Elizabeth Jazwinska
Dr Liz Jazwinska (PhD, MBA, GAICD, BSc Hons) has more than 30 years' experience in innovation, technology and business development, and has held senior positions in academia, industry and government in Australia and internationally.
Jazwinska is currently an Independent Board Director and Strategy Advisor, and works to assist not-for-profit organisations build sustainable funding partnerships with commercial and government-owned organisations.
During her full-time career, Jazwinska held senior leadership positions in the following three sectors: Higher Education (Monash University and RMIT University), Government Funding (A*STAR in Singapore, the Ministry of Science and Innovation in New Zealand, and the Australian Research Council) and Industry (Johnson & Johnson Research and GSK).
In 2009, Jazwinska founded the molecular diagnostics company SpeeDx, having already established a substantial academic portfolio in human molecular genteics with authorship of more than 62 publications in high-ranking peer-reviewed journals.
jazwinska holds a BSc (Hons) from Aberdeen University, a PhD from Edinburgh University, and an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management. She is also a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.