Mack Williams was the Ambassador to the Republic of Korea, where he resided for four years from 1994 to 1998. He was also Ambassador to the Philippines from 1989 to 1994. Prior to that, Mack held senior positions in DFAT before that where he was responsible for Australian participation in the United Nations and other international organisations and the overseas information and cultural programs. Earlier posting in the Department include High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Dep. High Commissioner in Port Moresby, postings in Belgium and the EEC, Vietnam, Cambodia and the US where he was responsible for Asian affairs.

Mack was born 1939 and educated at Fort Street Boys High School. He completed a BA (Hon) in 1960 at the University of Sydney. He returned to Sydney in 1998 to pursue interests in business and the wider community.

Mack has been Vice President of the Australia/Korea Business Council since 2000 and a Member of the Board of the Australia Korea Foundation since 1998. He has been a Council Member of the Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific at the University of Sydney since 1998, as well as a Senior Adviser to the ASEAN Focus Group Pty. Ltd. since 1999.

Mack was awarded the Korean Presidential Order of Merit for Diplomatic Service in 1998 and became an Honorary Fellow of the University of Sydney Senate in 1996. He was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of San Carlos, Philippines, for services to education. He is also a Member of the Heritage Committee, Glebe Society. Mack and his wife are enjoying their return to Sydney after nearly forty years overseas or in Canberra. Mack is an avid sports fan and enjoys his golf and the beach.

David is responsible for management of the CRC in terms of research and development, education, contract administration, commercialisation and general operations. He successfully led the bid for Environmental Biotechnology CRC to secure $19.5m of Commonwealth funding for 7 years.

He was the Executive Director of Waste Management & Pollution Control CRC Ltd from 1996.
Prior to joining the CRC he worked in industry and government as well as academia. He has extensive management, technical and policy experience in terms of resource development and resource management in all aspects of pollution management.

He is a Non-Executive Director of two Australian publicly listed companies specialising in environmental technologies, and the President of the International Water Association.

As the Executive Director of Environmental Biotechnology CRC, he plays a key role in managing the CRC to ensure that it meets its agreed performance under the Commonwealth Agreement Australia as well as meeting members' aspirations.

Ross has a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science from the University of New England, and a Master of Science in Mining and Exploration Geology from James Cook University. He has had a distinguished career in the geosciences in addition to wide corporate and general management experience.

He was with Esso Australia Ltd for 19 years which included 4 years as a petroleum geologist involved in all aspects of oil exploration and production geology and geophysics in major oil fields (Southeast Australia, Malaysia and Gulf of Mexico) and 5 years as Minerals Exploration Manager. From 1986-1991 he was Exploration Manager then General Manager of Boulder Gold NL a listed international mining and exploration company, which apart from gold mining had a strong focus on chromite and ferrochrome, and by extension steel making.

From 1991 to 1998 he was Executive Director of Australian Coal Research Limited and represented the coal industry on various CSIRO Advisory Committees and two International Energy Agency bodies. Following success in this role he was invited to be CEO of the Australian Meat Processor Corporation from 1998 until his retirement in 2006. Since then he has consulted actively in various roles related to his earlier careers.

Keith is an experienced Chief Executive and company Director with a history of successfully building new businesses in the biotechnology, agribusiness and government sectors.

Prior to joining EBCRC he was Chief Executive Officer of AgResearch Ltd., New Zealand’s largest Crown Owned Research Institute. Prior to that he was Chief Scientist and then Executive Director of Primary Industries for the Department of Natural Resources and Environment in Melbourne, and worked in a number of positions for the New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.

Keith’s depth of experience in commercialising research outcomes, building new businesses and brand identities (he has been involved in establishing ten new companies), acquisition, and company governance, is well suited to progressing commercial aspects of EBCRC business.

Prof. Anthony Cheshire has worked for the last 25 years as a marine ecologist and environmental scientist including roles in private industry, government, and the higher education sector. He is currently Managing Director of SMU Pty Ltd (Science to Manage Uncertainty) a company established to provide commercial science management and advisory services to research providers, government and industry in Australia and across the SE Asian region. Over the last ten years he has held a number of executive management roles including: Head of the Department of Botany at the University of Adelaide, Chief Scientist (Aquatic Sciences) at the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) and Director of Research and Development (SARDI).

In addition to his role on the Board of the EBCRC, Anthony is also on the Board of the CRC for Sustainable Finfish Aquaculture (Aquafin), Chairs (or is a member of) a range of Ministerial and Government advisory committees and also holds an affiliate position as Professor with the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Adelaide. He is a member of a range of science based professional associations and is also a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Anthony's major research interests include the development of field methods and models to better understand environmental impacts in marine coastal systems. He has spent much of the last 15 years working in both Australia and SE Asia in the development of rapid assessment methodologies to support environmental impact assessments of coastal systems and thereby to support the development of more effective systems for environmental management. More recently Prof. Cheshire has been working to develop molecular tools to detect environmental impacts associated with finfish aquaculture.

Prof Piper has extensive expertise and experience gained over 30 years of research in lasers, optics and photonics, and applications in micro fabrication. In the area of gas lasers, he has a strong international reputation for research in continuous wave metal ion, cyclic pulsed metal vapour lasers and metal ion recombination lasers; outcomes include developments of new high-power copper vapour laser technologies of international importance due their application in a variety of industrial laser processes. Research on beam quality and nonlinear frequency conversion of high-power copper lasers has led development of new ultraviolet laser sources which also have important industrial applications in microfabrication. He has also undertaken extensive developments of tunable dye laser cavities, particularly for copper laser pumped dye lasers, work which has resulted in several widely cited publications which have formed the basis of many subsequent dye laser designs used commercially, and in various major national programs relating to the nuclear industry.

His research in solid-state lasers has concentrated primarily on diode-pumped lasers and related thermal engineering, mid-infrared solid state laser materials, solid state Raman lasers, and novel self-frequency-doubling laser materials. Key results have been development of encapsulated-rod concepts for diode-side-pumped lasers, demonstration of efficient all-solid-state visible lasers based on the self-frequency-doubling material Yb:YAB, and development of a new class of efficient visible sources based on intracavity, frequency-doubled crystalline Raman lasers.

Following approaches from Australian industry Prof Piper and his team have undertaken extensive research in high-precision ultra-violet laser micromachining of polymers, metals and ceramics using high-pulse-rate uv lasers. One key outcome of this work has been development of the laser drilling technology used to fabricate the micro-orifice flow controllers for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games torches. This work has expanded to include laser fabrication of photonic components such as fibre Bragg gratings and other microstructured optical (nonlinear) materials.