Maxwell King

Professor Maxwell King is an Emeritus Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor in the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University in Melbourne.

Previously he was Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Research Training) at Monash University with responsibility for its postgraduate research programs, its student scholarship systems and research assessment. He was appointed as a Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor in 2003, the inaugural Director of the Monash Research Graduate School in 1999, Professor of Econometrics in 1986 and was Head of the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics from 1988 to 2000. He has held visiting appointments at Trinity College, Cambridge, the University of Auckland and the University of California, San Diego. He was a founding member of the Australian Council of Deans and Directors of Graduate Studies and was the Council’s Convenor from 2007 to 2009.

Despite a significant administrative load, Professor King has always been an active researcher having published over 120 journal articles in his field of econometrics. He supervised 45 Ph.D. students to completion and received the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Postgraduate Supervision. In 1997, he was made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and he received a Career Achievement Award from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council in 2009. An international conference on econometrics was held in his honour in Melbourne, during December 2016.

Upon retirement as Pro Vice-Chancellor at Monash University, the Maxwell King PhD scholarship was created to be offered annually to the best applicant across all disciplines of the University.