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Partner | Performance Improvement, Public Sector Melbourne
“All organisations are expected to do more with less. For me, it’s about making every aspect of the institution work better.”
John Dewar is well known as an exemplary leader of tertiary institutions, with a long history of improving their performance academically, financially, and operationally, often by bringing about major transformations. He has held senior leadership positions at the University of Melbourne and Griffith University and is the former Vice-chancellor of LaTrobe University, where he achieved a dramatic improvement in the university’s performance, making LaTrobe one of only five Australian universities to record a surplus in 2022. John brings this experience to help improve organisational performance for clients in education, corporate, and government. John describes himself as an accessible leader who builds partnerships to achieve the best outcome for everyone he works with. His experience across all aspects of management is important in building connections in this regard, as well as finding solutions to complex problems in seemingly impossible situations. John is an Officer of the Order of Australia, awarded for service to higher education and the professions.
Strategy developmentGovernance and risk managementBudgeting and financial managementInternational partnerships and managing foreign interference riskGovernment relations, media, and crisis management Digital transformationHuman resourcesCybersecurity.
BA Jurisprudence, First Class, University of OxfordBachelor of Civil Law, First Class, University of OxfordPhD, Griffith UniversityHonorary Fellowship, Hertford College, OxfordEmeritus Professorship, La Trobe Law University.
News
Higher education expert and partner in our Performance Improvement team, John Dewar, has been published in The Australian. John’s opinion pi...
It’s just over four years since the first case of COVID arrived in Australia. Since then, universities have been on a financial roller coast...
Blog
Universities have had a difficult time since Covid. While universities may have hoped the Universities Accord final report would help, John ...
Media Release
KordaMentha welcomes esteemed academic leader John Dewar to its team of expert advisers. John is well known as an exemplary leader of tertia...