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The appointment results from a global search after previous Vice-Chancellor Professor Grant Guilford retired in March 2022 after eight years at the helm.
A New Zealander who grew up in Auckland, Australia, and Canada, Professor Smith has had extensive experience in leadership roles in the tertiary sector in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia. He is currently Provost at the Queensland University of Technology, a relatively new and highly ranked institution with a student population of almost 40,000 FTEs supported by four and half thousand full time staff.
He took on that role in early 2020 as COVID-19 hit, and during the pandemic successfully developed new revenue streams to offset the loss of earnings from international education while also achieving substantial efficiencies in university operations without impacting academic positions.
Professor Smith will take up his appointment on 16 January 2023.
The current Acting Vice-Chancellor, Professor Jennifer Windsor, will continue in the role until then.
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