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Mr Tim Besley, AC, AO, AM
President, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
Morrish Alexander (Tim) Besley has been President of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering since 1998. He is also Chancellor of Macquarie University and Director of O'Connell Street Associates Pty Ltd. Previously Tim has been Chairman of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Chairman of Leighton Holdings, Chairman of the CIG Group, and Chairman of Redland Australia.
An engineer and barrister by training, Tim Besley had an auspicious career in the Commonwealth Public Service before his appointment as Managing Director of Monier Limited in 1982. His positions included First Assistant Secretary, Department of External Territories, Executive Member of the Foreign Investment Review Board, First Assistant Secretary, Department of Treasury, and Secretary, Commonwealth Department of Business and Consumer Affairs, and Comptroller General of Customs.
In 2000 he undertook an enquiry into the adequacy of telecommunications services in Australia on behalf of the Commonwealth.
Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Bolton, AO
Pro-Chancellor of Murdoch University
Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Bolton has had an illustrious career. He has held chairs of history at a number of Australian universities, and was foundation professor of Australian Studies, University of London, 1982-85. He has held several visiting fellowships including Visiting Fellow All Souls College, Oxford, and Visiting Commonwealth Fellow St John's College (Cambridge). He has received many awards and in 1992 was the ABC Boyer lecturer.
Professor Bolton has been President of the Australian Historical Association, a Member of the Interim Council and the Council of the Australian National Maritime Museum and the Library Board of Western Australia. He has been publishing works on Australian history since 1953, most recently Edmund Barton: the One Man for the Job, awarded the NSW Premier's Centenary of Federation Award 2001.
Professor Bolton is an Officer of the Order of Australia. Who's who lists his recreation as 'sleep'.
Dr Marianne Broadbent
Group Vice-President, Head of Research, Executive Programs Worldwide, Gartner
Dr Marianne Broadbent leads the global research team for Gartner's Executive Programs, which has a membership base of over 1,500 Chief Information Officers worldwide. Gartner is the world's largest advisor on the business uses of information technology and Marianne works extensively as an advisor and advice broker with business and IT management teams. Her particular areas of interest and expertise are the fusion of business and technology strategies and investments, the implications of new business models, the dynamics of the business value of IT, and the governance and management of business-driven IT, particularly in international environments.
Marianne was previously a professor in the Management of Information Systems at the Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne, Visiting Researcher at Boston University, and Head of the Department of Information Services at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. She is co-author of the book Leveraging the New Infrastructure: How Market Leaders Capitalise on Information Technology and has won two international 'Best Paper' awards. Marianne has also led her own consulting firm and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Dr Alan Bundy
ALIA President and University Librarian, University of South Australia
Dr Alan Bundy is the Australian Library and Information Association's National President. In addition to his primary role as University Librarian, he is Director of the Australian Clearing House for Library and Information Science and Director of the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library.
Alan received the HCL Anderson Award, the Association's highest honour, in 1998 for outstanding service to librarianship. Due to his wide ranging experience in public, TAFE and CAE libraries and his active involvement in professional activities, Alan brings a rich and informed perspective on issues that affect the library and information services profession as a whole.
Alan is also the editor of Australasian Public Libraries and Information and a partner in Auslib Press, Australia's largest library and information science publisher.
Archbishop Peter Carnley, AO
Anglican Archbishop of Perth and Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia
The Most Reverend Dr Peter Carnley AO has been the Anglican Archbishop of Perth since 1981. Prior to this appointment he was the Warden of St. John's College at the University of Queensland and Lecturer in Systematic Theology.
He is widely known and admired for his championing of social justice causes. He ordained the first women to the priesthood in the Anglican Church in Australia in 1992 and he has been active in fund raising efforts for breast cancer research. The Archbishop has provided a strong voice for Aboriginal causes including land rights and has been outspoken on the need for reconciliation in Australia. For many years he has enjoyed a special relationship with the Ngarinyin people of the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
Archbishop Carnley believes in the voice of the Church being heard and he has been at pains to address issues like child welfare, taxation, drug treatment, and alcohol taxes.
In 1988 Archbishop Carnley was made an officer in the Order of Australia for service to the Anglican Church of Australia and to the community.
