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Image (right): John Monash, 1919 by James Quinn. Collection: National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. Gift of John Colin Monash Bennett, 2007.

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• Inaugural meeting of the ‘Founding Council’ in Melbourne, chaired by General Peter The General Sir John Monash These2001 prestigious awardsGration enable AC OBEscholars (Retd) Foundation• The Federal provides Government postgraduate announces from a wide range of• Thedisciplines General to Sir deepen John Monash Foundation scholarships$5.1 million forto fund outstanding 32 Scholarships their expertise, achieveis incorporatedreal progress asin a public company limited for the first four years of the tackling some of the majorby guarantee challenges of our AustraliansFoundation to further their studies time and build invaluable global connections. anywhere in the world. 2002 • The Federal Government gifts Our Scholars all have the qualities of $250,000; Government of Victoria commitment to academic excellence, (State Electricity Commission) leadership and community• Inaugural service State embodied and Territory Selection Panels gifts $25,000 by General Sir John Monash.established around Australia 2003 • First 8 John Monash Scholarships awarded The Foundation is committed to growing for 2004 the Scholarship Endowment to $50 million The Federal Government grants by 2025, with the long-term goal of reaching $5 million to the Foundation’s $1002006 million to secure John Monash Endowment Fund Scholarships in perpetuity. Join us in our quest to 2009 The Foundation sets up HQ at Bennelong House, support exceptional9 Queen Street, Melbourne Australian Universities’ Consortium established with The University of Australians develop their Western Australia as founding member skills2011 and leadership for the benefit of our nation. • Chairman’s Circle established • The Federal Government establishes • The Federal Government establishes the two perpetual Zelman Cowen John 2012 perpetual ANZAC Centenary John Monash Monash Scholarships to be awarded Scholarship to be awarded each year each year • The NSW Government establishes the perpetual Roden Cutler John Monash Scholarship in honour of Sir Roden Cutler, past Mr John Roth and Ms Jillian Segal AO 2013 Governor of NSW, to be awarded each year (Chairman of the Foundation) gift a perpetual John Monash Scholarship to • The Victorian Government establishes be awarded each year a perpetual scholarship to always have Images: 2015 a Scholar in the field 1 — John Monash as an Undergraduate Aged 16, Australia, 1881: State Electricity Commission of Victoria (SECV)Mrs Collection.Helen Gannon Source: Museums and Mr Victoria.Michael 2 —Gannon Sir John Monashgift a perpetual as a Child, 1874: John State Monash Electricity • The Victorian Government grants an additional CommissionScholarship of Victoria to always (SECV) have Collection. a Scholar in 2017 $2.2 million to their current perpetual Source:the field Museums Victoria. 3 — John Monash Being Knighted by King George V, scholarship to ensure a scholarship is awarded France, 12 Aug 1918: State Electricity Commission of each year VictoriaAlumni (SECV) Ambassadors’ Collection. Source: Program Museums Victoria. 2018 • The Federal Government pledges $5 million to 4 —established AWM A03451-1. General Sir John Monash mounted create a perpetual scholarship to honour former on a dappled grey charger during an Anzac Day march, 25 April 1931. Prime Minister Bob Hawke 5 — AWM E02730-1. An Officer of the 2nd Division, • Ms Lee Liberman gifts a perpetual John Monash Second Lieutenant W. Ruthven, receiving the Victoria 2019 Scholarship to always have a scholar in the field Cross at a presentation ceremony held by Lieutenant General Sir John Monash, near Camon in France. To date: 182 Scholarships awarded Value of Scholarships awarded: $23.09 million Scholarship Endowment exceeds $25 million 5

GOAL 2025 Scholarship Endowment reaches $50 million General Sir John Monash: A man for all times

