Professor Matthew Morell is Director of the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland (UQ).
Professor Morell has had an extensive career conducting and leading high-quality agricultural research that delivers benefits to the agriculture and food sectors, and to consumers.
He has a track record in developing effective teams, and working with institutions and their stakeholders to deliver innovations for the future. His work focuses on the complexities of modern food systems to balance the sustainable production of nutritious food with the reduced use of increasingly scarce and fragile resources to meet the needs of consumers, societies, ecosystems and economies.
Professor Morell has previously held senior roles as Director General (Research) at the International Rice Research Institute and Theme Leader (Future Grains, Grain-Based Food and Feed), Food Futures National Research Flagship, CSIRO. He is an Academy Fellow of the International Association of Cereal Chemists and of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering of Australia (ATSE).
Professor Morell is appointed to the Industry Steering Committee as the representative of UQ as the FaBA Alliance Administrator.