David Le Couteur is Professor of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Sydney and Senior Staff Specialist Physician in Geriatric Medicine at the Concord RG Hospital in Sydney. In 2016 he was awarded an AO (Officer of the Order of Australia) for distinguished service to medicine as a clinical pharmacologist and geriatrician, particularly through a range of advisory roles and academic research activities. In October 2017 he was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences

He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Gerontology Biological Sciences (2018-2022), associate editor of the Journal of Gerontology Medical Sciences and on the International Advisory Panel of the journal ‘Age and Ageing’. He was president of the Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists (ASCEPT 2011-2013).