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James Bradfield Moody is currently the General Manager, International Development for the national research organisation CSIRO. In this role he is responsible for fostering CSIRO’s global development agenda, including access to overseas talent, creating research projects of international significance and helping Australia gain access to foreign knowledge, infrastructure and intellectual property. James was formerly the Director of Business Strategy at CSIRO Land and Water.
James holds a number of other prominent government roles, including membership of the Australian Government’s Bureau of Meteorology advisory board and the Bureau of Statistics advisory council. He is a member of the board of the National Australia Day Council and also the Brisbane Institute in Queensland. In the last five years he has been heavily involved with the United Nations, and was a member and executive secretary of the taskforce on Science and Technology for the Millennium Development Goals. He has also worked with the United Nations Environment Programme and was selected by the World Economic Forum as one of their Young Global Leaders.
In 2000, he was named Young Professional Engineer of the Year and was also awarded Young Queenslander of the Year and the following year he was awarded Young Australian of the Year in Science and Technology.
He was chosen by Engineers Australia to be one of the top 100 most influential engineers in Australia and in 2007 named by Boss Magazine as one of their young executives of the year. James received his PhD in innovation theory from the National Graduate School of Management and was also a chief systems engineer for FedSat, the first Australian Satellite to be launched in thirty years.
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