User:Ksitte/Vicki Sara

Early life and education
Born: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Educated University of Sydney (BA, PhD)

DOC (Karolinska Institute), HonDSc (USQ), HonDSc (VU), HonDoc (QUT), HonDSc (UTS), FAA, FTSE

Work
Director, Australian Institute of Commercialisation, 2007-2010.
 * Occupation Endocrinologist 
 * Vicki Sara researches in the area of growth hormones and foetal brain development.

Director, Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, 2004-2009.

Chair, Australian Stem Cell Centre, 2005-2008.

Chief Executive Officer, Australian Research Council, 2001-2004; Chair, 1997-2001; Chair,Committee for International and

National Co-operation, 1997, Member, since 1997; Member, Research Training and Careers Committee, 1994-1996.

Adjunct Professor, Karolinska Institute, Sweden, 1995-2007.

Vice-Chair, Global Science Forum, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 1999-2004.

Member, OECD Workshop Science Funding in Transition, 2002.

Member, OECD Special Ministerial Meeting of Committee of Science and Technology Policy, 1999.

Member, Research and Development Leaders Advisory Board, Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC), 2002-2004.

Member, Rio Tinto Foundation for a Sustainable Minerals Industry Advisory Board, 2002-2007.

Member, Coordination Committee on Science and Technology, 1998-2004.

Board Member, Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organisation, 1998-2003.

Member, National Innovation Awareness Council, 2001-2003.

Member, Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council, 1998-2001.

Director, Menzies Research Institute, 2004-2005.

Chair, Bureau of Meteorology Advisory Board, 2003-2005.

Member, Co-operative Research Centres Committee, 2000-2005.

Member, Prime Minister's Science Prize Committee, 2001-2004.

Member, ACT Science and Technology Advisory Council, 1998-2001.

Member, Australia-Korea Foundation Board, 1998-2001.

Member, Anglo Australian Telescope Board, 1998-2001.

Member, Australian Council for Educational Research, 1998-1999.

Head, Endocrine Pathology Research Unit, Karolinska Institute’s Department of Pathology, Karolinska Hospital, Sweden,

1987-1992; Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow, 1980-1987.

Chancellor, University of Technology, Sydney, since 2004.

Dean, Faculty of Science, Queensland University of Technology, 1996-1997; Professor and Head, School of Life Science,

1993-1996.

.Member of Executive, Australian Council of Deans of Science, 1996-1997.

Major committees and delegations include

National Science Council of China Roundtable, Taipei, 2002.

Swiss National Research Council 50th Anniversary: International Jubilee Workshop, Berne, 2002.

National Science Foundation of China 15 th Anniversary Conference, Beijing, 2001.

New Zealand Ministry of Research, Science and Technology Workshop on science and technology linkages, Wellington, 2001.

APEC Science and Technology Policy Forum, Science Technology and Innovation for the New Economy: Building Capacity

across APEC, Penang, 2001.

National Science and Technology Board of Singapore Roundtable, Singapore, 2001.

OECD/BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) Conference on Benchmarking Industry-Science relationships, Berlin,

2000.

Australia/European Union (EU) Policy Workshop and Joint Australia/EU Science and Technology Co-operation meeting,

Brussels, 2000.

Australia/Japan Joint Science and Technology Consultative Committee, Tokyo, 1999.

Australia-Malaysia Senior Officials for Science and Technology Co-operation, Kuala Lumpur, 1999.

Fellow, Australian Academy of Science, 2001.

Fellow, Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, 1998.

Member of the New York Academy of Science, Endocrine Society of America, and the Cancer Society, Stockholm.

Awards and honors
Centenary Medal, 2001.
 * 2010 Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia. For distinguished service to science through contributions to research and policy development, and to higher education as Chancellor of the University of Technology,Sydney.

Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Technology, Sydney, 2009.

Honorary Doctorate, Queensland University of Technology, 2006.

Honorary Doctor of Science, Victoria University, 2005.

Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Southern Queensland, 2004.

Sir John Eccles Award, National Health and Medical Research Council, 1994.

Rolf Luft Medal, Karolinska Institute, Sweden, 1993; for her research in endocrinology.