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Professor Ian Chubb AC

Vice-Chancellor and President
The Australian National University

Professor Ian Chubb is the Vice-Chancellor and President of ANU. His career includes six years as Vice-Chancellor of Flinders University and senior executive appointments at Monash University and the University of Wollongong. Professor Chubb has served in various capacities on a number of peak bodies – Higher Education Council and the National Board of Employment, Education and Training, the National Committee for Quality in Higher Education, the National Health and Medical Research Council and the Australian Research Council, as well as a Ministerial Task Force and the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council. He was Chair of the Australian Vice-Chancellor’s Committee in 2000, and from 2004–2005 was Chair of the Group of Eight Universities (Go8). In 2006, Professor Chubb was elected the President of the International Alliance of Research Universities for a two year term. In 2007, he agreed to remain President for an additional two years.

In June 1999, Chubb was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for his services to higher education. Flinders University awarded him an honorary DSc in 2000, and in April 2003 he was awarded the Centenary Medal for service to Australian society through tertiary education and university administration. In June 2006, Professor Chubb was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia for “service to higher education including research and development policy in the pursuit of advancing the national interest socially, economically, culturally and environmentally and to the facilitation of a knowledge-based global economy”.

Long a believer in the value of public education, and in the importance of a robust higher education system for the economic, social and cultural prosperity of a nation, Professor Chubb has been influential in the sphere of higher education for two decades. He has been a powerful commentator on higher education policy and planning, quality, distance education and resource allocation. Most recently, as Chair of the Go8 he played a significant part in moderating some of the impact of the 2003 Higher Education Reform Bill. He is widely quoted as an authority on higher education in the media and is in much demand nationally and internationally as a speaker in higher education meetings and conferences.