List of La Trobe University people

Alumni

Academia

Lindsay Falvey – academic

Business

Martyn Dunne – CEO of NZ Customs
Ahmed Fahour – former CEO of National Australia Bank and Australia Post^[1]
Jamila Gordon – former CIO of Qantas
Stephen Hill – co-founder of Globe International
David Morgan – Westpac CEO; former Treasury official; BHP Director
Scott Pape – The Barefoot Investor
Maureen Wheeler – founder of Lonely Planet

Government

Politicians

In Australia

Jacinta Allan – state politician and minister
Helen Buckingham – state politician
Ben Carrol – state politician; minister of public transport, roads and road safety
Phil Cleary – former federal politician; author; social activist; political and sports commentator; former VFL footballer
Jacinta Collins – Senator for Victoria
Mary Delahunty – state politician; former minister; former ABC TV presenter
Martin Dixon – state politician; opposition frontbencher
Matthew Guy – state politician
Sussan Ley – federal politician
Gladys Liu – federal politician
Andrew Robb – federal politician; Parliamentary secretary; former Liberal Treasurer
Tony Sheehan – state politician and Treasurer; deputy opposition leader
Sharman Stone – federal politician; former government minister
Theo Theophanous – state politician and minister
Christian Zahra – former federal politician

In other countries

Abdirahman Farole – former President of Puntland
Maximus Ongkili – Malaysian Cabinet Minister
Abdul Ghani Othman – former Chief Minister of Johor, Malaysia
Emília Pires – Finance Minister, East Timor
Mahinda Samarasinghe – Sri Lankan cabinet minister of disaster management; MP
Bisera Turkovic – Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu - Former Member of Parliament in India state of Andhra Pradesh

Civil servants

Mary Amiti – senior official at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, formerly IMF and World Bank
Stephen Duckett – former Secretary of Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health (1994–1996); current President and Chief Executive Officer of Alberta Health Services in Canada
Terry Moran – Head of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet; Head of the Federal Public Service
Geoff Raby – Foreign Affairs secretary; Australia's most senior Trade official; World Trade Organization negotiator; Australian ambassador to China
Ian Watt – Secretary of the Commonwealth Department of Finance; former Treasury and cabinet official; former diplomat
Vinod Kumar Yadav – 1980 batch IRSEE officer and current Chairman of the Indian Railways Board

Humanities

Arts

Dailan Evans – comedian (current student)
Corinne Grant – TV personality, comedian, actor
Pia Miranda – actress
Bob Morley – actor, twice receiver of E! Online's Alpha Male Madness, ex-singer, star on The 100
Rachel Peters – model, beauty queen (Miss Universe Philippines 2017)

History

Journalism and media

Morag Fraser – academic, social commentator, journalist
Jane Gazzo – BBC presenter
Jennifer Keyte – journalist, TV news presenter
Naomi Robson – journalist, presenter
Tim Ross – TV and radio personality, comedian
Virginia Trioli – ABC presenter, journalist, author, political commentator
Geoff Walsh – former Australian Labor Party National Secretary; United Nations official and delegate; adviser to Prime Ministers Bob Hawke and Paul Keating; Consul General to Hong Kong; Age and Australian Financial Review journalist

Literature, writing and poetry

Paul Jennings – children's author
John Silvester – crime writer; The Age journalist
Don Watson – author, academic, political commentator, former speechwriter for Paul Keating

Philosophy and theology

Law

Medicine and science

Elaine Baker – marine science and environment researcher; Director of the University of Sydney Marine Studies Institute
Tim Flannery – biologist, author and commentator on global warming; 2007 Australian of the Year
Neil J. Gunther – Australian/American physicist and computer scientist
Lynne Kelly – researcher and science educator

Sport

Catherine Arlove – Olympian, Judo^[2]
Linda Beilharz – adventurer
Samuel Beltz – Olympian, rowing^[2]
Andrew Demetriou – former Australian Football League CEO
Warwick Draper – Olympic kayak competitor
Lachlan Giles – grappler and Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt competitor
Brad Green – former Melbourne footballer; current Carlton development coach
Rachel Imison – Olympian, field hockey^[2]
Ahmed Kelly – Paralympian (current student)
Tamsyn Manou – Olympic athlete, world champion^[2]
Tim Matthews – Paralympian
Bree Mellberg – wheelchair basketball player
Angus Monfries – AFL player, Essendon (current student)
Chris Mullins – Paralympian^[2]

