James Popple (born 1964) is

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of the

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. He is also an Honorary Professor in the

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and the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies and ...

, and a Fellow of the

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. He was President of the ANU's Postgraduate and Research Students' Association (1990–91); associate to High Court Justice

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(1995); Deputy Registrar of the High Court of Australia (1996–98); a senior executive in the Australian Attorney-General's Department (1998–2010); the first Australian Freedom of Information Commissioner (2010–14); a Senior Member of the

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(2015–17); a Principal Reviewer at CPM Reviews Pty Ltd (2018); a member of the Australian Anti-Dumping Review Panel (2018–21); a member of the ACT Remuneration Tribunal (2018–22); Official Secretary to the

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(2018–21); and Official Secretary to the

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(2021–22). He has been a member of the Council of

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, ANU since 1985. As part of his PhD research at the ANU (1993), he developed a legal expert system called

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