Daryle Rigney

Biography

Daryle Rigney is a citizen of the Ngarrindjeri Nation located along the lower Moorundi (River Murray), Kurangk (Coorong), Lakes and Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia. He is Professor and Director of Research in Indigenous Nation (re)Building and Governance at the Jumbunna Institute, University of Technology Sydney. Professor Rigney is a member of the International Advisory Council of the Native Nations Institute at the University of Arizona, Global Fellow and Pou of the Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity, Atlantic Institute, governing board member of the Return Reconcile Renew Digital Repatriation Archive, non-executive director of Jawun, the GO Foundation and the Ngarrindjeri Native Title Compensation Trust.

For many years Daryle has worked on nation-building and governance with Ngarrindjeri leaders and Australian and International private and public sector entities. His research fields and interest also include repatriation and the return and reburial of “Old People’ (ancestral remains), Indigenous knowledges, education and environmental and natural resource management and local, national and global Indigenous engagement, collaboration and alliance. In 2013 Daryle was acknowledged as NAIDOC South Australian Aboriginal person of the year.