Professor Matthew Kiernan is the chief executive and institute director, Neuroscience Research Australia. He holds appointments as the Scientia Professor of Neuroscience at the University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia and senior staff specialist in Neurology at South Eastern Sydney Local Health District. Professor Kiernan is past president of the Australian & New Zealand Association of Neurologists, having helped shape neuroscientific research and the training of neurologists across Australia and New Zealand.
Professor Kiernan is chair of the World Federation of Neurology specialty group in neurodegenerative disease, chair of the World Congress of Neurology, president of the Brain Foundation and editor emeritus of the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry (BMJ Publishers, United Kingdom), having served as editor-in-chief from 2010-2022.
