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Professor Rebekah Brown is the Provost and Senior Vice-President of The Australian National University, the senior Deputy to the Vice-Chancellor. She leads the implementation of the University’s academic mission, and the strategic integration of education and research activities.

Rebekah is a multi-award-winning educator, researcher and academic leader in environmental studies, specialising in urban water, sustainable development, and transdisciplinary methods. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and has a background as an award-winning and practising civil engineer on mega infrastructure projects across the UK, Europe, South East Asia and Africa. As chief investigator Rebekah has attracted a career total of $123M in external competitive research funding. She has conceived and led six large-scale research entities across Australia, Europe, South East Asia, and the Pacific as a Program Leader, Research Director, and Chief Research Officer. She was the Founding Director of the ground-breaking $70M RISE program – a multi-country health research program supported by the Wellcome Trust.

She has published over 200 papers, including in Nature and Science, and served on five international editorial boards. Rebekah has a breadth of ongoing governance experience, including as the recent Board Chair of the Monash European Research Foundation and Ministerial Board Representative of the Victorian Environment Protection Authority.

Qualifications

BEng (Hons); PhD (UNSW); FASSA  

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