Chancellor: Adrienne E Clarke AC, FAA, FTSE
Method of appointment
Appointed by Governor-in-Council
Elected as Chancellor by Council 2011 to 2014.
Ex officio member.
Membership tenure
Council member from 24.8.2010 to 31.12.2012
Chancellor from 26 February 2011 for 3 year term
Current committees
- Council
- Finance & Resources Committee
- Corporate Governance Audit & Risk Committee
- Human Resources Planning Committee
- Infrastructure & Estates Planning Committee
- External Relations Committee
Professional background/experience
Adrienne E Clarke AC succeeded Mrs Sylvia Walton AO as Chancellor of La Trobe University on 26 February 2011.
Adrienne E Clarke AC is a former chairman of CSIRO and Lieutenant Governor of Victoria. She has been a director of a number of public companies such as Alcoa of Australia Ltd, WMC Resources Ltd, Woolworths Ltd, Fisher and Paykel Healthcare Ltd and Hexima Ltd.
She has served on a number of Government Boards/Committee's inlcuding the Prime Minister's Science and Engineering Council and the Victorian Innovation Ecomony Advisory Board. Professor Clarke was made an Officer in the Order of Australia in 1991 and Companion of the Order in 2004 and is a Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne
She is author of four major scientific books dealing with chemistry, cell biology and genetics and a Fellow of both the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. She is a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), a Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of Janet Clarke Hall in Melbourne.
