About The Ramsay Centre

The Ramsay Centre was established in March 2017 through an extraordinary endowment by the late Mr Paul Ramsay AO.

Mr Ramsay was a leading Australian businessman and philanthropist. He was deeply grateful for the opportunities his country had given him, as one of many nations that had benefited from being part of the long continuum of Western civilisation.

To ensure others – especially young Australians – would appreciate this heritage, Paul resolved to establish a centre dedicated to the study of Western civilisation and asked the Hon John Howard OM AC to become chairman of the Centre.

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News & Media

06 May 2026: The latest cohort of University of Queensland (UQ) Ramsay Scholars have been officially welcomed at a special reception celebrating the UQ/Ramsay Centre…

Friday 20 March 2026: Close to 40 Ramsay Postgraduate Scholars from across the US, UK and Europe gathered in Berlin recently for the Ramsay Centre’s…

Wednesday 18 February 2026: When Perth-born 2024 Ramsay Scholar Georgia McKerracher first left Australia to study political science at the esteemed Sciences Po University in…