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Appendix B: Membership of the Review Committee
Carolyn Tanner: Chairman
Carolyn Tanner is a Senior Lecturer and the Associate Dean for the Bachelor of Agricultural Economics degree at the University of Sydney. Her major areas of expertise are trade policy and Australian agricultural policy. In 1995 she was appointed by the Commonwealth Government to an inquiry into Australia's quarantine policies and procedures (the Nairn Review). Currently she is a member of the Quarantine and Exports Advisory Council (which provides advice to the Government on major quarantine and export policy issues).
Tony Beaver
Tony Beaver, who has legal qualifications, has been the secretary of the Food and Beverage Importers Association for the past three years. He is a member of the Imported Food Advisory Council, the AQIS Industry Cargo Consultative Committee and the Industry Working Group on Quarantine.
Andy Carroll
Andy Carroll is currently Manager, Animal Programs Section, Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS). He has also served in various other areas within the Commonwealth Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and its predecessors including rural sciences and agricultural health. Previously (1979 to 1985), he served as a District Veterinary Officer with the Queensland Department of Primary Industries.
Elizabeth Flynn
Elizabeth Flynn is the Program Manager for Monitoring and Surveillance in the Australia New Zealand Food Authority (ANZFA), and has managed scientific staff of the organisation since the inception of the National Food Authority (NFA, later ANZFA) in 1991. Prior to this, she worked as a microbiologist with the then ACT Public Health Laboratories and the National Health and Medical Research Council food committees (the food standards system which preceded the NFA).
Secretariat and support
The Review Committee was supported by a Secretariat: Hilary Cuerden-Clifford (Manager); Stephen Schutt; Alex Cockinos; and Deborah Fileman. Policy advice was contributed by Slava Zemanovic.