Dr David Putrino took out both the NAB Global Australian Award as well as the GE Healthcare Award.

Angelica Mesiti lives and works between Paris and Sydney. Mesiti is a contemporary artist working in the field of moving image installation and performance.

Before he joined the Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (Corruption Eradication Commission), as Commissioner, Dr Syarif was a Senior Lecturer at Hasanuddin University, Faculty of Law, Makassar, Indonesia.

Adam Gilmour is the CEO and Founder of Gilmour Space Technologies, a venture-funded rocket company in Queensland, Australia that is developing a new breed of hybrid launch vehicles for small satellite/payload customers.

Richard Fuller is a founder and president of the nonprofit Pure Earth (formerly known as Blacksmith Institute) dedicated to solving pollution problems in low and middle-income countries, where human health is at risk.

Hugh Whalan is CEO of PEG Africa, which uses pay-as-you-go technology to provide solar to millions of people in West Africa. 

In 2018, Dr Yijia Li joined Tsinghua University Yangtze Delta Research Institute and became the founder and director of stem cell drug translational research platform.

One of America’s brightest digital pioneers, Natalie Jeremijenko AO has been named one of the Top 100 young innovators by the MIT Technology Review, and one of the Top 40 most influential designers by I.D.

Kate Glazebrook is CEO and co-founder of Applied is a web platform that uses behavioural and data science to help organisations find the best person for the job regardless of their background.

Professor John Mattick AO has transformed the world’s understanding of the human genome, showing that it is not full of evolutionary “junk” as had previously been thought, but rather is mostly devoted to the production of regulatory RNAs that direct our development.