Alison has a Bachelor of International Studies with Honours from the University of New South Wales, and won the University Medal in Sociology. She was President of the United Nations Youth Association in NSW. A student journalist and playwright, she wrote a dissertation on Private Military Companies at the University of Exeter (UK). Her interest is in non-mainstream means of influencing political debate and democracy, and she intends to study the role of satire and comedic social commentary in political engagement at Oxford University.

Anna has a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Western Australia. She is currently a Senior Associate at leading Australian law firm, Corrs Chambers Westgarth, and has worked as a commercial litigation lawyer for the past 7 years. Anna was awarded both the Australian Young Lawyer of the Year and WA Young Lawyer of the Year awards in 2008 for her outstanding contribution to the community and the legal profession. Anna’s passion and specialization area is in working to reduce Aboriginal disadvantage in Australia, specifically, by helping to build capacity and create sustainable employment for Aboriginal peoples. Since 2008, Anna has acted as the pro bono lawyer for the Australian Employment Covenant and Generation One, national initiatives to drive social change and create employment outcomes for Aboriginal people. Anna has also volunteered in the Tiwi Islands Aboriginal community with the Red Cross, with the David Wirrpanda Foundation, True Blue Dreaming, the Burnaby Youth Prison, the Young Lawyers Committee of WA and is the coordinator of the Corrs National AEC Project Team. Anna will use her Monash Scholarship to undertake post graduate studies at Stanford Law school, focusing on the use of welfare reform, social enterprise and capacity building as mechanisms to bring about social change for Indigenous peoples. Anna was also awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, which she will use in 2011 to complete a Masters in Law at Berkeley University. In her spare time, Anna enjoys surfing, yoga and travel.

David has a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Science from the University of Melbourne, and was Rotary Young Victorian Achiever of the Year in 2005. He is working as a Policy Analyst for the Federal Treasury in Canberra, and completing a Graduate Diploma in Economics at ANU. David is an International Chess Grand Master, the 2009 Oceania Chess Champion and Australian Chess Player of the Year, and former head coach of the Australian Junior Chess Team. In his PhD he will look at ways to model human behaviour in economics.

Graduating as the top-ranked student in statistics, Davis earned a Bachelor of Science with Honours (first-class) and a Bachelor of Arts (majoring in German) from the University of Melbourne. Over recent years Davis has been active in bioinformatics research; he has published papers in peer-reviewed journals, produced software and presented at both national and international conferences. He currently works in the Bioinformatics Division at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne. Davis hopes to make further important contributions to the fields of statistics and bioinformatics while undertaking a DPhil at Oxford University. His research will focus on the development of statistical theory, software and data analysis methods for high-throughput biological experiments. This work will enable scientific discoveries and the development of therapies for disease. Outside of science, Davis maintains wider interests in sports, music, languages and local community work.

Jodi has a Bachelor of Law (Honours) and Bachelor of International Relations from Griffith University, receiving the University Medal, Law Medal, and International Relations Medal. She has also completed the Master of Laws at ANU with merit. Jodi has an extensive and ongoing commitment to community service and pro bono assistance for disadvantaged groups. She is currently the youngest executive member of Suited to Success, an Australian non-for-profit organisation helping disadvantaged women into the workforce. At Oxford Jodi will study for a BCL and a DPhil, addressing consumer law and consumer advocacy. Her work will address common law remedies to unconscionable lending practices, providing greater certainty for borrowers and lenders.

Laura holds a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours from the University of Queensland and was admitted as a lawyer of the Supreme Court of Queensland in December 2010. After finishing her undergraduate studies, Laura led the Oaktree Foundation’s Schools4Schools program in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa and then worked in the Peacebuilding Unit of the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD). In 2010, Laura was the Associate to her Honour Justice White of the Queensland Court of Appeal.  Laura plans to study Masters in Peace and Conflict at Uppsala University, Sweden focusing her studies on local justice solutions in post-conflict environments.

Melanie has a Bachelor of Philosophy with 1st Class Honours and the University Medal from ANU. She worked with the Prime Minister’s office on the ANU Vice Chancellor’s Unravelling Complexity program in 2009, has been an ANU Science Ambassador, and established the ANU Undergraduate Research Journal. In 2009, she worked in a public health institute in Tanzania. She speaks French and is a musician and dancer. Melanie plans to study at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and to address infectious disease epidemiology both for Australia and internationally.

