Our people

Board of Management

Faculty of Law
Professor Arie Freiberg, Dean, Monash Law School
Professor Graeme Hodge, Director of the Centre of Regulatory Studies

Faculty of Business and Economics
Dr George Gilligan, Senior Research Fellow
Professor Owen Hughes, Associate Dean Graduate Studies

Faculty of Arts
Associate Professor Colleen Lewis, Head, Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences

Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Professor Brian Jolly, Head, Centre for Medical and Health Science Education

Victorian College of Pharmacy
Mr Bill Suen, Course Director Pharmacy Management Program
Professor Colin Chapman

Advisory Board

Regulatory and industry representatives:
Ms Penny Armytage, Secretary, Department of Justice
Mr Wayne Byres, Executive General Manager, Diversified Institutions Division, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority
Mr Richard Clarke, Director, Victorian Competition and Efficiency Commission
Ms Jo Daniels, Partner, Clayton Utz
Mr Rex Deighton Smith, Director, Jaguar Consulting
Mr Joe Dimasi, Executive General Manager, Regulatory Affairs Division,
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
Dr Joanna Flynn, President, Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria
Ms Wendy Peter, Partner, Allens Arthur Robinson
Mr John Price, Acting Executive Director, Regulation Directorate - Victoria, Australian Securities & Investment Commission

Monash University representatives:

Professor Arie Freiberg, Dean, Faculty of Law
Professor Graeme Hodge, Director of the Centre of Regulatory Studies
Dr Sandra Webb, Business Development Manager of Centre for Regulatory Studies

Key faculty participants

Professor Arie Freiberg

Faculty of Law

Arie Freiberg is the current Dean of Law at Monash University. Prior to this appointment, he was Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne, where he was also appointed the Foundation Chair of Criminology in 1991. His scholarly expertise includes sentencing and confiscation of the proceeds of crime and he has been involved in a number of consultative panels in these areas. He has over 80 publications in areas such as sentencing, confiscation of the proceeds of crime, tax compliance, corporate crime, juries, juvenile justice, sanctions, victimology and dangerous offenders.

Professor Graeme Hodge

Faculty of Law

Graeme Hodge is a professor of law at Monash and the Director of the Centre for Regulatory Studies. He was the director of the former Monash Centre for the Study of Privatisation and Public Accountability, and is internationally regarded as a leading analyst on regulation and public sector accountability issues, privatisation, outsourcing, and public-private partnerships.  Graeme has served as a special adviser to several parliamentary committees and inquiries, has published in the fields of management, social and economic policy, public administration and law, and is an active media commentator.

Dr George P Gilligan

Faculty of Business and Economics

George Gilligan is a criminologist who has taught at the University of Cambridge, Exeter University and Middlesex University in the UK, La Trobe University, the University of Melbourne and Monash University.  His research interests centre on regulatory theory and practice, especially in relation to the financial services sector, white-collar crime, and corruption. He has published extensively in these areas and conducted numerous field research projects examining the praxis of regulation.

Associate Professor Colleen Lewis

Faculty of Arts

Colleen Lewis is an associate professor in criminal justice and criminology and co-director of the Parliamentary Studies Unit at Monash. Her major research interests include police-government relations, models of oversight bodies such as anti-corruption commissions, crime commissions and ombudsmen functions, police accountability, complaints against the legal profession and public sector and political accountability. She has contributed widely to a number of highly regarded research publications in these fields.

Professor Brian Jolly

Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Brian Jolly is the Director of the centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education at Monash University. His interests include clinical teaching clinical skills development, research design and statistics. Brian’s current responsibilities include the development of research initiatives in health education, the development of undergraduate assessment protocols and fairness to practice initiatives. Previously, he worked in medical education at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Industry participants for core postgraduate units

Rex Deighton-Smith

Rex provides specialist advice on policy and regulatory issues to governments, international organisations and the private sector. He previously worked on the OECD's Program on Regulatory Management and Reform, where he contributed to reviews of regulatory processes.  Rex is a former Director of the Victorian Government's Office of Regulation Reform and has worked in policy areas in the  Department of Treasury and Finance and the Department of Premier and Cabinet. He is an authority on regulatory impact assessment and is the author of a number of publications on a range of regulatory policy issues.