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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