The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

Mr Christopher W Thomas

BCom (Hons) MBA Melb FAICD

President (Appointed: February 2001, Term Expires: February 2014)

Mr Thomas joined executive search firm Egon Zehnder International in 1979 and became managing partner of the Melbourne office in 1986, a responsibility that he retained until 2003 when he moved to Paris where he was based for two years. He was also leader of the firm’s global Board Consulting Practice Group from 1998 to 2006 and he chaired the firm’s twice-yearly international partners’ meetings for 10 years from 1997.

Mr Thomas is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a fellow of the Australian Institute of Management.

In recent years Mr Thomas has served on the board of the Corps of Commissionaires (Victoria) and the Council of the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. He was a board member of the Heide Museum of Modern Art for nine years (and its chairman for three years), chairman of the Victorian Community Foundation (now the Melbourne Community Foundation) and president of the Melbourne Business School Alumni.

Mr Steven Skala

AO BA LLB (Hons) Qld BCL Oxon

Vice President (Appointed: June 1999, Term Expires: June 2014)

Mr Skala is vice chairman, Australia and New Zealand, of Deutsche Bank and a former senior partner of Arnold Bloch Leibler.

He is a director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Hexima Limited and Wilson HTM Investment Group Ltd. Beyond law and commerce, Mr Skala is a director of the Centre for Independent Studies and The General Sir John Monash Foundation and is a member of the international council of New York’s Museum of Modern Art. He is a trustee of the Sir Zelman Cowen Foundation for Medical Research and Public Health, and a member of the advisory council of the Australian Innovation Research Centre, the Global Foundation and the grievance tribunal of Cricket Australia. Mr Skala is the immediate past chairman of Film Australia Limited and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.

Mr Roger E Male

LLB Adelaide Dip Acctg Swinburne FCA

Honorary Treasurer (Appointed: June 1998, Term Expires: May 2013)

Mr Male was a partner of Coopers & Lybrand for more than 20 years and retired from the firm as a member of its national committee and Melbourne office managing partner in 1998.

He is a director of Goldman Sachs Management and Partners Ltd, the Uniting Church Funds Management Ltd and Murigen Pty Ltd.

Mr Male is also a member of the Almond Orchards Limited compliance committee and the Nillumbik Shire Council audit advisory committee.

Professor James A Angus

AO BSc Syd PhD Syd FAA

Nominee of The University of Melbourne (Appointed: November 2003, Term Expires: at discretion of The University of Melbourne)

Professor Angus is dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at The University of Melbourne.

He was president of the university’s academic board and has served on the university’s council as well as the council of the Australian Academy of Science.

He currently serves on the boards of the Bionic Ear Institute, the Mental Health Research Institute, the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, is president of Medical Deans Australia and New Zealand, and is honorary secretary to the Victorian Rhodes Scholarship Committee.

Professor Angus was awarded the Gottschalk Medal from the Australian Academy of Science in 1984, the Centenary Medal for services to pharmacology and the community in 2003 and the Australian Citation Laureate Award for Pharmacology in 2004.

Mr Michael C Fitzpatrick

BA (Hons) Oxon BEng (Hons) UWA

(Appointed: February 2001, Term Expires: February 2014)

Mr Fitzpatrick is chairman of the Australian Football League, Treasury Group Limited, Infrastructure Capital Group, and a non-executive director of Rio Tinto plc.

He is the founder and former managing director of Hastings Funds Management Limited. In that role, Mr Fitzpatrick was a director of a number of Hastings-managed investments including Pacific Hydro Limited, Global Renewables Limited, Utilities of Australia, Australian Infrastructure Fund and Airstralia Development Group Pty Ltd (Perth Airport).

Mr Fitzpatrick was a premiership captain (1981, 1982) with the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League and a first-grade cricketer. He was formerly a member of the Melbourne Park Tennis Centre Trust, a director of the Carlton Football Club, chairman of the Australian Sports Commission and, in the early 1980s, vice-president of the AFL Players’ Association.

Dr Gareth Goodier

MB ChB MHA DHSc FRACMA FAFPHM

(Appointed: August 2012, Term Expires: August 2015)

Dr Goodier commenced in the role as Chief Executive for Melbourne Health in June 2012. He qualified as a medical practitioner in 1974, and has practiced as a clinician in the UK, Australia and Saudi Arabia before moving into management.

Over the past 23 years, Dr Goodier has worked as the chief executive for a number of academic teaching hospitals and health authorities. In addition, he has worked as a management consultant for the World Bank and Arthur Andersen.

