Adam Graycar is a professor of social and policy studies at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. He also is a professor of public policy at the Australian National University in Canberra, where he is director of the Transnational Research Institute on Corruption, which conducts research on public corruption and devises ways to reduce it.
Currently on sabattical at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York and at the Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity at Columbia University, he is a former dean of the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, the state university of New Jersey.
Graycar's most recent government position was as a head, from 2003 to 2007, of the Cabinet Office of the Government of South Australia, which is responsible for managing federal/state relations and national-security issues. Prior to that, he was for nine years director of the Australian Institute of Criminology.
Graycar has two doctorates from the University of New South Wales, where in the 1980s he was the foundation director of the university's Social Policy Research Centre. The author of some 200 scholarly publications, he is a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
