Warwick Anderson is the Janet Dora Hine Professor of Politics, Governance and Ethics in the Department of History and the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney. In 2018-19, he was the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair of Australian Studies in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. He is the author of many books and articles on the history of science and medicine. He is not the former CEO of the NHMRC.