Keynote Speaker Professor Greg Craven Vice-Chancellor, Australian Catholic University Professor Greg Craven, lawyer and academic, commenced of the Federation. as Vice-Chancellor of Australian Catholic University (ACU) in February 2008. Professor Craven is a member of the NSW Vice-Chancellors Committee and the Victorian Vice-Chancellor’s An expert in public law, Professor Craven has published Committee. He is also the NSWVCC representative on numerous journal articles and four books, including the Teacher Education Policy Advisory Committee for the Conversations with the Constitution (University of New Board of Studies, Teaching and Educational Standards South Wales Press, 2004). A regular contributor to public (BoSTES) and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. debate, he is a columnist for The Australian and The Catholic Leader. Prior to his appointment at ACU, Professor Craven served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Strategy & Planning) at Curtin Professor Craven is a member of the Higher Education University of Technology in Western Australia, where he Standards Panel, Chair of the Teacher Education also held the position of Professor of Government and Ministerial Advisory Group (TEMAG), Vice-President of Constitutional Law, having previously served as Executive the Australian Higher Education Industrial Association (AHEIA) Executive Committee, a member of the National Director of the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy. He Catholic Education Commission (NCEC) and of the Truth, was also a member of the Tertiary Education Quality and Justice and Healing Council. Standards Agency (TEQSA) Advisory Council. Professor Craven is a member of Universities Australia Professor Craven was Foundation Dean and Professor (UA) and Chair of the Standing Group on Quality and of Law at the University of Notre Dame Australia, and Regulation. UA is the peak body representing Australian Reader in Law at the University of Melbourne. He also universities. Professor Craven has is also a member of the served as Crown Counsel to the Victorian Government Expert Advisory Panel for the White Paper on the Reform from 1992-95..