Dr Michael Sargent
M.A.Sargent & Associates, Consultant to Dept of Education, Science And Training

Paper title
e-Research Strategy

Biography
Dr Sargent is a Director of M.A.Sargent & Associates, providing strategic corporate consulting services to industry, with a particular focus on the information technology, energy, environment and utilities sectors. Prior to this he was Chief Executive of Transfield Energy Group, and before that was Chief Executive Officer of ACTEW Corporation from November 1991. Dr Sargent has 40 years experience in the utility industry in Australia, USA and Canada.

Dr Sargent is Chair of the eResearch Coordinating Committee and of the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Committee. He is a Director of the National Electricity Market Management Company and of National ICT Australia. He is Deputy Chairman of epicorp Ltd, a high technology seed fund and incubator. He is an Adjunct Professor of the University of Technology Sydney and of the University of Queensland.

He has a degree in electrical engineering and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Queensland.

He is active in professional and community matters. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Academician of the International Academy for Quality, and was President of The Institution of Engineers Australia in 1990.

In recognition of his service to engineering he was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1993 and a Centenary Medal in 2003.