Stephen Parker (Panel Chairperson), Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice President, Monash University
Professor Stephen Parker has been Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Monash University since June 2003. He was dean of the Monash Law School prior to this appointment. He graduated with honours in Law from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and received a PhD from the University of Wales. He is admitted to legal practice in England and Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and Queensland. Stephen has taught at University College Cardiff, The Australian National University, Griffith University and Monash University. He served as the Assistant Dean in Law at Cardiff, Associate Dean at the ANU, and Dean at Griffith. In 1995-96 he was the Convenor of the Committee of Australian Law Deans. From 1996-2000 he was the Secretary of the Judicial Conference of Australia (the national representative body of the judiciary). In 2001-02 he was a member of the Expert Advisory Committee of the Australian Research Council covering Humanities and the Creative Arts. Stephen has published on the history of marriage law, the law relating to unmarried cohabitation, children’s rights, legal ethics and judicial independence. In 1998 he wrote a report for the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration entitled Courts and the Public which was a review of the extent to which courts meet the service expectations of the public.

David Woodhouse Executive Director, AUQA
Dr David Woodhouse is Executive Director of the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA), which is responsible for auditing the academic quality assurance procedures of Australia's universities, state and territory accreditation agencies and various other higher education institutions. AUQA also has a responsibility for quality improvement, which it carries out through publications, workshops, and consulting. David undertakes many national and international quality assurance activities, providing advice and training on educational quality assurance to governments, agencies and institutions in a number of countries. He has served two terms as President of the International Network of Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE), from 1997 to 2001, and in 2007 was elected President of INQAAHE for a third term. Before working in Australia, David was founding Director of the New Zealand Universities Academic Audit Unit (1994-2001), and Deputy Director of the Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation (1990-1994). Before that, he was a faculty member in mathematics, computer science and education in universities in several countries, and was at various times head of a department and dean of a faculty. He has been very active in extension work in schools and teacher education. His leisure interests include multisport and other endurance events.

Pamela Dalgliesh Consultant

Ian Marshman Senior Vice-Principal, University of Melbourne
Ian Marshman was appointed Senior Vice-Principal at the University of Melbourne in March 1999. In this role he is accountable to the Vice-Chancellor and Council for the overall management and administration of the University. Specific responsibilities include management of the University’s annual planning, budgeting, reporting and quality assurance programs. Ian Marshman was first appointed at the University of Melbourne in 1990. First as Registrar (Academic) and then as Academic Registrar, he has been a member of the University’s Senior Management Team with particular responsibility for the University’s academic and student programs, external relations and planning. Ian Marshman’s career began as a career administrator in the Australian Public Service in Canberra in 1973. After a number of appointments in a variety of Commonwealth Departments, Ian Marshman was appointed in 1986 as Regional Director in the North Eastern Metropolitan Region of the then Victorian Health Department. Ian Marshman is currently Chair of the Management Committee for Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre and a director on the boards of Uniseed Pty Ltd, Melbourne Ventures Ltd, U21 Equity and Universitas 21 Global. He is also convenor of the Universitas 21 network's Contact Managers. He has been an auditor for the Australian Universities Quality Agency since its inception in 2003. In the past Ian Marshman has been a member and office bearer of a number of public hospitals and hospital networks within metropolitan Melbourne. Ian Marshman has a BA (Honours) from the University of Melbourne and an LLB from the Australia National University.

William Massy President, Jackson Hole Higher Education Group
Dr. Massy is president of The Jackson Hole Higher Education Group, Inc., and an emeritus professor at Stanford University. He earned tenure as Professor of Business Administration, then moved to Stanford’s central administration as Vice Provost for Research and later Vice President for Business and Finance. In 1987 he became a professor of higher education and founded the Stanford Institute for Higher Education Research where he worked on education quality, resource allocation, finance, and mathematical modeling of universities. From 1990 to 2003 he served on the Hong Kong University Grants Committee, and from 1984 to 2007 he served as a non-executive director of Diebold, Inc (NYSE). His book with David Hopkins, Planning Models for Colleges and Universities, received the Operations Research Society of America’s Frederick W. Lanchester Prize for 1981, and in 1995 he received the Society for College and University Planning’s annual career award for outstanding contributions to college and university planning. More recent books are Resource Allocation in Higher Education (with collaborators, Michigan, 1996), Honoring the Trust: Quality and Cost Containment in Higher Education (Anker 2003), Remaking the American University: Market-Smart and Mission-Centered (with R. Zemsky and G. Wegner, Rutgers 2005), and Academic Quality Work: A Handbook for Improvement (with S. Graham and P. M. Short, Anker 2007). Dr. Massy holds a Ph.D. in economics and MS in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a BS from Yale University.