Alison is currently Senior Director Enterprise and Partnerships at Monash University.
As a business development and commercialisation executive, she has extensive experience leading biomedical and public health business development activities in universities and medical research institutes. Alison has also run a consultancy.
She gained her PhD in Biochemistry from Monash University and spent 10 years leading research in HIV virology. Alison holds a Bachelor of Laws from Latrobe University and is admitted to the Supreme Court of Victoria as a lawyer.