Tom has a MBBS and BMedSci (Hons) from the University of Adelaide. In 2010, he was the South Australian Junior Doctor of the Year and received a First-Class (Dux) grading for his Honours thesis, which he completed concurrent with full-time clinical work at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. He has received research prizes and scholarships in the fields of medicine and surgery and is a Clinical Associate Lecturer at the University of Adelaide. Tom is a keen sportsman (Australian Rules Football, water polo and snow skiing) and is involved in local and international medical volunteer work. He is committed to advancing techniques in minimally invasive surgery and will study for a PhD at The Hamlyn Centre for Robotic Surgery based at Imperial College London, supervised by Professor Lord Ara Darzi.

Catherine completed a European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation in 2011, based both in Venice and at the University of Strasbourg. Admitted as a barrister and solicitor in 2009, Catherine has held various positions at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Ethiopia, Australian Refugee Association, and the Australian Embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Catherine is currently employed as a Research Fellow at the Australian Council for Educational Research, and is the In-Country Project Manager of the Zimbabwe Early Learning Assessment Program, commissioned by UNICEF Zimbabwe.

Jonathan is undertaking a Doctor of Science at the University of California, Berkeley in Computational Science, developing new computational approaches to problems in chemistry, with particular application to sustainable power generation and storage. Prior to commencing his studies in the US, Jonathon worked on an astrophysics project in Sydney. He also completed a paper relating to his honours project, and presented in Sweden.

Joseph has commenced his D.Phil in Engineering Science focused on deployable structures. These technologies can be used for emergency housing systems in the wake of natural disasters. Prior to taking up his Scholarship, Joseph was working with Brisbane based design and engineering firm Arup.

Nicole is working as a resident at Wollongong hospital as part of her medical training. She will move to Oxford to undertake her DPhil at the completion of her intern year. At Oxford she will study hypoxia – oxygen deprivation – and the clinical implications in acute and chronic disease.

Phoebe has commenced the one year Masters in English Studies, preparatory for a D.Phil in English Studies. Prior to departing for the UK Phoebe met with Professor David de Kretser, Governor of Victoria and a Patron of the Monash Foundation.

Sam has completed his Masters of Economics at Oxford, and commenced his D.Phil in economics - addressing the ‘resource curse’ phenomena - also at Oxford with his Monash Scholarship.

Sylvia commenced her Scholarship in February 2010, undertaking the MPA prior to the MPH at Otago University in Wellington NZ. Her work focuses on tobacco control issues in indigenous communities, including those of Australia, British Colombia, and New Zealand.

Zelie received a first class LLM from Cambridge in July 2011. Before moving to Cambridge, Zelie served as an Associate to the Hon Chief Justice French at the High Court of Australia. She has now returned to Sydney and is working as a solicitor at the Crown Solicitor's Office.

Amy is completing a DPhil in medical anthropology at Oxford University, UK. Amy’s research into eating habits will lead to better policies to address obesity. In 2010 she received a William R Miller Postgraduate Award from St Edmund Hall, and was invited to participate in the 13th Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality, whose theme is "Health Politics in an Interconnected World". Amy is a keen sportswoman and is competing for an Oxford Rowing Blue.

James is completing a PhD at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany in the field of Engineering. His thesis is on the vulnerability and risk assessment of cities against natural and man-made disasters. He was recently interviewed by Time Online in Germany on his work predicting the impact of earthquakes.

Katie has commenced her Chemical Engineering study at Harvard (USA). At the end of the first Semester (Dec 2009), she passed three core graduate courses and an elective, and passed the written component of the Chemical Engineering Doctoral Degree Qualification Examination. Katie's overall performance (composite of core graduate courses, and qualification examination) put her in the top 25% of the class. She has now joined the research group led by Prof Narendra Maheshri, working on the directed evolution of proteins, and is learning both experimental techniques and theoretical concepts. Before her departure for Harvard, Katie played a prominent role for the Monash Foundation at the ANZAC Day announcement of funding of Awards for 2010, speaking alongside former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and former Victorian Premier John Brumby.

Mark is completing a Masters of Public Health Degree at Harvard University, US. Mark seeks to gain expertise in viral pandemics and ensure that Australia maintains world-class security against viral outbreaks such as equine and avian flu in animals and humans.

