Alan Gilbert (Australian academic)

Alan Gilbert
Born(1944-09-11)11 September 1944
Brisbane, Australia
Died27 July 2010(2010-07-27) (aged 65)
Manchester, England
NationalityAustralian
Alma materAustralian National University
Nuffield College, Oxford

Alan David Gilbert AO (11 September 1944 – 27 July 2010) was an Australian historian and academic administrator who was president and vice-chancellor of the University of Manchester between 2004 and 2010.

During his tenure (1996–2004) as vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne, he pushed for and established Melbourne University Private, a private university offshoot which ultimately failed. This, and his well-known controversial views on private funding of universities, led to Richard Davis in 2002 dubbing him the "doyen of economically rationalist vice-chancellors".[1]

The building named as Alan Gilbert at the University of Melbourne
  1. ^ Biggs, John; Davis, Richard, eds. (2002), The subversion of Australian universities, Wollongong: Fund for Intellectual Dissent, archived from the original on 7 February 2009, retrieved 10 June 2005