Professor Ian Hickie AO
Professor Ian Hickie AO is the Co-Director of Health and Policy at the University of Sydney’s Brain and Mind Centre and a global leader in mental health research and digital innovations in care.
He was an inaugural Commissioner on Australia’s National Mental Health Commission (2012-18) overseeing enhanced accountability for mental health reform and suicide prevention. He is an internationally renowned researcher in clinical psychiatry, with particular reference to digital innovation, youth mental health care and adolescent-onset mood disorders, notably depression and bipolar disorder.