List of La Trobe University people

This is an incomplete list of La Trobe University people, including alumni and staff.

Alumni

Academia

• Lindsay Falvey – academic
• Sze Flett – scientist

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
• David Baden-Powell - life peer and scout leader
• Helen Buckingham – state politician
• 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)

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

Medicine and science

• Elaine Baker – marine science and environment researcher; Director of the University of Sydney Marine Studies Institute
• Richard Di Natale (Master of Health Sciences, 2004; Master of Public Health, 2005) – GP, former leader of the Australian Greens ^[2]
• Tim Entwisle (PhD in Botany 1987) – CEO and Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria ^[2]
• Tim Flannery – biologist, author, and commentator on global warming; 2007 Australian of the Year ^[2]
• Neil J. Gunther – Australian/American physicist and computer scientist
• Lynne Kelly – researcher and science educator
• Jim Thomas (BSc 1995) – zoologist; CEO and co-founder of Tenkile Conservation Alliance ^[2]
• Phillip Toyne (1947–2015; Diploma of Education 1973), expert in environmental law, founder of Landcare Australia ^[2]

Sport

• Catherine Arlove – Olympian, judo ^[3]
• Linda Beilharz – adventurer
• Samuel Beltz – Olympian, rowing ^[3]
• 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 ^[3]
• Joshua Katz (born 1997), Olympian, judo
• Ahmed Kelly – Paralympian (current student)
• Tamsyn Manou – Olympic athlete, world champion ^[3]
• Tim Matthews – Paralympian
• Bree Mellberg – wheelchair basketball player
• Angus Monfries – AFL player, Essendon (current student)
• Chris Mullins – Paralympian ^[3]

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	[4]
2	Reginald Smithers	1972 (1972)	1980 (1980)	7–8 years	[5]
3	Richard McGarvie	1981 (1981)	1992 (1992)	10–11 years	[5]
4	Nancy Millis AC , MBE	1992 (1992)	31 March 2006 (2006-03-31)	13–14 years	[5]
5	Sylvia Walton AO	1 April 2006 (2006-04-01)	25 February 2011 (2011-02-25)	4 years, 330 days	[6]
6	Adrienne Clarke AC	26 February 2011 (2011-02-26)	25 February 2017 (2017-02-25)	5 years, 365 days	[7]
7	Richard Larkins AO	26 February 2017 (2017-02-26)	28 March 2019 (2019-03-28)	2 years, 30 days	[8]
8	John Brumby AO	29 March 2019 (2019-03-29)	incumbent	5 years, 232 days	[9]

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	[5] [10]
2	John Scott	1976 (1976)	1989 (1989)	11–12 years	[5]
3	Michael Osborne	1990 (1990)	2005	14–15 years	[5] [11]
4	Brian Stoddart	2006 (2006)	2006 (2006)	0 years	[5]
5	Roger Parish (acting)	2007 (2007)	2007 (2007)	0 years	[5]
6	Paul Johnson	2007 (2007)	31 December 2011 (2011-12-31)	3–4 years	[12]
7	John Dewar	16 January 2012 (2012-01-16)	incumbent	12 years, 305 days	[13]

Faculty

Current

Politics

• Dennis Altman – academic; expert on the politics of gender ^[14]
• Nick Bisley – professor of politics and international relations; frequently contributes to the media and public debates ^[15]
• Judith Brett – academic in the field of politics; author of several books on Australian politics ^[16]
• Joseph Camilleri – academic in the field of international relations and director of the Centre for Dialogue ^[17]
• Robert Manne – academic; public intellectuals; author of books on Australian politics and society ^[18]

Sociology and anthropology

• Peter Beilharz – public intellectual
• John Carroll – academic in the field of sociology; public intellectual ^[19]

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
• Ádám Mechler - materials scientist
• 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 ^[20]
• Andrew Robb – current Federal Liberal MP; former Liberal Party treasurer
• J. J. C. Smart – philosopher

Administrative

• Fran Kelly – journalist, ABC presenter

References

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2. "10 La Trobe alumni eco-champions fighting for a sustainable future". La Trobe University, Melbourne Victoria Australia. 1 August 2019. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
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7. "La Trobe appoints new Chancellor" (Press release). La Trobe University. 21 February 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
8. "Richard Larkins to become new Chancellor" (Press release). La Trobe University. 16 November 2016. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
9. "John Brumby AO our new chancellor" (Press release). La Trobe University. 29 March 2019. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
10. McCarthy, G. J. (1 March 2018). "Myers, David Milton (1911 - )". Encyclopedia of Australian Science. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
11. Green, Shane; Rood, David (17 December 2005). "Uni chief quits over travel row". The Age . Melbourne.
12. "Paul Johnson to resign end of 2011" (Press release). La Trobe University. 1 April 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
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20. "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".