Question: What is the notability of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology person who was named the 1998 Young Australian of the Year ?

text: List of Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology people
Business and society

This is a list of Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology people. This list of people includes alumni as well as current and former students and faculty of the Australian (RMIT University) and Vietnamese (RMIT University Vietnam) branches of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). It also includes alumni as well as former students and faculty from its antecedents: Melbourne Technical College (MTC) and Working Men's College (WMC); amalgamations with: Emily McPherson College of Domestic Economy (EMC), Melbourne College of Decoration, Melbourne College of Printing and Graphic Art and Melbourne College of Textiles; and merger with Phillip Institute of Technology (PIT).
Name Association with RMIT Notability
Peter Beilharz former faculty sociologist ; co-founder and editor of the academic journal Thesis Eleven
Hayley Bolding attended co-founder of Atma , an accelerator for education NGOs and social enterprises in Mumbai , and Young Victorian of the Year 2013
Henry Bosch , AO faculty businessman ; Adjunct Professor in the RMIT School of Management
Allan Briggs faculty crisis communications expert and founder of Briggs Communications
Andrew Darbyshire , AM attended software entrepreneur and philanthropist , founder of Pacsoft
Andrew Demetriou former faculty former CEO of the Australian Football League ( AFL )
The Ven . Philip Down DipAppSci Church of England Archdeacon of Ashford
David Dunstan former faculty Australian history academic ; former Director of Monash University 's National Centre for Australian Studies
Bob Isherwood Dip Art ( Advert ) , D Comm ( honoris causa ) business leader ; former Worldwide Creative Director of Saatchi & Saatchi
Margaret Gardner , AO former Vice-Chancellor economist and community leader , current Vice-Chancellor of Monash University ( 2014-present )
Paul James former faculty Director of the UN Global Cities Programme and former Director of the RMIT Global Cities Research Institute
Mary Kalantzis faculty Adjunct Professor in the RMIT School of Global Studies , Social Science and Planning
Bruce Kingsbury , VC attended World War II soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
Tan Le faculty business leader and President of Emotiv Systems
Jonathan Ling MBA CEO and Managing Director of New Zealand 's largest listed company Fletcher Building
Paul Little , AO attended , D Bus ( honoris causa ) Director of Little Projects and former Director of Australasia 's largest transport company Toll Holdings
Francis Macnab , AM , OM D Psych ( honoris causa ) Executive Minister of the Uniting Church of St Michael 's in Melbourne and founder of the Cairnmillar Institute
Harold Mitchell , AC Dip Advert , DBus ( honoris causa ) media entrepreneur and philanthropist , founder of Mitchell Communications
Tom Nairn former faculty nationalist , RMIT 's Globalism Research Centre Tom Nairn Lecture named in his honour
Jacques Nasser , AO BBus , D Tech ( honoris causa ) Chairman of the World 's largest mining company BHP Billiton , and former CEO of Ford