Canberra Thursday 23 August 2001

New Deputy Vice-Chancellors appointed

Two new Deputy Vice-Chancellors have been appointed to The Australian National University. They are:

· Professor John Hearn who will become Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research);and
· Professor Malcolm Gillies who will become Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education).

Professor Hearn is currently Director of ANU's Research School of Biological Sciences.

Professor Gillies is Pro Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Adelaide.

Announcing the appointments today, Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Chubb said the two would combine with him and the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor John Richards to provide strong strategic leadership and to ensure that the University's pre-eminent research and teaching strengths further enhanced ANU's role as Australia's national university.

"I am pleased that, from two particularly outstanding groups of applicants, we have been able to appoint two leaders who have the ideal research and education backgrounds for these vital positions," Professor Chubb said. "Our University, with its special national role, its 11 new national institutes, its focus on providing quality educational experiences and its research achievements is totally committed to ensuring that it continues to be ranked in the top flight of world academies. Professor Hearn and Professor Gillies will have primary roles in this."

Professor Chubb paid tribute to Professor Frank Jackson and Professor Ric Pashley who are leaving the two Deputy Vice-Chancellor positions. "Both these colleagues made it clear to me that they wished to return to academic life - Frank as a Philosopher and Ric as a Chemist," Professor Chubb said.

"They also made it clear that they supported me and the directions that the University is now taking. They have been major sources of support for me, and major contributors to this University. I am particularly grateful for the efforts they have made to help me adjust to a new university. I wish them well in what they now propose to do."

Professor Chubb said that Professor Hearn would take on his new role on 1 October. Professor Gillies would take up his post later in the year or in early January.

Brief career notes are attached.

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No: 72/2001

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Career Notes

Professor John Hearn (Deputy Vice-Chancellor - Research), is presently the Director of the Research School of Biological Sciences at the Australian National University. He was until recently Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Cooperative Research Centre for Pest Control. He is Chair of the Australian Research Committee Expert Advisory Committee in Biology and Biotechnology, Chair of the Australian BioSciences Consortium, and Chair of the Society for Reproductive Biology. He is a Member of the WHO Asia and pacific Regional Panel for Research in Reproductive Health. Immediately prior to returning to ANU, Professor Hearn was Senior Scientist and Consultant, World Health Organisation, Geneva, Program in Reproductive Health Research, from 1996-1998 and Director, NIH Regional Primate Research Centre and Professor of Physiology, Medical School, University of Wisconsin from 1990-1996 He holds BSc (Hons) Univ Coll Dublin, MSc Univ Coll Dublin, PhD ANU.

Professor Malcolm Gillies (Deputy Vice-Chancellor - Education), is presently the Pro Vice-Chancellor at The University of Adelaide. He has particular responsibility for Professional and Continuing Education and Commercialisation. He has responsibility for the Faculty of Performing Arts, Law, Architecture, Commerce and Economics (including the Graduate School of Management). He is also Executive Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Prior to moving to Adelaide, he was Dean of the Faculty of Music at the University of Queensland. He is President of the Academy of the Humanities and President of the National Academies Forum. He holds BA (Hons) ANU, BA, MA Cambridge, MMus Lond., PhD Lond., DipEd Queensland, LMusA, LTCL, FLCM.

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