John Rosenberg (academic)

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John Rosenberg (born 1953) is an Australian academic, information technology professional, and higher-education consultant. He earned a Bachelor of Science with Honours and a PhD in computer science from Monash University, in 1975 and 1979 respectively. His PhD thesis was The Concept of a Hardware Kernel and its Implementation on a Minicomputer. He is married to Beverley Rosenberg and they have two children, Mark and Rebecca.

Rosenberg’s career spans teaching, university leadership, and governance. He began as a computer science lecturer and senior lecturer at Monash, then moved to the University of Newcastle in 1986. In 1989 he was named a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews, and in 1990 he became associate professor and head of the Discipline of Computer Science at Newcastle. In 1991 he joined the University of Sydney as professor of computer science and became head of the Basser Department of Computer Science in 1994. He returned to Monash in 1997 as dean of the Faculty of Information Technology. He served as deputy vice-chancellor (academic) at Deakin University in 2003, and joined La Trobe University in 2009 as deputy vice-chancellor and vice-president (international and development). In 2011 he became senior deputy vice-chancellor, responsible for internationalisation, and later retired as Emeritus Professor.

Today he works as a higher-education consultant and non-executive director. His research focuses on using Java in education, notably the BlueJ and Greenfoot development environments developed since 1995. He is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and the Australian Computer Society. He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2025 King’s Birthday Honours. He founded Melbourne’s Masorti Jewish congregation, Kehilat Nitzan, in 1999, and in 2011 was listed among the top 50 most influential Australian Jews by the Australian Jewish News.