Current as of 31/05/2023

After completing a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) at the University of Queensland and a PhD in solar photovoltaics at the University of New South Wales, Bruce’s career has been built in business, innovation investment and technology development fields. He has focused on the advancement and commercialisation of technologies (particularly, but not solely, new energy technologies – renewable, enabling and low emission fossil), investment readiness of products and companies, and innovation policy and programs.

In addition to his full-time management, technical and consulting roles since 1980, Bruce has been a member of assessment committees for numerous Commonwealth and Victorian government R&D and innovation and deployment support programs across a wide range of energy technologies including solar, wind, geothermal, marine, biofuels, fuel cells, hydrogen, battery storage, enabling and distributed energy resources integration and brown coal utilisation. He understands well the opportunities and challenges for developers and suppliers of new and renewable energy technologies, products and services that are used in or could penetrate energy supply chains in Australia and overseas.

Bruce was a Director and Vice-President Diversity of the Academy. He has chaired Expert Working Groups for the Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) on Delivering Sustainable Urban Mobility (2015) and on Energy Storage (2017). He is a Director of the Future Battery Industries CRC.

Dr Bruce Godfrey has had sustained and outstanding impact in the leadership, nurturing and commercialisation of energy research and development and innovation in Australia and internationally. His focus has been on the SME (small and medium business) sector where he has led the development of R&D through to commercialisation and to international markets through many impactful CEO roles. He has first-class business acumen, especially in the skills required for the early stages of innovation and commercialisation. Dr. Godfrey has also played an important part in the development and implementation of energy R&D strategy for Australian governments.