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Greg Tegart AM FTSE FIE Aust Candidate Statement William John McGregor (Greg) Tegart has had a long career in academia, industry and government. After obtaining a BSc and an MSc at the University of Melbourne in Australia, he went to England in 1955 and completed a PhD at the University of Sheffield in UK. He continued as an academic and researcher in metallurgy and materials science at the University of Sheffield in the UK and at Northwestern University in the US. In 1966 he was appointed Professor of Materials at the College of Aeronautics at Cranfield, UK. He returned to Australia in 1968 to head up a new product research laboratory in Melbourne for BHP (then the major company in steel, minerals and oil and gas in Australia). After nearly nine years he moved to BHP Head Office as Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer. In 1979 he was invited to Canberra as a Member of the three-man Executive of CSIRO (the largest Government research organization in Australia). After three years he was appointed Secretary of the Commonwealth Department of Science and Technology (later Commonwealth Department of Science) which had responsibility for research funding and technology policy, and S&T services such as meteorology, Antarctic activities, analytical laboratories etc. In 1987 he became Secretary of the Australian Science and Technology Council (which provided advice on a range of S&T issues to the Prime Minister and Cabinet). In his capacity as a senior Government official he traveled to many countries and represented Australia at meetings of international bodies such as OECD and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. After retiring from the Australian Public Service
in 1993 he has continued a career as an academic and a consultant. From
1993-1996 he spent 3 years as Visiting Professor of Science Policy at
the University of Canberra. He led two major studies on climate change
science in Australia and on the future patterns of work in Australia.
Since 1996 he has been Visiting Professor in the Centre for Strategic
and Economic Studies at Victoria University studying issues of technology
and society including nanotechnologies and converging technologies. Most recently he is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the National Europe Centre at the Australian National University in Canberra studying S&T relations between Australia and Europe. In 2005 he led a delegation from the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering to France to examine French activities in nanoscience and nanotechnologies and to develop cooperation with the French Academy of Technologies. In 1992 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to science and technology. He is the author and editor of several books and has published some 250 articles on a wide variety of scientific and technical topics.
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