the Hong Kong Grants Commission until 31 December 2010 and a director of the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at King's College London. Davis is the patron of Australia 21, a non-profit organisation developing research networks on key issues affecting Australia's future. He is a former president of the Group of Eight, a group representing a number of Australia's major research universities. Previously, he was the foundation chairman of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG), which is headquartered at the University of Melbourne. Davis was selected by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to present the 51st Boyer Lectures series, on-air from 14 November 2010, with the topic of "The Republic of Learning: higher education transforms Australia". In October 2018, Davis joined the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University as a distinguished professor. He is also a visiting professor at the Policy Institute, King's College London, visiting professor in the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford, and in 2018 was elected a visiting fellow at Exeter College Oxford. Davis is also an honorary professor of public policy at Manchester University. In December 2018, Davis became the CEO of the Paul Ramsay Foundation. In June 2022, Davis became the Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Honours Davis is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and the Institute of Public Administration Australia, received the Centenary Medal "in recognition of contribution to public service" and, on 26 January 2002, became a Companion of the Order of Australia for his "service to public administration, particularly as an advocate for good governance, constitutional reform and the creation of infrastructure to enable the development of a "knowledge-based" nation, to tertiary education in the field of political science, and to the community." He holds honorary doctorates from Griffith University and the University of New South Wales. There are buildings named after him on the campus of Griffith University at Nathan, and the Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne Parkville. In September 2018 Davis was awarded the lifetime achievement award in higher education by the Australian Financial Review. Publications Davis has written widely on policy and governance. His most recent publications are: On Life's Lottery, Hachette, 2021. The Australian Idea of a University, Melbourne University Publishing, 2017. The Australian Policy Handbook (6th edition with Peter Bridgman and Catherine Althaus), Routledge, 2017. The