Academic Staff Profile - Allan Fels

Professor Allan Fels. AO

Dean ANZSOG

Tel: +61 3 8344 1977
Email: a.fels@anzsog.edu.au

On July 1, 2003 Professor Allan Fels AO became Dean of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government.

Previously, he was Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission from 1995 until 2003. Professor Fels was also Chairman of the former Trade Practices Commission from 1991 until 1995 and Chairman of the Prices Surveillance Authority from 1989 until 1992.

He was Prices Commissioner, Victoria from 1982 -1991 and has served on numerous other government bodies.

Professor Fels was appointed as Professor of Administration at Monash University in 1984 and was the Director of the Graduate School of Management, Monash University from 1985 until 1990. He is now an Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University and became a Professorial Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Melbourne in 2003.

Professor Fels has degrees in economics and law from the University of Western Australia, and a Ph.D in Economics from Duke University. After leaving Duke he was appointed as a Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge, where his Duke Ph.D thesis was published as The British Prices and Incomes Board by Cambridge University Press. He received an Honorary doctorate in Economics at the University of Western Australia in 2006.

Professor Fels was the Co-Chairman of the Joint Group on Trade and Competition at the OECD from 1996 until 2003.

He was awarded the Order of Australia in June 2001.