Peter Black is the Associate Dean, Learning & Teaching for the Faculty of Law at the Queensland University of Technology. He has an B.A./LL.B. (Hons I) from the University of Queensland and an LL.M. from Columbia University in New York. Peter is the President of the Queensland Council for LGBTI Health (QC) and also currently serves on the board of Australian Marriage Equality (AME) and the Postgraduate Medical Education Council of Queensland. He also sits on the Queensland Government’s LGBTI Roundtable and for 2019-2020 was the Chair of the Queensland Government’s Anti-Cyberbullying Advisory Committee.

For many years Peter has been an advocate for LGBTI equality, including marriage equality. He was a director of AME during the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey and was the Queensland Coordinator of the Equality Campaign. He has previously served on the management committee of the LGBTI Legal Service, as the LGBT representative on the Inclusive Brisbane Board (an advisory board to the Lord Mayor of Brisbane), and on the board of the Brisbane Pride Festival, including two years as President.