Mal Bryce - Senior Fellow

Mal Bryce AO. BA. Hon D.Tech. FAICD.

Mal has had a distinguished career engaged in developing companies, communities and public policy to harness the power of new technology. In the last 25 years Mal has worked as a cabinet minister, company director, corporate manager and senior consultant.

During the 1980’s he established;

· Australia’s most successful Technology Park, at Bentley in WA.

· The Western Australian Small Business Development Corporation,

· The Western Australian SciTech Discovery Centre,

· Australia’s first Government Department of Computing and Information Technology,

· The Institute for Science and Technology Policy and the Chair of Biotechnology at Murdoch University.

· The public policy that revolutionized Regional Development in W.A.

Throughout the 1990s Mal was a leading Australian pioneer in the development of the Internet Industry and the application of the Internet to business, government agencies and communities. He was the architect of Australia’s first online community in Ipswich and he led the team that implemented Australia’s first community driven eCommerce Project. He was also the director of the project, which established a new contemporary campus of the University of Queensland in Ipswich.

He is a former,

· Deputy Premier of Western Australia.

· Director of Bank West.

· Chairman of the Australian Centre for Innovation and International Competitiveness in Sydney.

Chairman /director of six science based companies based in Australia and the USA.

· Chairman of the Governing Council of Perth Central TAFE.

· Member of the Prime Minister’s Science and Engineering Council.

· Management Consultant with Deloitte Ross Tohmatsu.

· Foundation Co-Chairman (1989) of the Australian Greenhouse Information Service.

· Chairman of the Western Australian, Technology and Industry Advisory Council.

· Chairman of the WA Tele-Centre Advisory Council.

He is currently Chairman of iVEC, a Senior Associate of the Australian Centre for Innovation (Sydney), a Director of Yilgarn Infrastructure Ltd. and Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at Curtin University.

June 2008.