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.
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
