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James Popple

James Popple
Photograph of James Popple
Born (1964-11-04) 4 November 1964 (age 52)
Mirboo, Victoria, Australia
Nationality Australian
Education
Alma mater Australian National University
Website www.popple.net/james
Senior Member, Administrative Appeals Tribunal
Assumed office
1 January 2015
First Australian Freedom of Information Commissioner
In office
1 November 2010 – 31 December 2014

Dr James Popple (born 1964) is a Senior Member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. He is also an Honorary Professor in the College of Law and the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the Australian National University.

He was President of the ANU's Postgraduate and Research Students' Association (1990–91); associate to High Court Justice Mary Gaudron (1995); Deputy Registrar of the High Court of Australia (1996–98); a senior executive in the Australian Attorney-General's Department (1998–2010); and the first Australian Freedom of Information Commissioner (2010–14). He has been a member of the Council of Burgmann College, ANU since 1985.

As part of his PhD research at the ANU (1993), he developed a legal expert system called SHYSTER.


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