Nutritional Physiology Research Centre Advisory Committee

External Members

Dr Geoffrey Annison

Deputy Chief Executive

Australian Food and Grocery Council

Dr Geoffrey Annison joined the AFGC in October 2007. He has wide experience in food regulation and innovation, having held a number of senior technical and management roles in industry in Australia and overseas, in academia, and in public policy.

His career has spanned a number of sectors including the FMCG sector with Goodman Fielder and the AFGC, the rural sector with organisations such as Australian Pork Ltd and AWB Ltd. and research providers such as Massey University in New Zealand and the CSIRO, providing him with an extensive knowledge of current industry issues, particularly in the technical arena.

Dr Annison has a Bachelor of Science in Food Technology and a PhD in Microbiology from the University of New South Wales.

Dr Rob Lewis

Executive Director

South Australian Research and Development Institute

Dr Rob Lewis is the Executive Director of the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI), the Government’s principal primary industries, aquatic sciences, biotechnology and sustainability/ biodiversity and related research agency. Previous positions held include Director of Fisheries South Australia and a number of research and research management positions in fisheries and aquatic sciences.

Dr Lewis has over thirty years experience in research, research management, and public sector management, in South Australia, nationally and internationally. This has embraced the areas of fisheries, aquaculture, agriculture, biotechnology and biodiversity and natural resource maintenance and management, technology transfer, intellectual property management and commercialisation of research outcomes and science policy.

Tony Scammell

General Manager

Numico Research Australia

Tony Scammell gained an Economics degree at Adelaide University, worked in financial analysis with Ford Motor Company in Melbourne for 2.5 years, and then completed an MBA at the Darden School, University of Virginia, USA. His time in the USA included a stint working with Warner-Lambert as Assistant Product Manager - antibiotics.

Returning to Australia, he joined Faulding Pharmaceuticals in 1985 as a sales representative, moving to product management and then business development. Tony joined NorthField Laboratories in 1990 as Business Development Manager, later becoming General Manager, and Director. NorthField became known as Numico Research Australia Pty Ltd (NRA), having been purchased in 1995 by Royal Numico NV, a world leader in specialised nutrition, especially babyfood and clinical nutrition, with sales of over $A 3.5 billion. Upon the closing of NRA’s research and production facilities in 2006, Tony has taken up the role of Manager, Supplier Development, Asia-Pacific for Royal Numico.

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Internal Members

Professor Robyn McDermott

Pro Vice Chancellor

Division of Health Sciences

Associate Professor Bernard Hughes

Dean, Research

Division of Health Sciences

Professor Esther May

Head of School

School of Health Sciences