Howard Florey Institute: HFI Board

HFI Board

On 1 July 2007, the Howard Florey Institute changed from being an Act of Parliament to a company, thus enabling the HFI to amalgamate with the Brain Research Institute and the National Stroke Reserch Institute to form the Florey Neuroscience Institutes.

As part of this change, the HFI's Board was dissolved and a new, small HFI Board was established. For membership of the Florey Neuroscience Instiutes' Board click here.

: Mr Martyn K Myer

President

Mr Martyn K Myer

BEng MEngSc MScM (MIT)

Mr Myer is a Director of the Myer Foundation and holds a number of non-executive board positions including positions at Coles Myer Ltd, SP AusNet Transmission, Diversified United Investments Ltd, and is Chair of Cogstate Ltd, a listed biotechnology company working in the neurodegenerative arena. He has founded and run an equity funds management company and has also been involved in product development and marketing for hi-tech export orientated manufacturing companies.

: Professor Frederick A O Mendelsohn

Directors

Professor Frederick A O Mendelsohn AO

MD PhD FRACP FAA

Professor Frederick Mendelsohn was appointed Director of the Howard Florey Institute in 1997 and is the RD Wright Professor of Experimental Physiology and Medicine at the University of Melbourne. He joined the staff of the University of Melbourne in 1975 where he held a Personal Chair in Medicine. He was a member of the Wills Committee Health and Medical Strategic Review and is a past President of the Australian Neuroscience Society.

Mr Charles Allen AO

Mr Charles Allen was born and educated in England. His working career was in the oil and gas industry, initially as a geophysicist with Shell in various parts of the world, and later in production and general management. He was posted to Australia in 1979 as Executive Director of Woodside Petroleum Ltd. and Chairman of the North West Shelf LNG project, the largest undertaking by a non-government organisation in Australia at that time. He became Managing Director of Woodside in 1982 and retired in 1996 when the project was complete. He was appointed AO in 1990. He has been a Director and Chairman of CSIRO, National Australia Bank and Air Liquide Australia. He has also been a Director of Metals Manufactures, Amcor and is presently on the Board of AGL Energy.