Steve Burnell

Steve is the Director of the Collaborate Against Cancer and OceanOmics initiatives at Minderoo Foundation and the Foundation’s COVID-19 response lead. Steve has a passion for working at the intersections of technology with healthcare and conservation, being particularly focused on how to improve the way data is used for the benefit of cancer patients and to revolutionize how he understands life in the ocean. Prior to Minderoo, he was most recently at the Roche Group, the world’s largest biotech, where he has run global businesses and established a new informatics and real-world data business in oncology.

Steve’s 30+ years of experience in research and business spans healthcare, biotech, fisheries science, marine ecology, television documentary production, and strategy consulting. He holds a B.Sc. with honors in Biology and a Ph.D. in Population Biology from the University of Sydney, Australia.