Tom Quirk
Thomas Quirk is a corporate director of biotech companies and former board member of the Institute of Public Affairs, an Australian conservative think-tank for which he has written numerous articles and papers and provided comments to the media.[1] Quirk joined the board of therapeutics company Sementis in 2011 as a non-executive director.[2] Quirk is an occasional speaker on the topic of innovation in Australia, and has written extensively on subjects of energy policy and climate change.[3] He is a former member of the Australian Climate Science Coalition's Scientific Advisory Panel.[4] Quirk is a critic of Tim Flannery, the Climate Commission and environmentalists generally.[5]
Career
Quirk has worked for resources company, CRA (now known as Rio Tinto). He has also worked in the United States at Fermilab, the universities of Chicago and Harvard and at CERN in Europe. He was an early director of Biota, a company which developed an influenza drug. He has held several positions in utilities, electricity and transport industries including a founding directorship of the Victorian Power Exchange. Quirk was Deputy Chairman of VENCorp, which managed the transmission and wholesale natural gas market and system planning for the electricity market in Victoria, Australia. He is also a former Chairman of VicTrack, the owner of the state's railway assets.[6] Quirk also worked for James D. Wolfensohn in a venture capital fund based in New York City.[7] Quirk was appointed as a Fellow of the Heide Museum of Modern Art in Victoria, of which he is a benefactor.[8]
Education
Trained as a nuclear physicist at the University of Melbourne and Oxford University to get an MSc at Melbourne and DPhil and MA at Oxford where he was in turn a Fellow of three colleges. He has also attended the Harvard Business School. [6]
Publications
- Chambers, J., Miller, A., Morgan, R., Officer, B., Rayner, M., Sellars-Jones, G., & Quirk, T. (2015), "Psychology Behavioural Economics and Climate Change", Energy & Environment, 26(8), pages 1353–1358.
- Quirk, Tom (2014). "Opportunities in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle". Energy & Environment. 25 (1): 123–132. doi:10.1260/0958-305X.25.1.123. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - Chambers, J., Miller, A., Morgan, R., Officer, B., Rayner, M., Sellars-Jones, G., & Quirk, T. (2013). "A Review of the Scientific Evidence Underlying the Imposition of a Carbon Tax or ETS in Australia", Energy & Environment, 24(6), 1013–1026.
- Quirk, Tom (2012). "Did the global temperature trend change at the end of the 1990s?". Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences. Asia-Pacific Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 48 (4): 339–344. Bibcode:2012APJAS..48..339Q. doi:10.1007/s13143-012-0032-4. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - Quirk, T. (2010). "Twentieth Century Sources of Methane in the Atmosphere", Energy & Environment, 21(3), 251–266.
- Quirk, T. (2009). "The Australian Temperature Anomaly, 1910 - 2000", Energy & Environment, 20(1/2), 97–100.
- Quirk, T. (2009). "Sources and Sinks of Carbon Dioxide", Energy & Environment, 20(1/2), 105–121.
References
- ↑ "People & associated - Tom Quirk". Institute of Public Affairs. Retrieved 2015-04-01.
- ↑ "EXECUTIVE TEAM & BOARD". 2015-02-27. Archived from the original on February 27, 2015. Retrieved 2016-01-10. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Quirk, Thomas J. (1979-01-01). Psychological Research: How to Do it. Wiley. ISBN 9780471031185. Search this book on
- ↑ "About Us". webarchive.nla.gov.au. Archived from the original on 2009-04-02. Retrieved 2016-01-10. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Climate Commission in Melbourne". quadrant.org.au. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Australia's nuclear options - CEDA policy perspective (PDF). Melbourne, Australia: CEDA. 2011. pp. 50–61. ISBN 978-0-85801-277-6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 March 2015. Retrieved 1 April 2015. Unknown parameter
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- ↑ Quirk, Tom (2011-04-06). "What is going on at Fukushima?". OnlineOpinion.com.au. Retrieved 2015-04-01.
- ↑ "Foundation". Heide Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2016-01-10.
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