Dr. John Wood has served on an extensive range of Boards. Currently John is the Chair of UTS Insearch Global and a non-executive director of Universal Higher Education, Kings University College, Malaysia and the Australian Data and Cyber Institute. He has been a board member of a diverse range of organisations including , HBF, Australia’s fourth largest health insurance and general insurance, Nuffield College, Oxford and numerous Navitas college boards.

Currently he is the Head of Business Development for Oxford International Education Group (Part time) and Managing Director of Leviathan International. The former CEO of Navitas University Partnerships, John has an intimate knowledge of Universities, international education, global private providers and regulatory and operating environments. At Navitas John oversaw the growth of private- public partnerships for pathway colleges and managed campuses in 10 countries.
John’s career has spanned academia, government and the private sector. John graduated with first class honors in Economics from the University of Western Australia and Oxford where he also taught economics.
Prior to his 11 years with Navitas, John was Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Edith Cowan, Foundation Professor and Dean of the College of Business at the University of Notre Dame, where he was also the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic).

John has also occupied Government positions including as Speechwriter to Prime Minister Hawke. He held senior Government positions and served Ministers from all major political parties and was appointed by the Ministerial Council to serve on the Australian Qualifications Framework Council. His private sector positions included a period as Chief Economist with Ernst & Young. He has consulted for the World Bank, to various Governments and to small and large private organisations.

John has an international reputation as an author writing 2 books and editing 115 volumes in the Croom Helm/Routledge Series on great economists and is joint editor of the 30 volume Critical Evaluations of Management Thinkers series.

He is a life member of the Oxford Business Alumni.

John is also the co- founder with his wife, Caroline, of the Centre for Stories as an inclusive literary and cultural organisation which uses storytelling to inspire social cohesion and improve understanding of diverse communities.