Current Office Bearers
Chancellor
Dr Graeme L Blackman OAM, PhD, BSc(Hons), BD, MTheol, FTSE, FRACI, FAICD, FIoD
Dr Blackman, an experienced company director and CEO, is an Anglican representative on the MCD University of Divinity Council and a member of the Strategic Planning Committee, Council Membership Committee, Employment Conditions Committee, and Governance and Nominations Committee.
He has been involved in various community activities, especially through his association with the Anglican Church both at parish and diocesan levels. In particular Dr Blackman has been an active member of the Archbishop in Council of the Diocese of Melbourne and is a member of Chapter of St Paul's Anglican Cathedral.
Dr Blackman is Chairman of the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) and of the Australian Council of National Trusts. He is also a Board member of Trinity College (University of Melbourne), Medicines Australia, and Benetas Anglican Aged Care Group.
Deputy Chancellor
Dr Andrew Menzies BA, BMin, MMin, DMin
Dr Menzies, Principal of Stirling Theological College, is a Churches of Christ representative on the MCD University of Divinity Council and a member of the Strategic Planning Committee, Council Membership Committee, and Governance and Nominations Committee.
He is a Board member of Stirling Theological College and has served in leadership capacities in wider expressions of God's church, such as Chair of Schools Ministry Group (SA); Chair of the Tabor College Victoria Board; and as Chair of various denominational committees.
Having worked as a Youth Pastor, School Chaplain, College Lecturer, Denominational Executive and Senior Pastor, Dr Menzies brings twenty years of Christian ministry and leadership experience to his role.
Past President
The Revd Dr Terence Curtin STL, BEd, STD
Dr Curtin is one of two representatives of the Roman Catholic Church on MCD University of Divinity Council and has served on the Strategic Planning Committee, Council Membership Committee, Employment Conditions Committee, and Governance and Nominations Committee.
He is the past Master of Catholic Theological College and heads the Systematic Theology Department. He is also parish priest of St Bridget's Parish, Greythorn, and Episcopal Vicar for the Eastern Region of the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne. From 1975 Dr Curtin was Head of the Religious Education Department, SCV-ICE Mercy Campus, Ascot Vale and from 1987 Head of the Centre for Religion and Philosophy, Christ Campus, Oakleigh.
Dr Curtin was Head of the School of Theology (Victoria) within Australian Catholic University(1992-2002) and also served as President of the Forum of Australian Catholic Institutes of Theology (FACIT).
Honorary Treasurer
Professor Sheila Bellamy BA, BEd, GradDipFinMgt, MEc, MAdmin, MCom, PhD, FCPA, DSJ
Professor Bellamy, a Fellow of CPA Australia, is Chair of MCD University of Divinity's Finance and Investment Committee.
At RMIT University, Prof Bellamy served for many years as Head, School of Accounting and Law then as Pro Vice-Chancellor of the Business College. Her area of expertise is public sector and not-for-profit accounting in which she has taught, published widely and supervised many doctoral students.
Professor Bellamy is also a Board member of the Uniting Church's Centre for Theology and Ministry, serves on the UCA Assembly's Reception of Ministers Committee and is Secretary of her local UCA church.
Vice-Chancellor
Professor Peter Sherlock BA(Hons), MA, DPhil
Professor Peter Sherlock is the inaugural Vice-Chancellor of MCD University of Divinity. Appointed in 2012 to lead Australia’s first University of Specialisation, he was previously Dean of the United Faculty of Theology within MCD. Professor Sherlock holds degrees in History from the University of Melbourne, and a doctoral degree from the University of Oxford where he was a Commonwealth Scholar. From 2004 to 2008 he was an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne.
His two principal areas of research are memory and commemoration in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, and Australian religious history. He is author of Monuments and Memory in Early Modern England (2008) and is presently writing a history of the monuments of Westminster Abbey. His teaching interests include the Reformation, gender and religion, and the history of Christian missions.
Professor Sherlock is a Lay Canon of St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne, and has a strong record of leadership and service to the churches.
Chair of Academic Board
Rev Dr Michael Kelly CSsR
Michael is in his second term as Chair of the Academic Board of the MCD University of Divinity. He is also a lecturer and the Postgraduate Coordinator at Yarra Theological Union, a Recognised Teaching Institution of the MCD. He completed postgraduate studies at Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan and at Boston College in Boston from which he received a doctorate in Theology and Education in 1992. He has been visitng scholar at Kimmage Mission Institute in Dublin, the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, and most recently at Boston College in 2011.
His academic interests are pastoral theology and religious education. He has co-edited several books: Wisdom for Life (2005) and Together in Ministry: Essays to Honour John Paver (2009).
Dr Kelly is a Catholic priest and a member of the Redemptorist Congregation, an international order of Catholic priests and brothers. He is currently Executive Secretary and Treasurer of the Conference of Redemptorists in Asia-Oceania.