PUBLIC LECTURE: Reid Oration 2005 - "The Regulation of Business and its Public Administration"

Professor Fels will discuss the general strategies which regulators of business apply, drawing upon his experiences as former Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and as Dean of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government.

Biographical note:

Professor Allan Fels, AO is Dean of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG). This is a new institution established by the governments of Australia, New Zealand, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, and ten universities and business schools.* Discussions are currently occurring about Western Australia joining. It provides senior management development programs, including an Executive Master of Public Administration program, for high level public sector managers.

Professor Fels was Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission from 1995 until 30 June 2003. Prior to that he was Chairman of the Trade Practices Commission from 1991 to 1995 and Chairman of the Prices Surveillance Authority from 1989 to 1992.

Professor Fels was previously Dean of the Graduate School of Management of Monash University. He was appointed a Professor of Administration at Monash University in 1984. He has been an Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Economics and Business at Monash University since 1996 and is now also Professorial Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Melbourne.

Professor Fels was born and educated in Western Australia. He graduated with a first class honours degree in economics and a law degree from the University of Western Australia in 1965, and was also a tutor in public administration. He was President of the Guild of Undergraduates in 1963, its Jubilee year.