Rebecca has completed her JSM (Master of the Science of Law) at Stanford University (USA), with outstanding results. She has taken up a position as Water Law and Policy Specialist at the Woods Institute for the Environment and the Bill Lane Center for the American West. Rebecca is now in a multi-year groundwater law research project with a team researching the key priorities for water law reform in the American West, with the backing of a number of Californian foundations, and which draws upon the Australian experience. She has also been admitted as one of four students in Stanford Law School’s doctoral program (JSD).

Sarah is a Rhodes Scholar from Victoria who has completed an MPhil at Oxford in Development Studies. With her John Monash Scholarship she is undertaking a PhD in International Development/Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University, USA. Sarah’s expertise lies in the area of humanitarian and health issues relating to refugees and displaced populations. At Johns Hopkins she is involved in a major project with the International Rescue Committee, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, examining mental health issues of children in refugee camps in Thailand (from Burma) and Ethiopia. Sarah has also recently joined the Colombia Group for Children in Adversity

Shaun has commenced a PhD in Economics at the London School of Economics. His work will address application of public policy to address the economic implications of population ageing in Australia. This involves understanding how public policy such as taxation and social security reform can influence household savings and retirement behaviour and can stimulate the market for managing longevity risk. Shaun worked at BCG in Sydney through 2009 and 2010.

Timothy is completing a PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Harvard – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Division of Health Sciences and Technology, USA. Timothy’s particular interest is tissue engineering, regenerative medicine and drug delivery.

Alice has returned to Australia, having completed her Masters Degree in Public Health at Cambridge University. For her MPhil thesis, she specialised in rural public health issues, particularly on chronic diseases in rural Australia. During this study, Alice was granted the Gates Cambridge Scholarship, the most prestigious scholarship offered by Cambridge. She is now working at Cairns Base Hospital, as part of a psychiatry training program, working with rural and indigenous communities in Australia.

Brendan graduated from Yale Law School with a Master of Laws (LLM) in 2009. He subsequently deferred his Monash Award, taking up a position as Counsel Assisting the Solicitor-General of Australia and teaching part-time at the Australian National University. In January 2011, Brendan returns to Yale as a candidate for the degree of Doctor of the Science of Law (JSD), studying in the field of constitutional law.

David completed the Masters of Law (LLM) at Harvard Law School, focussing on areas of public law and political philosophy. His thesis on the topic of “Habeas Corpus and the Separation of Powers”, was supervised by Professor Richard Fallon, the US’ pre-eminent scholar in the law of habeas corpus, and examined the “Suspension Clause” of the US constitution, which prevents the right to habeas corpus from being suspended except in emergency circumstances. He has returned to Sydney and works with the legal firm, Freehills. David is an Associate of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, and on behalf of the Centre writes articles on leading High Court cases for a general audience on Australian Policy Online. In September 2010, David and Professor George Williams published People Power: The History and Future of the Referendum in Australia (UNSW Press).

Dilani is completing a PhD in theoretical physics at Harvard University, USA. Dilani’s area of interest is quantum mechanics. She works with eminent particle physicist Lisa Randall on projects associated with the Large Hadron Collider, and recently published her first Harvard paper in FERMILab on R-hadrons (hypothetical particles composed by a Supersymmetric particle and at least one quark).

Frances completed her MPhil in Development Studies at Oxford in 2010. Her research focused on protracted refugee situations and the potential of development assistance to contribute to their resolution, in particular in Bangladesh. Upon completion of her MPhil, she was approached by the UN World Food Program to take on a role as Head of Sub-Office in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, managing the food aid to the Rohingya refugee camps. The World Food Program in Cox's Bazar provides food to 28,000 refugees, including a nutrition program for malnourished children and a feeding program for refugee school children. In the first three months Frances started up new feeding programs for Bangladeshi school children living near the refugee camps, as well as urban working children in the nearest divisional city. She may resume her DPhil at a later date.

Hugh has completed a Masters of International Relations at Cambridge University, UK. He was a founder of the philanthropic organization the Oaktree Foundation, organized the Melbourne Make Poverty History concert, and was Young Australian of the Year in 2004. In 2008 Hugh stepped down from Oaktree and took on the responsibility of becoming the Co-Chair of the inaugural Youth 2020 Summit in Canberra. He is also a Director at The Human Race, a social change consultancy. Following completion of his Masters, Hugh has taken up the position of CEO at the Global Poverty Project in New York, supported by the Gates Foundation and a number of philanthropists.