General Sir John Monash was General Sir John Monash recognised as a great leader on the GCMG KCB VD 1 2 battlefields of northern France in The Young Man the First World War. John Monash was born in West Melbourne, Victoria, on June 27, 1865 to Jewish migrant However, this seminal role was only parents from Prussia. In 1874, the family part of his enduring legacy. He was moved to the small New South Wales town an outstanding scholar, engineer, of Jerilderie. They returned to Melbourne public servant and civic leader – three years later and John Monash enrolled the driving force behind the ANZAC at Scotch College. At the age of 16, he commemorations and founding graduated as equal Dux of the school. member of community bodies such The Scholar as Rotary, as well as the remarkable John Monash graduated from The University repatriation of around 160,000 of Melbourne with degrees of Master of Engineering in 1893, Bachelor of Arts and Australian troops; newly trained with TransformingBachelor of Law in 1895 and Doctor of professional and trade skills acquired Engineering in 1921. He spoke French and in France and England while waiting German, enjoyed reading and debating, chess, for their safe passage to Australia. carpentry, astronomy, bushwalking and was an accomplished pianist. An iconic nation-builder, John Monash was guided by a strong sense of duty The Engineer Before The Great War, John Monash worked and obligation, employing his talents as a civil engineer in Melbourne where he and educationAustralia to build a more cohesive was recognised as an innovator in the use of society – creating opportunities for reinforced concrete. By 1910 his engineering others as he went. business had withstood recession and was very successful in building bridges and other He is an inspiration to all Australians large construction projects. and the guiding spirit of the Foundation. The Soldier General Sir John Monash’s military career began at the age of 19, when he joined the through inspiredMelbourne University company of the 4th Battalion, Victoria Militia as a volunteer, not a professional soldier. He rose through the ranks of the Militia, the Reserve Army. During the First World War, he led the 4th Brigade at Gallipoli and was later commended for his brilliant command of the Australian Army Corps in France, which resulted in a number leadershipof major victories (among them, Hamel, “Adopt as your fundamental creed Mont St Quentin and Amiens) that are that you will equip yourself for credited with having shortened the course of life, not solely for your own benefit, the War. In a rare gesture by King George V, he was knighted in the field in 1918. but for the benefit of the whole community.” The Revered Public Figure Post-war, he became the first Chairman of G. Serle “John Monash”, 2002 edition, p 476. the State Electricity Commission of Victoria. Remarks to a journalist in 1923 on education, He lectured at the University of Melbourne his own philosophy and experience. and was its Vice-Chancellor for two years from 1923. He was one of the principal organisers of the annual observance of ANZAC Day 3 4 and the driving force behind the building of Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance. John Monash died on 8 October 1931 at the age of 66. His State Funeral was attended by an estimated 300,000 mourners. Foundation Timeline

• Inaugural meeting of the ‘Founding Council’ in Melbourne, chaired by General Peter Gration AC OBE (Retd) • The Federal Government announces 2001 • The General Sir John Monash Foundation $5.1 million to fund 32 Scholarships is incorporated as a public company limited for the first four years of the by guarantee Foundation • The Federal Government gifts 2002 $250,000; Government of Victoria (State Electricity Commission) • Inaugural State and Territory Selection Panels gifts $25,000 established around Australia 2003 • First 8 John Monash Scholarships awarded for 2004

The Federal Government grants $5 million to the Foundation’s 2006 Endowment Fund

The Foundation sets up HQ at Bennelong House, 2009 9 Queen Street, Melbourne Australian Universities’ Consortium established with The University of Western Australia as founding member 2011

• Chairman’s Circle established • The Federal Government establishes • The Federal Government establishes the two perpetual Zelman Cowen John 2012 perpetual ANZAC Centenary John Monash Monash Scholarships to be awarded Scholarship to be awarded each year each year • The NSW Government establishes the perpetual Roden Cutler John Monash Scholarship in honour of Sir Roden Cutler, past Mr John Roth and Ms Jillian Segal AO 2013 Governor of NSW, to be awarded each year (Chairman of the Foundation) gift a perpetual John Monash Scholarship to • The Victorian Government establishes be awarded each year a perpetual scholarship to always have 2015 a Scholar in the field

Mrs Helen Gannon and Mr Michael Gannon gift a perpetual John Monash • The Victorian Government grants an additional Scholarship to always have a Scholar in 2017 $2.2 million to their current perpetual the field scholarship to ensure a scholarship is awarded each year Alumni Ambassadors’ Program 2018 • The Federal Government pledges $5 million to established create a perpetual scholarship to honour former Prime Minister Bob Hawke • Ms Lee Liberman gifts a perpetual John Monash 2019 Scholarship to always have a scholar in the field

To date: 182 Scholarships awarded Value of Scholarships awarded: $23.09 million Scholarship Endowment exceeds $25 million

