This award recognises Baroness Greenfield for her distinguished career as a scientist, broadcaster and best selling author, and her consummate skill in communicating science to the community as well as her peers. She has a longstanding involvement in Australia and an Australian-like approach to everything she does.

Baroness Greenfield has held research fellowships in the Department of Physiology Oxford, the College de France Paris, and NYU Medical Center New York, and has been awarded 28 Honorary Degrees from British and foreign universities. In 1998 Greenfield was appointed the first female Director of The Royal Institution of Great Britain and in 2000 was elected to an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians. Further international recognition includes the ‘Golden Plate Award’ in 2003 from the Academy of Achievement, Washington, and in the same year the L’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur, from the French Government. Baroness Greenfield’s has delivered numerous lectures and workshops at The Australian National University, the European-Australian Business Council, the Business Council of Australia, the Sydney Institute, The Australia-Britain Chamber of Commerce, the University of Sydney, the Centre for Independent Studies and the ABC. Most recently, as a ‘Thinker in Residence’ in South Australia, she was charged with developing a strategy to re-ignite the public’s passion in the sciences. In this role, she established the national Australian Science Media Centre which aims to increase the degree and accuracy of reporting about science in the Australian media. Her writing credits include best-selling The Human Brain: A Guided Tour and Brain Story, and in broadcasting she is best known for Brain Story, a major six-part series broadcast in 2000.