Peter Hampden Acton

Peter Acton worked for the Boston Consulting Group from 1980 to 1999 and was head of the Melbourne office from 1995 to 1999.

He has a degree in Classics from Oxford, an MBA from Stanford and a PhD in ancient history from the University of Melbourne.

Since leaving BCG he has worked in the biotech industry, acted as an expert witness in legal cases and sat on several not-for profit boards. He was founding President of the advocacy group Humanities21 and is currently a Director of The Accountability Round Table and Chair of the Industry Advisory Board of the Centre for the Conservation of Cultural Materials.

He has reviewed several books on ancient history for the Australian Book Review and published two books himself: Poiesis on manufacturing in classical Athens (published by the Oxford University Press in 2014) and very recently Clouds, Birds, Frogs and Me, a humorous work of historical fiction purporting to be the autobiography of the great comic poet Aristophanes.