Dr Thomas Ting

Dr Thomas Ting is the Executive Director for Australia’s Economic Accelerator Program (AEA), a $1.6B AUD 10year competitive grant program to fund research translation and commercialisation projects and opportunities from Australian Universities. 

In his role, Thomas leads the team of AEA Priority Managers to support the implementation and execution of the program to fund Australian universities for translation and commercialisation projects with industry, spin-outs/start-ups, investors and government – ultimately prioritised for Australia’s economic benefit.

Thomas is a PhD educated engineer who has extensive lived experience in multiple industry sectors across research, commercialisation, investment, and leading commercial enterprises internationally.