Tom Beer AO, FRSV, D.Sc., Ph.D. is a Director of Safe System Solutions Pty. Ltd., that was, in December 2017 awarded (jointly with VicRoads) the Prince Michael International Award for Road Safety.

During a 30 year career with CSIRO, the Australian Government's Scientific Research Agency, he authored or edited over 28 books and 115 articles in refereed journals. In 2000 he was presented with the CSIRO Chairman's Medal.

Despite Australia being a founding member, he was the first Australian to be elected President (2007-2011) in the 100-year history of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG). He was honoured by being made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2020.

Dr Beer chaired a meeting at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, of which he is now an Honorary Fellow that issued the Budapest Manifesto on Risk Science and Sustainability whose framework was adopted into ISO31000.   In 2012 he was appointed, and in 2015 re-appointed, to the Committee for Scientific Planning and Review of the International Council for Science (ICSU). He was an adviser, for a decade, to the Mekong Commission in relation to modelling salinity in the Mekong River.  He has been a lead author, and an expert panel member for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which sent him a certificate of appreciation when the IPCC was awarded half of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.