James Popple
Chief Executive Officer at The Australian National University
Canberra, Australia
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Top SchoolJames Popple is an experienced legal executive and public-sector leader who has served as CEO of the Law Council of Australia after leading operations for two major royal commissions into aged care and defence and veteran suicide. With a background as the inaugural Freedom of Information Commissioner, a Senior Member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and long service in the Attorney‑General’s Department, he blends deep policy, administrative law and regulatory expertise with operational leadership. He holds a PhD at the intersection of computer science and law and maintains an academic footprint as an Honorary Professor at ANU, reflecting a rare mix of legal scholarship and technical interest in AI and the law. Based in Canberra, he also contributes to legal infrastructure through roles with the Australian Academy of Law and the AustLII Foundation, demonstrating commitment to access to justice and evidence-based reform. An often-overlooked thread through his career is sustained interdisciplinary curiosity—ranging from electronic music to computational legal research—that informs pragmatic, system-level improvements to the justice system.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityMelrose High School, CanberraTorrens Primary School, CanberraPhillip College (now Canberra College)
Github Skills (14)
r-package6
masonry5
react-masonry5
react3
grid2
react-hooks2
grid-system2
infinite-scroll2
visualization2
virtualization1
rust1
high-performance1
rapid1
windowing1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
JamesKondilios/Nice-R-Anova-Table-Export
Nov 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:16 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
JamesKondilios/Emarginata-Analysis
May 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:53 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 4 months
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