People & associates
John Roskam
Executive Director
John Roskam is the Executive Director of the Institute of Public Affairs. Before joining the IPA, he was the Executive Director of The Menzies Research Centre in Canberra. He has also held positions as Chief of Staff to Dr David Kemp, the Federal Minister for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs, as Senior Advisor to Don Hayward, Victorian Minister for Education in the first Kennett Government, and as Manager of Government and Corporate Affairs for Rio Tinto. His policy analysis includes reports such as Australia's Education Choices (with Professor Brian Caldwell) and The Protocol: Managing Relations with NGOs (with Gary Johns).
Contact details
Telephone: 03 9946 4300
Address: 2/410 Collins Street , Melbourne 3000 vic
Related publications
Australian history's forgotten capitalists
John Roskam reviews Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy by Peter Cochrane. Melbourne University's strategy for marketing Peter Cochrane's Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy is almost as interesting as the...
Fear of school profit holding quality back
In Australia, schools are operated either by the government or by not-for-profit private organisations. It is prohibited to run a school to make a financial profit. In the United States there is no such prohibition. And a recent study published by...
From the executive director
Kevin Rudd might have learned a thing or two from Louis XIV. The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815 is a magisterial new history by Tim Blanning, Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge. In The Pursuit of Glory,...
From the Executive Director
The Stalin enigma
John Roskam reviews Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War and George Kennan: A Study of Character.
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Farewell to politics of plenty
These days there's not too much talk about a soft landing for the global economy. The descriptions of the landing we can now hope for from the...
Chance for lucky Turnbull
Malcolm Turnbull has an opportunity to seize the initiative against a deteriorating economic outlook, writes John Roskam. If there's such a thing...
Blame ETS on business
Two weeks ago the Business Council of Australia released a report on the impact of an emissions trading scheme (ETS). Fourteen companies in the...
Gillard's two universes
Car makers are not the worst bastion of old-style protectionism, John Roskam argues - universities are, and Labor panders to them. Francis Scott...
Rudd reveals core beliefs
The quality of self-awareness is usually visited on politicians only upon their retirement. It is with the publication of memoirs and diaries after...