Creina Stockley, PhD, MBA
Creina S. Stockley PhD MBA, has 30 years of experience in the alcohol and health arena, and was based at the Australian Wine Research Institute from 1991 to 2018. Her academic background is clinical pharmacology and physiology, and she has also been associated with public health projects via the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University. She is currently an independent consultant as well as an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Agriculture, Food and Wine at the University of Adelaide. In 1997, she was appointed the Australian government representative on the Health and Safety Commission of the Organisation International de la Vigne et du Vin (OIV) and served as President of the Commission IV Safety and Health, being awarded the Knight of the Order of Agricultural Merit (France) in 2015 and, more recently, the OIV Merit Award. She has been actively involved in the preparation of Australian and international alcohol policy, alcohol drinking guidelines and alcohol warning labelling, as well as actively being involved in pharmacokinetic/dynamic/therapeutic research projects on a range of health, nutrition and safety related issues to alcohol consumption. Latterly, these have included the potential allergenicity of wine, and the effects of wine and wine-derived phenolic compounds on cardiovascular diseases, cognitive function and certain cancers.