Hugh Mackay AO

Australia

Hugh Mackay
Social researcher and author

Hugh Mackay AO is a social researcher and bestselling author of 22 books, including The Good Life, The Art of Belonging, Beyond Belief and his latest, Australia Reimagined, published in May.

Hugh has had a 60 year career in social research, and was also a weekly newspaper columnist for over 25 years. He is currently a patron of the Asylum Seekers Centre and an honorary professor of social science in the University of Wollongong. Among many other appointments, he has been deputy chairman of the Australia Council for the Arts, chairman of trustees of Sydney Grammar School, and the inaugural chairman of the ACT government’s Community Inclusion Board.

In recognition of his pioneering work in social research, Hugh has been elected a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society and awarded honorary doctorates by Charles Sturt, Macquarie, NSW, Western Sydney and Wollongong universities. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2015.

Talks, conversations and panels