2001 winners
(Please note: This is archival information and may not reflect current profiles)
Jim McKnoulty
Faculty of Built Environment Winner
Prominent Brisbane surveyor and businessman Jim McKnoulty has emerged as a leading promoter of the all-important area of sustainable development in the community. The Founding President of the Australian Green Development Forum and currently Vice-President of Greening Australia Oueensland, Jim has worked hard to establish links between the development industry and environment movement to create positive partnerships.
Through Greening Australia, Jim has focused on the opportunities for a green building code in Australia and is currently overseeing the development of a new vegetation management centre that will become the headquarters for Greening Australia in Queensland.
Employed with progressive cross-disciplinary firm Pike Mirls McKnoulty since 1978 and Chairman since 1992, Jim is a leading development consultant in south-east Queensland.
Jim's passion for sustainable development and support for the professional development of surveying students has led to his appointment as an Adjunct Professor to the School of Design and Built Environment at QUT.
John Martin
Faculty of Business Winner
International banking and finance executive John Martin has gained worldwide experience and reputation during his twenty-year career with the ABN AMRO Group in London, Sydney and Amsterdam.
Currently the Managing Director and Head of Integrated Energy at ABN AMRO Bank in London, John has helped develop the Bank's integrated energy franchise on a global basis. He is also a member of the Management Committee of the Wholesale Banking Unit in London, which, together with Amsterdam, is the joint global headquarters of the Wholesale Banking Division of ABN AMRO. Under John's direction, ABN AMRO aims to be the number one Energy Bank in Europe and within the top four worldwide within the next four years.
For the past decade John has actively promoted Australian business interests in Europe through his membership of the exclusive Cook Society, and as a Director and Chair of Australian Business In Europe, Australia's leading business networking organization which plays a vital role linking Australian and British business.
John's community interests include the City of London Branch of the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, where as Chair he oversees the Branch's active fundraising program.
Anne Wallace
Creative Industries Faculty Winner
Professional Excellence Award Winner
Recognised as one of Australia's finest contemporary artists, Anne Wallace has exhibited her work in numerous solo and selected group exhibitions during the past eight years.
Since graduating from QUT in 1990, Anne has studied at prestigious institutions in London and Paris and collected an array of awards along the way. In 1993 Anne was awarded the esteemed Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship, and travelled to London to complete a Master of Arts (Distinction) at the renowned Slade School of Fine Arts, University College, London. During her time in London, Anne received the Melville Nettleship Award from the Slade School. Other notable awards Anne has collected during her career include the Hobday & Hingston Bursary, Brisbane Oxlades Prize, and the Sulman Prize. In 1999 Anne completed a six-month residency at Cit?? International des Arts, Paris, awarded by the Power Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Sydney, and the Australia Council.
A highly respected artist, Anne is noted for her original artistic concepts.
Dr Jean Calder
Faculty of Education Winner
Excellence in Contribution to the Community Award Winner
At an age when most Australians are entering retirement, Dr Jean Calder continues her tireless work for the disabled in the Middle East. A teacher of physical education and recreation for 25 years following her graduation from the Queensland Teachers' Training College in 1954, Jean became interested in rehabilitation services for the disabled through teaching and lecturing.
In 1981 Jean travelled to the Middle East and volunteered to work as a rehabilitation specialist for the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in Lebanon. For the ensuing 20 years, Jean has worked with the disabled in Lebanon, Egypt and the Gaza Strip, responsible for many of the developments in rehabilitation services and adopting and raising three disabled Palestinian orphans along the way.
In 1982 Jean became the Director of the PRCS Children's Unit at the Haifa Rehabilitation Centre and then moved to Cairo, where she was the Director of the PRCS Ain Shams Rehabilitation Centre between 1983 and 1995. Under Jean's directorship, an Institute of Rehabilitation was also developed to train rehabilitation workers and specialists to provide quality services to the disabled.
In 1995 Jean moved to the Gaza Strip to assist PRCS staff to develop the Palestine Institute of Rehabilitation Studies using the curriculum Jean's team developed in Cairo. Jean subsequently became the director of the Rehabilitation Department at the new Al Amal City Centre of Ability Development at Khan Younis, where she developed rehabilitation services for the disabled and liaised with other PRCS service centres in the West Bank. Since 2000 Jean has been a part-time PRCS consultant on rehabilitation and training in El Birch, West Bank - a role made difficult by the widespread civil and religious unrest in the area.
