Myles Mcgregor-Lowndes

• Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Business & Law, Queensland University of Technology

Emeritus Professor Myles McGregor-Lowndes OAM is the former Director of The Australian Centre of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies (ACPNS) at the Queensland University of Technology.

He has written extensively about nonprofit tax and regulation, nonprofit legal entities, government grants and standard charts of accounts as a means of reducing the compliance burden. He is a practising lawyer in Queensland.

Myles was a founding member of the ATO Charities Consultative Committee and the advisory board for the national charities regulator, the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission.

In June 2003, Myles was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to the community by providing education and support in legal, financial and administrative matters to nonprofit organisations.

In 2023 he was reappointed to the Australian Charities and Not for Profits Commission Advisory Board.

Links with sector:

* Queensland Law Society
* Hon. member of Fundraising Institute - Australia
* Founding Director - Australian and New Zealand Third Sector Research Limited
* Legal consultant with Paxton-Hall Lawyers (one day a week)
* Australian Charities and Not for Profits Commission Advisory Board member.

Research interests

Law, regulation and taxation of nonprofit corporations
Public policy relating to philanthropic and nonprofit matters.

• 2001–present Director of The Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies, Queensland University of Technology

• 1994 Griffith University, PHD

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