Resources
This sector includes, but is not limited to, the following specialisations:
- Geology and metallurgy
- Resource waste management
- Automation, connectivity, industry 4.0 skills
- Beneficiation technologies (for example, improving the economic value of ore)
- Energy saving technologies for extracting and processing ores:
- ore body mapping
- geophysical tools and drilling
- mineral refinement
- automated trucks and robotic equipment
- grinding and processing technologies
- Exploration services
- Market intelligence
- Technical equipment manufacturing
Exceptional candidates:
- Managing director of a technology and innovation unit of an international mining corporation with a global track record in the delivery of safe, cost effective, and complex multi-billion-dollar projects.
Strong candidates:
- Executive with extensive experience in critical mineral development, execution and operation for a top-tier company.
- A leading researcher with expertise in heat and mass transfer, phase change and metallurgical transformation in high temperature systems.
The following experience or professions would not usually meet the parameters of the program:
- Site managers
- Engineers and mechanics
- Technicians and construction workers
Agri-food and AgTech
This sector includes, but is not limited to, the following specialisations:
- Agricultural data analytics
- Biologists/biotechnologist/synthetic biology specialists
- Blockchain technology
- Commercialisation experience within the industry
- Biosecurity, disease management and prevention
- Alternate proteins for human and animal consumption
- Foodtech
- Precision engineering
- Product packaging, authentication and verification
- Predictive analytics for geospatial analysis, crop management and climatic forecasting
- Wearable technologies, including trackers
- Technologies for farm management, weather, seed optimisation, fertiliser and crop inputs, and irrigation, including drones, robotics and related capabilities
- Precision measurement and/or application of farm inputs such as nitrogen and pesticides, gene editing, nanomaterials, and synthetic biology
Exceptional candidates:
- Director of a world-renowned research centre for livestock genetic engineering with proven results in applying research to improve the quality, productivity and efficiency across the industry.
Strong candidates:
- Highly regarded and cited post-doctoral researcher in the field of robotics and automations in agriculture, with ongoing industry collaborations.
The following experience or professions would not usually meet the parameters of the program:
- Farmers and agricultural technicians
- Food safety managers
- Chefs and cooks
Energy
This sector includes, but is not limited to, the following specialisations:
- Advanced visualisation technology
- Artificial intelligence and machine
- learning technologies
- Automation and robotics (for example, smart sorting technologies for recycling)
- Traceability technologies (for example, experience with sophisticated material trading systems that make material sources more transparent to consumers)
- Hydrogen technology
- Clean technologies, renewables and hybrids (including solar, wind and wave power)
- Battery/energy storage design (specialised, grid-scale and precursors for batteries)
- Bioenergy and biofuels
- Micro-grid design
Exceptional candidates:
- Founder and CEO of an internationally acclaimed start-up in the research and manufacturing of innovative clean technology for heating, ventilation and air conditioning.
Strong candidates:
- Senior energy transformation engineering specialist in devising solutions for new energy technologies.
- Executive with expertise in the development and delivery of large energy projects.
The following experience or professions would not usually meet the parameters of the program:
- Technicians and construction workers
- Distribution and sales representatives
- Junior or mid-level power plant or mine operations managers
Health Industries
This sector includes, but is not limited to, the following specialisations:
- Antimicrobial resistance
- Biochemistry and cell biology
- Biostatistics
- Biotechnology
- Biomedicine and bioengineering
- Cell and gene therapies – genomics
- Clinical trials
- Commercialisation experience in the health industry
- Digital health
- Healthcare entrepreneurship
- Health economics
- Implantable and wearable devices (3D printed devices, bionics and prosthetics)
- Infectious disease prevention
- Medical devices
- Medical physics
- Microbiology and immunology
- Nanotechnology and genomics
- Neuroscience and neurology
- Pharmaceuticals
- Precision medicine
- Point of care diagnostics
- Regenerative medicine
Exceptional candidates
- Pharmaceutical executive and founder of a multi-million dollar global company dedicated to accelerating clinical trial processes by utilising a novel e-platform to track patient data.
- Renowned infectious diseases researcher and practitioner of international repute.
Strong candidates
- Senior auditory neuroscientist with a track record of research in health technologies, leading the research and design of cochlear implant technology.
- Biomedical engineer with expertise in medical application of polymers, biomaterials and delivery platforms.
The following experience or professions would not usually meet the parameters of the program:
- General practitioners
- Retail pharmacists
- Dentists
- Physiotherapists
- Nurses
- Veterinarians
- Aged care workers
Defence, Advanced Manufacturing and Space
Defence:
This sector includes, but is not limited to, the following specialisations:
- Advanced materials
- Combat system integration
- Complex design and engineering
- Emerging military technology
- Guided munitions
- Intelligence analytics
- Modern training and simulation
- Protected and secure communications
- Protection technology
- Robotics and automation
- Sensors and advanced signal processing
- Surveillance and intelligence
- Specialty experience in ICT system analytics and security
Exceptional candidates:
- Business director of an international organisation renowned for testing, inspecting and certifying defence vessels and equipment.