Johnathon is completing a Doctor of Philosophy in Public Health at the Transport Research Institute at Michigan University, USA. Jonathon is studying the relationship between emotional self-awareness and the risk-taking activity of adolescents. In mid 2010 he published a paper on teen driving behaviour in Michigan.

Roger completed his Masters of International Public Policy at Johns Hopkins University, USA in 2009. His focus was on strategy in conflict management. Roger was the first member of the Australian military to receive a Monash Award. Roger has since returned to Australia, and in 2010 was promoted to Brigadier, and is now Director General Special Operations Capability in the Department of Defense at Duntroon in Canberra.

David completed his Masters of Public Administration at Harvard University in 2009. In the lead up to his Award, David acted as a strategic change consultant with CARE International, a leading international humanitarian NGO, and as economic development consultant with the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership. David is currently a Principal with the Boston Consulting Group in Melbourne. David sits on the Board of the Monash Foundation.

Gemma completed her MSc in the Department of Oncology at Cambridge University in 2010. Her research focussed on identifying the cellular origin of the various types of breast cancers, and the tumour-initiating mechanisms employed by these cells. Her analysis and thesis demonstrated that the existence of breast cancer stem cells is not certain, and therefore that the design of therapeutics targeting breast cancer stem cells requires a better understanding of tumour-initiating mechanisms. Since returning to Adelaide, Gemma has completed the Graduate Diploma in Psychology at the University of Adelaide, and is now working at the Flinders Centre for Cancer Prevention and Control, and will undertake Honours in Psychology at Flinders University in 2012.

Jeffrey decided to complete a medical degree at the ANU, rather than undertake a DPhil at Oxford University on the Monash Scholarship.

Jeremy is completing the third year of his PhD with the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. His thesis addresses the broad question of how we are to understand man’s place in nature. Jeremy expects his dissertation proposal to be approved by the end of November of 2010, and to complete his PhD by 2013.

Joseph is completing a DPhil at Oxford University, UK in medicine. Joseph’s thesis looks at “Novel Techniques in Cardiac Imaging for the detection of ischaemia and cardiac failure”. He has published widely, and was awarded an Early Career Awards by the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. On return to Australia, Joseph plans to work as a clinical academic and research team leader at a tertiary teaching hospital.

Kirsty completed her PhD with the Dynamics and Vibration Group in the Department of Engineering at Cambridge University, UK in 2011. Her research area involved developing innovative methods for reducing noise and vibration generated by railway trains, especially in underground tunnels. In 2011 she has taken up a position with the Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering (SPICE) project. This project investigates the opportunity for solar radiation management through the deployment of reflective aerosol particles into the earth's atmosphere. The SPICE Project is a 3.5 year collaborative venture, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council in the UK, and involving researchers from the universities of Bristol, Cambridge, Oxford and Edinburgh, together with the Met Office and Marshall Aerospace. The apparatus uses a tethered balloon lifting a 25km pipe, and will be the tallest man-made structure yet developed. Kirsty's contribution to the project includes computer modelling, as well as helping to address its public engagement, societal & governance, risk management & safety strategies.

Owen pursued a joint PhD/DPhil at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA and Oxford University, UK in the field of medicine. Owen plans to discover the genes required for protection from infectious disease. He commences the Oxford DPhil in 2011. Owen has completed 8 publications in peer-refereed journals in the last four years.

Rosie completed a Masters of Public Health at Harvard University in 2009. She returned to Melbourne, and is completing her Opthamology Training at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. After Harvard, Rosie worked with the World Health Organisation in Switzerland, and in Aboriginal Medical Health Service in Alice Springs and Fitzroy as a General Practitioner.

Aruna has completed two degrees at Oxford University, a Bachelor of Civil Laws and a Master of Philosophy, and is completing a DPhil in 2010. Her MPhil work focused on the place of social justice and human rights in the structures of the global economy. Her DPhil addresses the idea of shared human rights responsibility between democratic representatives and courts. Through 2008 and 2009, she worked working as a consultant to the Amnesty International Secretariat in London, examining the adequacy of the international framework surrounding gross environmental harm. In late 2010 she joined the London office of the international consultancy McKinsey and Company.

Bridget has completed her PhD in Literature at Cambridge University, UK studying writers as agents for social and political change. Her work on the poet Geoffrey Hill was recently cited in the Times Literary Supplement. She is currently teaching at Kings College Cambridge, and applying for postdoctoral research fellowships in the UK.

