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promient 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);  Director of UNIYA, Jesuit Institute of Social Research, Sydney
Profesor Hilary Charlesworth (Harvard University 1982); Director of the Centre for International & Public Law at The Australian National University. Australian Research Council Federation Fellow.
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.
Mr Paul Fletcher

(Columbia University 1988); Director of Regulatory & Public Affairs at Singtel & Optus.
Prof. Margaret Gardener (UC Berkeley 1987); Vice-Chancellor and President of RMIT University.
Ms Loretta J Goldberg (Arrav-De-Silver 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. Greg Hunt MP

(Yale University 1992);  Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs..
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);  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); 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);  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.
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.