Judith Magub
Faculty of Health Winner
As Executive Director of the Mental Health Association (Qld) Incorporated from 1988 until 1994, and through her involvement with the Australian College of Health Service Executives and numerous health-related committees and associations, Judy Magub has been a strong advocate of mental health, and the welfare of people with mental illness. She was also instrumental in establishing the MINDCare Mental Health Foundation.
Judy's commitment to the health profession has also helped to develop and foster excellence in health service management through education and ongoing professional development of existing and potential health service managers.
Judy has made a significant contribution to the community through her involvement in service groups such as the Scout Association of Australia, Greening Australia, and Women of Substance. She joined Rotary in 1991, rising to the position of District Governor for the area incorporating parts of Queensland, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
Since 1994, Judy has served as a Brisbane City Councillor representing the Ward of Toowong.
Dr Cristina Cifuentes
Chancellor's Outstanding Alumnus
Faculty of Information Technology Winner
Computing scientist Dr Cristina Cifuentes is acknowledged as a world leader in information technology research and application.
Colombian-born Cristina first amazed the IT profession a decade ago when she chose for her PhD studies a technically challenging area that broke new ground. Cristina's research focused on the area of reverse engineering and decompilation, which concentrates on recovering design detail from programs for which the original design is either lost or unavailable. At the time she began her research, a complete solution to the problem was unattainable.
Cristina attacked the problem by extracting whatever information was computable - a very difficult technical area of computer science that required both theoretical understanding and strong practical skills. Cristina succeeded spectacularly, writing papers along the way that have become classics in the profession.
In 1994 'Cristina's ground-breaking PhD thesis resulted in immediate offers of collaboration and assistance from companies interested in funding her research. Two years later, Cristina successfully obtained an Australian Research Council large grant - an outstanding feat for a new researcher.
After graduating in 1995, Cristina became interested in the field of the law as it applies to the protection of intellectual property on software - an area of particular importance to the profession. Cristina has subsequently become an expert in this field of "cyber-law" and has been a frequent speaker on this subject in Australia and the United States.
In the past eight years, Cristina has published over 30 papers in international journals and at conferences, and some of her programs from her software development work have become widely used.
Currently employed by the innovative US firm Sun Microsystems, Cristina leads a research team for the "Walkabout" project, collaborating with other leading research groups on binary translation and reverse engineering matters.
As someone who has pursued a career in research, Dr Cristina Cifuentes is an outstanding example of how one person really can make a difference to the world in which we live.
Paul Chartrand
Faculty of Law Winner
A leading scholar, author and consultant specialising in international indigenous issues and the law, Paul Chartrand has lectured in these areas at numerous colleges and universities around the world since graduating from QIT in
Paul has been intimately involved in Canadian indigenous issues for more than 15 years, consulting to the Canadian Government and serving on the Metis National Council and the Saskatchewan Federation of Indian Nations.
From 1991 until 1995 Paul served as a Commissioner of the Canadian Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at the request of the Canadian Prime Minister. Between 1996 and 2001, Paul was the Metis National Council Representative on the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
The Founding Director of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation in 1998, Paul is overseeing the distribution of $350 million from the Canadian Government for healing and reconciliation programs in Indian Residential Schools. Paul is the author of two books on Canadian indigenous issues and contributed chapters to several other books. The author of numerous journal articles and specially commissioned reports on indigenous issues, Paul has also delivered papers at a number of international conferences.
Keith Harrison
Faculty of Science Winner
One of the first researchers in Australia to document the effect of smoking on unborn babies, medical scientist and fertility expert Keith Harrison has implemented new standards for infertility testing and managed technologies
Since 1984 Keith has been Scientific Director of the Queensland Fertility Group (QFG), the largest and most experienced infertility diagnosis and treatment program in Queensland. Much of the scientific support behind new fertility procedures has been developed under Keith's guidance.
Keith pioneered the establishment of satellite IVF clinics in regional Queensland, taking the technology to the country to enable country-based couples to benefit from fertility treatment closer to home. He also pioneered the technique known as "transport ICSI", transporting human eggs from regional areas to Brisbane, where they are fertilised and returned the following day for implant.
Under Keith's directorship, QFG has recently completed a major redevelopment of its embryology methods and facilities. Keith has been involved in the modification of the various stages of the in vitro system, which has effectively doubled pregnancy success rates for infertile couples.
