Professor Donald Markwell, BEcon(Hons) Qld, MA, MPhil, DPhil Oxon, has been Warden of Trinity College since September 1997. He is also a Professorial Fellow of the Department of Political Science and the Centre for Public Policy in the University of Melbourne.
From 1986 until joining Trinity, Professor Markwell was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and Lecturer in Politics at the University of Oxford. A Visiting Fellow at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA, in 1984-85, and a Research Fellow at New College, Oxford, in 1985-86, he has held a number of other Visiting Fellowships and research positions.
Professor Markwell was awarded the 1981 Rhodes Scholarship for Queensland.