GOAL 2025 Scholarship Endowment reaches $50 million “The John Monash Scholarship Professor Mark Dawson, 2006 has in many ways been an endless John Monash Scholar gift that has enabled me to have PhD, University of Cambridge the rewarding career I have today. There are few opportunities for Professor Mark Dawson is a clinician- young Australians to pursue a scientist at the Peter MacCallum PhD anywhere in the world – this Cancer Centre. He is the program head scholarship offered me that unique of the Translational Haematology academic freedom to choose Program, Group leader of the Cancer what I did and where. Even today Epigenetics Laboratory and Consultant I continue to gain from the Haematologist in the Department of scholarship, through its caring Haematology. and nurturing chairman, CEO and His research interest is studying cancer board of directors and the amazing alumni, many of whom are friends biology to identify new treatments and collaborators.” that improve the outcome for patients with cancer. He is a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia. After completing his clinical training in Melbourne, Australia he was awarded the prestigious John Monash Scholarship and Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Fellowship, which he used to complete his PhD at the University of Cambridge. Following his PhD, he was awarded the inaugural Wellcome Trust Beit Prize Fellowship to pursue his research into a molecular understanding of leukaemia stem cells. This research identified a new therapeutic strategy for acute myeloid leukaemia and helped set the platform for clinical trials around the world with a first in class epigenetic therapy. His research has been published in world leading journals including Nature, Cell, Science and New England Journal of Medicine. Mark is currently a Professor in the Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology and Centre of Cancer Research at the University of Melbourne. He is also the Senior Research Fellow for the Leukaemia Foundation of Australia and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Research Scholar.

Mark

Dawson Ms Jessie Smith, 2019 “For several years I have practiced TransformingSusan and Isaac Wakil Foundation lives as a solicitorand in the complex field John Monash Scholar of counter-terrorism law. I decided to pursue a PhD in order to address reimaginingJessie is a solicitor who held joint the futurequestions of offender rehabilitation. conduct of the largest terrorism and To this end, my doctorate will national security law practice in consider how courts evaluate the Australia. She completed her BA renunciation of political violence. (Honours) and an LLB (Honours) at the The broad aims of my research are University of Melbourne. Jessie has to foster a more accurate assessment worked closely with terrorist offenders of terrorist risk and create pathways to develop a blueprint for the nation’s for disengagement from violence. first forensic de-radicalisation program Thanks to the generosity of the to assist a court pre-sentence. With her Susan Sinceand Isaac 2004, Wakil the Foundation Foundation has and awarded 182 JohnThe GeneralMonash Scholarship, Sir John Monash Jessie is the JohnScholarships Monash Scholarship,to exceptional I Australiansnow across studyingFoundation a PhD supports in law at Cambridge,students have thea wide opportunity range of disciplines. to undertake Eighty-one capableexploring of how identifying courts might and encourage tackling my studiesScholars at arethe currentlyUniversity studying of and thirty-six, and evaluate the renunciation of the challenges of our time. Cambridge.who have The completed UK has been their degrees in the past violence with significant implications impacted by political violence for five years, are now working overseas to forWe Australia’s seek women domestic and security.men of vision, centuries. Australia can learn a lot develop their expertise and build networks. energy and talent ready to pick from the British legal response to Sixty-five Scholars have returned to Australia up the baton and become leaders. terrorism and how best to strike the and are making significant contributions as balance between liberty and security. Our scholarships provide talented scientists, academics, artists, business leaders, individuals with a platform to create I intend to return to Australia with fresh entrepreneurs,ideas for our jurisdiction.” lawyers and policy experts. positive and lasting change.

John Monash Scholars come Study at institutions across the globe: from across Australia:

Europe 13 UK 100 NT 3 Asia 4 QLD 21 Canada 2

WA 18 USA 62 SA 19

NSW 47

ACT 21 VIC 48 NZ 1

TAS 5

In many fields of study: 36 21 30 5 25 15 Medicine Engineering & Law Humanities Social Science Arts & Health Infrastructure Australian Law Anthropology International Fine Art & Curation Clinical Research Civil, Structural International Law Archaeology Development Filmmaking Indigenous Health & Mining Family and History & International Journalism Public Health Energy, Land & Domestic Philosophy Relations Musicology & Infectious Diseases Water Resource Violence Law Indigenous Studies Politics & Public Composition Policy Bioinformatics Sound Engineering Consumer Finance Linguistics Language & Environmental & Tax Law Urban Planning Literature Engineering Human Rights Law

