Emeritus Professor David Wilmoth is the director of Learning Cities International, a company advising on education and urban development. He is active in the non-profit and university sectors, and chairs academic and museum boards in Australia and Vietnam. He has been a dean and deputy vice-chancellor at RMIT, head of division for planning in NSW, director of national urban policy in the Australian government, and a company director, academic and consultant in many countries. He belongs to a number of professional institutes, and has degrees and certificates in economics, planning and higher education from the Universities of Queensland, Sydney, California at Berkeley, Melbourne and Harvard.