Norman Abjorensen

Norman Abjorensen is a Visiting Fellow in the Policy and Governance Program and is a prominent media commentator on Australian politics. He previously taught political science at the ANU’s School of Social Sciences and at the University of Canberra.

He is a former national editor of the Sydney Morning Herald and an award winning journalist and has worked as a political adviser, speechwriter and corporate communications executive.

2010-14: Associate, Centre for the Study of Australian Politics, School of Politics and International Relations, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences.

2009-2012: Research Director, ANU Parliamentary Studies Centre.

2012-13: Visiting Professor of International Public Policy at the Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo.

2013-17: Country Expert, University of Gothenburg (Sweden, for the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Project.

2014- Advisory Board, Accountability International (Cambodia.

2014-15: Honorary Research Associate, Prime Ministers Centre, Museum of Australian Democracy.

Aug-Nov 2015: Visiting Professor in School of Public Management, Northwest University, Xi’an, People’s Republic of China.

2017: Visiting Lecturer, Ateneo School of Government, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines.

• Comparative Government and Politics (2010-2012)
• Corruption as a Public Policy Issue (Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, 2012-2013)
• Academic Convenor, Vietnam Anti-Corruption Program, Hanoi and Canberra, (2008-2010)
• Academic Convenor, China Scholarship Council Program (2010-2013)
• Policy Advocacy (2009-2011)
• Writing Public Policy (2011-2013)
• Corruption and Anti-Corruption (2011-2013)
• Environmental Policy and Communications (2011-2013)
• Politics of the Culture Wars, Honours seminar, (2009)
• Australian Democracy: Theoretical and Comparative Approaches (2008-9)
• Australian Political Parties (2008)