Murray L. Scott is Chairman of Advanced Composite Structures Australia, the specialist engineering spin-out company of the world renowned Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Composite Structures, of which he was Chief Executive Officer for over 13 years. He is an Adjunct Professor of RMIT University and has 35 years' aerospace engineering experience working in both industry and academia. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, and a long-standing World Fellow of the International Committee on Composite Materials, of which he served as President (2001–03). Since 1994, he has represented Australia on the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences and has served in various capacities, including as President (2013–14). He continues to focus on developing new technologies for the design, low-cost manufacture, and support of application-critical composite structures in aerospace and other fields.