Professor Elizabeth Taylor AO - 2026 UNSW Alumni Award Winner for Research & Education Excellence

"The strength of having diversity in any situation is that the solutions are far more robust, far more appropriate to the situation rather than a singular view of the world"

Meet the winner of the 2026 UNSW Alumni Award for Research & Education Excellence, Professor Elizabeth Taylor AO.

Elizabeth Taylor AO is an engineer, governance specialist and Emeritus Professor at Central Queensland University, with a career spanning industry, design and construction, academia and leadership. She is Chair of SmartCrete CRC and the International Engineering Alliance’s Governing Group and Sydney Accord, and a former Chair of the Washington Accord and Engineers Australia Accreditation Board.

Elizabeth contributes to humanitarian and community causes, currently chairing the Cambodian Children’s Trust Australia. An Honorary Fellow of Engineers Australia and Fellow of ATSE and AICD, she has been recognised among Australia’s 100 influential engineers and received Engineers Australia’s 2021 Peter Nicol Russell Career Achievement Memorial Medal.

Experience Elizabeth's story here: https://www.unsw.edu.au/alumni/our-impact/alumni-awards


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