Personal
- Name
- Professor Peter Coaldrake
- Position(s)
- Vice Chancellor
Chancellery,
Vice-Chancellor's Office - Phone
- +61 7 3138 2365
- Fax
- +61 7 3138 4061
- p.coaldrake@qut.edu.au
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Qualifications
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PhD (Griffith University), BA(Hons) (James Cook Uni. of North Qld)
- Professional memberships
and associations - Chair, Australian Technology Network, 2013 –
- Chair of the Board, Organisation for Economic Development – Institutional Management in Higher Education (OECD-IMHE), 2011 –
- Chair, Queensland Heritage Council, 2011 –
- Board Member, Australia Awards, 2011 –
- Chair, Screen Queensland, 2009 – 2011
- Board Member, Organisation for Economic Development – Institutional Management in Higher Education (OECD-IMHE), 2009 –
- Chair of the Board, Universities Australia, 2009 – 2011
- Trustee, Queensland Museum Foundation, 2009 –
- Chair, Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre (QUT-based), 2009 –
- Deputy Chair of the Board, Universities Australia, 2008 – 2009
- Executive Chair, Queensland’s Sesquicentenary Celebrations Advisory Board, 2007 – 2009
- Board Member, The Foundation for Development Cooperation Ltd, 2007 – 2009
- Member, Board of Directors, Universities Australia (previously Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee), 2006 – 2008
- Board Member, Graduate Careers Australia, 2006 – 2007
- Appointed Smart State Ambassador, 2006
- Chair, Board of the Australian-American Fulbright Commission, 2005 – 2007
- Board Member, Australian-American Fulbright Commission, 2003 – 2007
- Board Member, IDP Education Australia Limited, 2004 – 2007
- Convenor, Australian Technology Network (ATN), 2003 – 2004
- Member, Board of Trustees, Brisbane Girls Grammar School, 2003 – 2006
- Member, Higher Education Management Review (Hoare Committee), 1995
Biography
Professor Peter Coaldrake is Vice-Chancellor and CEO 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). Professor 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 2011, he completed a two-year term as Chair of the Board of Universities Australia, the peak body of Australia’s universities. In January 2011, he became Chair of the Board of the Organisation for Economic Development – Institutional Management in Higher Education (OECD-IMHE) and was appointed as Chair of the Queensland Heritage Council. He joined the Australia Awards Board in May 2011. He is also a trustee of the Queensland Museum Foundation. He was appointed by the Premier of Queensland as a Smart State Ambassador in 2006. He was Chair of Queensland’s sesquicentenary celebrations in 2009, and is also Chair of the QUT-based Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre.
Experience
2003 – present Vice-Chancellor, Queensland University of Technology
1994 – 2003 Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Queensland University of Technology
2001 – 2002 Fulbright Senior Scholar, The University of Arizona (October 2001-February 2002)
1990 – 1994 Chair (CEO), Public Sector Management Commission (PSMC), Queensland
1989 – 1990 Acting Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research), Queensland University of Technology
1987 – 1989 Head, School of Management, Queensland University of Technology (also appointed Professor in 1989)
1984 – 1987 Dean, School of Administration, Griffith University
1981 – 1984 Lecturer (October 1981 – December 1983) and then Senior Lecturer (from January 1984), School of Administration, Griffith University
1980 – 1981 Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Public Administration, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
1978 – 1980 Lecturer in Public Administration, Queensland Institute of Technology
1975 – 1977 Full-time doctoral studies, Griffith University
1974 – 1975 Assistant Research Officer and later Clerk, Commonwealth Department of Urban and Regional Development, Canberra
1970 – 1973 Four-year full-time B.A. (Honours) programme, James Cook University
