Dr Mary Retallack (South Australia)
Mary Retallack is an experienced director, agricultural scientist and third-generation viticulturist who brings a wide range of skills and experience from practical, extension and consultancy roles in the global wine sector over the past two decades. She is currently Managing Director of Retallack Viticulture, which offers viticultural and agribusiness consulting services throughout Australia and is recognised international as a Certified Practicing Agriculturist.
Mary has tertiary qualifications in conservation and park management, natural resource management, education, arbitration and viticulture. As well as a PhD in viticulture and plant protection, evaluating the potential functional diversity offered by native insectary plants to support populations of predatory arthropods in Australian vineyards.
She also is a member of the Food Agility CRC, Strategic Investment Council, Adelaide University Wine Alumni Steering Group, and the Australian and New Zealand Grapegrower and Winemaker editorial panel.
She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors Diploma course, a Fellow of the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation, a Future Leaders graduate, a past Non-Executive Director of the AWRI and Wine Communicators of Australia, Grape and Wine Research and Development Corporation, a past member of the South Australian Wine Industry Council, and a past founding member of WGGA’s Decision Support Network and the ‘Women of the Vine’ Global Symposium advisory board.
Mary’s leadership capabilities and excellence in science have been acknowledged via the RIRDC Rural Woman of the Year (national winner), as a 100 Women in Australian Agribusiness inductee, a Len Evans Tutorial Scholar, a PIRSA’s Women influencing agribusiness and regions ambassador, and a Businesswomen’s Hall of Fame inductee.