Chris Duke is Professor of Regional Partnerships and Learning in the School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning. He is also Honorary Professor of Lifelong Learning within the Institute of Education at the University in Scotland, and holds a similar position at the University of Leicester in England. For 2002-03 he was Director of Community and Regional Partnerships at RMIT, serving also for a few months as Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Organisation Behaviour and Change.
He has a first class honours degree in history from Cambridge, where he was a Major Open Scholar at Jesus College; a Cambridge PGCE and MA degree; a London PhD in history; and an Hon DLitt from Keimyung University, Republic of Korea.