Carolyn Evans | |
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![]() Professor Evans in 2021 | |
5th Vice Chancellor and President of the Griffith University | |
Assumed office 2019 | |
Preceded by | Professor Ian O'Connor AC |
Personal details | |
Born | Carolyn Maree Evans 1970 (age 54–55) Melbourne,Australia |
Profession | University Vice Chancellor |
Nationality | Australian |
Spouse | Stephen Donaghue |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Melbourne University of Oxford |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Melbourne Law School University of Melbourne Griffith University |
Main interests | Law,human rights,and religious freedoms |
Carolyn Maree Evans FASSA (born 1970 in Melbourne [ citation needed ]) is an Australian academic administrator. She is currently the vice-chancellor and president of Griffith University in Queensland,Australia.
Following the completion of her doctorate in 1999,Evans was appointed a stipendiary lecturer in law at Exeter College,Oxford. [1] After the two year post ended,she returned to Australia where she joined the academic staff of Melbourne Law School. [1]
Evans has held several senior academic positions including Dean and Harrison Moore Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne Law School and deputy vice-chancellor and deputy provost at the University of Melbourne. [2]
In February 2019,Evans was appointed vice-chancellor and president of Griffith University,becoming the first woman to hold that position. [3] [4] [5]
She became President of the Australian Higher Education Industrial Association in 2021 [6] and chaired the Innovative Research Universities (IRU) from 2021 to 2022. [7] She was a board member of Open Universities Australia from 2019 to 2023,and is currently a board member of Universities Australia. [8] [9]
Evans is a director of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA), [10] and has been chair of the State Advisory Committee since 2023.
Evans was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2019 [11] [12] and names an Honorary Fellow of Exeter College,Oxford in 2023. [13]
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Evans is married to Stephen Donaghue,the current Australian Solicitor-General,and has two children. [18]