Michael Tomlinson FGIA, FCIS is a Higher Education Governance and Quality Consultant. Until February 2020, he was Director of the Assurance Group at TEQSA (the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency), where he led case teams to organise and conduct assessments of all registered providers of higher education (including all of Australia’s universities) against the Higher Education Threshold Standards (2015). He was the delegated decision-maker for all applications for course accreditation and renewal of course accreditation and made recommendations to the TEQSA Commissioners on registration and renewal of registration. He has a particular interest in policy and in 2019 provided formative input into the revised Provider Category Standards.
Before coming to TEQSA, Michael was an Audit Director at the former Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA), and for twenty years worked in Australian universities, for the last fifteen of these in senior positions at Swinburne University of Technology.
Michael is a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia and of the International Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. He has been an expert panel member for a number of provider reviews for the national accreditation agency in Timor Leste, and (in 2020) for the Fiji Higher Education Commission (for the University of the South Pacific), and for the Department of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology of Papua New Guinea.