Distinguished Professor Anthony Elliott AM is Executive Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for Digital Transformations at Adelaide University - where he holds the Bradley Distinguished Professorship of Sociology.  He is also Super-Global Visiting Professor of Sociology at Keio University, Japan and Full Visiting Professor of Sociology at University College, Ireland.
 
In 2026, Elliott will take up an invitation-only Residency at the at the at the IEA de Paris (Paris Institute for Advanced Study).  Also in 2026 he will take up the GATES Distinguished Fellowship at Maison de la Création et de l'Innovation (MaCI) at Grenoble University, France, as well as a Visiting Fellowship at St Cross College, Oxford University.
 
Professor Elliott is one of the world's pre-eminent social theorists and social scientists.  He is well known for his work on social theory, identity and the self, and mobilities and globalization. He was instrumental in developing the theory of 'algorithmic modernity', which emphasizes the need to contextualize the digital revolution in terms of transformations of economy, society, politics and culture.  He is the author and editor of some fifty books including Algorithms of Anxiety, Algorithmic Intimacy, Making Sense of AI, The Culture of AI, Identity Troubles, Mobile Lives (with John Urry), Reinvention, On Society (with Bryan S. Turner), Making The Cut, The New Individualism (with Charles Lemert), Contemporary Social Theory: An Introduction, Social Theory Since Freud, Subject To Ourselves, Psychoanalytic Theory: An Introduction, and Social Theory and Psychoanalysis in Transition.  His work is available in 17 major languages throughout the world.
 
Among other distinguished awards, he was awarded Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to education, social science policy and research.  In 2024, Elliott received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the University of Melbourne.  He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the UK, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, and International Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) – the world’s oldest engineering academy.  Since 1991, he has been Senior Member of King’s College, Cambridge.  He has recently served as a member of the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts
 
Anthony Elliott read Poilitics and Sociology for his BA (Hons.) at the University of Melbourne. He subsequently won a Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Packer Scholarship to the UK, where he completed a PhD in Social Theory at Cambridge University under the supervision of Lord Anthony Giddens.
 
The New Republic has described his research breakthroughs as “thought-provoking and disturbing”. He has secured competitive research funding from, among other agencies, the Australian Research Council, the European Commission’s Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Programme, the Toyota Foundation, the Australia-Japan Foundation, and the Japan Foundation.
 
Elliott is Executive Director of Adelaide University's Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for Digital Transformations.  He has previously acted as Diector of the the University's Jean Monnet Network - spanning universities and enterprises in Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Poland, Finland, Estonia, Japan and New Zealand. Professor Elliott was previously Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) and Head of the Department of Sociology at Flinders University (2006-2012) and Director of the Hawke Research Institute at UniSA (2012-2016). He has held visiting academic positions in the UK, USA, France, Ireland and Japan, and from 2004 to 2006 was Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
 
In recent years, he has turned his scholarly focus to the digital revolution and artificial intelligence. From 2017 to 2019, he served as a member of the Expert Working Group of the Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) on AI at the request of the Prime Minister’s Commonwealth Science Council, and with support from the Australian Research Council (ARC), the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, and the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science. In 2017, he served as a member of ACOLA’s Artificial Intelligence Scoping Project Committee, Academy of Science and the Academy of Technology and Engineering. He has devoted his time to advising many new and aspiring technology leaders, mentoring students interested in careers in AI, teaching in executive education programs, and writing and speaking on salient topics resulting from the AI revolution – innovations in enterprise, the transformation of universities, the impact of digital technologies on society, and business governance and leadership, among others. 
 
Professor Elliott is strongly interested in shared leadership principles and has completed an executive leadership course at the Judge Business School, Cambridge University in 2014.