Role: Member of the Institute

Department: Business and Government

Research Themes

Comparative Public Management & Governance

Integrity and Public Administration

Local Government

About Me

After a career in public service and in public administration teaching and research, Roger Wettenhall retired formally in the mid-1990s and has since been Emeritus Professor and Visiting Professor in Public Administration in the University of Canberra. He was project director/co-chairman/chairman of the Working Group on Public Enterprise Management and the Public-Private Mix of the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration from 1983 to 2001, was Editor of the Australian Journal of Public Administration from 1989 to 1995, and now chairs the Institute of Public Administration Australia/University of Canberra Public Administration Research Trust Fund.

Honours Silver Medal Essayist, Haldane Essay Competition, Royal Institute of Public Administration, UK, 1965.
National Fellow, (Royal) Institute of Public Administration, Australia, 1983.
Presented with Distinguished Service Award from Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration at EROPA Annual Meeting, Tokyo, 194.
Presented with Distinguished Service Award from International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration at IASIA Annual Meeting, Quebec, 1997.
Presented with festschrift soon after formal retirement: John Halligan (ed.), Public Administration Under Scrutiny: Essays in Honour of Roger Wettenhall, University of Canberra & IPAA, 1997.

Qualilfications BA, 1952, University of Tasmania
DipPubAd, 1954, University of Tasmania
MA, 1956, University of Tasmania
PhD, 1962, ANU

Employment History (including consultancies) Commonwealth Public Service, 1948-59
Australian National University (Research Scholar), 1959-61.
University of Tasmania (Lecturer to Reader), 1961-1971.
Canberra College of Advanced Education/University of Canberra (Head of School/College Fellow/Professor), 1971-1995
Visiting Professor, University of Canberra, since 1995.
Consultant on Statutory Authorities, Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration, 1974-75.

Editorial board, governing board and association memberships Current editorial board memberships include
Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration,
Asian Review of Public Administration,
Public Organization Review.

Research Interests
Machinery of government especially non-departmental public bodies.
State-owned enterprise, privatisation and public-private mixes and partnerships.
Administrative aspects of natural disaster.
Governance of small states and quasi-states.

Grants Awarded
Participant in several Australian Research Council grants

Publications