1. Megan Davis is currently the Harvard University Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair in Australia Studies and Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School.
23 Facts About Megan Davis
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Megan Davis holds the Balnaves Chair in Constitutional Law at UNSW and is the Director of the Indigenous Law Centre, UNSW.
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Megan Davis was the first Indigenous woman from Australia to be elected via ECOSOC competitive elections to serve on a United Nations body and served as Rapporteur and Chair of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
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Megan Davis was the Rapporteur of the UN Expert Group Meeting on an Optional Protocol to the UNDRIP as well as the author of a UNPFII study on a supervisory mechanism for UNDRIP.
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Megan Davis was the UN Rapporteur for the 2012 International Expert Group Meeting on Combating violence against indigenous women and girls: article 22 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which produced the first major UN report on Indigenous women, and was the UN Rapporteur for the International EGM on Indigenous Youth.
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Megan Davis is especially known for her work on the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
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Megan Davis designed the Referendum Council's deliberative process that led to the Uluru Statement from the Heart and has been a leading expert on the recognition of First Nations peoples for two decades.
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Professor Megan Davis is a Sydney Peace Prize Laureate, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, the Australian Academy of Social Sciences, and the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
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Megan Davis is an Acting Commissioner of the New South Wales Land and Environment Court.
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Megan Davis was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in the 2025 Australia Day Honours.
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Megan Jane Davis was born in October 1975 in Monto.
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Megan Davis's ancestry is Aboriginal Australian and South Pacific Islander.
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Megan Davis was brought up by a single mother and one of her earliest interests was the Australian Constitution and the United Nations General Assembly.
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Megan Davis attended the University of Queensland, earning a law degree.
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Megan Davis was an international lawyer at the United Nations, where in the period from 1999 until 2004 she helped work on the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including providing legal advice to ATSIC Commissioners during the drafting stages.
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Megan Davis has been a member of the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples since 2017, and in July 2021 to 2022, she was elected its chair.
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Megan Davis has been the Director of the Indigenous Law Centre since 2006.
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Megan Davis was appointed UNSW Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous in 2017and Balnaves Chair in Constitutional Law in 2020.
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Megan Davis is currently the Pro Vice-Chancellor, Society at UNSW.
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Megan Davis has extensive experience on Indigenous peoples and reform of regulatory systems including as a Commissioner on the QLD Commission of Inquiry into Youth Detention Centres in 2016 alongside co-Commissioner Kathryn McMillan KC.
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In 2017, Megan Davis was appointed a Commissioner on the Australian Rugby League Commission.
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Megan Davis has described growing up in a "crazy rugby league family", and wanting to "give back to a game that gave so much to me and my family".
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Megan Davis is a director on the North Queensland Cowboys Community Foundation Board, a Commissioner for South Australian Rugby League, and formerly a director on the Western Australia Rugby League Commission.