Public Lectures
There’ s always more to learn at Monash. The Sir John Monash Lectures and The Jeffrey Cheah Distinguished Speakers Series are avenues where you will get to hear from high-profile thinkers, leaders, policy makers, academics and experts. These lectures inform, inspire, and stimulate conversation across disciplines in a wide variety of contemporary topics. Below are some of the previous speakers who have delivered lectures at Monash.
PROFESSOR SHUJI NAKAMURA Electronic Engineer and Inventor Nobel Prize in Physics University of California, Santa Barbara
PROFESSOR JIM PEACOCK Molecular Biologist Australia’ s Chief Scientist 2006-2008 University of Technology Sydney
PROFESSOR REBEKAH BROWN Environmental Scientist
Director of the Monash Sustainable Development Institute
Monash University Australia
PROFESSOR JOMO KWAME SUNDARAM Economist
United Nations’ Assistant Director-General and Coordinator( Economic and Social Development), Food and Agriculture Organisation 2012-2015
PROFESSOR MARK SEIELSTAD Geneticist
Associate Investigator at the Blood Systems Research Institute
University of California, San Francisco
PROFESSOR SHAUN BRESLIN Political Scientist
Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Centre for European Studies, Renmin University
University of Warwick
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