Frank Bongiorno AM is Director of the Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public History and Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas at the University of Canberra. He is also Distinguished Fellow of the Whitlam Institute within Western Sydney University and Emeritus Professor of the Australian National University.

Born in Nhill, Victoria, and raised there and in Melbourne, he is an honours graduate in History with Politics from the University of Melbourne (1991) and has a PhD in History from the ANU, completed in 1994.

Frank is former Head of the School of History at the ANU, a Past President of the Australian Historical Association, and current President of the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. He has previously held appointments at the ANU, Griffith University, the University of New England, King's College London and the University of Cambridge, where he was Smuts Visiting Fellow in 1997-1998. He has also been Mellon Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin.

Frank is the author of several works of Australian history, including The Sex Lives of Australians: A History (2012), The Eighties: The Decade That Transformed Australia (2015) and Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia (2022). All won ACT Book of the Year, and Dreamers and Schemers the Australian Political Studies Association's Henry Mayer Prize. He is a regular contributor to media and is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's 'Documents on Australian Foreign Policy' series.

Frank is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, as well as a member of the Editorial Board of its journal Transactions. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of Humanities. In 2019 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for 'significant service to tertiary education in the field of history'.