Paul Savage received his PhD under the direction of Dr R. F. Evans at the University of Queensland in 1988, and this was followed by a two year postdoctoral position with Professor Alan R. Katritzky FRS at the University of Florida. He returned to Australia to take up a research scientist position with CSIRO, Australia’s premier government research organisation. He was promoted to Program Manager and completed an MBA in 2005 from the Chifley Business School, La Trobe University.