Professor Peter Coaldrake

Professor Coaldrake AO is Vice-Chancellor and President of Queensland University of Technology, a position he took up in April 2003. Peter is a dual Fulbright Scholar, and author or editor of a number of books and monographs, including most recently as co-author (with Dr Lawrence Stedman), of Raising the Stakes: Gambling with the Future of Universities (UQP, April 2013). A second edition has been published in 2016.

Peter Coaldrake served a two year term as Chair of the Board of Universities Australia until May 2011. He returned as a member of the Board in May 2014. He has been Chair of the Queensland Heritage Council since 2010 and is a trustee of the Queensland Museum Foundation. Peter is the current Chair of the National Fulbright Selection Committee.