Ronald J. May, MEc (Sydney), DPhil (Oxon)
Emeritus Fellow, State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program; Convenor, Centre for Conflict and Post-conflict Studies, Asia Pacific

Email: Ron.May@anu.edu.au

Biographical Statement

Dr May retired from the Department of Political and Social Change - of which he was a foundation member - in December 2004 and took up the position of Emeritus Professorial Fellow in the State, Society and Governance Project.

Research Interests

Comparative politics, particularly ethnicity and ethnic conflict, decentralisation, parties and elections, and civil-military relations. Country focus: Papua New Guinea and the Philippines (especially Muslim Mindanao).

Key Publications

• State and Society in Papua New Guinea: The First Twenty-Five Years, Crawford House Publishing, Adelaide, 2001.
• 'Muslim Mindanao: Four years after the Peace Agreement', in Southeast Asian Affairs 2001, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 2001.
• (ed. with V. Selochan) The Military and Democracy in Asia and the Pacific, Crawford House Publishing, Bathurst, 1998.

Career Highlights

Senior Economist, Reserve Bank of Australia (1957-72); Director, Institute of Applied Social and Economic Research, Papua New Guinea (1972-78); Associate Director of RSPAS, 1989-1990; Visiting Scholar, Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Canterbury, 2002; Awarded Independence Medal, Papua New Guinea (1977)