Dr Christopher Chia
Chief Executive of the National Library Board (NLB) of Singapore
Dr Chia joined the National Computer Board (NCB) of Singapore in 1983. During his 11 years' stay at the NCB, he was involved in leadership assignments, quality management, IT manpower planning and development, and IT culture promotion. He also founded the Information Communication Institute of Singapore and became the director of the Information Technology Institute.
Since taking over the helm at the NLB in 1995, Dr Chia has introduced cutting-edge business processes to the organisation. Dr Chia has also infused libraries in Singapore with a spirit of innovation, spawning a relentless stream of applications including the use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology in the world's first Electronic Library Management System which dramatically reduced queues, and the ONE Learning Place - an information literacy centre that trained almost 100,000 in its first two years and that has since borne two other centres. Under Dr Chia's leadership, one in two Singaporeans has become a member of the library and 21 million people visited the library in 2000. It also has the highest loan rates for any metropolitan library system in the world.
Dr Chia is a member of the National Institute of Education Council, the National IT Literacy Steering Committee and the International Network of Public Libraries supported by the Bertelsmann Foundation.
Professor Laurence Cram
Executive Director for Physics, Chemistry and Geoscience Australian Research Council
Laurence Cram was appointed Executive Director for Physics, Chemistry and Geoscience at the Australian Research Council in February 2001. He previously held a position in CSIRO and has been Head of the School of Physics and acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sydney. He was Chair of the University's Academic Board at the time of his appointment to the ARC. Professor Cram's research interests include astronomy, scientific instrumentation, mathematical methods, and applied physics.
Professor Cram is the Australian nominated member of the Anglo-Australian Telescope Board, and was Chair of this Board from 1995 to 1997. Professor Cram was also the Inaugural Chair of the Steering Committee for the Australia Telescope National Facility. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics, and of the Royal Astronomical Society, as well as a member of the American Astronomical Society, the International Astronomical Union and the Astronomical Society of Australia.
Mr Peter Crawley
Headmaster, Knox Grammar School
Currently the Headmaster of Knox Grammar School, Sydney, Mr Crawley has held this position since January 1999. Previously, Mr Crawley had six years as Headmaster of Trinity Grammar School, Melbourne. Mr Crawley holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) degree and a Diploma of Education from Flinders University, and a Master of Educational Administration degree from the University of New England.
Mr Crawley's teaching career began in 1977 at Augusta Park High School in South Australia. He was Assistant Senior Resident Master (1980 to 1982) and head of History (1988 to 1989) at Prince Alfred College, Adelaide and during this time spent a year at Felsted School in Essex, England. From 1990 to 1992 he was at Ballarat where he was Deputy Principal of Senior College and Clarendon.
A teacher since 1977, Mr Crawley rapidly assumed a wide portfolio of responsibilities in addition to teaching History, Geography and English. He has been responsible for a number of educational innovations.
His philosophy of education is based on the concept that good schools can have an enormous impact on young people and thus shape their lives well beyond their school days. Mr Crawley is a strong believer in curriculum innovation and has developed a number of outward looking programmes, including international student exchange programmes. His introduction of a highly-successful notebook computer programme at Trinity has won praise from the Microsoft Corporation and Bill Gates himself. The system developed by Mr Crawley had recently been adopted for use by schools in the USA.
Mr Crawley is 45 years old, married and has two daughters and a son. He is a relaxed, friendly and confident person with a sense of humour that combines well with his strength of character. He has an active affiliation with the Anglican church and this has been one of his strongest motivations for remaining in independent education. Being a keen golfer and active swimmer keeps him fit, and he has coached squash, tennis and cricket.
Dr Terry Cutler
Former Chair, Australia Council
Dr Terry Cutler heads up Cutler and Company, a consulting practice specialising in the convergence sector of communications and online services. Cutler and Company works extensively on projects such as operator licensing, corporate strategy and commercial transactions, and government industry policy and regulation. He has authored numerous influential reports on the new Information Economy and electronic commerce and has worked extensively with governments in Australia and Asia on sector legislation, regulation and industry development, including chairing Australia's National Bandwidth Inquiry in 1999.
