Professor Susan Pond, AM
Dow Sustainability Program
Dr Susan Pond AM FTSE is Adjunct Professor of the Dow Sustainability Program at the United States Studies Centre. Her area of interest is the development of the advanced transportation biofuels industry, including the critical success factors required for commercially viable production at scale. Dr Pond is a Director of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and Commercialisation Australia.
Before joining the US Studies Centre, Dr Pond was a senior executive with Johnson & Johnson, serving as Director of Pharmaceutical Research for six years and Managing Director for the next six years of its Sydney-based biotechnology company, Johnson & Johnson Research Pty Limited (JJR). From 2004, Dr Pond was Director and, from 2007, Chairman of the Australian biotechnology industry organisation, AusBiotech Limited.
