16-18 September 2009
Christchurch Convention Centre,
Christchurch, New Zealand
Plenary and Keynote Speakers
Below are biographies for each of the plenary speakers. There is a link to their abstract.
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Dr
Helen Anderson CEO, Ministery of Research, Science and Technology,
New Zealand
has been Chief Executive since February 2004. Helen was the Chief
Scientific Adviser at MoRST for five and a half years and made a significant
contribution to increasing the impact of research, science and technology
on a wide range of policy issues.
Helen came to MoRST from Earth and Ocean Sciences in Dunedin,a collaboration
between Geological and Nuclear Sciences and Otago University, where she was director. Her
research emphasis was on seismology. Helen holds a PhD from Cambridge University
and was awarded a Fulbright Senior Research Scholarship for study at the University
of California in 1990. In
December 2000 Helen was jointly awarded the New Zealand Geophysics prize for
an outstanding geophysics paper. In 2002 Helen was awarded a Chevening
Aoteoroa Public Science Fellowship.
Abstract
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Further notes on the MoRST website
Dr Rod Carr was appointed Vice-Chancellor at the University
of Canterbury on 1 February 2009. Previously Dr Carr had been Managing Director
of Jade Software Corporation Ltd, joining Jade in July 2003 after
a distinguished career in the banking sector, most recently as Acting
Governor of New Zealand's central bank, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.
During a five year career at the Reserve Bank he played a key management
role as a director and Deputy Governor, including five months as Acting
Governor. Prior to this Dr Carr was a senior executive at the National
Australia Bank (NAB) in Melbourne, Australia. During his 11 year career
in commercial banking, Dr Carr worked in senior executive and management
roles spanning many aspects of the business. Dr Carr holds a PhD in Insurance
and Risk Management from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, an
MBA in Finance, MSc in Applied Economics and undergraduate degrees in law and
in economics. In 2005 Dr Carr accepted an invitation to become a Fellow of
the New Zealand Institute of Management and in 2006 Dr Carr was named NZ Hi-Tech
Company Leader of the Year.
Abstract
Dr Garth Carnaby is President of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Garth recently retired as Chief Executive Officer, Canesis Network Limited to start his own private business, G A Carnaby & Associates Limited, where he will focus on governance, consultancy and research roles which interest him intellectually. He spent the first twenty years of his career researching the application of mathematics and physics to the industrial utilization of the New Zealand wool clip. Other interests relate to the mechanical processing of wool and to textile technology generally. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in recognition of this research in 1992, at a period when his own interests were diversifying into a much wider range of leadership, business and commercial activities.
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Dr
Ian Carter is
currently the Director of Research and Enterprise at the University of
Sussex, where he is responsible for the research and knowledge exchange
portfolio, including the University's research strategy and policy development,
oversight of all externally-funded research and knowledge exchange, and
the Doctoral School. Ian's career has spanned the capital engineering
industry, an interdisciplinary research centre, and university administration
and management. He played a leading role in the introduction of full
economic costing nationally, and has also been involved in the RAE processes.
He sits on the UK Research Councils' Joint Grants Processing Steering Group,
was a member of the Research Councils' Dual Support Reform Project Board.
He is a member of the BUFDG Costing and Pricing Group, and of that Group's
Technical Advisory Sub-Group. His is a member of the HEFCE's Technical
Sounding Board for the Research Excellence Framework, of the Expert Panel
overseeing RCUK's Study on Open Access to Research Outputs, and of UK's
working group on managing open access publication fees. He is the Chair
of the Association of Research Managers and Administrators (UK), and a
member of the International Committee of the US-based Society of Research
Administrators International, and is a current Distinguished Faculty of
that society. Ian is a Chartered Engineer, and a member of the Institution
of Electrical Engineers and the Chartered Management Institute.
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Prof Peter Gluckman Chief Science Advisor to the New Zealand Prime Minister. Peter is a Distinguished Professor of Paediatric and Perinatal Biology, and Director of the Liggins Institute for Medical Research and the National Research Centre for Growth and Development at The University of Auckland. His research examines the factors during pregnancy that create a healthy start to life, in particular how a baby’s environment from conception to birth determines its childhood development and lifelong health. The recipient of numerous professional accolades, he is Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to medicine and in 2001 received New Zealand’s top science award, the Rutherford Medal. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society of London, and the only New Zealander elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science in the United States and the Academy of Medical Sciences of Great Britain.
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Dr
Janet Halliwell Research Strategist, Canada, is the
Principal of JE Halliwell Associates Inc, a company established to offer
value-added services in policy and management consultancy relating to post-secondary
education and science and technology, particularly publicly-funded R&D.
Recent projects include chairing the majority of the Outcomes Measurement
Study reviews for the Canada Foundation for Innovation; policy and program
development for the Canada Excellence Research Chairs for the Tri-Council;
developing a handbook on the governance and management of "big science" for
CFI, the Tri-Council, NRC and Genome Canada; and assessing the research literature
on the nexus between teaching and research for the Higher Education Quality
Council of Ontario. Janet holds degrees from Queen's University in Kingston
and the University of British Columbia. She has received honorary doctorates
from seven Canadian universities and is a recipient of the Walter Hitschfeld
Prize for university research administration.
