Professor Peter Coaldrake

Recent Speaker

Chair of Universities Australia

March 2, 2011

"It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark"

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Professor Peter Coaldrake will address the National Press Club of Australia as part of the 2011 Universities Australia Higher Education Conference.

Professor Peter Coaldrake AO is Chair of the Board of Universities Australia and, since 2003, has been Vice-Chancellor of Queensland University of Technology (QUT).

Earlier in his career he served for four years as Chair (CEO) of Queensland’s Public Sector Management Commission, the body established by the Goss government to overhaul Queensland’s public sector.

A dual Fulbright Scholar, Peter Coaldrake is Chair of Screen Queensland and Chair of the Queensland Heritage Council.  In January 2011 he also became Chair of the Board of the Organisation for Economic Development – Institutional Management in Higher Education (OECD-IMHE).  He is the author or editor of a number of books and monographs, including Working the System, Government in Queensland (University of Queensland Press, 1989), and co-author (with Lawrence Stedman) of both On the Brink. Australia’s Universities Confronting their Future (University of Queensland Press, 1998), and Academic Work in the Twenty-First Century (DETYA, Occasional Paper Series 99-4).