Photo: Cath Connolly
JOHN W. HOUGHTON
John.Houghton@pobox.com
Photo:
Cath Connolly
JOHN W.
HOUGHTON
John.Houghton@pobox.com
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
Bachelor of
Social Science, University of New England, 1984
Bachelor of Arts
(Honours), Griffith University, 1985
Doctor of Philosophy
(Economics), University of Queensland, 1989
EMPLOYMENT
Current
Position
Currently Professorial Fellow at Victoria
University's Centre for Strategic Economic Studies (CSES) and
Director of the Centre's Information
Technologies and the Information Economy Program,
John has had a number of years experience in information technology
policy, science and technology policy and more general industry
policy related economic research. He has published and spoken widely,
and is a regular consultant to the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris. In 1998, John was
awarded a National Australia Day Council, Australia Day Medal for his
contribution to IT industry policy development.
Previous
Positions
Since graduating Doctor of Philosophy (Economics)
from the University of Queensland, John has held the positions of:
Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for International Research on Communication and Information Technologies (CIRCIT) - where he was the leader and coordinator of the centre’s Computer Software and Services Research Program and editor of the widely circulated CIRCIT Newsletter;
Principal Economist at the Bureau of Industry Economics (BIE) - where he coordinated a research program focusing on communication and information technology policy issues and participated in the Bureau’s infrastructure services benchmarking program;
Adviser, Information Industries Policy at the Australian Commonwealth Department of Industry, Science and Tourism (DIST) - where he played a role in the development of policy within the Information Industries Taskforce and in the production of the ‘Goldsworthy report’: The Information Economy: The Way Ahead, Report of the National Information Industries Taskforce (July 1997);
Principal Adviser, State Development Policy with the Victorian Department of State Development - where he took a lead role in directing the Department’s policy research and development agenda; and
Associate Director, Australian Expert Group in Industry Studies (AEGIS), University of Western Sydney.
John has also been actively involved in a number of professional and industry bodies. Over recent years he has been:
Information Sciences correspondent for Search, the Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS);
An executive member of the Information Industries Roundtable (IIR), which operates as Australia's IT users' peak body under the umbrella of the Federal Department of Industry;
A member of a World Bank expert panel on Knowledge Assessment methodologies for the Asia-Pacific region;
A member of the editorial board of Telecommunications Policy; and
A member of the Communications, Information Technology and E-commerce Committee (CITEC) of Standards Australia.
A former life
Prior to his research career, John had more than ten years
experience in mainframe computer operations, programming, systems
analysis, systems software programming and technical writing.