History

Steve Thomas grew up in country South Australia in a family devoted to agriculture. He has a degree in Agricultural Science as well as a PhD focussed on plant molecular biology and has undertaken R&D in leading laboratories in Australia and internationally.

While a successful research scientist, Steve’s passion is assisting farmers to be profitable and sustainable in the challenging Australian environment. Steve joined the NSW Department of Primary Industries to lead their biotechnology programs and was heavily involved in policy development for the commercial release of GM canola. Ultimately transitioning to R&D management and policy development, Steve led a variety of animal and plant genetics and improvement programs and completed an Executive Masters in Public Administration.

Moving to Grains Research and Development Corporation Steve has led programs in extension and adoption, applied R&D, commercialisation, IP management, systems improvement, process design and culture change. Steve has coordinated strategy development for GRDC and contributed to a range of industry initiatives. He now brings his enthusiasm, focus and intelligent perspective to ST Strategic Services to provide his clients with a dedicated approach to strategy and policy development and implementation.