The Australian Multicultural Foundation Board and staff wish to express their deepest condolences on the passing of Professor John Nieuwenhuysen, on 7 December 2024. John was a respected and valued member of the Australian Multicultural Foundation serving on the Board from 2009. He’s contribution and mentorship was invaluable and he’s legacies will live on through all of us.
John Nieuwenhuysen was the Director of the Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements, Visiting Professor, King’s College, University of London, and a member of Council, RMIT University in Melbourne. He was the Director of the Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research, and Chief Executive of CEDA, the Committee for Economic Development of Australia. A graduate of the London School of Economics and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia, he received an award (AM) in the Order of Australia in 2003 for services to independent public and private research, and the reform of the liquor laws of Victoria. John led the 12th International Metropolis Conference in Melbourne in 2007 with the Australian Multicultural Foundation and co-hosted Monash University’s Institute for the Study of Global Movements at its campuses in Prato, Italy and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Vale John.