Hetzel studied medicine at the University of Adelaide from 1940 to 1944. He was granted reserved occupation status as a medical student during World War II. He was a Fulbright Research Scholar in the 1950s, including an appointment at New York Hospital.

In 1954, Hetzel and his family traveled to London where he undertook a Research Fellowship in the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism at St Thomas’ Hospital.

Hetzel worked in remote areas of Papua New Guinea with the Public Health Department of the then Territory.

Hetzel studied medicine at the University of Adelaide from 1940 to 1944. He was granted reserved occupation status as a medical student during World War II. He was a Fulbright Research Scholar in the 1950s, including an appointment at New York Hospital.

In 1954, Hetzel and his family traveled to London where he undertook a Research Fellowship in the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism at St Thomas’ Hospital.

Hetzel worked in remote areas of Papua New Guinea with the Public Health Department of the then Territory.

Charlie is a Sustainable Development Fellow at the University of Adelaide Business School and specializes in sustainability, economic growth transitions, and emerging industries. Charlie has worked with leading sustainability experts around the world over the last 20 years and has made a strong contribution to the field through his writing, consulting, and public speaking. Charlie has co-authored 5 books, numerous papers, and industry reports (currently selling over 85,000 copies in 6 languages). The first book, The Natural Advantage of Nations, won the Australian Banksia Award for Environmental Leadership, Education and Training in 2005, and two other books were ranked in 2010 among the “Top 40 Sustainability Books” by the Cambridge Sustainability Leaders Program.

Dr Cheong has carved out an extraordinary career as an academic, a business leader, and a community leader. He came to Australia from Malaysia to pursue university education as a Colombo Plan Scholar, and after completing his PhD, returned to Malaysia as a lecturer at the University of Malaya, where he was later an Associate Professor.

Dr Cheong has carved out an extraordinary career as an academic, a business leader, and a community leader.

Chris’ contribution to the legal and political communities of South Australia, and his establishment and support of philanthropic endeavors of the College, underscore the community-minded way of life reinforced at Lincoln.

After graduating from Medicine at the University of Adelaide in the late 50s, Dr Sam Abraham returned to Malaysia to become a highly respected practitioner of Paediatrics there and in Australia. Making the decision to work in the public sector rather than in private practice, Dr Abraham chose to positively impact the poorly resourced area of Paediatrics in Malaysia.

Garry Disher was born in Burra, South Australia, and attended local schools before completing his high school education at Adelaide Boys High. In 1971 he graduated with a BA from Adelaide University while residing at Lincoln College. During the next two years, he traveled extensively, living and working in Britain, Europe, Israel, and Africa. After his return to Australia, he completed an MA in Australian History and began a career as a teacher.
By the late 1970s, Disher had published several short stories in literary magazines. He was awarded a creative writing fellowship at Stanford University, California, in 1978, and completed his first collection of stories there. During the 1980s Disher taught creative writing and helped design the professional writing course for the Victorian TAFE system. He began writing full-time in 1988.
Garry Disher has published over 50 highly praised, prize-winning, and widely translated books in a range of genres: crime thrillers, literary/general novels, short-story collections, YA/children’s fiction, and writers’ handbooks. His growing international reputation has seen him tour Germany and the United States, where his crime and YA novels have appeared on best-books-of-the-year lists and won various awards. His latest titles include a literary novel, Her, the ninth Wyatt thriller, Kill Shot, the stand-alone crime novel, The Way it is Now, and Day’s End, the fourth in his best-selling and prize-winning Hirsch series.
In 2018, Disher received a lifetime achievement award from the Ned Kelly Awards, in recognition of his significance as a crime writer.

After studying economics at the University of Melbourne, he moved to the University of Cambridge, where he received his doctorate. In 1958, he moved to the University of Adelaide as a lecturer and was appointed a chair in Economics at Adelaide in 1967. He was a University Lecturer at Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity Hall (1964–66). He was a University Lecturer (1982–90) and Reader (1990–98) in the Faculty of Economics at Cambridge and a Fellow and College Lecturer in Economics, at Jesus College, Cambridge, (1982–98), and was President of Jesus College Cambridge, (1988–89 and 1990–92).

Menadue was head of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet from 1974 to 1976, working under prime ministers Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser. He was closely involved in the events of 11 November 1975, when the Governor-General dismissed Whitlam.

He was an Australian Ambassador to Japan from 1976 to 1980. Menadue returned to Australia in 1980 to become Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. In March 1983, he became Secretary of the Department of the Special Minister of State.

He was appointed Secretary of the Department of Trade in December 1983.

Dr Lauren Andersson is a consultant gastroenterologist, hepatologist, and fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. As a visiting specialist, she provides consultation and procedural support to the gastroenterology service at the Royal Darwin and Palmerston Hospitals.

Born and raised in Darwin., Dr. Andersson was a junior doctor at the Royal Darwin Hospital before relocating to Western Australia to complete her training as a Gastroenterologist. While in the Northern Territory she spent additional time in Nhulunbuy, Alice Springs and participated in numerous rural and remote outreach specialist clinics. In Western Australia, Dr Andersson completed her Gastroenterology training with a fellowship year in liver transplant at the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.

Singapore’s first female Permanent Secretary, Lim Soo Hoon has held many high-profile positions in her public service career spanning more than 30 years.

The Colombo Plan scholar graduated from the University of Adelaide with a Bachelor of Economics in 1980. The following year she joined the Ministry of Trade and Industry, and then moved to various other ministries including Transport and Manpower.

In 1999, she made history when she was appointed Permanent Secretary at the then Ministry of Community Development (MCD).

