Executive Board
Grahame MCCULLOCH
 Grahame MCCULLOCH |
Grahame McCulloch has been General Secretary of the National Tertiary Education Union since its formation in 1993. Prior to that he was General Secretary (1985-1993), Assistant General Secretary (1984) and Industrial Officer (1982-83) of the Union of Australian College Academics (UACA).
He has been a participant and member of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) Council and Executive since the mid-1990s. He was a member of the Australian Government’s Trade Development Council (1989-1992) and National Advisory Committee on International Education Training and Services (1989-1993).
He has wide international experience including membership of the Education International (EI) World Executive Board (2004-present) and its Higher and Further Education Committee (1996-1998). He was a member of an Australian Government Export of Education Services Mission to South East Asia (1985), and has been involved with union development projects in South Africa (1995-1996) and Fiji (2001).
Before entering the union movement, Grahame studied history and politics at the University of Tasmania (1977-1979) and was a leading student activist holding full time posts with the Australian Union of Students (AUS) as Tasmanian Regional Organiser (1978) and National Education Vice-President (1980). During this period he chaired the Asian Students Association (ASA) Executive Board in Hong Kong (1979).