James Popple | |
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| Born | 4 November 1964 |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | Australian National University |
| First Australian Freedom of Information Commissioner | |
| In office 1 November 2010 –31 December 2014 | |
| Senior Member,Administrative Appeals Tribunal | |
| In office 1 January 2015 –31 December 2017 | |
| Official Secretary to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety | |
| In office 8 October 2018 –26 February 2021 | |
| Official Secretary to the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide | |
| In office 8 July 2021 –11 July 2022 | |
| Chief Executive Officer,Law Council of Australia | |
| In office 25 July 2022 –present | |
| Website | www |
James Popple (born 1964) [1] is CEO of the Law Council of Australia. [2] He is also an Honorary Professor in the College of Law [3] and the College of Engineering and Computer Science [4] at the Australian National University, [5] and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. [6]
He was President of the ANU's Postgraduate and Research Students' Association (1990–91); [1] associate to High Court Justice Mary Gaudron (1995); [7] Deputy Registrar of the High Court of Australia (1996–98); [1] a senior executive in the Australian Attorney-General's Department (1998–2010); [8] the first Australian Freedom of Information Commissioner (2010–14); [8] a Senior Member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (2015–17); [9] a Principal Reviewer at CPM Reviews Pty Ltd (2018); [10] a member of the Australian Anti-Dumping Review Panel (2018–21); [11] a member of the ACT Remuneration Tribunal (2018–22); [12] Official Secretary to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety (2018–21); [13] and Official Secretary to the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide (2021–22). [14]
He has been a member of the Council of Burgmann College,ANU since 1985. [1] [15]
As part of his PhD research at the ANU (1993), [16] he developed a legal expert system called SHYSTER. [17] [18]
