The Warden of Rhodes House
The Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford, is the global CEO of the Rhodes Trust and the Rhodes Scholarships.
Wardens of Rhodes House
Sir Francis Wylie, 1903-1931 (previously Fellow & Tutor, Brasenose College, Oxford)
Sir Carleton Allen, 1931-1952 (previously Professor of Jurisprudence and Fellow of University College, Oxford)
Sir Edgar Williams, 1952-1980 (previously Fellow & Tutor in History, Balliol College, Oxford; Chief of Intelligence to Montgomery in World War II)
Dr Robin Fletcher, 1980-1989 (previously Fellow & Bursar of Trinity College, Oxford; Olympian (field hockey))
Sir Anthony Kenny, 1989-1999 (previously Master of Balliol College, Oxford; also Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and President of the British Academy)
Dr John Rowett, 1999-2004 (previously Fellow & Tutor in History, Brasenose College, Oxford; subsequently Secretary-General of the Association of Commonwealth Universities)
Sir Colin Lucas, 2004-2009 (previously Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and Master of Balliol College, Oxford)
Dr Donald Markwell (Queensland & Trinity 1981), 2009- (previously Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education), University of Western Australia; Warden of Trinity College, University of Melbourne; Fellow & Tutor in Politics, Merton College, Oxford)
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Dr Donald Markwell is the eighth Warden of Rhodes House and the first to be himself a Rhodes Scholar (Queensland & Trinity 1981). Prior to assuming the Warden’s role on 1 July 2009, he was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) of the University of Western Australia from January 2007. As a Rhodes Scholar, he completed the MPhil and later the DPhil in International Relations. After a year as a Procter Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton (1984-85), he returned to Oxford as a Research Fellow of New College (1985-86) before becoming a Tutorial Fellow of Merton College and University Lecturer in Politics (1986-97). From 1997 to 2007, he served as Warden of Trinity College, University of Melbourne, and was a Professorial Fellow of that University in political science and public policy.
Dr Markwell’s academic and professional interests have been wide-ranging. His recent publications include John Maynard Keynes and International Relations: Economic Paths to War and Peace (OUP, 2006) and 'A large and liberal education': higher education for the 21st century (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2007). He has served on academic editorial boards and institutional advisory or governing boards. He was a member of the Symons Commission on Commonwealth Studies (1995-1997). At the University of Western Australia, he led a major review of curriculum/course structures which attracted international attention. He has been active in the development of educational philanthropy.
Dr Markwell has also been a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, since October 2009.
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Curriculum vitae - Dr Donald Markwell
Date and place of birth:
19 April 1959. Quilpie, Queensland, Australia.
Education:
- Bachelor of Economics with First Class Honours, University of Queensland, 1981. University Medal.
- Rhodes Scholar for Queensland, 1981.
- MPhil in International Relations, University of Oxford, 1983. MA, 1986.
- DPhil in International Relations, University of Oxford, 1995.
Past positions:
- Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education), The University of Western Australia, 2007-2009.
- Warden, Trinity College, University of Melbourne, 1997-2007.
- Professorial Fellow, Department of Political Science and Centre for Public Policy, University of Melbourne, 1998-2007.
- Visiting Professor of Political Science, Victoria University, Melbourne, 1996-1997.
- Fellow and Tutor in Politics, Merton College, Oxford; University Lecturer in Politics, University of Oxford, 1986-1997.
- J. Arthur Rank Research Fellow, New College, Oxford, 1985-1986.
- Visiting researcher, Reserve Bank of Australia, Sydney, July - Sept. 1985.
- J.E. Procter Visiting Fellow, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1984-1985.
- Visiting Fellow, Department of Politics, University of Western Australia, Aug. - Oct. 1984.
- Junior Dean, Trinity College, Oxford, 1983-1984.
Other activities include:
- Trustee, Mandela Rhodes Foundation, 2010- .
- Director, Rhodes Scholarships in Australia Pty Ltd, 2010- .
- Ashley Fellow, Trent University, Canada, January-February 2010.
- Member, International Academic Advisory Committee, U.S. Studies Centre, University of Sydney, 2009- .
- Member, Supervisory Board, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College, London, 2009- .
- President, The English-Speaking Union, Oxfordshire Branch, 2009- .
- Member, Ambassadorial Council, University of Western Australia (UWA) Business School, 2009- .
- Member, editorial board, The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, 1988- .
- Member, Board, St George's College, University of Western Australia, 2008-2009.
- Lay Canon, St George's Cathedral, Perth, 2008-2009.
