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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. 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)

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  2. 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

  3. 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

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.