Owen Peter Coaldrake

Owen Peter Coaldrake (born 1951) is an Australian academic and higher education administrator. He served as Vice-Chancellor of the Queensland University of Technology between 2003 and 2017. He was educated in Queensland, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from James Cook University and a PhD from Griffith University.

Career Coaldrake was appointed by Queensland Premier Wayne Goss to be CEO of the Public Sector Management Commission. He was Chair of Universities Australia.

From 2011 to 2016, Coaldrake was the chair of the Queensland Heritage Council. Two notable listings added to the Queensland Heritage Register under his leadership were the Fantome Island Lock Hospital and Lazaret Sites and the Queensland Cultural Centre.

In October 2017 Coaldrake became chair of the Queensland Performing Arts Trust. He was appointed chair of Jobs Queensland at the end of 2018. Since March 2019 Coaldrake has been a member of the Council of the University of Newcastle.

Publications Coaldrake, O.P. 1989 Working the System, Government in Queensland (University of Queensland Press) Coaldrake, O.P. and Stedman, L. 1998. On the Brink. Australia's Universities Confronting their Future. (University of Queensland Press) Coaldrake, O.P. and Stedman, L. Academic Work in the Twenty-First Century (DETYA, Occasional Paper Series 99-4).