14 Jessie5 16 4 7 4 Science & Education Economics Mathematics Sustainability Defence Technology Education Policy & Finance Analytic Number Conservation Cyber Security Chemistry Leadership Macroeconomics Theory Climate Change Aeronautics & Cosmology & Early Childhood Entrepreneurship & Environment Astronautics Particle Physics Education Social Impact Plant Biology Microfinancing Microbiology Quantum Mechanics Smith & Physics Geophysics Environmental Hydrology “The John Monash Scholarship Professor Mark Dawson, 2006 The scholarshiphas in many ways been an endless John Monash Scholar gift that has enabled me to have PhD, University of Cambridge the rewarding career I have today. selection processThere are few opportunities for Professor Mark Dawson is a clinician- young Australians to pursue a scientist at the Peter MacCallum PhD anywhere in the world – this Cancer Centre. He is the program head scholarship offered me that unique of the Translational Haematology academic freedom to choose Program, Group leader of the Cancer what I did and where. Even today Epigenetics Laboratory and Consultant I continue to gain from the Haematologist in the Department of scholarship, through its caring Haematology. and nurturing chairman, CEO and His research interest is studying cancer board of directors and the amazing The Foundation’s key rolealumni, is the many of whomThe process are friends begins in Maybiology each to year identify with new treatments annual selection of Scholarsand through collaborators.” candidates assessed onthat written improve applications the outcome for patients with cancer. He is a fellow of the Royal a rigorous three-stage process. and interviews in each state and territory by panels made up of respectedAustralasian and College of Physicians It follows a framework of governance knowledgeable representativesand Royal of College academia, of Pathologists of designed to ensure an enriching industry, government andAustralasia. the community. experience for each applicant as it A national panel interviewsAfter candidatescompleting his clinical training in evaluates excellence in their chosen in Melbourne and SydneyMelbourne, in October Australia and he was awarded fields, demonstrated leadership and recommends the appointmentthe prestigious of 15-20 John Monash Scholarship the potential to contribute to a Scholars to the Foundationand Board.Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Fellowship, which he used to complete better Australia. The Governor-General of the Commonwealth his PhD at the University of Cambridge. of Australia, as Patron-in-Chief of the Following his PhD, he was awarded the Foundation, presents scholarships to inaugural Wellcome Trust Beit Prize successful candidates at a ceremony held Fellowship to pursue his research into a in the first quarter of the following year. molecular understanding of leukaemia stem cells. This research identified a new therapeutic strategy for acute myeloid leukaemia and helped set the platform for clinical trials around the world with a first in class epigenetic May therapy. His research has been Online applications open published in world leading journals including Nature, Cell, Science and New England Journal of Medicine. Mark is currently a Professor in the July Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Online applications close Oncology and Centre of Cancer Research at the University of Melbourne. He is also the Senior Research Fellow for the Leukaemia Foundation of Australia and July a Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Research Scholar. Applications reviewed online by subject experts

August – September First round interviews held around Australia

October National interviews held in Melbourne and Sydney

October Mark Scholarship offers made

Dawson Ms Jessie Smith, 2019 “For several years I have practiced Susan and Isaac Wakil Foundation as a solicitor in the complex field John Monash Scholar of counter-terrorism law. I decided to pursue a PhD in order to address Jessie is a solicitor who held joint questions of offender rehabilitation. conduct of the largest terrorism and To this end, my doctorate will national security law practice in consider how courts evaluate the Australia. She completed her BA renunciation of political violence. (Honours) and an LLB (Honours) at the The broad aims of my research are University of Melbourne. Jessie has to foster a more accurate assessment worked closely with terrorist offenders of terrorist risk and create pathways to develop a blueprint for the nation’s for disengagement from violence. first forensic de-radicalisation program Thanks to the generosity of the to assist a court pre-sentence. With her Susan and Isaac Wakil Foundation and John Monash Scholarship, Jessie is the John Monash Scholarship, I now studying a PhD in law at Cambridge, have the opportunity to undertake exploring how courts might encourage my studies at the University of and evaluate the renunciation of Cambridge. The UK has been violence with significant implications impacted by political violence for for Australia’s domestic security. centuries. Australia can learn a lot from the British legal response to terrorism and how best to strike the balance between liberty and security. I intend to return to Australia with fresh ideas for our jurisdiction.”

