President and Deputy President

The President and Deputy President are elected from the members of the Board. The role of the President is a full-time appointment, while the Deputy President role is a half-time appointment.

The President acts as the executive officer of the Board, and chairs the Academic Board and most Board Committees. The President remains informed of the workings of the academic staff and other related sections of the University.  Sections 19 to 21 of the Senate Rule - Academic Board, are in relation to the President and the Deputy President. 

The Deputy President assists the President and carries out functions on behalf of the President, as determined by the Board or President.  Should the President be unable to act, the Deputy President may discharge all functions of the President.  

President
Professor Kaye Basford
AMusA, BSc(Hons), MLitSt, PhD Qld., FTSE, FIS, FAIAST, FAICD, AStat, CPAg

Kaye is Professor of Biometry and her research is at the interface between applied statistics and quantitative genetics and she has published extensively on the analysis and interpretation of multi-way data from large-scale plant breeding experiments, particularly those involving genotype by environment interaction.  Previous positions at UQ include Deputy President of the Academic Board (2009 to 11) and Head of the UQ School of Land, Crop and Food Sciences (2001 to 10).  

Kaye is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Australian Institute of Company Directors, the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology, and the Royal Statistical Society.  She is immediate past-President of the International Biometric Society, a past-President of the Statistical Society of Australia Incorporated, and will be on the Board of Trustees in the International Rice Research Institute in 2013 to 15. 

  
   

 Professor Paul Bailes
Deputy President  

The Deputy President of the Academic Board is Professor Paul Bailes.

Paul is Professor of Computer Science whose research in software engineering and technology has been supported by ARC, Fujitsu, Oracle Corporation and DSTO. He has served as the Head of the School of ITEE (or its predecessors) at the University of Queensland from 1995 until 2000, and from 2004 until 2010.  In addition, Paul has been a member of the UQ Senate from  2008 until 2009. In 2010 he received the Vice-Chancellor’s award for internationalization.
Paul is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society and of the Institution of Engineers Australia, and is currently Chair of the ACS Technical Board on Computer Systems and Software Engineering. He is an emeritus member of the Steering Committee of the Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (Chair 1999-2003), a former chair of the Australian Software Engineering Conference Steering Committee (1997-2006), and is or has been an external assessor/advisor to a number of higher education institutions and/or QA bodies.
 

 

Academic Board Office

Address
Academic Board Office
Level 4 J.D.Story Building 
The University of Queensland
St Lucia QLD 4072

Personal Assistant to the President and Deputy President
Ms Lisha Allen
lisha.allen@uq.edu.au
(07) 3365 1320

 

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