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Secretary (Science Policy) Professor Bob Williamson, AO, FAA, FRS Bob Williamson became Professor of Molecular Genetics at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, Imperial College London, in 1976. He worked there until 1995 when he moved to Australia as Director of the Murdoch Institute and Professor of Medical Genetics at the University of Melbourne. He retired in October 2004 and is now Honorary Senior Principal Fellow and Professor of the University of Melbourne. He has over 400 refereed career publications, including about forty in Nature, Nature Genetics, Cell and Lancet. He worked on the identification of the genes for cystic fibrosis, Friedreich ataxia and Alzheimer disease. More recently, he has taken a major interest in national science policy and ethics. He Chairs the OECD Committee on Pharmacogenetics, and has worked extensively for the World Health Organization. He has been a member of many editorial boards, including that of the Journal for Medical Ethics for the past twelve years, and edited several books on genetic engineering and on ethics and the new genetics. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and of the Royal Society, and an Officer of the Order of Australia.