Jessie

Smith “I sincerely believe that the General Major Nathan Johnson, 2018 Sir John Monash Foundation is a Pratt Foundation Commemorative catalyst for the growth of future Defence AAA John Monash Scholar leaders of Australia. As a military PhD, Arizona State University, USA. professional with an established career, the Foundation has Nathan is a military officer with a provided me with new incredible Bachelor of Science from the University opportunities and supported my of New South Wales and Master of academic aspirations in order for me Science in Military Electrical Systems to realise my full potential. I owe so Engineering from Cranfield University, much of my future achievements to UK. Nathan served in Special Operations this fine Australian institution and Command in Afghanistan, led thank everyone who has helped me multinational United Nations forces pursue my passion.” in South Sudan and provided technical Major support to the Australian Defence Force’s counter terrorism unit in Sydney. He was a project manager for Army Headquarters in Canberra, leading a project to procure new Electronic Warfare technology for the Army. With his Scholarship, Nathan is completing his PhD, researching cyber security and electronic technology that will lead the future development of Australian defence. Ms Emma Dale, 2018 “The world’s carnivores are under Chairman’s Circle John Monash Scholar unprecedented pressure. Australia DPhil, Oxford, UK has a unique composition of mostly marsupial carnivores, under threat Emma has a Bachelor of Science in from disease spread (Devil Facial Ecology and Conservation with Honours Tumour Disease) and anthropogenic and a University Medal from Griffith factors (primarily competition with University. After working with feral cats and foxes, but also from endangered Red Pandas in Nepal, cars and direct hunting in rural Emma founded the Red Panda Trust, a areas). Finding solutions to these conservation venture. She then worked dynamic and increasing problems as an ecologist for the Zoological Society was my core driver to apply for a of London in Mongolia for fourteen John Monash Scholarship. Through months. At Oxford Emma studies the the education and resources I have behavioural ecology of carnivores with access to at the University of Oxford a focus on conservation and preservation. I will be well equipped to return to After completing her DPhil Emma plans Australia to make tangible to return to Australia to lead research contributions to the field of terrestrial initiatives to protect Australia’s carnivore ecology, countrywide. carnivores, including the Tasmanian I wouldn’t have been able to come Devil and Spotted-tail Quolls. These to Oxford without the support of the General Sir John Monash Foundation.” native Australian animals play a vital role in Australia’s food chains and their extinction would unbalance supporting populations with serious implications for Australian ecology.

Emma

Dale “I sincerely believe that the General Major Nathan Johnson, 2018 Sir John Monash Foundation is a Pratt Foundation Commemorative catalyst for the growth of future Defence AAA John Monash Scholar leaders of Australia. As a military PhD, Arizona State University, USA. professional with an established career, the Foundation has Nathan is a military officer with a provided me with new incredible Bachelor of Science from the University opportunities and supported my of New South Wales and Master of academic aspirations in order for me Science in Military Electrical Systems to realise my full potential. I owe so Engineering from Cranfield University, much of my future achievements to UK. Nathan served in Special Operations this fine Australian institution and Command in Afghanistan, led thank everyone who has helped me multinational United Nations forces pursue my passion.” in South Sudan and provided technical Major support to the Australian Defence Force’s counter terrorism unit in Sydney. He was a project manager for Army Headquarters in Canberra, leading a project to procure new Electronic Warfare technology for the Army. With his Scholarship, Nathan is completing his PhD, researching cyber security and electronic technology that will lead the future development of Australian defence. Ms Emma Dale, 2018 “The world’s carnivores are under Chairman’s Circle John Monash Scholar unprecedented pressure. Australia DPhil, Oxford, UK has a unique composition of mostly marsupial carnivores, under threat Emma has a Bachelor of Science in from disease spread (Devil Facial Ecology and Conservation with Honours Tumour Disease) and anthropogenic and a University Medal from Griffith factors (primarily competition with University. After working with feral cats and foxes, but also from endangered Red Pandas in Nepal, cars and direct hunting in rural Emma founded the Red Panda Trust, a areas). Finding solutions to these conservation venture. She then worked dynamic and increasing problems as an ecologist for the Zoological Society was my core driver to apply for a of London in Mongolia for fourteen John Monash Scholarship. Through months. At Oxford Emma studies the the education and resources I have behavioural ecology of carnivores with access to at the University of Oxford a focus on conservation and preservation. I will be well equipped to return to After completing her DPhil Emma plans Australia to make tangible to return to Australia to lead research contributions to the field of terrestrial initiatives to protect Australia’s carnivore ecology, countrywide. carnivores, including the Tasmanian I wouldn’t have been able to come Devil and Spotted-tail Quolls. These to Oxford without the support of the General Sir John Monash Foundation.” native Australian animals play a vital role in Australia’s food chains and their extinction would unbalance supporting populations with serious implications for Australian ecology.

