GBS prize honours memory of the late Professor Russell Trood

During a distinguished life and career, Professor Russell Trood embodied qualities including a belief in education, a spirit of philanthropy and the desire to shape and inform policy towards a better and fairer world.
A great friend of Griffith University, his example lives on thanks to the generosity behind the establishment of the Russell Trood Prize for International Relations, donated through Professor Trood’s estate and administered by the Griffith Business School.
For the next 10 years, this $500 annual prize will go to the highest achieving first-year international relations student at Griffith University.
When Professor Trood passed away from thyroid cancer in January 2017, his loss inspired a stream of tributes acknowledging a long and admirable contribution to politics, education, philanthropy, international diplomacy and the community. These were led by the Prime Minister of Australia, The Honourable Malcolm Turnbull, who described Professor Trood as “one of Australia’s finest foreign policy minds” and “an unfailingly

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