Professor Haymet is an emeritus distinguished professor of oceanography. He has researched and taught for many years in Australia and in the United States, including as Established Chair of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Sydney. From 2002 to 2006, Prof Haymet was chief of CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, based in Hobart, Tasmania. From 2006 to 2012, he was Vice-Chancellor, Director and Distinguished Professor of Oceanography, at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. In 2010, Prof Haymet and a colleague at the Scripps Institution established MRV Systems LLC, a company that manufactures ocean robots. The autonomous drones take chemical and physical measurements across the world’s oceans. Prof Haymet was a board member and Chair of the Antarctic Science Foundation (2020-2025), a board member of Worldfish, based in Penang (2017-2020), and served on the Oceans Council of the World Economic Forum (WEF) including as Chair. He was Director, Oceans, at the Minderoo Foundation where he established a philanthropic research program (2020). He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) and the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI).