Professor Isak (Sakkie) Pretorius

Sakkie Pretorius

Sakkie Pretorius has been the Managing Director of The Australian Wine Research Institute since mid 2004 and Affiliate Professor in the School of Agriculture, Food and Wine at The University of Adelaide since September 2003. Sakkie obtained a BSc(Agric), BSc(Agric)(Hons), MSc(Agric) and PhD from the University of the Orange Free State (South Africa) and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (New York). His research focus has been on Wine Microbiology and Biotechnology.