{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2018}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2015}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = Professor Emeritus | name = Peter Coaldrake | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AO}} | image = Peter Coaldrake 2014.jpg | image_size = 280 | caption = Coaldrake in 2014 | order = | office = Vice-Chancellor of the<br>Queensland University of Technology | term_start = 2003 | term_end = 2017 | predecessor = Dennis Gibson | successor = Margaret Sheil | birth_date = 1951 | birth_name = Gregory Alan Naylor | birth_place = Marrickville, New South Wales | death_date = | death_place = | alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|James Cook University|Griffith University}} | profession = Academic | spouse = | children = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Owen Peter Coaldrake''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AO}} (born 1951) is an Australian academic and higher education administrator. He served as Vice-Chancellor of the Queensland University of Technology between 2003 and 2017.<ref name=":1" />

==Early life== Peter Coaldrake was born Gregory Alan Naylor to a young mother Jeanette in Marrickville. He was adopted as the only child of Anglican missionaries, Keith and Sheila Coaldrake.<ref>[https://cms.qut.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/459747/educating-peter-coaldrake.pdf/ The Courier Mail Q Weekend] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170220092351/https://cms.qut.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/459747/educating-peter-coaldrake.pdf |date=20 February 2017 }} 3 August 2015, pp10-14.</ref> He was educated in Queensland, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from James Cook University and a PhD from Griffith University.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/coaldrak/|title=QUT - Staff Profiles - Peter Coaldrake|first=Coaldrake|last=Peter|website=staff.qut.edu.au|access-date=28 February 2018|archive-date=23 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180223115001/http://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/coaldrak/|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Career== Coaldrake was appointed by Queensland Premier Wayne Goss to be CEO of the Public Sector Management Commission.<ref name="auto">[http://www.universitiesaustralia.edu.au/page/about-us/board-of-directors/peter-coaldrake/ Universities Australia] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110217133946/http://www.universitiesaustralia.edu.au/page/about-us/board-of-directors/peter-coaldrake/ |date=17 February 2011 }}</ref><ref name=qhr/> He served as Vice-Chancellor of the Queensland University of Technology between 2003 and 2017, replaced by Margaret Sheil.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.qut.edu.au/news?news-id=122721|title=QUT announces new Vice-Chancellor|last=|first=|date=14 September 2017|website=|publisher=Queensland University of Technology|access-date=28 February 2018|archive-date=28 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180228233219/https://www.qut.edu.au/news?news-id=122721|url-status=live}}</ref> He was Chair of Universities Australia.<ref name="auto" />

Coaldrake's decision to close QUT's school of humanities and human services drew the wrath of staff and academic unions. "Many humanities staff see this as the Philistines at the gate."<ref>Lebihan, R. 2009, 'A quintessential Queenslander, by degrees', ''Financial Review'', avail.https://www.afr.com/policy/health-and-education/a-quintessential-queenslander-by-degrees-20090216-jmnd8</ref>

From 2011 to 2016, Coaldrake was the chair of the Queensland Heritage Council.<ref name=qhr>{{cite web|title=Peter Coaldrake, Chair (Queensland Heritage Council)|url=http://www.qldheritage.org.au/peter-coaldrake.html|publisher=Queensland Heritage Council|access-date=21 December 2012|archive-date=9 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130409045607/http://qldheritage.org.au/peter-coaldrake.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://statements.cabinet.qld.gov.au/Statement/2016/12/1/palaszczuk-government-salutes-contribution-of-outgoing-chair-of-queensland-heritage-council|title=Palaszczuk Government salutes contribution of outgoing chair of Queensland Heritage Council|last=Miles|first=Steven|date=1 December 2016|publisher=Queensland Government|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170516055849/http://statements.cabinet.qld.gov.au/Statement/2016/12/1/palaszczuk-government-salutes-contribution-of-outgoing-chair-of-queensland-heritage-council|archive-date=16 May 2017|url-status=live|access-date=16 May 2017}}</ref> Two notable listings added to the Queensland Heritage Register under his leadership were the Fantome Island Lock Hospital and Lazaret Sites and the Queensland Cultural Centre.<ref name=":0" />

Coaldrake was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2011 for "distinguished service to higher education".<ref>[http://www.gg.gov.au/res/file/2011/honours/ad11/Media%20Notes%20AO%20(final).pdf Office of the Governor-General] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629141929/http://www.gg.gov.au/res/file/2011/honours/ad11/Media%20Notes%20AO%20(final).pdf |date=29 June 2011 }} and [https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1143410 Australian Government Honours website]</ref>

In October 2017 Coaldrake became chair of the Queensland Performing Arts Trust. He was appointed chair of Jobs Queensland at the end of 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newcastle.edu.au/current-staff/our-organisation/governance/council/council-members/meet-deborah-wright|title=Meet Professor Peter Coaldrake AO|date=2016-07-25|website=The University of Newcastle, Australia|language=en|access-date=2019-10-09|archive-date=9 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191009211635/https://www.newcastle.edu.au/current-staff/our-organisation/governance/council/council-members/meet-deborah-wright|url-status=live}}</ref> Since March 2019 Coaldrake has been a member of the Council of the University of Newcastle.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newcastle.edu.au/current-staff/our-organisation/governance/council/council-members|title=Meet our Council members|date=2013-04-18|website=The University of Newcastle, Australia|language=en|access-date=2019-10-09|archive-date=9 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191009210031/https://www.newcastle.edu.au/current-staff/our-organisation/governance/council/council-members|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Publications== * Coaldrake, O.P. 1989 ''Working the System, Government in Queensland'' (University of Queensland Press) * Coaldrake, O.P. and Stedman, L. 1998. ''On the Brink. Australia's Universities Confronting their Future.'' (University of Queensland Press) * Coaldrake, O.P. and Stedman, L. ''Academic Work in the Twenty-First Century'' (DETYA, Occasional Paper Series 99-4).

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