Louise became the first female Executive Director on Aurecon’s Global Board in 2013 and is Aurecon’s global spokesperson for Women in Leadership. She is passionate about the role quality infrastructure can play in improving societal outcomes and also how organizational diversity underpins the innovation and creativity required to achieve it.

In October 2021, Louise was appointed by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade as one of three inaugural Business Champions to further two-way trade and investment opportunities to business communities in Vietnam and Australia and was also invited to be one of the inaugural Champions for the Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Chamber Change program, highlighting Louise’s advocacy for female leadership and equality within STEM.

Louise is also a member of both the National Advisory and Fiduciary Boards of Infrastructure Partnerships Australia, was previously the Chair to Consult Australia’s Champions of Change group and is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology & Engineering (ATSE). In 2018 Louise was awarded a Chief Executive Women (CEW) Scholarship to attend the Wharton Business School and in 2020 she became a member of Australia’s CEW Group.

In recognition of her commitment to her industry and her advocacy Louise has received numerous awards including the prestigious Sir John Holland Civil 2023 Engineer of the Year Award from Engineer Australia’s Civil College, the 2022 Excellence in Engineering accolade at the Women in Industry Awards and a 2021 Deakin University Alumni of the Year Award. In November 2020, whilst in the role of Chief Executive for Aurecon across Australia and New Zealand, Louise was named the Australian CEO of the Year as part of The CEO Magazine’s Executive of the Year awards.

As a Chartered Civil Engineer, Louise has over 20 years’ experience managing and designing works in both civil and multi-disciplinary projects in land development as well as technical advisory for project planning. With a background in stormwater management, flood risk assessment and mitigation, Louise has undertaken work in the public and private sectors as well as part of emergency relief efforts.

In previous roles, Louise has led major civil and multidisciplinary projects in the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, Iran, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Singapore, Guyana, North America, Pakistan, Libya, Qatar, and the UAE.

Professor Lucy Montgomery is the co-lead of the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative: a major strategic research project exploring how big data can help universities to understand their performance as Open Knowledge Institutions. The COKI project is combining critical Humanities perspectives with big data and cloud computing approaches to capturing and exploring the digital traces of scholarly communication, open access, diversity and inclusion. The COKI database draws on well over 12 trillion items. Her most recent, collaboratively authored, book Open Knowledge Institutions: Reinventing Universities was published by MIT Press in 2021.

She has an international reputation as an expert consultant in the field of open-access scholarly publishing and is regularly invited to participate in internationally funded research projects and events in this capacity. Her 56 publications include 2 books; 17 journal articles; 7 book chapters; and 5 major commissioned reports.

Milton “Kym” Mayes was born in Port Pirie, SA on the 23rd of April 1947 and was an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Unley from 1982 to 1993 for the Australian Labor Party. Attending Adelaide Technical High School, Kym worked for the Reserve Bank in Adelaide fresh out of High School before eventually enrolling in Economics at the University of Adelaide – the first in his family to attend University – to study under Gretel Dunstan (wife of Don Dunstan).
He was a minister for various portfolios from 1985 to 1993. From 1994, Kym worked for the University of Queensland. Holding the role of Executive Manager for employee relations until 2001, he was then invited to become a lecturer for the university. Drawing on his many years of experience Kym lectured across the fields of Government, Governance, Change Management, Industrial Relations and Employment Law through to 2020. Kym also spent some time working for the Don Dunstan Foundation in Queensland drawing on his connections from his time spent in government in SA.
He currently spends his time with family between Brisbane and Adelaide.

Mr Peter Ong has served the Singaporean community in the area of public service, leadership, and finance.

Notable achievements: Second Permanent Secretary for Defence in 2001; became the Permanent Secretary in the Transport Ministry before becoming the Permanent Secretary of Trade and Industry in 2005; also appointed Second Permanent Secretary of Finance; in 2009 became the Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Finance in Singapore; currently Chairman of the Maritime and Port Authority and a Director of TIF Ventures Pte.

Dr. Richard Hin Yung is well known for his services to the Singaporean community in the area of medical education and service to his country.

Notable achievements: won the coveted Command Appointment Plaque and the Meritorious Service Award from the Singapore Armed Forces; published author; Distinguished Alumni University of Adelaide.

Robert is a self-taught artist renowned for his portraits. He has succeeded in being a finalist in the Archibald Prize every year since first entering it in 1991. He worked as a political cartoonist for the Adelaide Advertiser from 1964 -1967 and has been a full-time artist since 1970.

Hannaford has painted many contemporary portrait commissions during the last 40 years including paintings of Dame Joan Sutherland, Sir Donald Bradman, and Paul Keating.

Simon grew up on a farm, a soldier settler block in the South East of South Australia. After graduating with an English Literature degree from Adelaide University – during which, he resided at Lincoln College – he has pursued several paths, including farming, managing a radio station, working in tourism, and most recently, an extended spell in the public service in Canberra. During his time in the public service, Simon worked at the senior manager level in broadband and telecommunications policy and programs.
Now retired, he is dedicating his time to a lifelong interest in creative writing, and, in particular, to writing historical Australian fiction.
He has currently produced 3 wonderful novels; Boss, Taken In, and Death in Black and White, and is currently working on a further sequel to be released in late 2023. These are available from major online retailers.

Tim Harcourt is an Australian economist who is the J.W. Nevile Fellow in economics at the UNSW Business School, and an advisor to the Government of South Australia on international engagement.

Harcourt was awarded a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) from the University of Adelaide, and a Master of Arts in Economics from the University of Minnesota, and also completed the Trade Union Program at Harvard Law School. He was the Chief Economist of Austrade (the Australian Trade Commission) until 2011, and earlier worked for the Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Australian Industrial Relations Commission, and the Reserve Bank of Australia.