David de Kretser

David de Kretser AC
27th Governor of Victoria
In office 7 April 2006 – 7 April 2011
Monarch	Queen Elizabeth II
Premier	Steve Bracks, John Brumby, Ted Baillieu
Lieutenant	Marilyn Warren
Preceded by	John Landy
Succeeded by	Alex Chernov
Personal details
Born	(1939-04-27) 27 April 1939 Colombo, British Ceylon
Nationality	Australian
Spouse(s)	Jan de Kretser (née Warren)
Education	Camberwell Grammar School University of Melbourne Monash University
Profession	Medical researcher

David Morritz de Kretser, AC (born 27 April 1939) is an Australian medical researcher and was Governor of Victoria from 2006 to 2011.

Biography

David de Kretser was born in British Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka). He was educated at St. Paul's Milagiriya and Royal College Primary before migrating to Australia with his family when he was aged nine. He studied at Camberwell Grammar School, Melbourne (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 (MD) 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 has also worked as foundation director of the Monash Institute of Reproduction and Development (recently renamed the Monash Institute of Medical Research) and as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences (the Biotechnology Department). He was 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

On the nomination of Premier of Victoria Steve Bracks, he was appointed Governor of Victoria, taking office on 7 April 2006, succeeding John Landy. He left the post on 8 April 2011, and was succeeded by Alex Chernov.

Honours

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 (then) highest civilian honour, Companion of the Order of Australia (AC). David de Kretser is also a knight of the British Venerable Order of Saint John.

Personal life

De Kretser has been married to Jan for over 40 years, and has four sons: Steve, Mark, Ross and Hugh. Ross and Steve are Chemical Engineers, Mark is a General Practitioner and Hugh is a Human Rights lawyer.

External links

• Prominent Alumni: Professor David de Kretser AC (MD 1969, HonLLD 2006) (Monash University)

Government offices
Preceded by John Landy	Governor of Victoria 2006–2011	Succeeded by Alex Chernov