- Member, Executive, Association for Commonwealth Studies, 2007-2010.
- Member, Council, Anglican Schools Commission (Western Australia), 2007-2009.
- Various professional associations in Australia, Britain, and the United States.
- Former Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
- Member, Geelong Grammar School Council, 1999-2006.
- Member of governing body, Melbourne College of Divinity, 1998-2005.
- Lay Canon, St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne, 2001-2006.
- Member, Commission on Commonwealth Studies (appointed by Secretary-General of the Commonwealth), 1995-1997.
- Hon. Secretary, The Round Table, London, 1988-1994.
Teaching includes:
- Supervising over 45 successfully-submitted theses in Oxford and Australia.
- Teaching various courses in international politics, comparative government and other aspects of political science, and 20th century history.
Publications include:
Books
- A large and liberal education: higher education for the 21st century, Australian Scholarly Publishing & Trinity College, University of Melbourne, 2007.
- John Maynard Keynes and International Relations: Economic Paths to War and Peace, Oxford University Press, 2006. Also published in New York.
- Liberals Face the Future: Essays on Australian Liberalism (co-edited with G. Brandis & T. Harley, foreword by David Butler), Oxford University Press, 1984.
- Also extensive involvement in preparation of A Public Life: The Memoirs of Zelman Cowen, Miegunyah Press, 2006.
Jointly-authored commission reports
- The Constitutional Structure of the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne (First Report of the Archbishop's Constitutional Commission), Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, August 2003.
- Learning from Each Other: Commonwealth Studies for the 21st Century (Reports of the Commission on Commonwealth Studies), Commonwealth Secretariat, London: Interim Report, October 1995; Final Report, June 1996.
Short monographs and papers
- The need for breadth: on liberal education and the value of university residential colleges (foreword by Thomas H. B. Symons), Trent University, Canada, 2011.
- Keynes and International Economic and Political Relations, Trinity Paper No. 33, Trinity College, University of Melbourne, 2009.
- Issues in global higher education: the challenge to the University of Melbourne, Trinity Paper No. 31, Trinity College, University of Melbourne, 2006. See also Best-practice universities.
- Education for our time, Trinity Paper No. 28, 2005.
- University education: Australia's urgent need for reform, Trinity Paper No. 27, 2003.
- Undergraduate education for the 21st century: Australia at the crossroads, Trinity Paper No. 20, 2002.
- The Denominational University College Today (paper for John Henry Newman Bicentenary Seminar, Melbourne, February 2001), published as Trinity Paper No. 19, 2001.
- Keynes and Australia, Reserve Bank of Australia, 2000.
- Some reflections on Church and State (Philip Harris Memorial Address, Melbourne, January 2000), published as Trinity Paper No. 14, 2000.
- The Fellowship of Friends: Sir James Darling and the College Ideal (the Second James Darling Memorial Oration, September 1998), Geelong Grammar Foundation; also published as Trinity Paper No. 4, 1998.
- The Crown and Australia (the Trevor Reese Memorial Lecture), University of London, 1987.
Chapters and other contributions to books
- 'Eric Laidlaw Robinson', The Australian Dictionary of Biography, forthcoming.
- 'Constitutional conventions', in Brian Galligan & Winsome Roberts (eds), The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, Oxford University Press, 2007.
- 'Sir Paul Hasluck' (with Geoffrey Browne), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- 'Sir Alfred Zimmern', in ibid.
- 'Foreword', in Henry Speagle, The Road to Gundagai, Prayer Book Society of Australia (NSW and Victorian Branches), 2003.
- 'Afterword', in Peter Gebhardt, Their Stories Our History, The Helicon Press, Sydney, 2003.
- 'J. M. Keynes, Idealism, and the Economic Bases of Peace', in P. Wilson & D. Long (eds), Thinkers of the Twenty Years Crisis: Idealist International Relations in the Inter-War Period, Oxford University Press, 1995.
- Bibliography of Hedley Bull's published works, in J. D. B. Miller & R. J. Vincent (eds), Order and Violence, Oxford University Press, 1990; and in Robert O'Neill & David N. Schwartz (eds), Hedley Bull on Arms Control, Macmillan, 1987.
- 'British Social Science and Humanities', in T. B. Millar (ed.), The Australian Contribution to Britain, Australian Studies Centre, University of London, 1988.
- 'The Conventions of Ministerial Resignations: The Queensland Coalition Crisis of 1983', in D. A. Low (ed.): Constitutional Heads and Political Crises: Commonwealth Episodes, 1945-85, Macmillan, 1988.
