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About Kevin Foley (Victorian politician)
- Kevin James Foley (born 9 August 1938) is an Australian politician and academic. He was born at Mayfield in New South Wales to Patrick James and Hazel Marjorie Foley.
- He was educated at Raymond Terrace and then at East Sydney Technical College before studying at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), where he received a Bachelor and Masters degree in commerce.
- From 1954 to 1960 he served in Singapore for the Royal Australian Air Force, subsequently serving as a flight instructor from 1962 to 1968.
- He was an economics lecturer at UNSW from 1966 to 1968, when he commenced his PhD at the Australian National University, completing it in 1972.
- He worked as a consultant for the Defence Department and from 1974 to 1975 was a senior research economist with the Australian Wool Corporation.
- In 1976 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council as a Liberal member for Boronia.
- He served until his defeat in 1982, after which he became chairman of the Industrial Research and Development Board.
- In 1988 he was appointed a foundation professor of economics at Bond University, and since 1997 he has been a professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and at the University of Technology Sydney.
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