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Chief Executive Officer
Professor Margaret Sheil FTSE FRACI C Chem
Professor Margaret Sheil is currently CEO of the Australian Research Council, having been appointed in August 2007. Professor Sheil is a member of the Cooperative Research Centres Committee, the Prime Minister’s Science Innovation and Engineering Council and the National Research Infrastructure Council. She is also a member of the Board of the Australia-India Council and the Advisory Council of the Science Industry Endowment Fund.
From 2002 to 2007 she was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Wollongong (UOW). She joined UOW as a lecturer in the Department of Chemistry in 1990, was promoted to Professor of Chemistry in 2000 and appointed Dean of Science at UOW in January 2001. Prior to joining UOW she held positions as a Research Fellow at the Australian National University and the University of Utah, USA.
Professor Sheil has a PhD and BSc(Hons) in Chemistry from the University of New South Wales. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) and the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI).
