Professor Scott O'Neill (PhD FAA FAAAS) is the CEO of the World Mosquito Program group of companies owned by Monash University. He has spent his academic career at the University of Illinois, Yale University, the University of Queensland and Monash University where until recently he was the Dean of Science. Scott leads The World Mosquito Program, an international not-for-profit consortium that is working on the development of Wolbachia as a novel method to sustainably and cost effectively block transmission of arboviruses like dengue, Zika and chikungunya. The World Mosquito program is undertaking field trials and pilot deployments in multiple countries. A central feature of this program is the emphasis on the use of Wolbachia to reduce pathogen transmission rather than suppress mosquito populations. Scott is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Microbiology.