Today's Annual General Meeting of Universities Australia has confirmed the appointment of La Trobe University Vice-Chancellor and President Professor John Dewar AO as the Chair of Universities Australia.
Professor Dewar – currently a Deputy Chair of Universities Australia – succeeds The University of Queensland Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Terry AO.
Professor Dewar is an internationally-known family law specialist and researcher. He is a graduate of the University of Oxford, where he was also a Fellow of Hertford College from 1990 to 1995.
Professor Dewar came to Australia in 1995 and held senior leadership positions at Griffith University and The University of Melbourne, where he was Provost, before taking up the position of Vice‐Chancellor of La Trobe University in 2012.
The AGM also noted the appointment of two Deputy Chairs:
- Professor Margaret Shiel AO (Continuing)
Vice-Chancellor, Queensland University of Technology
- Professor David Lloyd (Newly appointed)
Vice-Chancellor and President, University of South Australia
The full Universities Australia Board includes the following new members:
- Professor Attila Brungs
Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Technology Sydney; and
- Professor Duncan Maskell
Vice-Chancellor, The University of Melbourne.
Other Board members are:
- Professor Steve Chapman CBE
Vice-Chancellor and President, Edith Cowan University
- Professor Geraldine Mackenzie
Vice-Chancellor, University of Southern Queensland
- Professor Brian Schmidt AC
Vice-Chancellor, The Australian National University
- Professor Margaret Shiel AO
Vice-Chancellor, Queensland University of Technology
- Professor David Lloyd
Vice-Chancellor and President, University of South Australia
- Ms Catriona Jackson
Chief Executive, Universities Australia.