Terry is currently Chairman of the Australian Information Economy Advisory Council. He is a member of the International Advisory Panel of Malaysia's Multimedia Super Corridor, reflecting his strong interest in the role of, and opportunities for, Asian countries in the new information era. He is also Chairman of the Australia Council, having previously chaired its New Media Arts Board, and is on the Council of the Victorian College of the Arts. He has previously served as a director of Cinemedia and Opera Australia.
Dr Martyn Forrest
Chair, Australian Information and Communications Technology in Education Committee
Dr Martyn Forrest has been the Secretary of the Department of Education in Tasmania since 1997.
Prior to his appointment he was the Vice-Chancellor of James Cook University of North Queensland, a position he had taken up on a short-term contract in 1996. Before moving to Queensland, Dr Forrest had worked for almost 20 years in Western Australia holding, most recently, the position of Managing Director of the State Health Purchasing Authority.
Dr Forrest is a National Fellow of the Australian Institute of Public Administration. He is also the joint author of the bicentennial publication Australia's Commonwealth Parliament 1901-1988, published by Melbourne University Press in 1989.
Dr Forrest presently is a member of the Council of the University of Tasmania, a Director of the Australian Universities Quality Agency, a Director of Education.Au Ltd, Chair of the Australian Information and Communications Technology in Education Committee (AICTEC), and Chair of the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs Information and Communication Technologies in Schools Task Force (MCEETYA ICT Taskforce).
Professor Malcolm Gillies
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education), Australian National University
In addition to his wide range of responsibilities at Adelaide University, Malcolm Gillies is Chairman, Board Elision Ensemble, President, Australian Academy of the Humanities, and President of the National Academies Forum. He is a former President of the Pacific Science Congress and the Musicological Society Australia.
Professor Gillies is General Editor of the Oxford Studies in Music Genesis and Structure and prior to his current appointment was Professor of Music at the University of Queensland. He was a music critic for The Australian for many years and has published a number of books including works on Percy Grainger and Bela Bartok.
In January 2002 Professor Gillies will become a deputy vice-chancellor at the Australian National University.
Professor Ann Harding
Professor of Applied Economics and Social Policy and the inaugural Director of the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM) at the University of Canberra
After working on major policy reviews in several Federal government departments, Ann Harding was appointed Professor of Applied Economics and Social Policy and the inaugural Director of the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM) at the University of Canberra in January 1993. She is an internationally recognised expert in the fields of microsimulation modelling, income distribution, and tax/transfer policy. In 1996 Ann was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, becoming one of the youngest ever Fellows. Ann holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor of Economics with First Class Honours from Sydney University.
Professor Joyce Kirk
ALIA Vice-president, Dean of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Professor of Information Studies, University of Technology, Sydney
Joyce is Professor of Information Studies. She was previously Head, School of Information Studies at the University and has held positions at Kuring-gai and Riverina CAE's and with Library Services, in the NSW Department of Education.
Joyce has played a very active role in ALIA and served on several committees in addition to the ALIA Board. She was a Member and Deputy Chair of the ALIA Board of Education, and she has occupied a number of positions on the state and national School Libraries Section Committees. Joyce has been FID Chair, Education and Training Committee, RMAA Branch Council and Education Committee member, and Institute of Information Scientists Editorial Board member.
Joyce will assume the position of President of ALIA following the Annual General Meeting of ALIA on 20 May 2002.
Mr Hugh Mackay
Social Commentator
Hugh Mackay is a psychologist, social researcher and writer. He has made a life-long study of the attitudes and behaviour of the Australian community and, for the past 22 years, has been publishing his findings in the quarterly research series, The Mackay Report. He has also written four bestsellers in the field of social psychology.
Hugh is a graduate of the University of Sydney and Macquarie University, a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society, an honorary professorial fellow in the Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Chairman of Trustees of Sydney Grammar School and a former Deputy Chairman of the Australia Council. In recognition of his pioneering work in social research, Hugh has been awarded honorary doctorates by Charles Sturt and Macquarie Universities.
He has been a weekly newspaper columnist for the past eight years and is a frequent commentator on radio and television. Hugh is also the author of three novels.
Neil McLean
Conference Program Committee
Neil McLean is Director, IMS Australia, based at Macquarie University. He was appointed to Macquarie University in 1990 and was University Librarian from 1996 to the end of 2001. Prior to returning to Australia in 1990 he was Head of Library Services at the Polytechnic of Central London (now University of Westminster) for 10 years and Director of the UK Library and Information Technology Centre for eight years.
