Prof Paul Johnson
Vice-Chancellor & President, La Trobe University
A member of the LH Martin Institute's Advisory Board, representing the Innovative Research Universities Australia (IRUA).
Professor Paul Johnson was born in Bath, England and attended local primary and secondary schools before gaining a place to study economics and history at St. John’s College, Oxford. After completing his undergraduate and PhD degrees and teaching for several years as a fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, he moved in 1984 to the department of economic history at the School of Economics. He became a full professor in 1999, and in 2004 was appointed Deputy Director of LSE. In 2007 he was appointed Vice-Chancellor and President of La Trobe University, Melbourne.
Prof Johnson's academic research has focused on two separate areas: the economic history of modern Britain; and the economics of pensions and ageing. He has written or edited ten books and more than 60 learned articles, and his most recent book, Making the Market: Victorian Origins of Corporate Capitalism, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2010. He has been a consultant to the World Bank, UNRISD, the British Government and the European Union on pension finance and pension reform, and is currently a member of the board and the investment committee of UniSuper, a $22 billion Australian superannuation fund.
