Adrienne Clarke

Adrienne Elizabeth Clarke AC (born 6 January 1938) is a Professor of Botany at University of Melbourne since 1985 and director of the Plant Cell Biology Research Centre since 1982. She was educated at Ruyton Girls' School and the University of Melbourne. Professor Clarke is a former chairman of CSIRO and Lieutenant Governor of Victoria. She has also been a director of a number of public companies and currently sits on a number of boards including the Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology, the Australian Advisory Board of the Global Nature Conservancy, and in 2010 joined the La Trobe University Council. She is author of four major scientific books dealing with chemistry, cell biology and genetics, and has served on the Prime...