appointment as Chief Medical Officer in September of 2003, Professor Horvath was a Professor of Renal Medicine at the University of Sydney and a specialist renal physician at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He was awarded an Order of Australia in January 2001 for his services to medicine.

Mr Ken Cahill
Mr Cahill is currently the Executive Director of Royal PrinceAlfredHospital and has held a number of senior management positions in New South Wales Health.  Prior to his current appointment he was General Manager of the Central Coast Health Service.  He was formerly a Radiographer and was Chief Radiographer at Royal PrinceAlfredHospital from 1990 to 1997. Mr Cahill has a Master of Public Health from WesternSydneyUniversity.

Mr Graham Kelly
Mr Kelly is non-executive Chairman of Tishman Speyer Office Trust, Centrebet International Limited, and a non-executive director of several companies including Babcock & Brown Wind Partners Limited, FreshFood Australia Holdings Pty Limited and Oasis Fund Management Limited. He is a consultant to Freehills law firm, and was until recently the Inspector of the Independent Commission Against Corruption and a Director of the Medical Research and Compensation Foundation. Mr Kelly served as Managing Partner of the Sydney/Brisbane/Canberra offices of major Australian law firm, Freehills, from 1991-1995, and also as National Chairman of the Firm from 1993-1995. He was formerly Chairman of Cyptome Pharmaceuticals Limited.

Mr Neil Lawrence
Mr Lawrence is currently the Executive Creative Director of Australia's largest advertising group, STW Group, having worked in the advertising industry for over 20 years. His clients include: The Commonwealth Bank, Apple, Sony, Mitsubishi, The Federal Government, Cadbury, Masterfoods, St George Bank, Colgate, American Express, AAPT, FOXTEL, The Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald, Qantas and many charities such as the Fred Hollows Foundation and the Garvan Institute. In 2007, Mr Lawrence was named Australian Marketer of the Year for his crafting of the Australia Labor Party's successful Kevin07 federal election campaign.

Dr Susan Pond AM
Dr Pond has a strong scientific and commercial background having held executive positions in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry for 12 years, most recently as Chairman and Managing Director of Johnson & Johnson Research Pty Limited (2003-2009). Dr Pond has a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (Hons 1) degree from the University of Sydney, a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of New South Wales and Doctor of Science and Doctor of Medicine honoris causa degrees from the University of Queensland. She has specialist clinical credentials in internal medicine, clinical pharmacology and clinical toxicology. Dr Pond was a faculty member of the Department of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco for six years and the University of Queensland thereafter, where she was appointed to a Personal Chair. Dr Pond has a very extensive publication and patent filing record. She has held many Board positions including as Chairman of the Australian Drug Evaluation Committee (ADEC), Executive Director of Johnson & Johnson Pty Limited and non-executive Director & Chairman of AusBiotech Limited. Currently, Dr Pond serves on the Scientific & Commercialisation Board of the Australian Institute for Bioengineering & Nanotechnology and the Board of Trustees for Australia's Virtual Herbarium.

Professor Bruce Robinson
Professor Robinson is Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney and Head of the Cancer Genetic Laboratory at the Kolling Institute. In 2003, he was awarded the Daiichi Prize by the Asia and Oceania Thyroid Association for this work on the pathogenesis of thyroid cancer. Professor Robinson is the Founding Chairman of Hoc Mai, the Australia Vietnam Medical Foundation, which sponsors and supports medical nursing, allied health and scientific exchanges between Australia and Vietnam. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Professor Mathew Vadas
Professor Vadas trained in medicine at the University of Sydney and as a physician at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital before completing a doctorate at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne. After postdoctoral work at Harvard, he returned to Australia and built up a significant research enterprise in Adelaide. He was a chief initiator and Inaugural Director of the Hanson Centre for Cancer Research (now Hanson Institute). Professor Vadas has contributed strongly to the Australian biotechnology sector, being involved variously as founder, Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board and acting CEO of two ASX listed biotechnology companies. He served as chair of the Medical Research Advisory Committee of the Australian Cancer Research Foundation for five years before stepping down in 2007. He currently serves on the Board of Governors of the SMILE Foundation and Arts & Health Foundation.