Dr Peter Rogers

Dr Peter Rogers (BE 1967, PhD 1974)

Distinguished Alumni Service Award 2011

Dr Peter Rogers (BE 1967, PhD 1974) is a long term supporter of the Faculty of Engineering and its alumni community.

He started volunteering with the University after meeting a former Monash Vice-Chancellor and Chair of the Engineering Foundation at an alumni event.

Feeling he was at a stage in his life and career where he had the interest and capacity to give back, he joined the Monash Engineering Foundation in 2004. He took on the chairman’s role in 2009.

As chairman, Dr Rogers is determined to encourage other graduates, particular those who studied a Monash during its early years, to get involved with the University again. This passion has encouraged many new members

Dr Rogers has formed a fundraising subcommittee, which aims to build relationships with industry, alumni and the community.

Dr Rogers gives freely of his time to Monash University staff and is a strong supporter of the faculty’s Engineering Leadership Program, which provides students with important leadership training and links them with key industry contacts.

Since 2007 the program has enabled high achieving students to learn about themselves and about how to become leaders in the wider world. The program is now Dr Rogers’s top fundraising priority.

After graduating from Monash, Peter began his engineering career at ICI Australia as Sulphuric Acids Superintendent.He was appointed staff manager at the company in 1980 and in 1984 moved to London to take up a position HR Director, Overseas Group Operations.

He has also held positions as Director of ICI Bangladesh (a pharmaceutical company) and ICI Bangladesh Operations (a trading company) and HR Director of ICI’s extensive India operations.

He was a director of the London-based board of Employment Conditions Abroad Ltd (ECA) for two four-year terms between 1985 and 2000.

Since 2001 Dr Rogers has been Managing Director of International Consultants Centre Pty Ltd, the Mobility consulting arm of MERCER.

In 2011 Mr Rogers was elected to the Board of Hepburn Wind – Australia’s first community-owned wind farm based at Daylesford, Victoria.

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