Simon Ville

Simon Ville, Senior Professor of Economic and Business History at the University of Wollongong, was the Whitlam-Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University (2022-3), and he was elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (2006). He has written extensively on big business, foreign investment, innovation, the rural and resource industries, natural history trading, social capital, capital markets, and transport history. His work has appeared in many leading international journals and with university and commercial publishers including Cambridge, Oxford, Manchester, Melbourne, and Auckland university presses. He has collaborated with many national and international organisations including: UNESCO, Shell Corporation, South Korean Government, Australian Federal Department of Veterans Affairs, New South Wales Government Office for Women, National Council of Wool-selling Brokers, the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the Australian Museum, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.