King stays on at IRU

Conor King will stay on as executive director of Innovative Research Universities (IRU), following a four-month stint as the group’s acting director. Previously, King spent two years as principal consultant with the tertiary sector consulting group PhillipsKPA, following a two-year spell as institutional strategist at Victoria University. He served as director of policy with the then Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee for seven years until 2005. King takes up his permanent appointment with IRU at the start of next month.