David de Kretser
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David de Kretser AC |
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| 27th Governor of Victoria | |
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In office 7 April 2006 – 7 April 2011 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Premier |
Steve Bracks John Brumby Ted Baillieu |
| Lieutenant | Marilyn Warren |
| Preceded by | John Landy |
| Succeeded by | Alex Chernov |
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| Born |
27 April 1939 Colombo, British Ceylon |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Spouse(s) | Jan de Kretser (née Warren) |
| Education |
Camberwell Grammar School University of Melbourne Monash University |
| Profession | Medical researcher |
David Morritz de Kretser AC (born 27 April 1939) is an Australian medical researcher who was the 27th Governor of Victoria from 2006 to 2011.
David de Kretser was born in British Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka). He was educated at St. Paul's Milagiriya and Royal College Primary before migrating to Australia with his family when he was aged nine. He studied at Camberwell Grammar School, Melbourne (where he is currently a member of the school board), received his MBBS degrees from the University of Melbourne in 1962, and his Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree from Monash University in 1969.
De Kretser is an infertility and andrology expert, and a long-serving academic. He began working at Monash University in 1965, in the university's department of anatomy, and has also worked as foundation director of the Monash Institute of Reproduction and Development (recently renamed the Monash Institute of Medical Research) and as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences (the Biotechnology Department). He was a senior Fellow of endocrinology at the University of Washington in Seattle from 1969 to 1971.
He founded a medical research group, Andrology Australia. Among memberships of other professional groups, he is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
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