Dr Kosmas Tsokhas was a Senior Research Fellow in Economic History in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. In 1975, he graduated Bachelor of Arts with first class honours at the University of Melbourne, where he was awarded a Master of Arts degree in 1979 and a Doctorate of Philosophy in 1983. While he undertook postgraduate research at the University of Melbourne, he was appointed Tutor, Senior Tutor and Temporary Lecturer. Dr Tsokhas first joined the Australian National University in 1983 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Political Science in the Research School of Social Sciences and in 1986 he was appointed a Research Fellow in Economic History and then a Senior Research Fellow in 1990. He is an author of numerous books, articles, reviews and papers on political economy, economic history and cultural studies, including A Class Apart? Businessmen and Australian Politics 1960-1980 (Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1984); Beyond Dependence: Companies, Labour Processes and Australian Mining (Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1986); and Markets, Money and Empire: The Political Economy of the Australian Wool Industry (Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1990).