Justin is currently the Director of Policy and Integrity at the Australian Research Council (ARC). Justin and his team has carriage of all things research integrity for the ARC, including the ARC’s Research Integrity and Research Misconduct Policy and processes, as well as secretariat support for the Australian Research Integrity Committee. In addition to research integrity, Justin’s team has responsibility for the ARC’s international engagement strategy and outreach, general policy development and advice, risk management and secretariat support for the ARC Advisory Council.  Within the ARC, Justin has previously led the Parliamentary team and contributed to policy around the Australian Government’s successful Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative. Prior to joining the ARC, Justin worked at the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research leading a small team that delivered over AUD1.6 billion annually to eligible Australian higher education providers as block grants for research and research training, through a number of performance-based schemes. Justin has also led teams responsible for the management and delivery of Australian Government international science support programs–International Science Linkages (AUD95 million) and Australia-India Strategic Research Fund (AUD70 million). Justin has also been responsible for providing secretariat support to the Chief Scientist of Australia and the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC) and a number of its working groups. Before joining the Australian Public Service in 1999, Justin played professional basketball both nationally and internationally, representing Australia on a number of occasions.

Ms Chrissy Grant is an Aboriginal Elder (Kuku Yalanji from the Jalunji-Warra clan) and Torres Strait Islander (Mualgal from Kubin on Moa Island). Ms Grant worked at the national level for more than 35 years with communities on cultural and natural resource management and particularly with heritage management, conservation and protection as a Consultant and previously as the Director of Indigenous Heritage in the Australian Government departments of the Australian Heritage Commission (AHC) and later the Department of Environment and Heritage. She has extensive networks across the country and internationally with her work with the Convention of Biological Diversity, the ICCA Consortium, the World Indigenous Network, and the IUCN World Parks Congress. Chrissy chaired the AIATSIS Research Ethics Committee for 12 years ending in October 2016, and during that period oversaw the review and rewrite of the Guidelines for Ethical Research in Australian Indigenous Studies. Subsequently, she became Chair of the NHMRC Indigenous Research Ethics Guidelines Review Working Committee to review, update, and rewrite the NHMRC Values and Ethics and the Keeping Research on Track.            

Professor Cadet-James has a background in health, as a registered nurse and midwife followed by a career as an academic. She is currently employed at James Cook University where she is responsible for providing leadership in education and research especially in matters which affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Her research expertise includes empowerment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to identify their own issues and practical solutions to those issues. Her other research interests lie in social and emotional wellbeing and community based models to address alcohol, tobacco and cannabis use. She has been involved in national reform to improve approaches to research in an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander context particularly focused on strengthening the capacity of researchers and communities to ensure that research addresses priorities and meets ethical standards. She provides representation on international, national and local boards, committees and working groups.

Professor Ian Olver AM is immediate past chair of the Australian Health Ethics Committee (AHEC) of NHMRC on which he served for 9 years, and currently chairs the ethics committee of the Medical Oncology Group of Australia. He is also Director, University of South Australia Cancer Research Institute and Professor of Translational Cancer Research. A renowned oncologist, cancer researcher and bioethicist his research interests are in anticancer drug studies, symptom control, bio-ethics and psycho-oncology, Ian is author of over 290 journal articles and is a regular commentator on cancer issues in Australia and internationally. Ian was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to medical oncology as a clinician, researcher, administrator and mentor, and to the community through leadership roles with cancer control organisations.

As Director of Ethics and Governance at NHMRC, Jillian’s work involves developing a range of ethics guidelines and research standards including the current review of the 2007 Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research, the National Statement on Ethical conduct in Human Research and animal ethics guidelines. Jillian’s team is responsible for providing policy and guidance for Human Research Ethics Committees in Australia and for supporting the Australian Health Ethics Committee.  Jillian is also responsible for research integrity matters at NHMRC. Jillian has qualifications in Arts, Law and Bioethics.

Jeremy Kenner is the Expert Advisor for Ethics to the National Health and Medical Research Council’s Evidence, Advice and Governance Branch. At NHMRC, he is responsible for or contributes to a broad range of programs and projects related to health and research ethics and governance of research and provides advice internally and externally on these matters. Prior to his current role, Jeremy served as Ethics Coordinator at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre for nine years. Earlier in his career, Jeremy worked as a school teacher, practiced law and conducted public education and research in bioethics in the United States. Academically, Jeremy has degrees in Anthropology, Theology and Law. On a personal note, Jeremy has roots in both the United States and Canada, resulting in a bit of a split personality and obsessive attention to political news from North America. He seeks therapy for this disorder at the Bay of Fires in Tasmania whenever possible.

Wendy Rogers is Professor of Clinical Ethics at Macquarie University and Deputy Director of the Macquarie University Research Centre on Agency, Values and Ethics, with strong interests in healthcare policy and practice. During her first term on the Australian Health Ethics Committee she served on the working party responsible for the 2007 revision of the National Statement. Since 2010, she has been Chair of the working party on the current rolling revision of the National Statement. Her research interests include over diagnosis, ethics of surgical practice and research, transplant abuse and vulnerability.