Hsien is completing a D.Phil at Oxford in Medicine in 2010. Hsien’s research focused on preventative therapies for conditions such as asthma, eczema, dermatitis and hay fever. In early 2011 Hsien will take up a position at the John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle, NSW.

Justin completed a DPhil at Oxford, UK in 2010 looking at research into repair of the brain, covering diseases such as Parkinson’s, Huntington's, and Motor Neuron and acute brain injury, such as trauma and congenital abnormalities. Justin has returned to Australia and working on training rotations in Melbourne and Adelaide.

Kate has completed a PhD in philosophy at MIT, Cambridge MA, USA. Her thesis was on the relationships between various different kinds of normativity - how things ought to be. To that end, she works in ethics, epistemology, and logic, and also has interests in feminist theory and aesthetics. Her most recent work concerns the nature of practical and epistemic reasons. She has also worked extensively on epistemic and deontic logics, which have practical applications to Natural Language Processing (NLP). In October 2010 Kate became a teaching fellow at the Kennedy school at Harvard, for the Masters of Public Policy ethics course.

Mark completed his PhD at Cambridge, UK in 2009. His thesis involved studying the role of JAK2 in myeloproliferative disorders and to test novel therapeutic agents in these diseases. After completing his PhD, Mark took up a position as Clinical Research Fellow at the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research. In January 2010, Mark was offered the inaugural Wellcome Trust-Beit fellowship, to set up a research group to study chromatin changes in an aggressive condition called acute myeloid leukaemia. He is also an honorary haematology consultant at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge.

Sally completed her PhD in Environmental Science at the US’s Duke University in May 2010. The basis of her thesis was the study of the interaction of water and vegetation using pattern analysis to observe and predict changes to ecosystems. As part of her doctorate she developed ecohydrological models to simulate vegetation pattern formation. She currently works as a Postdoctoral Associate at Duke University, and as a Visiting Scholar at Princeton University and Teaching Scholar at Purdue University.

Tim completed his DPhil at Balliol College, Oxford University, focusing on aspects of number theory: "Further results on Gram's Law" in 2009. He has submitted three papers to international journals, including the Journal of Number Theory, through 2009. Outside of his academic work, Tim has been active in Oxford cricket (representing the University) and drama. In 2010 he took up a postdoctoral research position with the University of Lethbridge in Canada, working on some of the most interesting challenges in number theory, relating to the Riemann zeta-function. Tim is also a very active writer, with an article on asylum-seekers to be posted on the ABC opinion site The Drum, and has recently become a contributor to the largest cricket resource, cricinfo.com, one of the world’s top five sports websites.

Andrew graduated from New York University School of Law with a Masters in Laws (LLM) in Global Public Service law. Prior to taking up his Scholarship, Andrew was a lawyer in Australia representing indigent clients and refugees and spearheading major law reform projects. For 4 years after NYU he was Manager of the Human Rights Defenders Program at Human Rights First, a human rights advocacy group in New York, leading their Latin American work and seeking policy change by engaging in field-based analysis and high level advocacy with the UN system, US and other governments. He has been quoted authoritatively in the international media on transitional justice issues in Latin America and has authored groundbreaking reports exposing human rights violations in countries as varied as Burma, Iraq, United States, Colombia, Guatemala and Indonesia. In July 2010 he joined Crisis Action in New York as Head of Campaigns and Advocacy, leading the organisation’s work on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and in October was appointed as the New York Director for Crisis Action. He has also worked with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Ecuador, the UN Regional Commission in Thailand, the Australian delegation to the UN General Assembly, and the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions.

Ben completed a PhD in the Faculty of English at Cambridge in 2010, following completion of an MPhil in 2007. He was ranked top of his MPhil class, won three further graduate scholarships, and has published several articles. He is currently working on a book, 'Literary Primitivism: Essence, Aesthetics, Politics', which seeks to reframe approaches to primitivist writing in early to mid-20th century. Ben took up a position as Faculty Research Fellow in Postcolonial and Related Literatures in the Cambridge English Faculty in January 2010. He lectures on Caribbean and Australian literature, and colonial/anticolonial intellectual history.