- 'Hedley Bull as a Teacher', in O'Neill & Schwartz, op. cit.
- 'John Maynard Keynes', in David Miller et al. (eds), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Political Thought, Blackwell, 1987.
- 'The Politics of Ministerial Resignations', in Patrick Weller & Dean Jaensch (eds), Responsible Government in Australia, Drummond, 1980.
Journal articles
- 'Sir Zelman Cowen: Educational Leader and Healing Governor-General', The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, February 2012 - text also here and here.
- 'Australian and Commonwealth Republicanism' (with Jonathan Ritchie), The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, October 2006.
- 'Griffith, Barton and the Early Governor-Generals: Aspects of Australia's Constitutional Development', Public Law Review, December 1999.
- 'Sir John Kerr: a Reflection' The Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, June-December 1991.
- 'Sir Alfred Zimmern Revisited: Fifty Years On', Review of International Studies, October 1986.
- 'On Advice from the Chief Justice', Quadrant, July 1985; also letters, June & October 1985, & April 1986.
- 'The Dismissal', Quadrant, March 1984.
Journal guest editor
- Improving Teaching and Learning in Universities, guest editor of special issue of B-HERT NEWS, Business-Higher Education Round Table, Melbourne, November 2003.
Book reviews
- 'The challenge of creative leadership', Pacifica, June 2007.
- Review article on the U.N. and U.K. in the early cold war, The English Historical Review,January 1993.
- 'Closer still and closer', The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, April 1992 (review of Carl Bridge, Special Relationships': Australia, Britain and the United States since 1941, University of London, 1991).
- Review of William Deakin et al. (eds), British Political and Military Strategy in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe in 1944 (Macmillan, 1988), in The English Historical Review, April 1992.
- 'The defence of Australia', The Round Table, January 1992 (review of Ross Babbage, A Coast Too Long: defending Australia beyond the 1990s, Allen & Unwin, 1990).
- Review of Hans J. Michelman & Panayotis Soldatos (eds), Federalism and International Relations: The Role of Subnational Units (Oxford University Press, 1990), in The Oxford International Review, Winter 1991-92.
- 'Canada's Best', The Round Table, October 1991 (review of Eugene Forsey, A Life on the Fringe, Oxford University Press, 1990).
- 'The End of Eden', The Round Table, July 1989 (review of Richard Lamb, The Failure of the Eden Government, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987). An earlier version was published inPostmaster, October 1988.
- 'The Cold War, Old and New', The Round Table, January 1989 (review article).
- Review of J. D. B. Miller, Norman Angell and the Futility of War: Peace and the Public Mind (Macmillan, 1986), in Political Studies, vol. 35, 1987.
- 'Masters of dissolution', The Times Literary Supplement, 12 April 1985 (review of Christopher Cunneen, King's Men: Australia's Governors-General from Hopetoun to Isaacs, George Allen & Unwin, 1983).
- 'By reference to the voters', The Times Literary Supplement, 20 April 1984 (review of Sir Garfield Barwick, Sir John Did His Duty, Serendip Press, 1983); also letter, 29 June 1984.
- 'The indispensable man', The Economist, 11 September 1982 (review of A. P. Thirlwall (ed.), Keynes as a Policy Adviser, Macmillan, 1982).
Conference reports
- 'The federal state: lessons from North American and European experience', Ditchley Foundation, 1991.
- 'A New Generation, Old Institutions and a Middle-Aged Alliance: Is there Room for Innovation in Trans-Atlantic Relationships?', Ditchley Foundation, 1987.
Selected contributions to newspapers and other media
- Best-practice universities, Saturday Extra interview with Geraldine Doogue, ABC Radio National, 14 October 2006.
- 'University challenge', The Australian, 30 August 2006.
- Review of Ray Monk, Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude, Jonathan Cape, 1996, in The Age, 25 May 1996.
- Sir Keith Hancock (obituary), The Independent, London, 24 August 1988.
- Other articles, obituaries, letters, and book reviews in newspapers, including in Australia, The Age, The Age Monthly Review, The Australian, The Canberra Times, The Courier-Mail, The Sydney Morning Herald, and in Britain, The Daily Telegraph, The Economist, The Guardian and The Guardian Weekly, The Independent, and The Times.
Submissions to Australian public inquiries
- Inquiry into higher education funding and regulatory legislation by the Senate Employment, Workplace Relations and Education Committee, 2003.
- Victorian Government review of Melbourne University Private's continued registration as a university, 2003.
- Crossroads review of higher education, 2002.
- Higher Education Review Committee, chaired by Mr Roderick West, 1997.