Other

Bill Kelty – former Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary; union official; AFL Commissioner
Brian Loughnane – Federal Director of the Liberal Party of Australia

Administration

Chancellors

Order	Chancellor	Term start	Term end	Time in office	Notes
1	Sir Archibald Glenn OBE	8 March 1967 (1967-03-08)	1972	4–5 years	^[3]
2	Reginald Smithers	1972 (1972)	1980 (1980)	7–8 years	^[4]
3	Richard McGarvie	1981 (1981)	1992 (1992)	10–11 years	^[4]
4	Nancy Millis AC, MBE	1992 (1992)	31 March 2006 (2006-03-31)	13–14 years	^[4]
5	Sylvia Walton AO	1 April 2006 (2006-04-01)	25 February 2011 (2011-02-25)	4 years, 330 days	^[5]
6	Adrienne Clarke AC	26 February 2011 (2011-02-26)	25 February 2017 (2017-02-25)	5 years, 365 days	^[6]
7	Richard Larkins AO	26 February 2017 (2017-02-26)	28 March 2019 (2019-03-28)	2 years, 30 days	^[7]
8	John Brumby AO	29 March 2019 (2019-03-29)	incumbent	5 years, 76 days	^[8]

Vice-Chancellors

Order	Vice-Chancellor	Term start	Term end	Time in office	Notes
1	David Myers AO^{[citation needed]}	1965 (1965)	1976 (1976)	10–11 years	^[4]^[9]
2	John Scott	1976 (1976)	1989 (1989)	11–12 years	^[4]
3	Michael Osborne	1990 (1990)	2005	14–15 years	^[4]^[10]
4	Brian Stoddart	2006 (2006)	2006 (2006)	0 years	^[4]
5	Roger Parish (acting)	2007 (2007)	2007 (2007)	0 years	^[4]
6	Paul Johnson	2007 (2007)	31 December 2011 (2011-12-31)	3–4 years	^[11]
7	John Dewar	16 January 2012 (2012-01-16)	incumbent	12 years, 149 days	^[12]

Faculty

Current

Politics

Dennis Altman – academic; expert on the politics of gender^[13]
Nick Bisley – professor of politics and international relations; frequently contributes to the media and public debates^[14]
Judith Brett – academic in the field of politics; author of several books on Australian politics^[15]
Joseph Camilleri – academic in the field of international relations and director of the Centre for Dialogue^[16]
Robert Manne – academic; public intellectuals; author of books on Australian politics and society^[17]

Sociology and anthropology

Peter Beilharz – public intellectual
John Carroll – academic in the field of sociology; public intellectual^[18]

Economics and finance

Don Brash – former Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand; former New Zealand Opposition Leader
Joanna Poyago-Theotoky – professor of economics

Philosophy

Agnes Heller – philosopher
Frank Cameron Jackson – philosopher

English

David Tacey – literature academic

History

Richard Broome – Aboriginal historian
Quinn Eades – historian
John Hirst – historian and commentator
Katie Holmes – historian
Marilyn Lake – social historian
Yves Rees – historian

Archaeology

David Frankel – archaeologist, known for work on sites in Cyprus
Peter Mathews – archaeologist, known for work on Mayan hieroglyphs
Tim Murray – archaeologist, Dean of faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Cinema and media studies

John Flaus – film academic and actor
Terrie Waddell – film academic and actress

Linguistics

David Bradley – linguist

Science

Michael Clarke – zoologist
Erinna Lee – biochemistry researcher
Bree Mellberg – biochemistry researcher, wheelchair basketball player
Roger Parish – botanist
Pamela Claire Snow – educational psychologist and speech pathologist

Past

Graeme Clark – key figure in the research and development of the cochlear implant
Inga Clendinnen
Peter Cochrane – historian and author
Burkhard Dallwitz – composer, Golden Globe winner
Edward Duyker – historian and author
Elizabeth Essex-Cohen – physicist
Alan Frost – historian
Petro Georgiou – Federal Liberal MP
Gerard Henderson
Daryl E. Hooper – inaugural professor in engineering
Rhys Isaac – Pulitzer Prize winner
Robert Lovell Reid – professor of agriculture 1968 to 1979 after whom the R L Reid Building is named^[19]
Andrew Robb – current Federal Liberal MP; former Liberal Party treasurer
J. J. C. Smart – philosopher

