Academic Staff Profile - Owen Hughes

Owen Hughes

Professor of Public Management

Tel: +61 3 8344 1982
Fax: +61 3 9349 5849
Email: o.hughes@anzsog.edu.au

Owen Hughes is Professor of Public Management at ANZSOG and Deputy Dean (Education) Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University. He was appointed as a Lecturer to Monash University in 1985 and in 1994 was appointed to the Chair of Public Sector Management within the Department of Management where from 1999 to 2003 was Department Head. In 2003, he was seconded to ANZSOG to assist with setting up the EMPA degree. In 2004, he was appointed Director of the Graduate School of Business at Monash, a role that included leading the EQUIS accreditation team. At the end of 2005, he was appointed to the Monash ANZSOG Chair.

Professor Hughes has published widely in public management, public policy and Australian politics, including eight books and more than thirty book chapters and articles. One article was the inaugural winner of the Sam Richardson Award for the best/most influential article in Australian Journal of Public Administration. His book Public Management and Administration is in its third edition (Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2003). It is widely cited around the world and has been used as a textbook in the UK and Australia, as well as in the US, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Parts of this book have been translated into Spanish. In 2001, the second edition was translated into Chinese by Renmin University Press in Beijing, followed by an English version of the third edition for the Chinese market by the same publisher.

Professor Hughes is also Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Public Administration at Renmin University in Beijing and a Fellow of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government.