Neil has contributed extensively to national and international thinking on the application of information technology to library and information services through publications, conference papers and representation on external committees.
He is currently Chair of Standards Australia IT19 Committee, Computer Applications - Information and Document, Chair of the Education Network Australia (EdNA) Metadata Standards Working Group, a member of the AICTEC Standards Sub-Committee and a member of the AVCC Standing Committee on Information Policy (SCIP).
Ms Sue Middleton
Member, Australian Research Council
Sue Middleton is a former manager of the WA Community Builders Initiative who now runs a rural development consultancy from her family farm in the wheatbelt community of Wongan Hills. Sue works with rural communities that are struggling to manage change, and assists them to define a way forward and the structures, systems and skills they need to achieve a positive, prosperous future.
She is a member of the Commonwealth's Rural and Regional Women's Advisory Council which provides advice on how government policy and programs impact rural and regional Australia, and the Regional Solutions Board. Sue Middleton was on the Steering Committee for the Regional Australia Summit and the Regional Summit Implementation Steering Group.
Sue is passionate about working with communities to develop their capacity. She is a trained facilitator who can inspire and help groups of people to work together to achieve common goals. She is skilled in assisting communities to manage relationships with government, and is capable of creating cultural shifts in communities, moving from despair to empowerment.
Mr Phil Ruthven
Chairman, IBIS Business Information
Phil Ruthven is the founder and chairman of IBIS World, Australia's best known business information, forecasting and strategic services corporation. He is also a director of other companies, advisory boards and charitable organisations.
Phil is Australia's most respected strategist and futurist on business, social and economic issues and he contributes regularly to radio, TV, newspapers, magazines and documentaries. His involvement as a communicator takes him around Australia and overseas into the Asia Pacific region, North America and occasionally Western Europe.
IBIS has earned the reputation as an astute forecasting and advisory corporation, based on its unique and comprehensive databases. Its website is rated as one of the most sophisticated and powerful websites in the world today. Its clients include over one third of the nation's Top-500 corporations and government authorities. IBIS operates in Australia, the USA, Indonesia and Taiwan and plans to operate in other major countries in the Asia Pacific, North America and Western Europe during this decade.
Ms Patricia Schroeder
President, American Publishing Association
Former Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Association of American Publishers (AAP), the national trade organisation of the US book publishing industry. Patricia left Congress undefeated in 1996 after serving in the House of Representatives for 24 years. Patricia is currently leading New Century/New Solutions, an out-of-the-box think tank, for the Institute for Civil Society in Newton, Massachusetts, and Co-Chairs the Democracy Online Project's National Task Force, which is funded by a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts.
During her tenure in the United States House of Representatives, she became the Dean of Congressional Women, co-chaired the Congressional Caucus on Women's Issues for 10 years, and served on a number of House Committees. As Chair of the House Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families from 1991 to 1993, Patricia saw the Family and Medical Leave Act and the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act to fruition in 1993, a fitting legislative achievement for her lifetime of work on behalf of women's and family issues.
As Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property she was one of the most knowledgeable members of Congress on copyright issues and a strong advocate for protecting intellectual property rights and for reinforcing the creative incentive for developing intellectual property. She continues this advocacy in her leadership of AAP.
Mrs Dagmar Schmidmaier
Conference Chair and State Librarian, State Library of NSW
Dagmar Schmidmaier is State Librarian and Chief Executive, State Library of New South Wales, one of Australia's leading research and information libraries, which includes the Mitchell and Dixson Libraries. Prior to her appointment as State Librarian and Chief Executive, Dagmar Schmidmaier held senior academic and management positions in the field of technology and information systems, management and librarianship.
Dagmar has worked as a consultant to national and international organisations and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 1988/89. She has published widely and has been guest speaker at conferences both in Australia and overseas. In 1999 she was awarded a Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, from the University of New South Wales and appointed Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney for a period of three years. In May 2000 she was awarded the distinction of Fellow of the Australian Library and Information Association.
Dagmar is Chair of the Council of Australian State Libraries and a member of the Faculty Advisory Committee, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, UTS, Sydney, the Editorial Board of Australian Academic and Research Libraries, the Library Council of New South Wales and the State Library of New South Wales Foundation.