Archie Moore
Creative Industries Faculty
Archie Moore is renowned as one of Australia’s most significant contemporary artists. His practice remains embedded in Aboriginal politics and the wider concerns of racism and cultural borders. For almost two decades, Archie has held regular solo exhibitions at universities, not-for-profit and commercial galleries in most states and territories of Australia, and has presented at shows in China, France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. From August 2018, visitors to the new T1 Terminal of Sydney International Airport will be greeted by Moore’s major work, United Neytions.Ben de Bont
Science and Engineering &
Special Excellence Award for Achievements and Contributions to International Cyber Security
Ben de Bont is considered one of America’s leaders in cybersecurity.With unique, private sector cybersecurity expertise, Ben donates time to the United States Government to aid and protect critical infrastructure, armed forces, and citizens against cyberattacks. He was selected for the 2018 Presidential Leadership Scholars program. With more than 20 years’
experience, he is the current Vice-President and Chief Information Security Officer at IBM Cloud.
Patrea Walton
PSMFaculty of Education
Patrea Walton is distinguished for her contribution to public education in Queensland. During her career, she has influenced many of the major reforms and education policies in Queensland education, including the move of Year 7 to high school, an independent review and action plan to enhance the delivery of education for students with disabilities, and statewide targeted efforts to reduce the gap between Indigenous and non- Indigenous students in attaining Year 12. She is currently Deputy Director- General for State Schools at the Queensland Department of Education.
Veronica Casey Faculty of Health
Having held many executive leadership roles with Queensland Health, Veronica has received international recognition as an advocate for the nursing profession.Under her leadership, in 2014 the Princess Alexandra Hospital became the first hospital outside of the United States to achieve Magnet status for the third time—an award given by the American Nurses’ Credentialing Centre that recognises the strength and quality of nursing. Since 2004, Veronica has been an Adjunct Associate Professor at the QUT School of Nursing.
Sandra Mau Innovation and
Entrepreneurship Award
Sandra is an MBA alumnus and entrepreneur with over 10 years’experience in product research and development in engineering and technology. As co-founder and CEO of TrademarkVision, she has led the way in commercialising the world’s first visual search engine for trademarks.
Sandra is active in supporting the local tech community as a mentor for several young entrepreneurs, students, and women in the industry, and generously volunteers her time and expertise to support QUT Creative Enterprise Australia.
QUT congratulates the winners of the 2018 Outstanding Alumni Awards. The awards recognise graduates of QUT and its predecessor institutions for exceptional professional
achievement and contributions to the community at a local, state, national, and international level.
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Alumnus of the Year
Tony McAvoy SC
Faculty of Law
With nearly 30 years’ experience as a legal advocate for Indigenous Australians, Tony McAvoy is the 2018 QUT Alumnus of the Year and Faculty of Law Outstanding Alumni Award Winner. Tony specialises in native title and land rights, coronial inquests, and is an expert in administrative, human rights, discrimination, and criminal law. During his career, Tony has held numerous positions concerning Aboriginal affairs and land rights, and has appeared on behalf of many successful Native Title Claimants. He does a substantial amount of pro bono work. Between 2011 and 2013, he held the position of part-time Acting Commissioner of the New South Wales Land and Environment Court.
Tony is current Chair of the New South Wales Bar Association First Nations Committee, and member of the Indigenous Lawyers Sub-Committee, Co-chair of the Indigenous Legal Issues Committee, and Chairperson of the National Indigenous Lawyers Corporation of Australia.
Girl Geek Academy – Sarah Moran, Lisy Kane
& Tammy Butow Young Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award
Sarah Moran, Lisy Kane and Tammy Butow are three of the five co-founders of Girl Geek Academy, a tech start-up with a mission to teach one million women how to get into the industry and launch their own start-ups by 2025. Currently, only 12 per cent of those ‘building the internet’ are women, and Girl Geek Academy is dedicated to levelling the playing field so that future generations will have the same leadership and salary opportunities as their male counterparts.Jeffrey Dunn QUT Business School
Jeffrey Dunn is a Principal at AQR Capital Management LLC, a global investment management firm and one of the world’s largest hedge fund managers, where he is the Head of AQR’s Asia Pacific business. He has overseen the growth of AQR’s Australian business through the Global Financial Crisis, and has played an integral part in driving AQR’s success in the Australian institutional investment community. In 2017, Jeff joined the QUT Economics and Finance Advisory Committee, where his passion for good practice and deep industry knowledge is drawn upon to inform strategies at the discipline school level.Dr Chris Jeffery
Young Alumnus of the Year
Dr Chris Jeffery is an award-winning engineer, army officer, doctor, and highly successful medical entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Field Orthopaedics, Executive Director of Robotic Engineering Research Labs and Audeara, and is currently completing a PhD at QUT’s Australian Centre for Robotic Vision. Field Orthopaedics was founded as a platform to create innovative commercial products for medical needs, and last year developed a screw designed to fix precision fractures in wrists. The company returns all profits to medical research, with six more products in development for 2018.Amanda McClelland Special Excellence Award for Achievements and Contributions to International Health Security and Humanitarian Aid
Amanda McClelland has been instrumental in developing higher level training for global health emergencies.
She has received the Australian Red Cross Florence Nightingale Award and the Australian Red Cross Humanitarian Award twice for her services to public health. In places as diverse as South Sudan, Ethiopia, Nepal, Uganda, and Banda Aceh, she has provided frontline support and coordinated emergency relief to help people rebuild after civil and natural disasters.
