Aussie STEM Stars: Alan Finkel: Australia’s Chief Scientist: 2016-2020

As Australias Chief Scientist our country turned to Alan Finkel for advice on everything from climate change to artificial intelligence to the pandemic. But at a time when scientists have never been so important Alan nearly didnt become one at all! Growing up in Melbourne as the son of immigrants who fled the Holocaust and desperately wanted Alan to become a doctor he had to find the courage to make his own choices - becoming an engineer neuroscientist academic entrepreneur philanthropist and a clear-thinking leader.