Professor Paul Rodan, BA(Hons) WAust, MA Qld, PhD Monash, is the Director of CQUniversity's Intercultural Education Research Institute. Previously, he was the Director, Academic Policy & Research for the Australian International Campuses of CQUniversity, prior to which he held senior academic positions at the Melbourne International Campus, including Deputy Director (Academic) and Sub-Dean of the Faculty of Business & Law.

Paul commenced his academic career as a university tutor in the 1970s before moving into academic administration in 1980. In 1991, he became Registrar of the Faculty of Science at Monash University, where he was also an elected staff member of the University's governing council.

After leaving Monash in early 2000, Paul combined a period as an honorary research associate with consulting work in post-secondary education, before joining C Management Services in 2002. He has been a member of several CQUniversity committees and working parties, including the Education Committee of Academic Board and the Program Review Group. He has supervised CQUniversity doctoral candidates and retains an honorary research associate appointment in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University.

Paul has published widely, mostly on aspects of federal and state politics, but also on higher education, especially governance. He has been an occasional contributor to the opinion pages of The Age newspaper in Melbourne and is a member of the editorial board of the journal Australian Universities Review. He was an inaugural national vice-president of the National Tertiary Education Union, and is a life member of that organisation.

In April 2008, Paul commenced as the inaugural director of CQUniversity's new Intercultural Education Research Institute. It is his ambition for the Institute to secure a reputation for quality research into various intercultural educational issues, and for the research outcomes to be reflected as appropriate in the University's curriculum and teaching, and its service provision. The Institute will also contribute to public debate on a wide range of international education matters.