2008

PROFESSOR LARRY SMARR
‘Coupling Australia’s Researchers to the Global Innovation Economy’

2007

PROFESSOR DAVID M. KENNEDY
‘The Emerging Dominance of the American West in the Economy, Culture and Politics of the United States’

Leadership Dialogue Scholar

Leadership Dialogue Scholars are noted participants in the Australian American Leadership Dialogue who deliver public lectures in Australia and the United States on contemporary and anticipatory issues.

Former New South Wales Premier, the Hon. Bob Carr, was inaugural Leadership Dialogue Scholar from 2005 to 2007.

Pulitzer Prize winning historian from Stanford University, Professor David Kennedy, was 2007 Leadership Dialogue Scholar.

2008 Leadership Dialogue Scholar, Professor Larry Smarr, Director of Calit2 at University of California, San Diego played a key role in the construction and launch of the worldwide web.

On behalf of the Leadership Dialogue, Larry Smarr also prepared an influential policy paper 'An Intelligent Infrastructure Initiative for Australian Society and Homeland Security’ that has been read by policy makers across Australia. This policy paper is universally applicable.