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
• 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 – hereditary 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 – 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, speech pathologist and lecturer
• 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
• Tim Entwisle (PhD in Botany 1987) – CEO and Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria
• Tim Flannery – biologist, author, and commentator on global warming; 2007 Australian of the Year
• 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
• Phillip Toyne (1947–2015; Diploma of Education 1973) – expert in environmental law, founder of Landcare Australia

Sport

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

Other

• Rebecca Judd- model, television presenter
• 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

Vice-Chancellors

Faculty

Current

Politics

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

Sociology and anthropology

• Peter Beilharz – public intellectual
• John Carroll – academic in the field of sociology; public intellectual

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
• Andrew Robb – current Federal Liberal MP; former Liberal Party treasurer
• J. J. C. Smart – philosopher

Administrative

• Fran Kelly – journalist, ABC presenter

References