2010 Honorary Fellowship Recipient

Ron Krongold

Ron Krongold was a TAU Governor and a past President of the TAU Friends Association in Australia, Victoria Chapter. He was an active member of the Melbourne Jewish community, serving as joint President of JNF (Victoria) from 1995 to 2001 and as Chairman of the JNF Jubilee Foundation. As a young man he joined the UIA Young Adults and was co-leader of the first Keren Hayesod Young Adults mission to Israel. Krongold graduated in applied chemistry from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 1968 and worked as a chemist in the plastics industry. The Krongold family has a long tradition of giving to community causes through the establishment of the Krongold Centre for Exceptional Children at Monash University and the Krongold Binah Program at Mount Scopus Memorial College. Ron’s father established the Henry and Dinah Krongold Chair in Microelectronics at Tel Aviv University, and Ron and his wife, Susan, continued this tradition by supporting immigrant doctoral students in microelectronics at TAU.