Ross Menzies

Professor Ross G. Menzies is President of the World Confederation of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies, serving from 2026 to 2029. He is Professor of Psychology in the Graduate School of Health at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He completed his Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Master of Psychology in Clinical Psychology and PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of New South Wales.

Professor Menzies has an international reputation for his research and clinical work in obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, fears and phobias, death anxiety and existential concerns, stuttering, e-therapy, and the development of scalable psychological treatment programmes. He has published more than 240 journal articles, books and book chapters, including 12 books, and has received continuous competitive research funding for more than three decades. He regularly presents his work at conferences around the world.

In 1991, Professor Menzies was appointed founding Director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic at the University of Sydney, a position he held for more than 20 years. He also served as the clinic’s Chief Consultant Clinical Psychologist. He was a founding member of the New South Wales branch of the Anxiety Disorders Foundation of Australia and served on its Board.

Professor Menzies is a former New South Wales President and three-time National President of the Australian Association for Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy. He convened the Association’s 29th National Conference in Sydney in 2006 and served for 17 years as editor of its scientific journal, Behaviour Change.

He was President and Convenor of the 8th World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies, held in Melbourne in 2016, and has been appointed Convenor of the 13th World Congress, which will take place in Sydney in 2032.

Professor Menzies has received numerous honours for his academic and professional contributions, including the William James Book Award from the American Psychological Association.