Strong candidates:
- Senior technology manager of a globally renowned aeronautical research and development centre leading multiple portfolios on defence products.
The following experience or professions would not usually meet the parameters of the program:
- Soldiers and sailors
- Junior officers
Advanced Manufacturing:
This sector includes, but is not limited to, the following specialisations:
- Advanced materials
- Additive manufacturing (3D printing), materials resilience and repair
- Data analytics including artificial intelligence and machine learning
- Digital design and rapid prototyping
- Digitisation, automation and robotics including drone management and manipulation
- Precision engineering and manufacturing
- Nano-manufacturing and micro-manufacturing
- Sustainable manufacturing and life cycle engineering
- Bio-manufacturing and biological integration
- Biotechnologies
- Supply chain resilience
- Commercialisation experience within the industry
Exceptional candidates
- A leading researcher in micro and nano electro-mechanical systems that owns multiple patents.
- Chief technology officer of an internationally acclaimed manufacturer of sensors for electronic devices in the healthcare, robotics, and digital manufacturing sectors.
Strong candidates
- Senior data scientist specialising in designing machine learning algorithms and neural network models, with experience in commercialising artificial intelligence projects for automotive and intelligent devices.
The following experience or professions would not usually meet the parameters of the program:
- Engineering technicians
- Machine operators
- Draftspersons
- Sales and administrative managers
Space:
This sector includes, but is not limited to, the following specialisations:
- Space systems engineering
- Propulsion systems
- Guidance, navigation and control
- Thermal management systems
- On-board data subsystems
- Sensors and instruments
- Electromagnetic technologies and techniques
- Optoelectronics
- Internet of Things technologies
- Autonomous systems
- Planetary body exploration
- Entry, descent and landing
- In-situ resources utilisation
- Human health, life support and habitation systems
- Spacecraft mechanisms, structures, materials and manufacturing processes
- Electrical, electronic and electro-mechanical (EEE) components and quality
- Ground systems technologies and services skills
- Space environment monitoring technologies skills
- Space system project management skills
- Space software, programming, applications and computing skills
- Space sector enabling skills (for example, space law)
Exceptional candidates:
- Renowned space industry leader with vast experience specialising in space systems engineering.
- Head engineer of avionics and software at a leading rocket company that is developing new orbital launch vehicles and technologies for foreign space agencies.
Strong candidates:
- A space policy specialist with extensive experience collaborating between government and the industry.
- Post-doctoral astrophysicist with a sustained record in collaborative research, with a number of space agencies.
The following experience or professions would not usually meet the parameters of the program:
- Engineers and mechanics who do not lead ground-breaking projects
Circular Economy
This sector includes, but is not limited to, the following specialisations:
- Artificial intelligence and digital technologies.
- Bioenergy generation
- Bio-methane production
- Commercialisation experience within the industry
- Development of sustainable production and supply chain practices that reduce atmospheric land and marine pollution
- Energy infrastructure
- Environmental science
- Recycling and responsible manufacturing to support industries (plastics, paper, glass, tyre components, e-waste and lithium batteries)
- Reducing emissions and increasing efficient use of natural resources (including energy, water and materials)
- Sustainable manufacturing and life-cycle engineering specialists
- Waste treatment (management and reuse) and emissions technology
- Waste to Energy (WtE) technology (the ability to generate reliable baseload electricity that is also capable of diverting waste away from landfill and reducing carbon emissions)
Exceptional candidates:
- Senior well engineering manager responsible for managing multiple advanced carbon capture usage and storage projects.
Strong candidates:
- Post-doctoral researcher with well cited high impact publications in the fields of metallurgy, circular economy, critical metals and solar photovoltaic end of life issues.
The following experience or professions would not usually meet the parameters of the program:
- Engineers and mechanics who do not lead international projects
- Sales or purchasing representatives
DigiTech
This sector includes, but is not limited to, the following specialisations:
- Data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning
- Automation and robotics
- Big data, data management and analysis
- Blockchain technology
- Cloud computing
- 5G
- Cyber security detection, prevention and response
- Data and eResearch infrastructure
- SmartTech and disruptive technologies
- Front-end development
- Internet of Things
- Immersive technologies including virtual, augmented and extended reality
- IT integrated control systems for plant and machinery
- Machine learning engineering
- Network engineering/architecture
- Production and development of digital (video) games and game engine technology
- Quantum information and computing
- Smart cities
- Specialised knowledge in software and mobile application development
- 3D printing
Exceptional candidates
- Founder and/or inventor of deep technology IP associated with digitech.
- Expert in human-centred design and design thinking, experienced in designing sites, apps and online optimisation strategies for high end IT firms.
- Chief information security officer driving initiatives in virtualisation, Cloud, Internet of Things and cybersecurity across entire corporations.
Strong candidates
- Entrepreneur of an award-winning video game developer company that has developed a number of original titles targeted at wide international audiences.
- Researcher and expert in software, platforms, game engine and AR/VR/XR tech including exemplary coders.
