Margaret GardnerProfessor Margaret Gardner AC became President and Vice-Chancellor of Monash University on 1 September 2014. Prior to joining Monash, Professor Gardner was vice-chancellor and president of RMIT from April 2005 until August 2014. She has extensive acaemic experience, having held various leadership positions in Australian universities throughout her career, including at the University of Queensland and Griffith University. She attained a First-Class Honours degree in Economics and a PhD from the University of Sydney. In 1988, she was a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow, spending time at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cornell University, and the University of California, Berkeley. In 2018, she was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Professor Gardner is the Chair of the Group of Eight Universities and is also a Director of Infrastructure Victoria and the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG). Professor Gardner has previously been chair of Museum Victoria and chaired the Strategic Advisory Committee and the Expert Panel of the Office of Learning and Teaching (Federal Government Department of Education and Training). Read More Read Less