Series 381 - Encyclopaedia of the Australian People files

James Jupp was born in Croydon, England in 1932. He studied at the London School of Economics 1951-1956, and the University of London where he earned his PhD in 1975. He was General Editor of the Bicentennial Encyclopaedia of the Australian People 1984-1988 and of the second edition in 2001. Jupp was a member of the Advisory Council on Multicultural Affairs and chairman of the Review of Migrant and Multicultural Programs and Services (ROMAMPAS), which presented its report Don't Settle for Less, to the Minister for Immigration in August 1986. He was formerly chairman of the ACT Multicultural Advisory Council and of the ACT Reference Group of the Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research. Jupp was Director of the Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University 1988 - 2012 and an Adjunct Professor of the RMIT University in Melbourne. He was awarded the Order of Australia in 2004.