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Hon Pete Hodgson, currently spokesperson on immigration and
spokesperson for defence in the New Zealand government. Previously Minister
for Research, Science and Technology in the New Zealand government. Pete Hodgson is a former veterinarian who has been the MP for Dunedin North since 1990. Born and raised in Whangarei, he practised as a vet in Canterbury in the early 1970s and in England in the early 1980s. He has also worked as a high school science and mathematics teacher and manager of a range of small businesses. In the late 1980s he was employed by the Labour party as a marginal seats organiser and he has an ongoing involvement with Labour's political strategy.
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Prof Mike Kelly Born in New Plymouth, educated at Francis
Douglas Memorial College, Victoria University of Wellington (MSc 1971, Hon.DSc
2002) and University of Cambridge (PhD 1974, DSc 1992). Fellow of Trinity Hall
(1974-81, 1989-92 2002-). SRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow 1977-1981. Member
of Research Staff GEC Hirst Research 1981-1992 (invention and development of
two new families of microwave devices for applications in automotive radar),
and part-time secondment to Cavendish Laboratory (1988-1992). Professor of
Physics and Electronics at the University of Surrey 1992-2002, Head of School
of Electronics, Computing and Mathematics (1996-2001). Prince Philip Professor
of Technology, University of Cambridge 2002- (research on the manufacturability
of nanostructures), Executive Director, the Cambridge-MIT Institute 2003-5,
Chief Scientific Advisor to Department of Communities and Local Government
2006-9, Non-Executive Director, the Laird Group plc 2006-. Fellow of the Royal
Societies of London and New Zealand, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
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Steve Maharey is the Vice-Chancellor of Massey University. Prior to this he was the fourth
ranked Minister in Government for nine years holding a variety of positions
including Minister of Education and Minister of Research, Science and Technology. Steve
Maharey was responsible for the reforms of the tertiary education sector that
began in 2003 and oversaw the establishment of the New Zealand’s Tertiary Education
Commission. Prior to entering Parliament he was a Snr Lecturer in Sociology.
Earlier in his career he was a Jnr. Lecturer in Business Administration, and
a Lecturer in Sociology. His academic interests include social policy, media,
cultural studies, social change and politics. He has served as an elected City
Councillor. He was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of
Merit (CNZM) in 2009.
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Dr Wayne Mapp New Zealand Minister for Research, Science and Technology. Minister Mapp was educated at Reporoa College, Auckland University (LLB Hons), University of Toronto (LLM) and the University of Cambridge (PhD in international law). He was a commissioned officer in the NZ Territorial Army(3 Auckland North Regiment) where he specialised in military intelligence, infantry and signals. His career has involved both private legal practice(commercial law and litigation) and as Associate Professor of Commercial Law (international trade law, taxation & constitutional issues) at Auckland University, 1994-1996. Wayne entered Parliament in 1966.
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Dr Alastair Robertson oversees science strategy and investment in CSIRO with particular responsibility for the management and development of the National Research Flagship program, the Science Investment Process, CSIRO's Science Performance Framework and Science Into Policy. Dr Robertson was appointed Deputy Chief Executive in June 2007. In this position he chairs the Flagship Oversight Committee and the Executive Team’s Science Subcommittee, which together cover the governance processes for strategic science investment, and science oversight and performance.
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Dr Ray Shaw completed a PhD in Extractive Metallurgy
at Melbourne University and after two years further research at Imperial
College joined Rio Tinto in 1978. He spent the next 30 years focussed mainly
on technologies for improved processing of minerals and metals with particular
emphasis on reducing energy. He recently left Rio Tinto and is now becoming
active with several universities in the role of Visiting/Adjunct Professor
and in providing consulting services to the minerals industry in the Technology/R&D
area. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering,
and is widely involved in the external technical community within Australia
and overseas.
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Prof Margaret
Sheil CEO Australian Research Council, Australia. Before joining the ARC, Professor Sheil held the post of Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Wollongong (UOW) for five years, where she was responsible for the whole spectrum of research and development, including commercialisation. She has had a long association with the ARC as a member of the Expert Advisory Committee for Physics, Chemistry and Geosciences and the ARC Quality and Scrutiny Committee. Professor Sheil's research interests encompass the study of biomolecular interactions and applications of mass spectrometry to biological problems. She is a former President of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Mass Spectrometry and Australian representative to the International Mass Spectrometry Foundation and was an Editor of Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry in 2006-07.
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Dr Andrew West is CEO of AgResearch Ltd, New Zealand's
principal research organisation supporting the country's dairy, meat and
wool industries. He is a director on a range of associated biotechnology
companies. Prior to this he was Executive Chairman of the Tertiary Education
Commission, the New Zealand Government's funding & regulatory agent
for every aspect of post-school education. In that role he oversaw the
Commission's establishment and its introduction of a radically-new system
for investing in university research, the Performance-Based Research Fund.
Dr West has also been Chief Executive of the New Zealand Qualifications
Authority, the agency that sets educational standards and assesses all
secondary school students' academic performance, and Chief Executive of
the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd, New Zealand's principal
research organisation in earth and planetary sciences.
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