Simon Ville

Background

About Simon Ville

I am Senior Professor of Economic and Business History and Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Business and Law at the University of Wollongong, Australia. I previously worked at the Australian National University, and the universities of Auckland and Manchester with visiting positions at Harvard Business School, University College London, London School of Economics, the Universities of Glasgow and Melbourne, and the Australian National University. I have written widely on big business, industry associations, social capital, the Vietnam War, natural history trading, and the rural and resource industries for major publishers such as Cambridge, Oxford and Melbourne University Presses and many leading international journals. My research collaborators come from USA, Norway, Britain, and Japan. My edited 'Cambridge Economic History of Australia' has just been published and was recently cited in Hansard. I am a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and a former member of the College of Experts at the Australian Research Council.