Cathy has completed her PhD at the Institute of Social Psychology, London School of Economics and Political Science. Her thesis looked at how to contribute to supporting existing community strengths, networks and protective factors, to reduce HIV transmission and the impact of AIDS, and draws upon 10 months of field work undertaken in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea in 2007. She has 11 refereed publications and has given numerous invited presentations on her topic. She also lectures at the Institute of Social Psychology (LSE, UK); the Burnet Institute/Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine (Monash University, Australia); the Nossal Institute for Global Health/School of Population Health (University of Melbourne, Australia); and the School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry (University of Melbourne, Australia).

Cathy submitted for her PhD in May 2011, and plans to work in the area of HIV/AIDS.

Katherine undertook a joint PhD at the ANU and AgroParisTech-ENGREF, France, awarded in November 2008. Her thesis in the field of sustainable development and water management specifically focusing on developing and evaluating new methods to involve community participation in policy making was ranked in the top 10 in French Engineering and Management Schools. Between 2004 and 2010 she was involved in the writing of over thirty academic publications including book chapters, papers and reports. Katherine is now located in Canberra, as a Research Fellow in the ANU's Centre for Policy Innovation. In November 2010 she was elected a Fellow of the Peter Cullen Trust, which works on improvement in policy, science and politics in water and environment.

Matthew completed his DPhil at Oxford University in July 2010 studying the "Temperature Control of the Bacterial Flagellar Motor". He is now working as a postdoctoral researcher at Oxford jointly in the Chemistry Research Laboratory and the Department of Biochemistry studying the twin-arginine-transporter using single molecule fluorescence. He published a review article on the physics of the bacterial flagellar motor in 2009 and is preparing a paper on temperature control methods. He is an international fencer, having represented Australia in international world cup competitions continuously from 2005 to 2010. He was placed 8th in an international satellite tournament in Denmark in October 2010. Matt is active in science communication and performance poetry in the UK and has spoken and performed at both the Cheltenham Literature and Science Festivals and the Green Man Festival in 2010.

Miranda intended to attend Yale and undertake a Masters in International Relations in Near Eastern Studies, specializing in human rights and the politics of modern law reform. She declined the Monash Award, and was until recently a specialist in human rights and international humanitarian law in the Middle East at the International Centre for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) in New York. Before joining the ICTJ, Miranda worked as a researcher and consultant at Human Rights Watch; helped develop Arab civil society networks on the International Criminal Court; and served in the Australian diplomatic service. She has authored numerous publications on human rights and IHL issues in the Middle East and elsewhere. Miranda has now joined the social movement company purpose.com in the role of Vice President, Finance and Operations.

Olivia focused her PhD at Cambridge on developing a practical methodology for undertaking climate change impact assessments for the water industry.

Olivia returned to Australia after her PhD to work in the area of water resource management, working as an Environmental Engineer in the Australian Water Quality Centre (the research/lab services division of SA Water). Her work focussed on monitoring and modelling salinity in the Lower River Murray. She also played a significant role in SA Water’s climate change strategy and led a project to develop a climate change impact assessment for Happy Valley Reservoir, SA Water’s most critical water supply reservoir.

In July 2011, Olivia left SA Water and took up a position as a senior water resources engineer at consulting firm KBR. KBR is one of the world's premiere engineering, procurement and construction companies. In Australia, KBR has more than 1,700 staff, and has operated for 50 years. In addition to project work, Olivia also participates in KBR’s national climate change and sustainability team.

She continues to be a member of an international Project Advisory Committee for the Water Research Foundation in America.

Sarah gained her PhD from the University of Cambridge in Human Geography. Her thesis examined the social and political dimensions of transnational biodiversity conservation in developing countries, with a focus on the Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia. She has now taken up a position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Crawford School of Economics and Government at the ANU. Sarah is also Social Development Director for Conservation International (a US-based international NGO with more than 30 offices internationally). She supports Conservation International’s work in 10 countries, helping them to improve the human development outcomes of their community-based conservation projects.

Aimée studied creative writing at Cambridge from 2005, and was president of the Cambridge University Australia and New Zealand Society. Since leaving Cambridge, she has worked as Development Officer of the London Library – the world’s largest independent lending library – since 2008. Aimée has responsibility for the Library’s major fundraising and redevelopment activities, as part of the largest development of the Library in over a century. She has coordinated major recent events featuring a number of Europe’s leading writers and playwrights.

