The University of Western Australia

Curriculum Vitae

Present position:

Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education), The University of Western Australia, January 2007 - .

Date and place of birth:

19 April 1959. Quilpie, Queensland.

Nationality:

Australian.

Education:

• Bachelor of Economics with First Class Honours, University of Queensland, 1981. University Medal.
• Rhodes Scholar for Queensland, 1981.
• M.Phil. in International Relations, University of Oxford, 1983. M.A., 1986.
• D.Phil. in International Relations, University of Oxford, 1995.

Past positions:

• Warden, Trinity College, University of Melbourne, 1997-2007.
• Professorial Fellow, Department of Political Science and Centre for Public Policy, University of Melbourne, 1998-2007.
• Visiting Professor of Political Science, Victoria Univ., Melbourne, 1996-1997.
• Fellow and Tutor in Politics, Merton College, Oxford; University Lecturer in Politics, University of Oxford, 1986-1997.
• J. Arthur Rank Research Fellow, New College, Oxford, 1985-1986.
• Visiting researcher, Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney, July - Sept. 1985.
• J.E. Procter Visiting Fellow, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1984-1985.
• Visiting Fellow, Dept of Politics, Univ. of Western Australia, Aug. - Oct. 1984.
• Junior Dean, Trinity College, Oxford, 1983-1984.

Other activities include:

• Member, Board, St George's College, UWA, 2008 - .
• Lay Canon, St George's Cathedral, Perth, 2008 - .
  
• Member, Executive, Association for Commonwealth Studies, 2007 - .
  
• Member, Council, Anglican Schools Commission (Western Australia), 2007 - .
  
• Member, editorial (now international advisory) board, The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, 1988 - .
  
• Various professional associations in Australia, Britain, and the United States.
• Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
• Member, Geelong Grammar School Council, 1999-2006.
• Member of governing body, Melbourne College of Divinity, 1998-2005.
• Lay Canon, St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne, 2001-2006.
• Member, Commission on Commonwealth Studies (appointed by Secretary-General of the Commonwealth), 1995-1997.
• Hon. Secretary, The Round Table, London, 1988-1994.

Publications include:

Co-editor, Liberals Face the Future: Essays on Australian Liberalism, Oxford Univ. Press, 1984. John Maynard Keynes and International Relations: Economic Paths to War and Peace, Oxford University Press, 2006. ‘A large and liberal education’: higher education for the 21st century, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2007. Assisted in preparation of A Public Life: The Memoirs of Zelman Cowen, Miegunyah Press, 2006. Chapters, reports, lectures, articles, and reviews on international relations, constitutional politics, and education (e.g. The Crown and Australia, Univ. of London, 1987; Keynes and Australia, Reserve Bank of Aust., 2000).

Teaching includes:

• Supervising over 45 successfully-submitted theses in Oxford and Australia.
• Teaching various courses in international politics, comparative government and other aspects of political science, and 20th century history.