12 Facts About Peter Karmel

Peter Karmel chaired the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission that produced the report Schools in Australia in 1973.

Peter Karmel graduated BA in the School of Economics in 1942, winning the Wyselaskie Scholarship and the Aitcheson Travelling Scholarship.

Peter Karmel was awarded a Rockefeller Grant that enabled him to visit America before his return to Melbourne as senior lecturer in 1949.

At the age of 27, Peter Karmel was appointed to the chair of economics at the University of Adelaide in 1950, later moving the Australian National University.

Peter Karmel was a member of the board for the Centre for the Mind from 1997 to 1999.

Professor Peter Karmel released a 1973 report commissioned by the Whitlam government named Schools in Australia which influenced the government's funding of state schools.

Peter Karmel served as the inaugural Vice-Chancellor of Flinders University.

Peter Karmel was Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University.

The Peter Karmel Building at the ANU School of Music was opened on 26 October 2001 and named in his honour.

Peter Karmel died in Canberra on 30 December 2008, aged 86.

Peter Karmel was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1967, a Companion of the Order of Australia in 1976, and awarded a Centenary Medal in 2001 "for leadership in Australian higher education and for being a leading academic".

Peter Karmel was married to Lena, and they had six children.