Carolyn Williams

Carolyn Williams was the inaugural chief executive of the Nedlands-based Centre for Entrepreneurial Research and Innovation (CERI) from 2015 to May 2021.

Dr Williams is an alumni of UWA, where she completed her Honours in the Department of Biochemistry. She later obtained a PhD in molecular genetics from St Mary’s Hospital Medical School at the University of London.

She has lived and worked in the Maldives, where she established a genetic screening service bringing new state-of-the-art technologies to the country.

Prior to CERI, Dr Williams was a special projects manager at the Harry Perkins Institute for Medical Research and a research manager at the University of WA for 6 years, manager at the Centre for Food and Genomic Medicine for 4 years, and a group leader at the Lung Institute of WA.