ACT Skills Commission

Dr Colin Adrian

Chief Executive, Canberra Institute of Technology

Dr Colin Adrian was appointed Chief Executive of the Canberra Institute of Technology in August 2006. He is also Chair of the Board of CIT Solutions Pty Ltd; wholly owned by CIT to pursue the Institute's commercial activities. In November 2006 he was appointed to the ACT Skills Commission.

Previously he was the Deputy Chief Executive, ACT Department of Disability, Housing and Community Services. He formerly held a senior executive position in the ACT Department of Urban Services and was head of Environment ACT, the ACT Government's Nature Conservation and Environment Protection Agency. He was with the ACT Planning and Land Authority in 2003, where he held the position of Chief Executive for a period of three months, establishing the new Authority pending the arrival of the permanent Chief Executive.

Dr Adrian has held statutory appointments as the ACT Conservator of Flora & Fauna; ACT Animal Welfare Authority; member of the ACT Bushfire Council, the ACT Community Recovery Coordinator and member of the ACT Heritage Council. He was also a Murray Darling Basin Commissioner; ACT representative on the Australian and New Zealand Environmental Conservation Council and ARMCANZ, a member of the Board of the Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology; ACT Cultural Council; ACT Emergency Management Council, the NRMA ACT Government Road Safety Trust and a member of the Gungahlin Development Authority.

Dr Adrian is a former Fullbright Scholar and has tertiary qualifications in geography, economics and mathematics including an MA from Ohio State University and a PhD from the University of New South Wales. He has held a number of senior positions in academia, at the University of NSW and The Australian National University and with the Commonwealth Public Service and ACT Government.