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Ed Davis, AM

Ed Davis

Formal Name: Ed Davis, AM

Personal Title: Emeritus Professor

Position: Emeritus Professor, Macquarie University

Telephone: (+61-02) 9850 8985 M: 0438-166-986

Email: emjkdavis@hotmail.com

Profile:

Professor Ed Davis is an Emeritus Professor at Macquarie University.  He was Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Financial Studies at Macquarie University from September 2002 to July 2008.  From 1988-2002 he was a Professor at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management and was Deputy Director from 1996-2002. He holds a Master of Arts from Cambridge, a Master of Economics from Monash and a PhD from La Trobe University.  During 1992 he held the post of Distinguished Academic Visitor at Queens' College, Cambridge. He has been honoured with Macquarie University awards for Outstanding Teaching (1997) and Outstanding Service (2004); he was made Emeritus Professor in August 2008.

Professor Davis has acted as a consultant to employers, unions and government and he has also undertaken assignments for the International Labour Organisation.  He served on the New South Wales Committee of Inquiry into the Recognition of Overseas Qualifications (1988-9) and chaired the Executive Performance Management Accreditation Committee established in the NSW Premier's Department (1990).  In 1992 he was appointed to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission Committee of Inquiry into Sex Discrimination in Overaward Payments.  In 1995 he was appointed Independent Mediator to the NSW Fire Brigades and was also made a member of the NSW government’s Local Government Reform Task Force.  In 1998 he completed a report for the New South Wales Police Service on Performance Management and in 2001 submitted a report to the NSW Police Commissioner on the effectiveness of the Service’s Operations and Crime Reviews. In 2000 he was National President of the Industrial Relations Society of Australia and was awarded Life Membership in 2002.

In 2004 Professor Davis won the Lifetime Achievement in HR Award at the National Human Resources Awards. In 2005 he was made a Fellow of the Australian Human Resources Institute. In January 2006 he was appointed a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia for “service to education and to the community in the areas of equity in employment, industrial relations and human resource management.”