Chair

Tim Costello

Chief Executive Officer, World Vision Australia.

Tim Costello AO has been Chief Executive Officer of World Vision Australia since 2004, and has been instrumental in ensuring that the issues surrounding global poverty are placed on the national agenda. He is one of Australia's most sought after voices on social justice issues, leadership and ethics.

The panel

Elizabeth Finkel

Science journalist and author.

Dr Elizabeth Finkel is author of Stem Cells: Controversy at the Frontiers of Science and The Genome Generation, and contributing editor of Cosmos magazine. She spent ten years as a professional research scientist before becoming a journalist. She was named 2011 Higher Education journalist of the year.

Philip Keane

Reader and Associate Professor, Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University.

Dr Philip Keane has a strong interest in agricultural development in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, and currently leads an Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research project on management of cocoa health in Sulawesi and West Papua, Indonesia.

Richard Roush

Dean of Melbourne School of Land and Environment, University of Melbourne

Professor Richard Roush is the immediate Past President of the Australian Council of Deans of Agriculture. Formerly he was Director of the University of California Integrated Pest Management and Sustainable Agriculture Programs (2003-2006) and Director of the Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Weed Management (1998-2003).

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