Series 770 - Papers of Graeme Snooks

Born in Western Australia in 1944, Graeme Snooks was educated at Mount Lawley Senior High School, the University of Western Australia (BEc, 1966; MEc, 1968), and the Australian National University (PhD, 1972).

Snooks worked at Flinders University in South Australia from 1973 to 1989 when he left to become the foundation Coghlan Research Professor in Economics and History in the Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University, a position he held until 2010. Since 2010 he has been the Executive Director of the Institute of Global Dynamic Systems in Canberra.

Graeme Snooks is"... a systems theorist who has developed a general dynamic theory -- the "dynamic-strategy" theory -- to explain and predict complex living systems. The theory has been employed to analyse the fluctuating fortunes of life over the past 4,000 myrs and human society over the past 2 myrs; to analyse contemporary economic problems (inflation, financial crises, climate change); to explore socio-political issues(population, democracy, "clash of civilizations"); and to predict the future". [Source https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Graeme-Snooks]

Snooks has been elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences (1991), the Royal Historical Society (UK) (1990), and was a Fellow of the Russian Academy of Humanities from 2006 until he resigned in protest in 2022.