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R.G. Menzies Scholarship to Harvard

Where Menzies Scholars Went.

Short profiles of the Menzies Scholars named elsewhere on this site, drawn from their official university, court and organisation pages. Where a role can change, we give it as at October 2026. Each profile links to its sources.

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  1. Lionel Glendenning

    1968 Menzies Scholar · MArch, Harvard Graduate School of Design

    He was the first Menzies Scholar. As Principal Architect within the Office of the NSW Government Architect, he was architect of record for the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. In 1978 he and Lindsay Sharp prepared the feasibility study for adapting the Ultimo Power House as a museum. The museum’s design won the President’s Award for Recycled Buildings, the Belle Interiors Award and the Sir Zelman Cowen Award in the RAIA National Architecture Awards, and was co-recipient of the RAIA NSW Chapter’s Sulman Award for 1988.

    Source: City of Sydney: Powerhouse Museum heritage inventory sheet (draft) (opens in a new tab)

    Lionel Glendenning on the Honour Roll

  2. Glenn Withers

    1970 Menzies Scholar · PhD in Business Economics, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

    He is Emeritus Professor of Economics in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University, and was the founding chief executive of Universities Australia. He has chaired Australian government bodies including the National Population Council and the Economic Planning Advisory Commission, and public inquiries on population, immigration and infrastructure financing. He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for services to applied economics, including for design of the Australian immigration points system.

    Source: ANU Research Portal: Glenn Withers (opens in a new tab)

    Glenn Withers on the Honour Roll

  3. Hilary Charlesworth

    1982 Menzies Scholar · LLM, Harvard Law School

    As at October 2026 she is a Judge of the International Court of Justice, a member of the Court since 5 November 2021 and re-elected from 6 February 2024. She was Distinguished Professor and Director of the Centre for International Governance and Justice at the Australian National University. She chaired the ACT Government’s inquiry into an ACT bill of rights, which led to the adoption of the ACT Human Rights Act 2004. In 2006 she was joint winner of the American Society of International Law’s Goler T. Butcher Medal for contributions to international human rights law.

    Sources: International Court of Justice: current members (opens in a new tab); ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance: Hilary Charlesworth (opens in a new tab)

    Hilary Charlesworth on the Honour Roll

  4. Andrew Byrnes

    1983 Menzies Scholar · LLM, Harvard Law School

    He is Emeritus Professor of International Law and Human Rights at UNSW Sydney, where he was Professor of International Law from 2005 to 2020. Earlier he was Professor of Law at the Australian National University and, at the University of Hong Kong, Director of the Centre for Comparative and Public Law. His publications address women’s human rights, the human rights of older persons, disability rights and national human rights institutions. He has been President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law, and was external legal adviser to the Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights from 2012 to 2014.

    Source: UNSW staff profile: Andrew Byrnes (opens in a new tab)

    Andrew Byrnes on the Honour Roll

  5. Michael Hiscox

    1990 Menzies Scholar · PhD in Government, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

    As at October 2026 he is the Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs in the Department of Government at Harvard, and founding Director of its Sustainability, Transparency, Accountability Research (STAR) Lab. On leave from Harvard from 2015 to 2017, he was the founding Director of the Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government (BETA) in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and he continues to advise it. His research applies behavioural economics to the design of public policies and private-sector sustainability initiatives.

    Source: Harvard Department of Government: Michael J. Hiscox (opens in a new tab)

    Michael Hiscox on the Honour Roll

  6. Kim Rubenstein

    1991 Menzies Scholar · LLM, Harvard Law School

    As at October 2026 she is a Professor in the Faculty of Business, Government and Law at the University of Canberra and Co-Director of the 50/50 by 2030 Foundation. Her research centres on citizenship law and on gender and public law, including oral history work on women lawyers’ contributions in public life. She was Director of the Centre for International and Public Law at the Australian National University from 2006 to 2015, and the inaugural Convener of the ANU Gender Institute. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

    Source: University of Canberra research profile: Kim Rubenstein (opens in a new tab)

    Kim Rubenstein on the Honour Roll

  7. Esther Charlesworth

    1993 Menzies Scholar · Master in Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design

    As at October 2026 she is the founding and Managing Director of Architects without Frontiers. The organisation reports more than 82 health, education and social infrastructure projects in 17 countries for vulnerable communities since 2004. She was a Professor in the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT University from 2008 to 2025, where she founded the Master of Disaster, Design and Development and the Humanitarian Architecture Research Bureau. She has published eight books on social justice and architecture, including Divided Cities (2011) and Humanitarian Architecture (2014).

    Source: Architects without Frontiers: Esther Charlesworth (opens in a new tab)

    Esther Charlesworth on the Honour Roll

  8. Tracy Slatyer

    2006 Menzies Scholar · PhD in Theoretical Physics, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

    As at October 2026 she is Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics – a Leinweber Institute. She completed her PhD in physics at Harvard in 2010, was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and joined MIT in 2013. Her research focuses on dark matter: theoretical models, the signals it might produce, and the analysis of astrophysical and cosmological data. In 2024 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

    Source: MIT Physics: Tracy Slatyer (opens in a new tab)

    Tracy Slatyer on the Honour Roll

  9. Maja Cassidy

    2008 Menzies Scholar · PhD in Applied Physics, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

    As at October 2026 she is a Senior Lecturer, ARC DECRA Fellow and Scientia Fellow in the School of Physics at UNSW Sydney, where she leads the QMD lab. After a master’s and PhD in applied physics at Harvard and a postdoctoral fellowship at TU Delft/QuTech, she spent five years as a Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Quantum, where she led quantum hardware integration. Her research develops technologies for future quantum computing and sensor systems.

    Source: UNSW staff profile: Maja Cassidy (opens in a new tab)

    Maja Cassidy on the Honour Roll

More Scholars

These are 9 of the 103 Menzies Scholars since 1968. The Honour Roll lists every one, and scholars who have joined the scholar network can add a public profile. Spotted something out of date? Let us know.