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Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies (FASTS)

FASTS

The new Executive Director of FASTS will be Anna-Maria Arabia.
Anna-Maria is currently infrastructure advisor to Anthony Albanese, Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. She also worked for some years as an advisor for Kim Beazley and Anthony Albanese when Labor were in opposition.

Previous to her work in politics, she was an assistant director in the Department for Health and Ageing; a research officer in the Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne; and a Project co-ordinator at the Embassy of Italy.

Her academic background is in science, with a focus in pharmacology and neuroscience and was a doctoral candidate at Melbourne and Baker MRI.

Anna-Maria has long term educational, scientific and professional linkages with Italy and is passionately interested in international collaboration.

She has excellent political, policy, leadership, research and communication skills.

Anna-Maria will commence at FASTS on 2 November

FASTS Annual General Meeting
This year’s FASTS Annual General Meeting will take place in the conference centre, CSIRO, Limestone Avenue, Canberra at 9.30am, Tuesday, 24th of November, 2009.