Emma

Dale “Technological progress, cultural Dr Garang Dut, 2017 integration and strategic investment Roth/Segal John Monash have come together in different Harvard Scholar parts of the world to create Master of Public Health, crucibles for generating powerful Harvard University, USA ideas, inspiring fresh perspectives and new solutions to global Garang was born in South Sudan and challenges. More and more, the grew up in a Kenyan refugee camp bounds of possibility are redefined before moving to Australia when he by the imagination, and the audacity was 17. He has a Bachelor of Biomedical to act. The John Monash Scholarship Science from Monash University, an MD afforded me a transformative from The University of Melbourne and opportunity to engage with leaders worked as a surgical registrar at Alfred at intellectual frontiers in medicine Health. He is also a Fellow of the and policy and to witness first hand Williamson Community Leadership a family of scholars advancing Program. Garang volunteers in public towards new horizons.” health education and has been an Australia Day Ambassador for the last four years. Following his graduation from Harvard with the Master of Public Health which focused on improving access to quality surgical care in resource-poor settings, Garang returned to Australia to take up a Policy Fellowship at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in Canberra. Through classes at Harvard such as ‘entrepreneurship in healthcare IT and services,’ a practicum Dr at Aravind Eye Care System in India and experiences at Ariadne Labs (health systems innovation centre), Garang became convinced he would enhance his impact by combining policy training and private sector tools. He is now undertaking an MBA at Oxford University with the support of the Said Business Foundation. This program’s Garang focus will complement Garang’s training in medicine and policy, augmenting a comprehensive approach to global surgery and health systems. Dut

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Image credit: Daily Liberal and Belinda Soole “Technological progress, cultural Dr Garang Dut, 2017 The Scholar integrationAlumni and strategic Community investment Roth/Segal – John Monash have come together in different Harvard Scholar mentoring andparts of thelearning world to create Master of Public Health, crucibles for generating powerful Harvard University, USA ideas, inspiring fresh perspectives and new solutions to global Garang was born in South Sudan and challenges. More and more, the grew up in a Kenyan refugee camp bounds of possibility are redefined before moving to Australia when he by the imagination, and the audacity was 17. He has a Bachelor of Biomedical to act. The John Monash Scholarship Science from Monash University, an MD afforded me a transformative from The University of Melbourne and opportunity to engage with leaders worked as a surgical registrar at Alfred at intellectual frontiers in medicine Health. He is also a Fellow of the “The John Monash Scholars’ Global Symposium Each year, the Foundationand welcomes policy and to witness first hand Williamson Community Leadership gave me a renewed sense of purpose. I got to new John Monash Scholarsa family to our of scholars advancing Program. Garang volunteers in public know the amazing scholars much better and Alumni Community wheretowards they have new horizons.” health education and has been an loved being introduced to the various projects Australia Day Ambassador for the last the opportunity to build lifelong they are working on. I have since connected four years. Following his graduation friendships, support each other on their with scholars to explore how we can collaborate from Harvard with the Master of Public academic journeys, exchange ideas and and support each other going forward.” Health which focused on improving collaborate across disciplines to find 2014 NSW Premier’s Johnaccess Monash to quality Scholar, surgical care in solutions to shared global concerns. May Samali, following theresource-poor 2018 John Monash settings, Garang returned Alumni representatives based in Scholars’ Global Symposiumto Australia in New to York. take up a Policy Fellowship at the Department of the Prime Minister different regions across the world and Cabinet in Canberra. Through classes assist in organising thought-leadership at Harvard such as ‘entrepreneurship in and networking events, and provide healthcare IT and services,’ a practicum Drsupport and mentoring for John at Aravind Eye Care System in India and Monash Scholars. experiences at Ariadne Labs (health systems innovation centre), Garang The General Sir John Monash became convinced he would enhance Foundation is committed to nurturing his impact by combining policy training our community of Scholars to advance and private sector tools. He is now their work and facilitate their undertaking an MBA at Oxford efforts to have a positive impact on University with the support of the Said Business Foundation. This program’s GarangAustralia’s economic, environmental focus will complement Garang’s and social development. training in medicine and policy, augmenting a comprehensive approach to global surgery and health systems. Dut

