Biographical entry Stocker, John Wilcox (1945 - )

Summary

John Wilcox Stocker is a Chief Scientist of the Victorian Department of Primary Industries. He was Chief Executive of CSIRO from 1990 to 1995 and Director of Research and Innovation at Pratt Industries. In 1996 Stocker was one of the founders of Foursight Associates, a company advising on R&D and science to companies, investment institutions, academics and government. He was educated at the University of Melbourne (MB, BS, BMedSc, PhD) and worked in medicine soon after graduating.

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1970 - 1972

Career position - Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital

1974 - 1976

Career position - Research Scientist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

1976 - 1978

Career position - Scientist at the Basel Institute of Immunology, Switzerland

1979 - 1984

Career position - Scientist at the Central Research Unit of Hoffman-La Roche & Co. in Basel

1986 - 1987

Career position - Director of Pharmaceutical Research at Hoffman-La Roche & Co.

1987 - 1990

Career position - Founding Managing Director of AMRAD (Australian Medical Research and Development Corporation)

1988 -

Career position - Director of the Victorian Government Strategic Research Foundation

1990 - 1995

Career position - Chief Executive at CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)

1992 -

Career position - Director of Gene Shears Pty Ltd

1992

Award - Australian of the Year

1995 -

Career position - Director of Research and Innovation at Pratt Industries

1996

Career position - Foursight Associates established

Related entries

Archival resources

National Library of Australia Oral History Collection

• Interview with Dr John Stocker, scientist [sound recording] / interviewer, Diana Giese, 1 June 2000, TRC 4585; National Library of Australia Oral History Collection. Details

Published resources

Newspaper Articles

• Grose, Simon, 'A scientist determined to have his voice heard', The Canberra Times, Monday, December 9, 1996, p. 11. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Stocker, John W', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-535684. Details