Professor Greg Leigh is Chair of RIDBC Renwick Centre for Research and Professional Education. The Centre, located in Sydney, is administered by the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children in affiliation with The University of Newcastle, Australia. He holds degrees in Special Education from Griffith University; a Master of Science (Speech and Hearing) degree from Washington University (Central Institute for the Deaf) in the USA; and a PhD in Special Education from Monash University. He is a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators.
Professor Leigh has had a distinguished career in education of the deaf and has published widely in this field. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Deafness and Education International and Phonetics and Speech Sciences. He serves on numerous Australian government consultative committees on issues related to deafness and is currently chairman of the Australian National Newborn Hearing Screening Committee. He is a former National President of the Education Commission for the World Congress of the World Federation of the Deaf and is Chair of the International Steering Committees of both the Asia-Pacific Congress on Deafness (APCD) and the International Congress on Education of the Deaf (ICED). He has held positions in several Australian universities and was an International Visiting Scholar at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (Rochester Institute of Technology) in Rochester, New York.