Resume
PROFILE
- an educator and communicator with extensive management and leadership experience in higher education - an educational ‘entrepreneur’ capable of devising innovative solutions and managing their implementation
- international recognition as a manager in higher education with achievements in change management, innovation and open and distance learning
- recognition as an authoritative writer and commentator on the internationalisation of higher education
- designer of theme-based international tours and invited guest lecturer
MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS
As a member of the senior executive of each of the following named universities:
- the founding and development of the Papua New Guinea University of Technology
- the founding and development of Deakin University
- the transformation and internationalisation of Monash University
- the founding of Australia’s premier open and distance learning organisation, Open Learning Australia, now known as Open Universities Australia
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
- 1999 - Private Consultant
- 1992 – 1998 Chief Executive Officer of Open Learning Australia
- 1986 – 1992 Registrar and member of University Executive, Monash University
- 1975 – 1985 Foundation Registrar and member of University Executive, Deakin University
- 1969 - 1975 Teaching and management appointments in Papua New Guinea: Goroka Teachers College and the University of Technology
- 1961- 1969 Science teaching appointments at private and government schools including position of Senior Chemistry Master at Launceston Grammar School
EDUCATION
- Bachelor of Science (University of Melbourne)
- Diploma of Education (University of Melbourne)
- Bachelor of Education (University of Queensland)
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY APPOINTMENTS
- Foundation Chair - Consortium of Australian Distance Education Universities, 1983
- Director - National Credit Transfer Project, 1990 – 91
- Director - Television Open Learning Project, 1992
- Member, International Council on Distance Education (ICDE) Presidents’ Conference
- Chair of ICDE’s Task Force on transnational mobility and credit transfer, 1996 - 1997
- Chairman, Open Net Pty Ltd, 1996 -1997
- Keynote speaker at eight international conferences in Australia and overseas since 1993
- Regional Secretary, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, 1987-1991
- Speaker, Williamson Foundation Leadership Program, 1995-1997
