Edwina Cornish Ao
CSIRO Board Member
Plant Science
CSIRO
Romania
Biography
Professor Edwina Cornish AO, is Provost and Senior Vice-President of Monash University. She brings vast experience in the interface between government, research, science and the higher education sector, and is an experienced board member with strong business, industry and financial skills.
Research Interest
Professor Cornish played a key role in building one of Australia’s first biotechnology companies, Florigene Limited, which developed and successfully commercialised the world’s first genetically modified flowers under her leadership. In 2014 she was made an Officer of the Order of Australia, in part for her advances in biotechnology and horticultural genetic modification.
