Cameron Gordon currently is on the Banking and Finance faculty of the School of Business and Government, University of Canberra, Australia. He is also an Associate with the National Institute of Governance, an international research institute based in Australia. His prior academic positions include an appointment in the City University of New York, where he served as a faculty member in Finance and a position on the graduate faculty of the University of Southern California, School of Planning, Policy and Development.

Prior to entering academia, Dr. Gordon had a long public service career which included appointments with the U.S. Congress Joint Committee on Taxation; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations; and the New York City Municipal Water Finance Authority. He also was Executive Director of the American Council on Intergovernmental Relations, a non-profit organization devoted to the study of public governance in a federal system. Dr. Gordon holds a PhD in public economics and has extensive experience in issues of corporate and public governance and administration. His current research focuses on privatization of public infrastructure assets, especially the recent leasing of the Chicago Skyway and the Indiana Toll Roads to private consortia, and the current private equity bid for Qantas.