Glyn Davis is Chief Executive Officer of the Paul Ramsay Foundation and is responsible to the board for ensuring it breaks the cycle of disadvantage in Australia through programs which address intergenerational poverty. Glyn was previously Vice-Chancellor at the University of Melbourne. A political scientist by training, with extensive experience in public policy, he retains part-time academic roles at the Australian National University and Oxford University. Glyn delivered the Boyer lectures on higher education in 2010 and recently published On Life’s Lottery, a reflection on how chance and birth shape life. Glyn was educated in political science at the University of New South Wales and the Australian National University before undertaking post-doctoral appointments as a Harkness Fellow at the University of California Berkeley, the Brookings Institution in Washington DC and the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was raised in Sydney but has spent much of his professional life in Canberra, Brisbane and the United States. Glyn now lives in Melbourne, where he escapes work by playing in an occasional band on Sunday afternoons.