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. Read more
Professor Susan Elliott – Deputy Chair
Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Global Engagement, The University of Melbourne. Board member, Australia India Institute
Professor Elliott was educated at Presbyterian Ladies’ College Burwood, followed by medical school at the University of Melbourne, where she was Dux of the Austin and Repatriation General Hospital’s Clinical School and the recipient of the Senior Medical Staff Prize. Her specialist training is in Gastroenterology and she completed her MD by thesis in 1993. Professor Elliott worked as a consultant physician at the Austin and Western Hospitals from 1994 to 1997 whilst concurrently pursuing her interest in medical education. Read more
Ms Julia Fraser
Julia Fraser is the Director of Leadership and Community Programs, Asialink, is a member of Asialink’s Executive and Co-Director of the secretariat 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, developing training curriculum and programs for a wide variety of audiences in Australia and the region. Read more
Mr Vipan Mahajan
Branch Manager, Strategic Engagement, Scholarships, South and South East Asia Branch, International Group
Vipan Mahajan has extensive experience working within the government sector and has held senior management positions in a number of departments including more recently in Defence and Medicare Australia. Prior to joining the Government Sector, Vipan worked in a private, not for profit hospital system. Read more
Dr Peter Friedlander
Senior Lecturer, Hindi Language and Buddhist Studies, La Trobe University
Peter Friedlander is Senior Lecturer in Hindi language and Buddhist studies at La Trobe University. Read more
Professor Amitabh Mattoo
Director, Australia India Institute
Professor Mattoo is a Professor of Disarmament Studies at the Centre for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University and has been a Member of the National Knowledge Commission, a high-level advisory group to the Prime Minister of India. Read more
Prof Alec Cameron
Professor Cameron is the inaugural Dean of the Australian School of Business at The University of New South Wales. He was appointed to this role in August 2006, having been responsible for managing the integration of the Australian Graduate School of Management with the Faculty of Commerce and Economics, leading to the creation of the Australian School of Business. Read more
