Organisational structure The Australian Institute of Marine Science is a federally-funded and independent statutory authority governed by a Council appointed by the Australian government. The Council, which meets quarterly, is the policy-making body of the Institute. The Institute's organisational structure consists of three groups, one which covers the Institute's Research, another, (Support Services), which covers the corporate and science support areas of the Institute, and Business and Finance, which provides commercial and financial services to the Institute’s research and administration. The Director (CEO) is responsible for the day-to-day affairs of the Institute. AIMS staff are employed under the Australian Institute of Marine Science Act 1972. As at June 30, 2002 the Institute employed a total of about 160 people, of whom 98 are scientific staff and 62 are support staff. The Council The Council is made up of individuals from industry and academia, plus the Director. Chairman   Dr Ian Gould BSc (Hons), PhD (Geology), FAusIMM Dr Ian Gould brings to AIMS high-level business, research and policy expertise, as well as involvement with environmental matters. He has over 40 years experience in the minerals industry, mainly with the Rio Tinto group and Normandy Mining Ltd, from which he retired as managing director. He is currently Chairman of, St Andrews Hospital, CSIRO Minerals and Energy Sector Advisory Committee and Toro Energy Ltd. Dr Gould is a member of the Royal Flying Doctor Service (Central Operations), and the South Australia Resources Industry Development Board. Current term Chairman 1 January 2005 – 31 December 2009 Council member 1 July 2002 – 31 December 2004         Council members   Mr John Grace BSc Applied Chemistry, FTSE, FAICD Mr Grace has worked for 36 years in the biotechnology industry, 20 years of that time as CEO. He has applied this experience in organisations ranging from Burns Philp to CSIRO and Amrad. In the latter company, he served as Managing Director for 11 years. Mr Grace is an experienced director of listed and private companies. He operates a consulting business in Biotechnology iBIO Pty Ltd. He is currently the Honorary Treasurer and a member of the Council of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. Mr Grace is a past member of the Australian Research Council. More recently he was Chair of the ARC Review of Federation Fellowship scheme 2007 and Chair of the College of Experts Selection Panel 2006, 2007. He was formerly a member of the Victorian Premier's Knowledge Innovation Science and Engineering Task Force, a member of the Industry Research and Development Board, a Board Member of Melbourne Ventures and President/Director of the Australian Biotechnology Association. His expertise is focused in the commercial development of leading edge science, predominantly in biotechnology. As CEO of AMRAD he gained extensive business and management experience in high tech enterprises operating in international markets. Current term 16 December 2004 – 15 December 2009   Ms Elizabeth Montano Ms Montano has over twenty years experience working in senior positions in both the private and public sectors. In the public sector, she has held various Senior Executive Service and non-executive positions in a number of portfolios, including as Chief Executive. Her non-executive positions have included Chairman of the Board of Management of Centrelink( which role included being the Chief Executive of Centrelink under the Financial Management and Accountability Act), Member of Centrelink’s Board of Management, Chairman of Centrelink’s Audit and Risk Committee, Member of Centrelink’s Information Technology Committee, Member of the Executive Management Board of the Australian Federal Police and Member of its Security and Audit Committee and Strategic Adviser to the Chief Federal Magistrate of the Federal Magistrates Court of Australia. Ms Montano has also provided technical assistance to The Philippines through an Asian Development Bank funded project. Ms Montano is a former Director (Chief Executive Officer) of the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC), Australia’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing regulator and Financial Intelligence Unit; Head of Australia’s Delegation to the OECD based Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering; Member of the Board of CrimTrac; Member of the Heads of Commonwealth Law Enforcement Agencies Group (HOCOLEA); Chairman of various HOCOLEA Groups including the Action Group on the Law Enforcement Implications of Electronic Commerce. She was the first permanent Director Companies of the Australian Securities Commission (now the Australian Securities and Investments Commission) being responsible for corporate and fund raising regulatory policy. Prior to taking up the role of Head of AUSTRAC, Ms Montano was a senior financial services sector Consultant and Solicitor with Mallesons Stephen Jaques. She is a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Current term 16 December 2004 – 15 December 2009   Mr Nicholas Mathiou B Com (Hons), LLB, MMktg Mr Mathiou has 19 years of professional investment, transaction and corporate advisory experience with particular emphasis on private equity investment in emerging enterprises. He is a co-founder and Director of Investment Capital Partners (ICP), an Australian life sciences venture capital firm. Before joining ICP, Mr Mathiou was a co-founder, Finance Director and Company Secretary of Medica Holdings Limited (MCA), an Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) listed company specialising in venture capital investment in biomedical ventures. He was jointly responsible for all investment and divestment decisions, as well as the strategic direction of Medica. He also held senior non-executive positions in portfolio companies. Before co-founding Medica, Mr Mathiou advised senior management and boards of directors of a large number of corporations on acquisition and investment appraisals; corporate funding and implementation; business valuations; strategic and business