Glyn Davis

Glyn Conrad Davis AC (born 25 July 1959) is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne.

Davis was educated at Marist Brothers College, Kogarah. He later studied political science at the University of New South Wales and the Australian National University where he completed a doctoral thesis on the political independence of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, before undertaking post-doctoral appointments as a Harkness Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, the Brookings Institution in Washington DC and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Davis is married to Margaret Gardner, the current Vice-Chancellor of Monash University.

Davis has been Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Melbourne since January 2005 and is the Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Arts. He publishes on public policy.

Davis began his academic career at Griffith University. He commenced as a lecturer in public policy in 1985 and was appointed as a professor in 1998. He has combined an academic career with practical experience in government, serving as Commissioner for Public Sector Equity with the Public Sector Management Commission from 1990 to 1993, as Director-General of the Office of the Cabinet from 1995 to 1996 and as Director-General of the Department of the Premier and Cabinet to the Premier of Queensland, Peter Beattie, from 1998 to 2002.

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