Susan Margaret Pond is an Australian scientist and technologist, active in business and academia, and recognised for her contributions to medicine, biotechnology, renewable energy and sustainability.

[1] Susan Pond was the first woman to be appointed to a Personal Professorial Chair in the Department of Medicine at the University of Queensland, the first woman to receive the Wellcome Australia Medal, and the first female Managing Director of a Johnson & Johnson Company in Australia.

[1] Previous positions have included: adjunct professor, faculty of engineering and information technologies, University of Sydney;[2] Chairman & Managing Director of Johnson & Johnson Research Pty Limited;[3] Adjunct Professor in sustainability, United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney;[4] Professor of Medicine at the University of Queensland 1984–1996.

[3] She was made a Member of the Order of Australia in the 1994 Australia Day Honours for services to Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology[7] and in 2001 she was awarded a Centenary Medal for service to Australian society in therapeutics.

[8] In 2013 she was awarded the Doctor of Medicine degree honoris causa by the University of Queensland[9] and in the same year she was named as one of Australia's Top 100 Women of Influence[10] by The Australian Financial Review.