Administrative

Fran Kelly – journalist, ABC presenter

References

^ "Australia Post CEO Ahmed Fahour resigns after salary furore". ABC News. 23 February 2017. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e http://www.latrobe.edu.au/news/2008/mediarelease_2008-61.php
^ "Vale: Sir Archibald Glenn, OBE" (Press release). La Trobe University. 10 January 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "Past Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors". Our history. La Trobe University. 16 March 2018. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
^ "Sylvia J. Walton AO, MAICD: Curriculum Vitae" (PDF) (Press release). La Trobe University. 2006. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
^ "La Trobe appoints new Chancellor" (Press release). La Trobe University. 21 February 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
^ "Richard Larkins to become new Chancellor" (Press release). La Trobe University. 16 November 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
^ "John Brumby AO our new chancellor" (Press release). La Trobe University. 29 March 2019. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
^ McCarthy, G. J. (1 March 2018). "Myers, David Milton (1911 - )". Encyclopedia of Australian Science. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
^ Green, Shane; Rood, David (17 December 2005). "Uni chief quits over travel row". The Age. Melbourne.
^ "Paul Johnson to resign end of 2011" (Press release). La Trobe University. 1 April 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
^ "John Dewar starts as Vice-Chancellor" (Press release). La Trobe University. 16 January 2012. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
^ "Staff profile, La Trobe University". Archived from the original on 11 June 2011.
^ "Staff profile, La Trobe University". www.latrobe.edu.au. Archived from the original on 11 June 2011.
^ "Staff profile, La Trobe University". www.latrobe.edu.au. Archived from the original on 23 June 2011.
^ "Welcome - La Trobe University Centre for Dialogue - La Trobe University". Archived from the original on 29 August 2007.
^ "Staff profile, La Trobe University". www.latrobe.edu.au. Archived from the original on 12 January 2012.
^ "Staff profile, Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University". www.latrobe.edu.au. Archived from the original on 17 May 2012.
^ "R.L. Reid Building, La Trobe University (2011). Robert Lovell Reid was Founding and Emeritus Professor of Agriculture from 1968 to 1979. This building houses Agricultural Sciences".

[1] "Australia Post CEO Ahmed Fahour resigns after salary furore". ABC News. 23 February 2017. Retrieved 27 February 2017.

[latrobe.edu.au-2] ttp://www.latrobe.edu.au/news/2008/mediarelease_2008-61.php

[3] "Vale: Sir Archibald Glenn, OBE" (Press release). La Trobe University. 10 January 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2018.

[administration-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "Past Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors". Our history. La Trobe University. 16 March 2018. Retrieved 17 April 2018.

[5] "Sylvia J. Walton AO, MAICD: Curriculum Vitae" (PDF) (Press release). La Trobe University. 2006. Retrieved 17 April 2018.

[6] "La Trobe appoints new Chancellor" (Press release). La Trobe University. 21 February 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2018.

[7] "Richard Larkins to become new Chancellor" (Press release). La Trobe University. 16 November 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2012.

[8] "John Brumby AO our new chancellor" (Press release). La Trobe University. 29 March 2019. Retrieved 19 November 2021.

[9] McCarthy, G. J. (1 March 2018). "Myers, David Milton (1911 - )". Encyclopedia of Australian Science. Retrieved 7 May 2018.

[10] Green, Shane; Rood, David (17 December 2005). "Uni chief quits over travel row". The Age. Melbourne.

[11] "Paul Johnson to resign end of 2011" (Press release). La Trobe University. 1 April 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2018.

[12] "John Dewar starts as Vice-Chancellor" (Press release). La Trobe University. 16 January 2012. Retrieved 22 August 2012.

[13] "Staff profile, La Trobe University". Archived from the original on 11 June 2011.

[14] "Staff profile, La Trobe University". www.latrobe.edu.au. Archived from the original on 11 June 2011.

[15] "Staff profile, La Trobe University". www.latrobe.edu.au. Archived from the original on 23 June 2011.

[16] "Welcome - La Trobe University Centre for Dialogue - La Trobe University". Archived from the original on 29 August 2007.

[17] "Staff profile, La Trobe University". www.latrobe.edu.au. Archived from the original on 12 January 2012.

[18] "Staff profile, Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University". www.latrobe.edu.au. Archived from the original on 17 May 2012.

[19] "R.L. Reid Building, La Trobe University (2011). Robert Lovell Reid was Founding and Emeritus Professor of Agriculture from 1968 to 1979. This building houses Agricultural Sciences".

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