ANU Centre for UNESCO
Staff
Director
Mr Ian Anderson
T: 6125 2890
E: ian.anderson@anu.edu.au
Mr Anderson has been at the Centre since September 2000. He was appointed
as a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University on his arrival.
He has been the Director of the Centre since 30 October, 2001.
Before joining the Centre, Mr Anderson worked in the Secretariat of
the Australian National Commission for UNESCO between 1983 and 2000.
He spent periods in the Secretariat as an education and then a science
program officer and was for a time program co-ordinator, before being
appointed Secretary-General of the National Commission in 1997.
He has qualifications in education and agricultural science.
Visiting Fellows
Dr John Grant
T: 6125 9742
E: j.grant@anu.edu.au
Dr John Grant's career spans several areas of education – high
school teacher, university lecturer, director of curriculum for two
school systems (NT and ACT), Federal administrator in tertiary education
and university administrator. Since his retirement as a Deputy Vice-Chancellor
at the University of Canberra he has undertaken a wide range of consulting
activities, contributed to the work of UNESCO as a Visiting Fellow at
the Australian National University and undertaken auditing activities
for the Australian Universities Quality Agency. He is a member of the
Queensland Ministerial Advisory Committee on Higher Education and of
the Research Committee of the Australian Institute of Sport. He has
published and lectured in such fields as curriculum development, higher
education, cross-cultural education, international education and youth
policy. His doctoral research was in cross-cultural education based
on field work in indigenous communities in the Northern Territory. He
is a Fellow of the Australian College of Education, and an Honorary
Professor of the Beijing Second Foreign Languages University.
Mr Mark Nizette
T: 6125 7631
E: mark.nizette@anu.edu.au
Mr Mark Nizette has a Master’s degree in cultural heritage management
and a BA (honours) in archaeology, and has worked in cultural heritage
management for over 25 years as a manager, conservator, university lecturer
and workshop facilitator. He has developed and delivered heritage management
workshops and seminars to key cultural professionals throughout the
Asia/Pacific region. He was an Assistant Secretary in the Department
of Finance for a number of years, and understands the importance of
good governance and accountability in public institutions.
Mark Nizette joined the Centre in August 2005 to carry out research
into the development of management expertise in cultural heritage institutions
in developing countries. In particular, he is extracting core values
from “western” models of public institution management and
evaluating their applicability and flexibility for use in museums and
cultural centres in the Pacific and South East Asia. In conjunction
with the Secretariat of Pacific Communities he is currently developing
a workshop and training program for the Board of Directors of the Pacific
Islands Museums Association to develop appropriate performance management
frameworks for use in their institutions.
At the invitation of the Council of Pacific Arts, Mr Nizette is developing
strategies and methodologies for monitoring the performance of the Festival
of Pacific Arts, and will present a proposal to the Council in early
2006.
In addition, Mr Nizette is exploring the philosophical and practical
issues arising from the preservation of the world’s intangible
cultural heritage. Although UNESCO proposed a convention for the preservation
of intangible cultural heritage in 2003, Australia has yet to support
the convention as it raises new sets of issues to that of heritage site
preservation or the management of heritage artefacts.