planning; commercialisation strategies and planning; and business process re-engineering in executive roles with Invetech (Business Strategy and Technology Group) and Coopers & Lybrand (Corporate Services Division). He is a fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia, a barrister of the Supreme Court of Queensland, a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria, a member of Chartered Secretaries Australia and an associate member of the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants (ASA). Current term 1 September 2005 – 31 August 2010   Professor Sandra Harding Sc (Hons) ANU , M.Pub.Admin UQ , PhD NCSU , FAICD, FAIM Professor Sandra Harding joined James Cook University as Vice-Chancellor and President in January 2007. Professor Harding has extensive academic leadership experience. Between 1997 and 2006, she held a number of senior executive roles at QUT, including Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International and Development) and (executive) Dean of the Faculty of Business. Professor Harding has undertaken a wide variety of external roles. She was the inaugural President of the Australian Business Deans Council and Vice-President of the Australian Universities Community Engagement Alliance. She has also served on a number of review panels and accreditation committees within the higher education sector. For the past five years, she has been Chairman of the Australian Statistics Advisory Council, providing advice to the Federal Government and the Australian Statistician on Australia’s national statistical priorities. For a similar period, Professor Harding has been a member of the HIH Assessment Review Panel, another Federal Government appointment. Professor Harding has been a member of the Queensland Education and Training Export Board, the Queensland Small Business Advisory Council and the judging panels of Queensland Export Awards and the Premier’s Awards for Public Sector Excellence. She has chaired the Energex Community Consultation Forum since 2003. Professor Harding has worked on boards linked to the Brisbane City Council. She was a Director on the Brisbane Transport Board and Chairman of Brisbane Marketing Pty. Ltd. from 2003-2006. She is also non-executive Director of the Global Foundation for Management Education Ltd (Montreal). Current term: 10 May 2007 – 10 May 2010   Dr Brian Stanley Fisher AO PSM Brian Fisher joined CRA International in October 2006. Prior to this he was Executive Director of the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE). He was first appointed Executive Director of ABARE in 1988. Brian left the Bureau briefly for a senior position in the Federal Department of Primary Industries and Energy before returning to ABARE as Executive Director in 1995. Prior to heading up ABARE, Brian was Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Sydney and became Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture at the University in 1987. He was appointed Adjunct Professor of Sustainable Resources Development in 2003. Concurrently with his position at ABARE, in 1993 Brian was appointed one of the experts completing the socioeconomic assessment of climate change for the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Second Assessment Report. He played an integral role in the international climate change negotiations as economic adviser to Australia's negotiating team in the lead up to, and at, the third Conference of the Parties in Kyoto. He again fulfilled that role at the fourth, fifth and sixth Conferences of the Parties of the UNFCCC and was engaged as one of the experts completing the IPCC's Third Assessment Report. Brian is currently a convening lead author for the Fourth Assessment Report. Dr Fisher has been the government board member on a number of statutory corporations and has published over 250 papers and monographs. In addition to his position with ABARE he was recently an Associate Commissioner of the Productivity Commission and the Chairman of the Prime Minister’s Exports and Infrastructure Taskforce. He received the Farrer Memorial Medal in August 1994, became a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in November 1995 and was awarded the Public Service Medal in 2002. In 2007, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for service to agricultural economics, international trade and climate change through research and public policy analysis. He holds a PhD in agricultural economics from the University of Sydney. Current term: 26 Sept 2007 – 25 Sept 2010     Chief Executive Officer of AIMS   Dr Ian R. Poiner BSc (Hon), PhD Dr Ian Poiner is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Institute of Marine Science. Dr Poiner has significant experience in strategic development and planning of science, both as a practicing scientist and at the organisational level. This is reflected in his successful large-scale, multi-disciplinary research projects and his establishment of national and international research programs to support the sustainable use, conservation and management of marine ecosystems. Dr Poiner’s scientific background is research into tropical fisheries and ecological systems, including in Australia’s northern Great Barrier Reef, Torres Strait and the Gulf of Carpentaria. He has also worked in Jamaica, Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia. Dr Poiner serves on a number of national and international committees. He is currently Vice-Chair of the International Scientific Steering Committee of the Census of Marine Life, a ten year international research program to assess and explain the diversity, distribution and abundance of marine organisms throughout the world’s oceans. As CEO of AIMS, he is responsible for managing the day-to-day affairs of the Institute. Current term: 12 July 2004 – 11 July 2009            Council members and CEO of AIMS (June 2006) Left to right - Professor Ned Pankhurst, Mr Nicholas Mathiou, Ms Elizabeth Montano, Professor Peter Høj, Dr Ian Gould (Chairman), Mr John Grace and Dr Ian Poiner (CEO). Photo credits - John de Rooy  December 18, 2008