284:. In his youth a keen tennis and squash player (University Blue for Squash Racquets, 1964), he is now more interested in music and bushwalking. Born in 1937 in Sydney, he has spent more than half his life in Canberra, where he was a Councillor of the Canberra Business Council for nearly twelve years, and is an Honorary Ambassador for the ACT, the Chairman of the NRMA/ACT Road Safety Trust, the Chairman of the Cultural Facilities Corporation, the President of Pro Musica Inc, and a member of the Ministerial Tourism Advisory Council. He was a Director of ArtSound FM between 2004 and 2006. He was Chairman of the Canberra-based R&D company Agrecon for eleven years and acted as its CEO for a few months in 2002 and 2003. He was the Chairman of the Australian Mathematics Trust from 1992 to 2004 and of the National Olympiad Council (the body organising Australian involvement in the mathematical, physics, chemistry, biology and informatics Olympiads) from 1997 to 2004. At the request of the ACT Government he chaired the Schools Legislation Review in the ACT in 1999 and 2000. In the last decade he has become involved in research policy work in Canada, serving as the Chair of the Multi-Disciplinary Assessment Committee for the Canada Foundation for Innovation, and as a member both of the Blue Ribbon Panel of Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and a Canada Excellence Research Chairs committee.
267:, published in 2005, was widely discussed, and his books on the Country Party and on Australian political behaviour are now authoritative. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1975, one of the youngest Fellows ever elected, a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators in 1995, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Australian Planning Institute in 2001. The University of Canberra awarded him the degree of Doctor of the University, honoris causa, in 2002 and made him a Professor Emeritus; the University of New England awarded him the degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, in 2004. Don Aitkin played a leading role in the establishment of the Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Inc., serving as its President from 1984 to 1986, and of the Asia-Pacific Political Science Association, serving as its Secretary-General from 1983 to 1986. He was the President of the Australasian Political Studies Association in 1979 and a long-running Treasurer (1981 to 1986).
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