David de Kretser
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| His Excellency Professor David de Kretser AC, MD |
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27th Governor of Victoria
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| Assumed office 7 April 2006 |
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| Monarch | Queen Elizabeth II |
| Premier | Steve Bracks |
| Lieutenant | Marilyn Warren |
| Preceded by | John Landy |
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| Born | April 27, 1939  Colombo, Ceylon |
| Nationality |  Australian |
| Spouse | Jan de Kretser (neé Warren) |
| Residence | Government House, Melbourne |
| Alma mater | University of Melbourne, Monash University |
| Profession | Medical researcher |
| Website | http://www.governor.vic.gov.au/ |
David Morritz de Kretser AC (born 27 April 1939) is an Australian medical researcher, and the Governor of Victoria. He succeeded John Landy as the 27th Governor of Victoria on 7 April 2006. The Victorian Premier at the time, Steve Bracks announced the appointment on 19 January 2006.
Of Burgher ancestry, De Kretser was born in Sri Lanka (then known as Ceylon), and immigrated to Australia with his family when aged nine. He was educated at Camberwell Grammar School (where he is currently a member of the school board), received his MBBS degrees from the University of Melbourne in 1962, and his Doctor of Medicine degree from Monash University in 1969.
De Kretser is an infertility and andrology expert, and a long-serving academic. He began working at Monash University in 1965 in the university's department of anatomy, and currently works as both foundation director of the Monash Institute of Reproduction and Development (recently renamed the Monash Institute of Medical Research) and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences (Biotechnology Department). He was also a senior Fellow of endocrinology at the University of Washington in Seattle from 1969 to 1971.
He founded a medical research group, Andrology Australia. Among memberships of other professional groups, he is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
De Kretser has been married to his wife, Jan, for over 40 years, and has four sons. In 2001, he was named as Victoria's Father of the Year. On 12 June 2006, in the Queen's Birthday Honours list, he was awarded Australia's highest civilian honour, Companion of the Order of Australia. David de Kretser is also a knight of the British Venerable Order of Saint John,
[edit] References
- Lucas, Clay. "Victoria's new governor named", The Age, 19 January 2006.
- BioMelbourne (2003). BioMelbourne: Professor David de Kretser AC. Retrieved January 19, 2006.
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| Preceded by John Landy |
Governor of Victoria 2006 – present |
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| Michael Jeffery | Marie Bashir | Tom Pauling | Quentin Bryce | Kevin Scarce | Peter Underwood | David de Kretser | Ken Michael | |