In 1995, Dr Goodier won the Bernard Nicholson Prize in the exams of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators and in November 2009, he was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Health Sciences from Anglia Ruskin University.

Dr Goodier returned to the UK as the CEO of the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust in 2003 and was later appointed as the CEO of North West London Strategic Health Authority. In September 2006, he was appointed as the CEO of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Professor Jim McCluskey

BMedSc MB BS MD UWA FRACP FRCPA

(Appointed: April 2011, Term Expires: at discretion of The University of Melbourne)

Professor Jim McCluskey became the deputy vice-chancellor (research) at The University of Melbourne in March 2011. Prior to this he was the pro vicechancellor (research partnerships), chair of Microbiology and Immunology and deputy head of that department.

Professor McCluskey has an international reputation for his research in basic and clinical immunology. He has consulted for the Australian Red Cross for more than 20 years and is editor-inchief of the international immunogenetics journal Tissue Antigens.

He is a member of the board of directors of the Florey Neurosciences Institute, Bionics Institute and a member of the Nossal Institute for Global Health.

Professor McCluskey replaced Professor Peter Rathjen as The University of Melbourne’s representative on the institute board in March 2011.

Dr Graham Mitchell

AO RDA BVSc Syd FACVSc PhD Melb FTSE FAA

(Appointed: July 2007, Term Expires: June 2013)

Dr Mitchell has detailed knowledge of the academia-industry interface and completed his PhD at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in the late 1960s.

In 1973, after postdoctoral experience in the US, UK and Switzerland, Dr Mitchell returned to the institute and established a program on the immunology of parasitism.

In 1990, Dr Mitchell was appointed director of the Royal Melbourne Zoological Gardens but returned to biomedical research in 1993 as director of research in the R&D division of CSL Limited.

Dr Mitchell is an adviser on innovation to the Victorian Government and jointly acts as chief scientist for the Victorian departments of Primary Industries and Sustainability and Environment. He is a non-executive director of Antisense Therapeutics Limited, Compumedics Limited, AgVic Services Pty Ltd, Adelaide Research and Innovation Pty Ltd and Avipep Pty Ltd.

Ms Linda B Nicholls

AO BA(Econ) Cornell MBA Harvard Hon AIBA

(Appointed: February 2001, Term Expires: February 2014)

Mrs Nicholls is a corporate adviser and a director of a number of leading Australian companies and organisations. She is chairman of Healthscope, chairman of KDR (Yarra Trams) and a director of Sigma Pharmaceutical Group and Fairfax Media. Previously she was chairman of Australia Post, a director of St George Bank and president of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (Victorian Division).

Mrs Nicholls is also a member of the Harvard Business School Alumni Board. She runs her own corporate advisory practice specialising in business strategy in financial services and health care.

Mrs Nicholls has more than 30 years experience as a senior executive and company director in Australia, New Zealand and the United States.

Ms Catherine M Walter

AM LLB (Hons) LLM MBA Melb FAICD

(Appointed: February 2001, Term Expires: February 2014)

Ms Walter is a non-executive director of Australian Foundation Investment Company, the Reserve Bank’s Payment Systems Board, Victorian Funds Management, Victorian Opera and Melbourne Business School and chairman of the Australian Synchrotron.

She practised law for 20 years as a commercial lawyer, which included a term as managing partner of Clayton Utz in Melbourne. Ms Walter is a former commissioner of the City of Melbourne.

In 2003, Ms Walter was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for her service to business, particularly as a director of a number of public companies, to the arts, to the law, and to the community through the City of Melbourne. She was awarded a Centenary Medal in the same year.

Professor Ingrid M Winship

MB ChB MD Cape Town FRACP

(Appointed: June 2007, Term Expires: June 2013)

Professor Winship is the inaugural chair of adult clinical genetics at the University of Melbourne and executive director of research for Melbourne Health.

A medical graduate of the University of Cape Town, she completed postgraduate training in genetics and dermatology before combining an academic position at the university with a clinical position.

In 1994, Professor Winship took up an academic position at the University of Auckland where she later became Professor of Clinical Genetics, clinical director of the Northern Regional Genetic Service and associate dean for research in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (2000-2004).

She is currently chair of the Victorian Cooperative Oncology Group and a member of the Victorian Cancer Action Plan Implementation Committee. Professor Winship is also a member of the NHMRC Human Genetic Advisory Committee. She is on the steering committee for the VLSCI and the clinical advisory panel for the Australian Synchrotron.