Aii Board

Robert Johanson

Chair

Robert Johanson has worked at Grant Samuel, a corporate advisory firm, since 1993 and is responsible for its Melbourne office. He has 30 years experience in corporate finance and investment banking. He has been involved in a wide variety of capital markets transactions for leading corporations. He had previously worked as a solicitor, as a law lecturer, in the corporate division of Macquarie Bank and as a consultant to mining and finance businesses.

Susan Elliott

Deputy Chair

Professor Susan Elliott studied Medicine at the University of Melbourne. She was awarded Dux of the Austin and Repatriation General Hospital’s Clinical School and was the recipient of the Senior Medical Staff Prize. Her specialist training is in gastroenterology, for which she completed her MD by thesis in 1993.

Susan Bennett

Susan Bennett is the General Manager, International Education and Science Division, Australian Government Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education. She has worked in the federal education portfolio in international and higher education and student income support, and her federal public sector career has included working in the Attorney-General’s and Health portfolios.

James Donald

James Donald became Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UNSW in 2007, having been appointed Professor of Film Studies in July 2003. He was previously Professor of Media at Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia, and before that, in England, he had worked in the School of Education at the Open University and helped to establish Media Studies at the University of Sussex.

Julia Fraser

Julia is a member of Asialink’s Executive Team and is also Co-Director of Asia-Australia Mental Health; a consortium of partners at the University of Melbourne and St. Vincent’s Health. Her expertise is in facilitating adult learning, large-scale project management and developing training curriculums and programs for a wide variety of audiences in Australia and the greater Asia Pacific region.

Amitabh Mattoo

Professor Mattoo is Director of AII and a Professor of International Relations at the University of Melbourne. He concurrently serves as Professor of Disarmament Studies at the Centre for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament at New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University. Professor Mattoo has been a Member of the National Knowledge Commission, a high-level advisory group to the Prime Minister of India and the National Security Council’s Advisory Board.

John Rosenberg

Professor John Rosenberg is Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor of La Trobe University. He holds the Honours degree of Bachelor of Science and the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in computer science from Monash University, and is a Fellow of the Academy for Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Australian Computer Society.