Speaker

Susannah Elliot

Dr

Science Media Centre

Susannah Elliot has a PhD in cell and developmental biology from Macquarie University, a Graduate Diploma in Journalism from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) and nearly 20 years of practical experience in science communication with the science-media nexus as her primary focus. In 2000, Susannah moved to Stockholm, Sweden as Communications Director for the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), an international network of scientists working on global environmental change. She is currently CEO of the Australian Science Media Centre, an independent not for profit organisation that she helped establish in 2005 and that works with the news media to inject more evidence-based science into public discourse.