List of Australian university leaders
Since the development of the university sector in Australia and the foundation of the first university, a small number of Vice-Chancellors have served for 15 years or more with some portion of this time in office as Vice-Chancellor in Australia. They include:
29 years: Sir Anthony Brownless KCMG KSG ;
26 years: Sir William Mitchell (philosopher) KCMG ;
21 years: John Douglas Story ;
20 years: Sir Stephen Henry Roberts CMG, James McWha AO ;
19 years: William Barlow (vice-chancellor) CMG ; Sir Robert Strachan Wallace KCMG ; Dianne Yerbury AO ; Alan Gilbert (Australian academic) AO ; Paul Wellings CBE ; Margaret Gardner AC ;
18 years: Sir Raymond Priestley ; Sir Stanley Prescott OBE ; Peter Høj AC.
17 years: Sir George Currie (academic) ; Michael Birt (biochemist) AO CBE ; Brian Wilson AO ; Roy Webb AO ; Glyn Davis AC ;
16 years: Sir Philip Baxter KBE CMG ; Sir Louis Matheson KBE CMG ; Alec Lazenby AO ; Ian Chubb AC ; Gerard Sutton AO.
15 years: Ken McKinnon AO ; Dennis Gibson (academic) AO ; Michael Osborne ; John Hay (academic) AC ; Steven Schwartz (psychologist) AM ; Janice Reid AC ; Peter Coaldrake AO ; Ian O'Connor AC, Sandra Harding (sociologist) AO, Michael Spence AC .
Høj and Spence still in office.
The current Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors/Presidents are given as at April 2025.