Malcolm Skilbeck
Malcolm Preston Skilbeck is a world authority on education and works in educational policy analysis, curriculum, tertiary and secondary education, the teaching profession, and educational innovation. Some of this work has been done with Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Skilbeck received his B.A. from University of Sydney, his M.A. from University of Illinois, and Ph.D. from the University of London. He has published many papers, articles, books and reports on academic issues such as curriculum theory and development, educational policy and youth training, in the secondary  and tertiary sectors. He authored the books "Loving and Studying Nature: Celebrating the Earth Through History, Culture and Education" (2021), "School Based Curriculum Development" and "The Vocational Quest"; co-authored the "Curriculum Reform", and the influential survey: "Industry-university partnerships in the curriculum: trends and developments in OECD countries". In the 2014 Australia Day Honours, Skilbeck was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO). With his first wife Elizabeth (nee Robbins) he has four children, Ruth, Clare, Paul, and Lucy; and with his second wife Helen Connell he has one child, Brigit.