Academic Staff Profile
John Wanna
BA (Adelaide), PhD (Adelaide)
ANZSOG Sir John Bunting Chair in Public Administration
Tel: +61 2 6125 2134
Fax: +61 2 6125 3051
Email: john.wanna@anu.edu.au
John Wanna is the ANZSOG Foundation Professor for the Sir John Bunting Chair of Public Administration
based at the Australian National University.
The author or editor of 15 books, including two national textbooks on policy and public management,
John Wanna has produced a number of research-based studies on budgeting and financial management including:
Budgetary Management and Control (1990); Managing Public Expenditure (2000), From Accounting to Accountability (2001),
and most recently Controlling Public Expenditure (2003). He was a chief investigator in a major Australian Research
Council funded study of the Future of Governance in Australia (1999-2001).
His research interests include Australian and comparative politics, public expenditure and budgeting,
and government-business relations. He also writes on state politics and has been a regular state political commentator
for the ABC, The Courier-Mail, The Australian, other media outlets and commercial TV.
John is also Professor of Public Policy at Griffith University and honorary Professor at the China University
of Political Science and Law.
