PromiNent Australian Alumni

 

Dr N Keith Boardman AO

(UCLA 1964);  former Chief Executive, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).

Emeritus Prof. Ronald D Bracewell AO

(University of California, Berkeley 1954);   Lewis M. Terman Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus of the Space, Telecommunications and Radioscience Laboratory at Stanford University.

Mr Graham Bradley (Harvard University 1972);  former Managing Director and CEO, Perpetual Trustees Australia.

Father Frank Brennan AO

(Georgetown University 1995); former Director of UNIYA, Jesuit Institute of Social Research, Sydney

Profesor Hilary Charlesworth

(Harvard University 1982); Australian Research Council Federation Fellow, Professor in RegNet and Director of the Centre for International Governance and Justice, ANU

Mr W Harold Clough AO, OBE (University of California, Berkeley 1951);  former Chairman, Clough Ltd.
Dr Jill Ker Conway (Various 1960);  Author, Educator, company Director.

Prof. Peter Coaldrake

(George Washington 1980, University of Arizona, 2001);  Vice-Chancellor of Queensland University of Technology.

Rt Hon. Sir Zelman Cowen AK, GCMG, GCVO, QC

(Harvard University Law School 1953);  former Governor-General of Australia; Patron of the Australian Fulbright Association.

Hon. Sir Daryl M Dawson AC, KBE, CB (Yale University 1955);  former Justice, High Court of Australia.

Professor Allan H M Fels AO

(Duke University 1966); former Chairman, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission; Dean, Australian-New Zealand School of Government.

Prof. Margaret Gardener (UC Berkeley 1987); Vice-Chancellor and President of RMIT University.
Ms Loretta J Goldberg (Arrau-De-Silva School of Piano 1969);  Concert Pianist.
The Hon. Nick Greiner AC

(Harvard 1968); former Premier of New South Wales, company Chairman, a Governor of CEDA, Trustee of Sydney Theatre Company.

The Hon. Basil Hetzel AC (Cornell New York Medical Center 1951), Lieutenant Governor of South Australia from 1992 to 2000, Chancellor of the University of South Australia from 1992 to 1998 and Chief of the CSIRO Division of Human Nutrition from 1975 to 1985.

Mr Greg Hunt MP

(Yale University 1992);Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment and Urban Water; former National President of the Australian Fulbright (Alumni) Association.

Dr David A Kemp

(Yale University 1968-1973); former Federal Government Minister and Member of Parliament,  Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at The University of Melbourne.

Profesor Paul Kerin

(Harvard University 1986): Professorial Fellow - Business Strategy, Melbourne Business School.
Lord (Robert) May of Oxford OM, AC, FRS

(California Institute of Technology 1966); President of the Royal Society (2000-5) and previous Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government.

Mr Rob McLean

(Columbia University 1968);  former Managing Partner, McKinsey Australia & New Zealand.

Professor Anton P.J. Middelberg (University of California Berkeley 1997); Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at The University of Queensland. Australian Research Council Federation Fellow.

Professor Nancy F Millis AC

(University of Wisconsin 1954);  former Chancellor of La Trobe University; Emeritus Professor of The University of Melbourne.

Mr Frank T Moorhouse AM

(Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC 1994);  Journalist and novelist. Miles Franklin Award winner.

The Hon. Justice Robert D Nicholson

(Georgetown University 1961, Federal Judicial Center 1991); former Justice, Federal Court of Australia.

Emeritus Professor Colin Power AM (Senior Fublright Scholar, 1975); Founding Chair of Eidos (2005-2006) and its predecessor the Institute for Educational Research Policy and Evaluation (2003-2005) and former Deputy Director-General of UNESCO.

Most Reverend Keith Rayner AO

(Harvard University 1958);  former Archbishop of Melbourne and Anglican Primate of Australia.

Dr Peter Shergold

(Pennsylvania State University 1984); Chief Executive Centre for Social Impact at Australian School of Business, The University of Sydney former Secretary, Department of the Prime Minister & Cabinet.

Prof. Terence Tao (Princeton University 1992); Fields Medalist, Professor of Mathematics at UCLA.
Dr Colin M. Thiele AC (Arizona State College 1958); Author, Educator, Poet.
Dr Glenn Withers AO (Harvard University 1970) Chief Executive Officer, Universities Australia .

Sir Alan Walsh

(Colorado State University 1972); Inventor Atomic Absorption Spectro-Photometer; former Assistant Chief, Division of Chemical Physics, CSIRO, Victoria.

The Honourable Sir Ronald Wilson AC, KBE, CMG, QC (University of Pennsylvania 1956); Justice of the High Court of Australia 1979-1989, President of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission 1990-1997.

 

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