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Biographical Information on Keynote Speakers

Lord Robert May

Robert McCredie, Lord May of Oxford, OM AC Kt, is President of The Royal Society (2000-2005) and holds a Professorship jointly at the Oxford University and Imperial College, London and is a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He was Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government and Head of the UK Office of Science and Technology, 1995-2000. He is also a Trustee of the Nuffield Foundation and of the Cambridge University Gates Trust, and until recently Chaired the Trustees of the Natural History Museum. His career includes a Personal Chair in Physics at Sydney University aged 33, Class of 1877 Professor of Zoology and Chairman of the Research Board at Princeton, and in 1988 a move to Britain and Oxford as Royal Society Research Professor. Particular interests include how populations are structured and respond to change, particularly with respect to infectious diseases and biodiversity.

He was awarded a Knighthood in 1996, and appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 1998, both for "Services to Science". In 2001 he was one of the first 15 Life Peers created by the "House of Lords Appointments Commission", which was established as an independent mechanism for appointing non-party-political Peers following the removal of the voting rights of hereditary Peers. In 2002, The Queen appointed him to the Order of Merit (the fifth Australian in its 100-year history). His many honours
include: the Royal Swedish Academy’s Crafoord Prize (bioscience and ecology’s equivalent of a Nobel Prize); the Swiss-Italian Balzan Prize (for "seminal contributions to [understanding] biodiversity"); and the Japanese Blue Planet Prize ("for developing fundamental tools for ecological conservation planning"). He is a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Sciences, and an Overseas Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences.

In January this year he was named winner of the inaugural Australian in the UK award. The award, introduced by the Australia Day Foundation in Britain, aims to recognise the achievements and contributions of the thousands of Australian expatriates living in Britain.

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Lord May - Bio

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Sir Clive W.J. Granger

Sir Clive Granger shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences with Robert Engle for their discoveries in the analysis of time series data.
The work has fundamentally changed the way that economists think about financial and macro-economic data and has led to significant breakthroughs in Statistics and Macro-economic forecasting.

Sir Clive is also noted for developing a formal statistical notion of causality based on which variables help to predict other variables. His discovery is widely used and is commonly known as "Granger causality". He is now Professor Emeritus at University of California, San Diego (UCSD).

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Sir Clive - Bio

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Glenn Stevens

Born: 23 January 1958

Education: BEc(Hons), The University of Sydney; MA, University of Western Ontario

1980–9 Research Department, Reserve Bank of Australia; various positions
and Visiting Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco in 1990

1992–9 Head of Economic Analysis Department

1995–9 Head of International Department

1996–2 Assistant Governor (Economic)