Alan Gilbert

Professor, Author

1944 – 2010

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Who was Alan Gilbert?

Alan David Gilbert AO was a historian and academic administrator who was until June 2010 the President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester. During his tenure as vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne, he pushed for and established Melbourne University Private, a private university offshoot which ultimately failed. This, and his well-known controversial views on private funding of universities, led to Richard Davis in 2002 dubbing him the "doyen of economically rationalist vice-chancellors".

Professor Gilbert died on 27 July 2010 in hospital in Manchester, having suffered from a serious illness for the last few months of his life.

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Born
Sep 11, 1944
Brisbane
Also known as
  • Professor Alan David Gilbert
Profession
Education
  • Nuffield College, Oxford
  • Australian National University
Died
Jul 27, 2010

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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