Megan Davis

Megan Davis
Born1975 Edit this on Wikidata
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Awards
  • Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (2017)
  • Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2023) Edit this on Wikidata
Websitehttps://research.unsw.edu.au/people/professor-megan-jane-davis Edit this on Wikidata
Academic career
Institutions

Megan Jane Davis FAHA FASSA FAAL is an Aboriginal Australian activist and international human rights lawyer. She was the first Indigenous Australian to sit on a United Nations body, and was Chair of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Davis is Pro Vice-Chancellor, Indigenous, and Balnaves Chair in Constitutional Law at the University of New South Wales. She is especially known for her work on the Uluru Statement from the Heart.