Monash University - Alumni and Staff

Alumni and Staff

Monash has a long list of alumni who have become prominent in a wide range of areas. 1100 Monash graduates (or 8.33% of the total biographical listings) are listed among the 13,200 biographies of Australia's most notable individuals in the 2008 edition of Who's Who in Australia. Likewise, 10% of Australia's top 50 CEOs completed their undergraduate degree at Monash.

Monash graduates who are currently leaders in their fields include:

  • Daniel Andrews, Victorian Leader of the Opposition
  • Adam Bandt, Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens
  • Anna Burke, Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives
  • Boediono, Vice President of Indonesia
  • Peter Costello, businessman, political commentator and longest-serving Treasurer of Australia
  • Simon Crean, Cabinet Member in the Rudd Government and Gillard Government and former Australian Leader of the Opposition
  • David de Kretser, Governor of Victoria
  • Robert Doyle, Lord Mayor of Melbourne
  • Tim Flannery, scientist, global warming campaigner
  • Ian MacFarlane, economist, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (1996-2006)
  • Marlene Moses, United Nations Ambassador for Nauru
  • George Pell, present Australian Cardinal of the Catholic Church
  • Bill Shorten, Australian Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations
  • Marilyn Warren, Chief Justice of Victoria
  • David Williamson, playwright

Prominent current staff members at Monash include:

  • Waleed Aly, Muslim community leader and political commentator
  • Kate Burridge, linguist
  • John Brumby, former Premier of Victoria
  • Ken Coghill, former Speaker of the Parliament of Victoria
  • Michael Cowley, physiologist
  • Raymond Finkelstein, former Justice of the Federal Court of Australia
  • George Hampel, former Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, advocacy instructor
  • Yew-Kwang Ng, economist
  • Graeme Pearman, climate change scientist
  • Andrew Prentice, mathematician
  • J.J.C. Smart, philosopher
  • John Thwaites, environmentalist, former Deputy Premier of Victoria and Minister for the Environment
  • Christopher Weeramantry, judge and former Vice-President of the International Court of Justice

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