The following experience or professions would not usually meet the parameters of the program:
- Business analysts, developers and ICT consultants without international experience.
- ICT support centre managers.
Infrastructure and Tourism
This sector includes, but is not limited to, the following specialisations:
- Leading large complex transport infrastructure projects for roads, bridges, tunnelling, rail and airports
- Designing, developing or operating smart cities and technologies that improve the safety, efficiency, and reliability of transport services using emerging transport technologies such as automated vehicles/trains, emerging transport network technologies or artificial intelligence machine learning applied in transport systems
- Utilising new technologies applied to electricity grids (distribution, transmission, micro/smart grids) that assist with the integration and transition to distributed generation, batteries and electric vehicles
- Water management technologies
Exceptional candidates:
- Chief operating officer of a national freight company with expertise in large scale and complex interstate railroading operations.
- Chief commercial officer of a commercial airline with a global reputation in developing new aviation business models.
Strong candidates:
- Internationally recognised expert in railway operations, instrumental in the success of multiple large-scale, government led railway and transport infrastructure projects in a number of countries.
- Managing director of an innovative company known globally for sports products and infrastructure for international championships including the Olympic Games
The following experience or professions would not usually meet the parameters of the program:
- Engineers
- Mechanics
- Draftspersons
Financial Services and FinTech
This sector includes, but is not limited to, the following specialisations:
- Financial data science and analysis
- Fintech cyber and data security
- Cloud technologies
- Software engineering and application programming
- User experience including natural language processing
- Digital assets including decentralised finance applications, digital asset marketplaces and non-fungible tokens (subject to Australian Government regulation)
- Blockchain engineering (full stack developer or solutions architect)
- Regtech
- Wealthtech
- Insurtech
- Neobanking
- Digital wallets and cryptocurrencies
- Automated and predictive financial advice
- Next generation lending, investment and wealth/fund management
- Platform banking and payments (such as contactless, DLT based layers, lightning network)
Exceptional candidates:
- CEO and founder of a digital asset and financial services enterprise, globally recognised for their outstanding innovation through successful application of business models and technology.
Strong candidates:
- Executive of a multinational corporation operating in global financial ICT strategy consulting, artificial intelligence and cloud strategy development, risk and insurance market operations, or global financial services operating models.
The following experience or professions would not usually meet the parameters of the program:
- Traditional bankers (except c-suite executives for major financial institutions)
- Retail bankers
- Accountants and account managers
- Financial advisors
- Stockbrokers
- Insurance brokers and sales managers
- Chief financial officers (unless a leader in a priority sector)
Education
This sector includes, but is not limited to, the following specialisations:
- Senior management of universities and institutions of higher learning such as vice-chancellors, presidents, deans and heads of school or their international equivalents
- Senior academics and researchers at Australian academic level D or E, or their international equivalents
- Researchers and academics with demonstrable and innovative achievements in the field of education, including:
- research and education infrastructure
- characterisation (technologies in advanced microscopy and microanalysis that underpin modern science, medicine, engineering and industrial innovation)
- curriculum development
- digital data, education delivery and eResearch platforms
- innovative platforms for humanities, arts and social sciences.
- Academics and researchers in the field of education and pedagogy
- Fundraising for research and development in universities
- Research commercialisation
- Edtech
Exceptional candidates:
- An executive with a track record in setting up university centres abroad, with expertise in establishing global collaborations and partnerships across government, academia and research.
- Renowned level E academic and winner of prestigious prizes.
Strong candidates:
- An ICT solutions expert for an eLearning solutions provider, with proven experience and success in leading, developing and implementing edtech solutions globally.
- Research commercialisation executive with significant experience in education policy design and strengthening education systems.
The following experience or professions would not usually meet the parameters of the program:
- Researchers and academics at Australian academic levels A to C or their international equivalents, in fields other than education or pedagogy
- School teachers
- Specialist teachers
- School administration staff
Talent Visa:
To be eligible for a Global Talent visa, individuals must:
- prove they are internationally recognised with evidence of outstanding achievements
- still be prominent in their field of expertise
- provide evidence that they would be an asset to Australia, in their area of expertise
- have no difficulty obtaining employment in Australia or becoming established in their field
- have a recognised organisation or individual with a national reputation in the same field in Australia nominate them as global talent.
Candidates must meet a high standard and show an exceptional track record of professional achievement. This may include:
- senior roles
- patents
- professional awards
- international publications
- memberships.
Recent PhD graduates who can demonstrate exceptional talent and international recognition in one of the ten target sectors may be eligible for invitation if:
- they have recently completed all requirements for a PhD qualification related to a priority sector and
- the qualification is the equivalent of a PhD obtained in Australia and
- their research is of international interest and significance and
- their research would be relevant to an international audience and
- they have presented their research at international forums and
- their research could be used to inform academia, governments and industry abroad and
- their research is relevant to Australian academia, governments and industries in respect to advancing Australia’s international competitiveness and
- their research highlights the potential for innovation and productivity increases for Australian organisations and industries operating in an international or globalised context.