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[H2] Professor Joan Leach appointed Acting Provost and Senior Vice-President
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With more than 148,000 graduates in over 160 countries, ANU alumni form a diverse and influential community. From the moment you graduate, whether with an undergraduate, postgraduate, or doctoral degree, you become a lifelong member of this dynamic network, at no cost.As an ANU graduate, you gain access to a world of opportunities. Whether you're pursuing further study, advancing your career, exploring new horizons, or reconnecting with fellow alumni, the ANU Alumni Program offers a wealth of benefits to support your journey.Update your details
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The Australian National University (ANU) is unlike any other university in Australia. Founded in 1946, in a spirit of post-war optimism, our role was to help realise Australia's potential as the world recovered from a global crisis.That vision, to support the development of national unity and identity, improve our understanding of ourselves and our neighbours, and provide our nation with research capacity amongst the best in the world, and education in areas vital for our future, has been our mission ever since.It can be difficult work, but it's work we proudly do-because connecting talented people with diverse perspectives, equipping and encouraging them to address the most complex of tomorrow's problems, and ensuring Australia's future is not just our approach-it's also our national role and international responsibility as Australia's national university, and it's a responsibility from which we'll never waver.
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[H1] Professor Joan Leach appointed Acting Provost and Senior Vice-President
11 May 2026The Australian National University (ANU) is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Joan Leach to the role of Acting Provost and Senior Vice-President.Previously, Professor Leach was in the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) role during a period of significant organisational change. In that capacity, she has stabilised and begun to reshape the Education portfolio – with the transition from ‘Academic’ to ‘Education’ signalling a renewed emphasis on the central role of education in the University's purpose. Her work has focused on strengthening student pathways, improving enrolment and retention and advancing key institutional priorities including Health and Medicine.Professor Leach brings wide-ranging University leadership to the Acting Provost role. She has served two terms as Chair of the Academic Board and four years as a non-voting member of the ANU Council – experience that gives her a strong understanding of the University's governance, academic culture and strategic priorities.Interim Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Rebekah Brown, warmly welcomed the appointment.“I am delighted to welcome Professor Leach to this role. She brings a wealth of experience spanning governance, research and education, and I am so pleased to be working alongside her as we drive forward the University’s priorities together.” As Chair of the Academic Board, Professor Leach guided the University through the COVID-19 pandemic. Her leadership during that time shaped governance responses to the rapid transition to online teaching, changes to admissions processes, and fundamental reforms to student support services that sustained the University’s teaching mission through extraordinary disruption.She also played a significant role in the development of the University’s research strategy during those years, helping the ANU community articulate its institutional strengths and future priorities.Since joining ANU in 2016 as Director of the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS), Professor Leach has built the Centre into the largest of its kind internationally. Her scholarly contributions extend beyond ANU: she advises the Chief Scientist of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on science communication and is an author on the first joint UN–International Science Council paper on Science Communication. Professor Leach is a recognised international leader in science communication and social epistemology and remains an active and highly regarded researcher.Professor Leach said she was honoured to be taking up the role.“The Provost role sits across the core of our Academic mission - how we generate knowledge, how we teach, and how we make decisions,” she said. “At this moment, the key work of this role is about bringing clarity, a shared vision, and enabling academic decision-making so the University can focus on what it does best.” Professor Leach commenced in the role on Monday 11 May 2026.
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