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Dr Patrick Kilby is a political scientist with the School of Archaeology and Anthropology in the College of Arts and Social Sciences at The Australian National University. His research interests include NGOs, poverty and women’s empowerment in international development. He worked for Oxfam Australia for 20 years prior to coming to ANU and has had an association with the Australian Council for International Development since 1983. He has served on many of ACFID’s committees, and was a part of some of the events described in this book. He currently represents ANU on the ACFID Universities network.
David Russell Lawrence is an anthropologist who has managed environmental programs in Melanesia and Southeast Asia for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. His most recent book was a re-examination of the place in Melanesian anthropology of the Finnish sociologist Gunnar Landtman who spent two years working with the Kiwai people of the lower Fly estuary. He recently managed a large-scale survey of 300 communities in the Solomon Islands for the Community Sector Program and has assisted with a number of the annual RAMSI People’s Surveys in the islands. This work has given him insight into the colonial heritage of the Solomon Islands and a desire to tell the story of the establishment of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate through the eyes of the first Resident Commissioner, Charles Morris Woodford.
Dr. Barry Traill is a leading Australian conservationist. An ecological researcher and conservation advocate, he has been part of several successful conservation projects, such as the advocacy to stop large scale land clearing in Queensland. He has worked particularly on the conservation of woodlands in southern and northern Australia. He is a co-author of ‘The Nature of Northern Australia.’
Dr. Traill is currently Director of the Wild Australia Program, for Pew Environment Group- Australia.
John Woinarski has been involved in research, management, advocacy and policy relating to biodiversity conservation, particularly in relation to threatened species, in Australia since the 1970s. Much of this work has been undertaken in northern Australia, with a particular focus on threatened mammal species, but his research and management has also considered plants, invertebrates, birds, reptiles, the impacts of fire, pastoralism, forestry, mining and invasive species, monitoring, survey design, Indigenous land management, reserve design, translocations, and islands. This work has been recognised with the Eureka Prize for biodiversity research (2001), the Serventy Medal (for lifetime contribution to Australian ornithology) (2001), the Northern Territory Chief Minister’s Award for Research and Innovation (2008), and the Australian Natural History Medallion (2012). Until 2011, he was executive director of the biodiversity division of the Northern Territory government’s environment department, but then moved to Christmas Island. From 2003 to 2012, he was a member of the Threatened Species Scientific Committee, which provides advice to the Australian minister for the environment on conservation issues relating to threatened species. He is currently employed part-time as Professor in the Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, and within the North Australian Hub of the National Environmental Research Program.
Frank Fenner was born in Ballarat, Victoria in 1914. He read medicine at the University of Adelaide, receiving Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degrees in 1938 and a Doctor of Medicine in 1942. He also received a Diploma of Tropical Medicine from the University of Sydney in 1940. Between 1940 and 1946 he served in Egypt and Papua New Guinea as an officer in the Australian Army Medical Corps, where he worked on the malarial parasite.
After the war, he went to the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, where he studied the virus that causes smallpox in mice. In 1949, on a fellowship at the Rockefeller Institute in New York, USA, he worked on tubercle bacilli. Returning to Australia in 1949, he was appointed Professor of Microbiology at the new John Curtin School of Medical Research at The Australian National University. Here he began studying viruses again, in particular the myxoma virus. He was interested in the balance between virus virulence and host resistance.
Prof Fenner was Director of the John Curtin School from 1967 to 1973. During this time he was also Chairman of the Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication. In 1973 Prof Fenner was appointed to set up the new Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies at ANU. He held the position of Director until 1979.
Prof Fenner was elected to the fellowship of numerous faculties and academies, including Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (1954), Fellow of the Royal Society (1958), and Foreign Associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences (1977).
During his career, Prof Fenner received many awards. Among these are the Britannica Australia Award for Medicine (1967), the Australia and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science Medal (1980), the World Health Organization Medal (1988), the Japan Prize (1988), the Senior Australian Achiever of the Year (1999), the Albert Einstein World Award for Science (2000), and the Prime Minister’s Science Prize (2002).
He passed away in late 2010.
Dr Elizabeth Coleman is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Wollongong. She holds a PhD in philosophy from ANU and has held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre for Cross Cultural Research, ANU. She has taught philosophy of art at ANU, and moral and political philosophy at La Trobe and Appropriation (2005) and has published articles on indigenous art in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, the International Year Book of Aesthetics, and the Journal of Political Philosophy.
Dr Maria-Suzette Fernandez-Dias coordinates scholarly and research activities at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, ANU. She holds a PhD in French (postcolonial literature) from the University of Goa, India. She has taught comparative literature, linguistics and francophone literature at the University of Goa, and has worked as the educational and cultural coordinator of Alliance Francaise de Goa, where she managed the AF Art Gallery. Her literary awards include the Victor- Hugo Bicentenary Award (2002), Ford Foundation Campus Diversity Award (1996), Oheraldo Award for Children’s literature (1989), and the Vidya Award (1995 & 1996).
Hilary Charlesworth is Professor and Director of the Centre for International Governance and Justice in the Regulatory Institutions Network at The Australian National University. She also holds an appointment as Professor of International Law and Human Rights in the College of Law, ANU. In 2005 she was awarded a Federation Fellowship by the Australian Research Council for a project on building democracy and justice after conflict. She has held visiting appointments at United States and European universities.
She was the inaugural President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law (1997-2001). She was Co-Editor of the Australian Yearbook of International Law from1996-2006 and has been a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law 1999-2009. She was joint winner of the American Society of International Law’s 2006 Goler T Butcher Medal in recognition of ‘outstanding contributions to the development or effective realization of international human rights law’.
She has worked with various non-governmental human rights organisations on ways to implement international human rights standards and was chair of the Australian Capital Territory government’s inquiry into an ACT bill of rights, which led to the adoption of the ACT Human Rights Act 2004. In 2009 she was appointed as one of the four Australian members of the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
Dr Penelope Marshall holds a PhD in Political Science and teaches at the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University.
Ben Marwick is an Assistant Professor of archaeology in the UW Anthropology Department. His main research activity is using models from evolutionary ecology to analyse past human behaviour, especially in mainland Southeast Asia and Australia. Ben’s technical specializations in stone artefact technology and geoarchaeology provide him with wide scope in time periods and geography. His specific interests include the hominin colonisation of mainland Southeast Asia, forager technologies and ecology in Australia and mainland Southeast Asia, and transitions to agriculture in mainland Southeast Asia.