Minister van Holst Pellekaan was elected to Parliament as the Member for Stuart in 2010. He was promoted to the Shadow Cabinet in 2011 and has held the Energy and Mining portfolios since June 2014. After his re-election at the 2018 State Election, he was sworn in as Minister for Energy and Mining in the Marshall Liberal Government. Minister van Holst Pellekaan started his working life as a labourer before playing four seasons in the National Basketball League and at the same time gaining a Bachelor of Economics. He then spent ten years with BP Australia before entering the small business sector as a shareholder and operator of Outback roadhouses for seven years. This was followed by three years developing cycle tourism in the Southern Flinders Ranges immediately before entering Parliament. Minister van Holst Pellekaan’s electorate extends from Kapunda at its southern end, all the way up to the NT border. It heads east to the NSW border. It includes the Mid North agricultural region, all of the Flinders Ranges and the vast north-east pastoral region surrounded by the Northern Territory, Queensland and New South Wales. The regional city of Port Augusta is its main population centre.

Professor Gerry Thomas graduated from Bath University in 1982 with a degree in Pharmacology and completed a PhD in Pathology at the University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff in 1988. In 1992 she left Cardiff to work at the Department of Pathology at the University of Cambridge, and in 2002, she returned to Wales as a Senior Lecturer, then Professor (in 2006) in Molecular Oncology at Swansea University, just as a grant was awarded from the Welsh Assembly Government to Professor Malcolm Mason and others in Cardiff to establish the Wales Cancer Bank, a national collection of blood samples and tissue from cancer patients operated in Wales. She took responsibility as Principal Scientist for the bank in steering the project through Ethics approval, and developing the scientific protocols required to run the project. In 2007, she took up a position as Professor of Molecular Pathology at Imperial College London, where she established the West London Genome Medicine Centre as part of the UK’s 100,000 genomes project and is Director of the Imperial College Healthcare Tissue Bank. Her initial work focused on animal models of cancer, in particular thyroid cancer. She has carried out research into the health effects of the Chernobyl accident since 1992, and established the Chernobyl Tissue Bank (CTB: www.chernobyltissuebank.com) in 1998. The CTB has provided infrastructural support (both physical and ethical) in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia for thyroid cancer diagnosis and research into the molecular mechanisms that underlie the increase in thyroid cancer seen after the Chernobyl accident. The project provides a platform for a systems biology approach to exploring these mechanisms and supports tissue collection for international epidemiology studies. She has published extensively on the molecular pathology of thyroid cancer, and is an author of a number of reviews of the health effects of radiation exposure following nuclear accidents. Following the Fukushima accident, she was asked to explain the health risks of radiation on both broadcast and written media in the UK and internationally. She has been involved in a number of expert groups for the IAEA, UNSCEAR and IARC, the most recent of these focusing on thyroid monitoring after nuclear accidents. Professor Thomas is committed to developing infrastructures for molecular pathology research and diagnosis, both for use by her own research group but also by others. She strongly believes that public involvement and information is a key part of academic research, and is actively involved in the public communication of research, particularly with respect to radiation protection and biobanking.

Julian has been an executive director of Vimy Resources since 2013 and moved to the position of Chief Nuclear Office in November 2018. Julian is responsible for all State and Commonwealth Government permitting and approvals and was instrumental in moving the Mulga Rock Project through the Public Environmental Review process. Julian is Vimy’s strategic thinker and undertakes detailed research on the global uranium market; his ‘Uranium 101’ investor briefings are an essential part of the Vimy story. Julian was previously Head of Government Relations for Fortescue Metals Group where he oversaw and expedited the approvals process for Fortescue’s world-class Pilbara iron ore project from conception through to operation. Julian holds a Bachelor of Arts (Philosophy and Economics) and Master of Science (Economics and Public Policy) from University College London. Before moving to Australia in 2002 he held a number of high-level roles in companies around the globe, including as Director of New Business Development for the Middle East for BAeSystems.

Economic and exploration geologist with 25 years of international experience in private sector, government and international organisations. Has worked across a wide range of commodities and countries in operational and senior management roles. Currently working as the only staff uranium geologist in the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria.