David is the Founder and Director of Learning Cities International Pty Ltd. He was Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Pro-Vice-Chancellor Group Governance (including audit and risk, compliance, subsidiary entities, and governance restructure), Dean of Environmental Design and Construction and now Emeritus Professor at RMIT, where his responsibilities variously included all of RMIT’s higher education programs; international programs; corporate governance; research and development; campus planning, property services, and major projects. He was founding project director and start-up CEO of RMIT University Vietnam, now the world’s largest international branch campus. Prior to that, he was Director, National Urban and Regional Strategy in the Australian government and Head, Central Policy Division and Head, Planning Division (South) in the NSW government. He has degrees in economics and planning from the Universities of Queensland, Sydney, and California at Berkeley. David has led projects in over 30 countries.

Podcast

David pulls together issues of metropolitan equity, with climate and resilience to suggest privatisation may no longer the path for cities if they want to compete and be resilient in a cosmopolitan less globalised world