CDI's Deputy Director

Quinton Clements BA (Hons, 1st Class, ANU) is Deputy Director of the Centre for Democratic Institutions at the Australian National University . His work focuses on strengthening parliaments and implementing good governance best practice.

Prior to taking up this position in 2006, Mr Clements held a number of positions in the Australian Public Service and in the Department of the House of Representatives, Parliament of Australia. He served as Inquiry Secretary to the Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on the National Capital and External Territories; and acting Committee Secretary for the Parliamentary Joint Committee on ASIO, ASIS and DSD and the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works. Mr Clements has also worked in the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea as Committee Secretary to the Parliamentary Select Committee on a Pacific Economic Community.

Mr Clements has consulted on issues of parliamentary strengthening and good governance in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Island Countries for agencies such as the United Nations Development Programme. He has been an associate of the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University .

Mr Clements' academic research focuses on nation building, nationalism and identity formation, and issues of socio-economic development and governance. He contributed to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute's report on the Solomon Islands , Our Failing Neighbour: Australia and the Future of Solomon Islands ; and co-edited a book Building a Nation in Papua New Guinea: Views of the Post-Independence Generation (Pandanus Press, 2003).