Bruce Muirhead (Eidos)
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Bruce Muirhead is the Founding Chief Executive Officer and Professor of Eidos Institute. From 1999 to 2004, Bruce Muirhead was the founding Director of The University of Queensland's BoilerhouseResearch Centre. Muirhead has more than 20 years' history in building partnerships between public and private sector focusing on the connections between economic, public and social innovation in the development of community capacity at local and global levels.
Following the murder of an elderly Ipswich resident in 1999, Muirhead’s leadership role in the Goodna Service Integration Project, was cited by the Australian Government in "Connecting Government: Whole of government responses to Australia's priority challenges"as one of ten national projects, alongside the Sydney Olympics and the response to the Bali bombings, for creating large-scale collaboration to respond to Australia's priority challenges. In 2004 Muirhead was awarded a UQ Teaching and Learning Award and in 2002 and 2003 was a Finalist in two consecutive Australian Awards for University Teaching. He sits on a number of international committees and boards including Education, Citizenship and Social Justice (SAGE), Queensland Ministerial Advisory Committee on Equity, Itel Community Telco, Infoxchange Australia, Bremer TAFE, International Consortium for Higher Education, Civic Responsibility and Democracy. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