Danielle completed an LLM at Harvard in July 2005, focused on international law and human rights. She then took up a position as a legal associate with the World Bank in Washington DC. At the start of 2010, Danielle was an operational counsel with the World Bank, responsible for the Republics of Kazakhstan, Turkey and Yemen. In June 2006, Danielle published an important analysis for the Global HIV/AIDS Program: Australia's Successful Response to AIDS and the Role of Law Reform. In 2009 she negotiated an education project for the World Bank in Tajikistan. In September 2010 Danielle was promoted to Senior Counsel of the World Bank, and is leading negotiations with the Government of Yemen for a proposed US$35 million child and maternal health project. In addition to her responsibility for Yemen, she is the Bank's counsel for Russia and Turkey. Danielle was awarded a Wesley College (University of Sydney) Foundation Medal in September - a 'lifetime achievement' medal awarded by the college to former alumni.

Jacqui graduated from the London School of Economics with a Master of Science in Social Anthropology and has submitted for a PhD in Government at the same institution. In July 2007, she led design of an alternative dispute resolution program between the European Union and the Supreme Court of Indonesia. She is currently writing a book chapter for an edited volume called Policing in Democratizing States produced by the LSE’s Department of Criminology. Jacqui will join the Asia-Pacific Centre for Transnational Crime Prevention at the University of Wollongong in early 2011, to commence a project on amphetamines and corruption in Southeast Asia.

Jacqui completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge in June 2008 and returned to Australia, to take up a position as a lecturer at Sydney University's Law School. Her particular area of interest is international law and legal theory, with a focus on international human rights law. Her research focuses primarily on language policy and international law, looking at legal issues associated with accommodating linguistic minorities in multicultural societies. Jacqui also teaches in the area of commercial law and has a particular interest in international commercial issues. In 2009 she was awarded the University of Sydney Faculty of Law Award for Excellence in Teaching. Jacqui also teaches on the European Masters program in human rights at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. In addition, she practises pro bono as a barrister at the New South Wales Bar, and she has recently been appointed as the Revising Examiner in Public International Law for the Legal Profession Admission Board of New South Wales. She is closely involved with the Monash Foundation through membership of the National Selection Panel.

Jean-Paul completed his DPhil in Economics at Oxford in 2009. His Scholarship was supported by the Commonwealth Bank Foundation. He has taken up positions as a Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Economics at Oxford, and a Robert Solow Fellow, Cournot Centre for Economic Studies in Paris. His applies game theory to social economics, with recent publications on coordination and culture, and the Islamic revival. He was invited to present his research at the European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society in Rome in November 2010, as one of three UK candidates selected. He was also one of the three young economists (from the UK) selected to present their research at the "Young Talent" showcase session at the Royal Economic Society Annual Conference in April 2011. Jean-Paul is currently pursuing tenured opportunities in the UK and the US.

Katherine studied Engineering Science at Oxford, submitting for her D.Phil in December 2010. Katherine's Scholarship was supported by Boeing Australia Limited. Her biomedical engineering research has focused on medical image processing (CT, MRI) and blood vessel segmentation and registration techniques. She is returning to Australia in 2011.

Lara completed her MBA at INSEAD in 2005; her Monash Scholarship was supported by the Macquarie Foundation. After completing her MBA, she worked with the Boston Consulting Group in London until 2007. Lara was a Director on the Board of the Monash Foundation from 2005-2007. She then took up a position as Head of Europe for Cool nrg International Pty Ltd. At Cool nrg International she helped grow the organization to 17 people at $24m turnover, and led the “The Great British Light Switch”, distributing 4.5 million light bulbs to more than 12,000 stores in a single day. She returned to Australia in 2009 and founded Energy Return Pty Ltd, an innovative carbon and energy auditing business based in Melbourne. She has recently rejoined Cool nrg in Australia, and participated in the international climate change action forum in Cancun (Mexico) in December 2010.

Thomas completed his DPhil in Atomic and Laser Physics from Oxford in 2008. His thesis focused on the formation of molecules in ultracold gases. After finishing his studies, he secured a post-doctoral fellowship in the group led by Professor Paul Julienne, a pioneer in the theory of ultracold atomic collisions, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland. At the end of 2009, Thomas was awarded a three year contract within the Joint Quantum Institute. Thomas has published eight peer-reviewed papers in physics journals, together with a book chapter. He also presented to Swinburne University of Technology's Atom Optics group, during a brief visit to Australia in September 2009.