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