Source: Nicole Garmston / Newspix

Image: John Monash Scholars attending the 2018 Global Symposium in New York. regional NSW. her timebetween SanFrancisco and impact organisation.social Shedivides ‘The Exchange’ in2018, aDubbobased Australia andAmerica. Jillianfounded planning shelves tobeshovel ready in is tomove infrastructure projectsfrom and private sectorclients. Jillian’s mission is astrategic adviser topublicagencies Public BenefitCorporation where she Infrastructure Collaborative, aUS-based graduation, JillianfoundedThe Policy at Stanford University. Upon Administration andMasterofPublic scholarship tostudy aMasterofBusiness to serve regional NSW. Jillianusedher firmin2009,engineering that continues a projectmanagement andcivil Young Alumni of the Year. She established of theYear andSydney University’s Australian Young Professional Engineer with FirstClassHonours, andwas the Jillian has aBachelor ofCivil Engineering University, Master ofPublic Policy, Master ofBusiness Administration and John MonashBHP Scholar Ms JillianKilby, USA 2013

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Image credit: Daily Liberal and Belinda Soole “If it wasn’t for the John Monash Mr Michael Grebla, 2016 Scholarship, it would probably Zelman Cowen John Monash Scholar have been impossible for me to Master of Music Composition, ever attend the New England New England Conservatory of Music, UK Conservatory. While I was there I was able to meet some of the most Michael has a combined Bachelor of remarkable people in my field Mechanical Engineering and Bachelor (and other fields) – people I doubt of Music Composition with First Class I would ever have been exposed Honours from UWA. During his time to if I’d stayed in Perth. And on at UWA, Michael received the JM Wolff, that journey it was a source of Knight and WA Wagner Society’s strength to me to have the support Bayreuth Scholarships. He is a composer and confidence of the Foundation. and in 2016 premiered a new work titled They had put their faith in me and “Euler’s Music” for chamber orchestra as given me an opportunity to make part of the West Australian Symphony a difference. I thought – I’m a John Orchestra’s Young and Emerging Artists Monash scholar, I’ve been put in the Program. Michael’s achievements in same basket as a lot of remarkable composition and contributions to the people. Those people are doing University were recognised with UWA amazing things – perhaps I can do Convocation’s prestigious Bryant Stokes the same.” Matilda Award for Cultural Excellence in Music. Michael also founded and ran a comprehensive music program as the Director of Music at St George’s College targeted at engaging the local community and providing performance opportunities for emerging artists. In this role he founded a highly successful Emerging Artists initiative to provide gifted young artists with peers, musical challenge and exposure. Michael would like to establish himself as an active professional composer and producer of cultural events, and to this end used his John Monash Scholarship to complete a Master of Music Composition at the New England Conservatory of Music. He hopes to make a significant contribution to establishing Australia as a cultural centre for the region.

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Stanford To Social become Innovation an Alumni ReviewAmbassador, and San you Francisco or your organisation Chronicle. commit to making an annual contribution of $20,000 forMay five serves years. as a Member of the Board of Advisors for Persian Women in Tech, an organisation supporting Persian & MENA women in STEM. She is also an advisor,Governance facilitator and mentor at Nalukai Academy’s summer startup campsThe Generalin Hawaii. Sir John Monash Foundation is governed by an eminent national board chaired by Ms Jillian Segal AO and comprised of Chancellors, Vice-Chancellors, Senior Directors, representatives of professional service organisations, business and community leaders. The Patron-in-Chief of the Foundation is the Governor-General of Australia, His Excellency General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd). Each State Governor is a Patron of the Foundation.

