Brigitte Smith has been the co-founder and managing director of life sciences venture capital firm GBS Venture Partners for 20 years.
She has a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering (Honours) from the University of Melbourne. Ms Smith is a Fulbright Scholar and completed a MBA (Honours) from the Harvard Business School and a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, both in Boston, USA.
In March 2019, she was appointed the inaugural chief executive of Minderoo Foundation's Flourishing Oceans initiative which aims to drive ocean clean-up operations, develop comprehensive data, recommended actions on global fisheries, and establish Western Australia as a hub for world-class marine conservation research.