AURIN Governance

Senior Prof. Pascal Perez

Director, AURIN

Pascal Perez is the Director of AURIN. He is a specialist of integrative infrastructure modelling and socio-technological transitions.

Pascal is a Fellow of the Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand (MSSANZ) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales. He is the Chair of the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network’s Scientific Advisory Committee (AURIN), as well as a member of the Executive Council of IOT Alliance Australia (IOTAA), and a member of the International Advisory Board of UK’s Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities (UKCRIC).

Linda Kristjanson AO is a Non-Executive Director of Seek Ltd, President of the National Stroke Foundation, and Chair of the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre. She is a member of the Australian Council for International Education, a Non-Executive Director of Skalata Ventures Ltd, Education Australia Ltd, MinEx Cooperative Research Centre, Global Citizen Australia, and a member of the advisory board for the AI Group Centre for Education and Training.

From 2011 to 2020, Linda was Vice-Chancellor of Swinburne University of Technology, and upon her retirement was honoured with the title, Emeritus Professor.  Prior to this role she was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research & Development) at Curtin University. Professor Kristjanson served as Chair of AuScope Ltd, and as a Non-Executive Director on the boards of the Australian Synchrotron, Australia’s Academic and Research Network (AARNet), and the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI).

Linda is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering. She was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2017 Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

Emeritus Prof. Linda Kristjanson AO

Non-executive Director, SEEK
President, National Stroke Foundation

Prof. Mark Stevenson

Professor of Urban Transport and Public Health, University of Melbourne

Mark Stevenson is an epidemiologist and Professor of Urban Transport and Public Health at the University of Melbourne, an appointment across the Melbourne Schools of Design, Engineering and Population and Global Health. He is a National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia) Research Fellow, an Honorary Professor in the Peking University Health Science Centre, China, and an advisor for injury to the Director General of the World Health Organisation.

He is the director of the Transport, Health and Urban Design research lab and has published over 220 peer-reviewed articles, books, book chapters and technical reports and procured more than $31 million in competitive research funding. Mark holds a PhD from the University of Western Australia and a Masters of Public Health from Curtin University.

Austin Ley is Manager Investment at Moira Shire Council. Previously he was the council’s Manager Economic Development, and was Manager Research and Knowledge for the City of Melbourne for twenty years, helping to develop Melbourne and position it as a knowledge city.

He has also worked across urban planning, economic policy and research for JLW Advisory Vic, Wilson Sayer Core, the Ministry for Planning and Environment and the Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works. Austin holds a Master of Urban Planning from the University of Melbourne and a Bachelor of Economics and Politics from Monash University.

Austin Ley

Alison Rose is Chief of Geoscience Australia’s Space Division. Prior to her appointment, Alison led the Border Intelligence Support to Operations branch at the Department of Home Affairs providing integrated intelligence support to the Australian Border Force on migration systems, trade enforcement and border protection priorities.

Previously, Alison held senior executive positions within both the private and public sector, including Director of National Government Industry Solutions with Esri (a US-based GIS technology company), delivery of the Department of Defence’s corporate and geospatial ICT programs and projects and enterprise information management implementation, and leadership of the Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation’s foundation mapping, advanced analytics, training and tradecraft, data and collection management, and customer services.

Alison Rose

Chief of Space Division, Geoscience Australia