Joseph Camilleri

Joseph Camilleri (born 1944) is an Australian citizen of Maltese descent. He is a social scientist and philosopher. In philosophy he mostly specialised and interested in international relations.

Camilleri was born in 1944 into a Maltese family residing in Egypt. His family moved to Australia when he was still very young. He studied at Melbourne University, Australia, from where he acquired his Bachelor of Arts, at Monash University, also in Melbourne, from where he acquire his Masters' degree, and at London University, England, where he became Doctor of Philosophy. Between 1967 and 1968 Camilleri was Teaching Fellow at Monash University. Subsequently, he was Noel Buxton Fellow at the London School of Economics (1969–72), and Senior Teaching Fellow in Politics at Monash University (1969–72). Then, at La Trobe University in Victoria, Australia, he was Lecturer (1973–80), Senior Lecturer (1981–87), and Reader (1988–93), all in Politics. As Professor of International Relations, he currently holds Personal Chair in Politics in the School of Social Sciences at La Trobe University. He is also the Director of the Centre for Dialogue, also at La Trobe. He has taught over thirty different subjects at undergraduate and postgraduate level in the following areas ranging from theories of world politics, conflict analysis and peace research to nuclear weapons in international relations, oil and the politics of the Middle East, and the foreign policies of the United States, China, Russia, France, Japan, and Australia. His many research projects include governance and the development of multilateral regional and global institutions. Since 1995 he has been a Member of the Australian Committee of the Council for Security and Cooperation in Asia Pacific (AUS CSCAP). He is also Member of the Advisory Board of the Scholarly Journal Global Governance (since 1997), and a Member of the Advisory Council of the Toda Institute for Peace and Global Policy Research (since 1998).