Graham Marshall is Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Post-compulsory Education and Life-long Learning at The University of Melbourne and a Manager of Certain Knowledge. He has worked on a range of programs in over 60 Victorian government and Catholic schools on leadership development and school improvement issues since mid 2001. He is currently working with a Melbourne University team developing a major national executive leadership development program, Leading Australia’s Schools, and working in conjunction with the Hay Group (Australia). He is a qualified school reviewer and has conducted continuous and diagnostic reviews in a number of schools in Victoria in the period 2003 - 2005.

He has acted as a consultant on leadership development to the National Centre on Education and the Economy in the United States and has recently worked with a Victorian team on a major education reform program involving school leaders in Hong Kong. In 2005 he also contributed to, and co-authored a report on Special Education for the Education and Manpower Bureau, Hong Kong which focused on the issues of leadership and improvement.

Until July 2001 he was General Manager, Human Resources Division in the Victorian Department of Education Employment and Training and, in that position had considerable experience of school leadership issues, including leadership development, in Victorian government schools. He is a Fellow of the Australian Council for Educational Leaders and has had 16 years experience as a secondary teacher.