Researchers and Affiliates
Group
Name
Greg Martin
PSM, BE(Hons), BCom, MS, GradDip UrbanSys, FIE (Aust), FAIPM, FCILT, FAIM, GAICD, MPMI
PATREC
Executive Director, PATREC (from September 2007 onwards)

Director-General
Address:
Phone: 9266 1383
Fax: 9266 1377
Email: Greg.Martin@curtin.edu.au
Greg Martin was appointed as the Executive Director of Planning and Transport Research Centre (PATREC) and Professor in the Chair of Planning and Transport Studies at Curtin University of Technology on 3 September 2007.

Previously Greg was Director General of the Department for Planning and Infrastructure since 29 July 2002. Greg Martin’s public sector career has spanned from a cadetship with the Commonwealth Government in the 1960s through engineering specialist positions to resource, project and corporate management positions in Western Australia, South Australia and Victoria.

Greg was seconded from the Commonwealth as a Principal Consultant to Main Roads Western Australia in 1993 and later appointed as Executive Director, Metropolitan Transport with the Department of Transport in Western Australia, where his responsibilities included policy and planning in the Perth Metropolitan Region and the Transperth public transport system.

He was appointed Commissioner of Main Roads Western Australia in 1999.

He transformed Main Roads from a road-building organisation to a road asset and network manager. Greg was responsible for enhancing technical and management practices and overall service delivery performance in line with the Government’s requirement for Main Roads to be the principal agency responsible for building, maintaining and managing the State’s road network. He placed particular importance on the relationship between Main Roads and Local Government with respect to technical assistance and local government funding arrangements.

At the Department for Planning and Infrastructure, Greg has consolidated the services provided previously by separate agencies responsible for policy, planning, regulation and administration of land use, transport and infrastructure, and Crown land. This together with collaboration across the portfolio’s service agencies now achieves an integrated approach to creating better communities through improved services. A primary function of the department is to provide planning and administration services to the Western Australian Planning Commission.

Greg holds Engineering and Commerce degrees from the University of Western Australia, a Masters degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a Graduate Diploma in Urban Systems from Swinburne College (now University) of Technology.

Greg is on the Board of Advisors of the Graduate School of Business at Curtin University of Technology.

Greg was awarded the Australian Honours, Public Service Medal in 2008 for outstanding public service in Western Australia, particularly in the areas of planning and road infrastructure.

Read Media Release (21 March 2007).