Our people and structure

Professor Brendan Crabb AC

Director and Chief Executive Officer

Hilary Bolton

Chief Operating Officer

Geoff Drenkhahn

Chief of Funding Growth

Professor Caroline Homer AO

Deputy Director, Gender Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Leanne Lawrence

Chief of People, Planning and Governance

Mary-Ann Nicholas

Head, International Program Quality and Effectiveness

Paul Rathbone

Chief of Staff

Mary Padbury

BA, LLB(Hons). Chair since 2019. Director since 2011.

Professor Brendan Crabb AC

PhD, BSc. Director and Chief Executive Officer since 2008.

Professor Sandra Eades AO

PhD, FTSE, FASSA, FAHMS. Director since 2020.

James Flintoft

LLB, BSc, MBA. Director since 2023.

Dr Andrew Nash

PhD. Director since 2025.

Michael Ziegelaar

LLB(Hons), BEc, LLM. Director since 2015.

Professor Alan Cowman AC

Chair

Independent Scientific Advisory Committee

Professor Nancy Baxter

Member

Independent Scientific Advisory Committee

Adeeba Binti Kamarulzaman

Member

Independent Scientific Advisory Committee

Dr Shivaprasad S Goudar

Member

Independent Scientific Advisory Committee

Dr Fredrick Charles

Country Director, Papua New Guinea

Kali Ameara

Country Representative, Vanuatu; Vanuatu Research Coordinator

Dr Elissa Kennedy

Co-Program Director, Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health

Dr Lindi Masson

Deputy Director, Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health

Associate Professor Anna Hearps

Co-Program Director, Disease Elimination

Associate Professor Megan SC Lim

Deputy Director, Disease Elimination

Associate Professor Suman Majumdar

Deputy Director, Health Security and Pandemic Preparedness

Professor Gilda Tachedjian

Head, Life Sciences

Professor Mark A Stoové

Head, Public Health

Chad Hughes

Head, International Development