The Foundation is a public company limited by guarantee with named status as a Deductible Gift Recipient. The funds of the Foundation are managed under the guidance of the Investment, Audit and Risk Committee with the assistance of professional investment advisors. The Ms Jillian Segal AO, Chairman. Foundation is audited annually by KPMG. May Sa- “The swinging pendulum“If of it times wasn’t for the John Monash Mr Michael Grebla, 2016 and conditions may causeScholarship, us to change it would probably Zelman Cowen John Monash Scholar have been impossible for me to direction, to develop new strategies, Master of Music Composition, ever attend the New England New England Conservatory of Music, UK to master new technologies,Conservatory. to develop While I was there I new ways of finding solutionswas able to to meet some of the most Michael has a combined Bachelor of old problems. remarkable people in my field Mechanical Engineering and Bachelor (and other fields) – people I doubt of Music Composition with First Class However, what should neverI would change ever arehave been exposed Honours from UWA. During his time the core values of leadershipto if through I’d stayed in Perth. And on at UWA, Michael received the JM Wolff, citizenship – a sense of servicethat journey above it was a source of Knight and WA Wagner Society’s strength to me to have the support Bayreuth Scholarships. He is a composer self, that is nourished through integrity, and confidence of the Foundation. and in 2016 premiered a new work titled respect and sustained commitment.They had put their faith in me and “Euler’s Music” for chamber orchestra as The community is lookinggiven for me an opportunity to make part of the West Australian Symphony a difference. I thought – I’m a John participation and leadership that Orchestra’s Young and Emerging Artists Monash scholar, I’ve been put in the Program. Michael’s achievements in creates good economic, environmentalsame basket as a lot of remarkable composition and contributions to the and social order. people. Those people are doing University were recognised with UWA amazing things – perhaps I can do It’s not just a ‘satisfying thing to do’; Convocation’s prestigious Bryant Stokes the same.” Matilda Award for Cultural Excellence it is the proven approach. in Music. Michael also founded and We see it in: ran a comprehensive music program as the Director of Music at St George’s • those who care about the future; College targeted at engaging the local • those who share their skills, wisdom community and providing performance and experience in leading their opportunities for emerging artists. In communities; and this role he founded a highly successful Emerging Artists initiative to provide • those who are not afraid, when the gifted young artists with peers, musical need arises, to stand conventional challenge and exposure. Michael would wisdom on its head.” like to establish himself as an active professional composer and producer of cultural events, and to this end used his Excerpts taken from the Address by Major John Monash Scholarship to complete General the Honourable Michael Jeffery AC a Master of Music Composition at AO (Mil) CVO MC (Retd), former Governor- the New England Conservatory of General of the Commonwealth of Australia Music. He hopes to make a significant and former Patron of the Foundation, at the contribution to establishing Australia official presentation of the 2006 Scholarship as a cultural centre for the region. Awards held at Government House Canberra, 7 December 2005.

Michael Grebla Ms May Samali, 2014 “Words don’t do justice to the NSW Premier’s John Monash Scholar positive impact that the John Master of Public Policy, Harvard Monash Scholarship has had on University my life. The Scholarship expanded my skills, my community, and my May has a Bachelor of Economic and confidence in contributing to the Social Sciences (1st Class Hons, University future of entrepreneurship and Medal), and LLB (1st Class Hons) from innovation. The opportunities I have the University of Sydney. She was been provided have fundamentally President of the Sydney University Law changed me. I have changed the and Politics Societies and was Deputy way I understand the world around CEO of 180 Degrees Consulting. Her me. I have changed the way I study for a Master in Public Policy at understand my place in the world. Harvard focused on financing social I have changed the way I think enterprise and scaling social impact. about making change in the world.” As a part of her MPP, May worked at Tumml in San Francisco – a startup hub for urban technology. She joined the organisation as a Director in San Francisco after her degree, and then co-founded the Urban Innovation Fund, a new venture capital firm that invests in early-stage urban impact entrepreneurs. May is currently Chief Operating Officer, New Ventures at High Resolves, a recognised leader in the design and delivery of learning experiences for citizenship and leadership. Founded and headquartered in Australia, High Resolves also has operations in the US, Canada, Brazil and beyond. In her role at High Resolves, May is responsible for building and spinning out a new technology platform for civics and citizenship education across Australia and North America. She is also a Venture Partner at NextGen Venture Partners, a network-driven venture capital firm. May’s primary areas of interest include venture financing, technology policy, the future of education and work, social entrepreneurship and adaptive leadership. She has published on these topics in multiple outlets, including TechCrunch, Forbes, VentureBeat, Stanford Social Innovation Review and San Francisco Chronicle. May serves as a Member of the Board of Advisors for Persian Women in Tech, an organisation supporting Persian & MENA women in STEM. She is also an advisor, facilitator and mentor at Nalukai Academy’s summer startup camps in Hawaii.

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