Prof Peter Coaldrake
Vice-Chancellor, Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
A member of the LH Martin Institute's Advisory Board, representing the Queensland University of Technology.
Professor Peter Coaldrake is Vice-Chancellor of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), a position he took up in April 2003. He previously had been Deputy Vice-Chancellor in the same institution, and prior to that 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.
Peter Coaldrake is a dual Fulbright Scholar, as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the field of politics/public policy (1980 – 1981), and as a Senior Scholar in the field of higher education policy and management (2001 – 2002). Prof Coaldrake 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).
In May 2009, he became Chair of the Board of Universities Australia, the peak body of Australia’s universities. He is Deputy Chair and a Member of the Board of the Organisation for Economic Development – Institutional Management in Higher Education (OECD-IMHE). He is also a trustee of the Queensland Museum Foundation and in July 2010, joined the Board of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music. He was appointed by the Premier of Queensland as a Smart State Ambassador in 2006, and Chair of Screen Queensland (formerly the Pacific Film and Television Commission) in 2009. He was Chair of Queensland’s sesquicentenary celebrations in 2009, and is also Chair of the QUT-based Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre.
