Glyn Conrad Davis AC (born 25 July 1959) is an Australian academic who is the Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, appointed by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on 30 May 2022, and commenced on 6 June 2022. Davis was previously a Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University's Crawford School of Public Policy. From January 2005 until September 2018, he served as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. Personal life Davis was educated at Marist Brothers College, Kogarah. He later studied political science at the University of New South Wales and the Australian National University where he completed a doctoral thesis on the political independence of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, before undertaking post-doctoral appointments as a Harkness Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, the Brookings Institution in Washington DC and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Davis is married to Margaret Gardner, the Vice-Chancellor of Monash University. When Davis was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, he and his spouse were regularly referred to as "Melbourne's top academic couple". Career For nearly 14 years Davis served as Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Melbourne and as Professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Arts. He publishes on public policy. Davis began his academic career at Griffith University. He commenced as a lecturer in public policy in 1985 and was appointed as a professor in 1998. He has combined an academic career with practical experience in government, serving as Commissioner for Public Sector Equity with the Public Sector Management Commission from 1990 to 1993, as Director-General of the Office of the Cabinet from 1995 to 1996 under Premier Wayne Goss, and as Director-General of the Department of the Premier and Cabinet to the Premier of Queensland, Peter Beattie, from 1998 to 2002. Davis became Vice-Chancellor and President of Griffith University in 2002. In January 2005 he was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne and has led the introduction of the university's "Melbourne Curriculum" academic structure. In 2008, Davis co-chaired the Australia 2020 Summit and, in the same year, served as a member of the Innovation Taskforce, an expert group commissioned to review Australia's research and innovation systems. Internationally, Davis is an immediate past chair of Universitas 21, a grouping of 24 leading universities from around the globe, a member of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities, a member of