John Kerin is an exceptional candidate for Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. He was a senior Commonwealth Minister for 10 years.

He established the Australian Research & Development Corporations and the Bureau of Resource Sciences. He nurtured the Decade of Land Care and introduced fundamental management and marketing reforms including Australia's wool marketing.

Since retiring from Parliament he serves on company boards. He chairs four CRCs and the NSW State Committee of the Crawford Fund. He also chairs, or is member of, bodies concerned with natural resource management in fisheries, forests, water, land and animal health