Simon Ville, BA Hons, PhD, FASSA, is the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Research at Harvard College, 2022-3. He’s additionally Senior Professor of Financial and Enterprise Historical past on the College of Wollongong, Australia. He’s a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and a latest member of the Faculty of Consultants on the Australian Analysis Council. He was born in Britain and holds a BA and PhD from College Faculty London. He has beforehand labored on the College of Manchester, the College of Auckland, and the Australian Nationwide College. He has held visiting fellowships on the College of Glasgow, College Faculty London, the College of Melbourne, the Australian Catholic College, and Harvard Enterprise College, and is an affiliate of the Centre for Financial Historical past on the Australian Nationwide College.
He has written extensively on large enterprise, overseas funding, innovation, the agricultural and useful resource industries, pure historical past buying and selling, social capital, transportation historical past, and the Vietnam Struggle. His work has been printed in a variety of extremely ranked journals throughout disciplines together with Journal of Financial Historical past, Financial Historical past Assessment, Journal of Administration Research, American Financial Assessment, Financial File, Australian Historic Research, Historical past of Science, and Journal of World Historical past. His books and chapters have appeared with main college and industrial publishers together with Cambridge, Oxford, Melbourne, Manchester, New South, and Auckland college presses, together with Palgrave and Routledge.
Amongst his main works are The Rural Entrepreneurs: A Historical past of the Inventory and Station Agent Business in Australia and New Zealand (Cambridge College Press, 2000); The Large Finish of City. Large Enterprise and Company Management in Twentieth-Century Australia co-authored with Grant Fleming and David Merrett (Cambridge College Press 2004); and The Cambridge Financial Historical past of Australia collectively edited with Glenn Withers (Cambridge College Press, 2015). His Worldwide Enterprise in Australia earlier than World Struggle One: Shaping a Multinational Economic system can be printed by Palgrave in 2022.
He has delivered greater than 100 keynote lectures, seminars, and convention papers, presenting his work in over 20 international locations throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, North America, and Australasia. He has a deep dedication to the preservation and use of archives and is at present the patron of the Buddies of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre in Canberra.
At the moment, he’s a chief investigator on two Australian Analysis Council grants: ‘Reconstructing museum specimen information by way of the pathways of world commerce’ and ‘A Historical past of overseas multinational enterprises in Australia since Federation’.
He collaborates and consults with a variety of nationwide and worldwide private and non-private sector organisations together with: UNESCO; Shell Company; South Korean Authorities; Australian Federal Division of Veterans Affairs; New South Wales Authorities Workplace for Ladies; Nationwide Council of Wool-selling Brokers in Australia; the Australian Bureau of Statistics; Sky Historical past Channel; Narara Ecovillage; Karratha & Districts Chambers of Commerce and Business; the Australian Museum, and the Australian Broadcasting Company.
