Professor Sandra Harding AO
Board member
Profile Bio
- Biography:
Professor Sandra Harding took up her appointment as Vice Chancellor and President of James Cook University in January 2007. In this role, she is responsible for ensuring clear and effective leadership and management of the University across all operating sites, including campuses in Cairns, Singapore and Townsville. Professor Harding has extensive academic and academic leadership experience. An economic sociologist by training, her areas of enduring academic interest include work, organisation and markets and how they work. She also has a keen interest in public policy in two key areas: education policy and related areas; and; the global Tropics, northern Australia and economic development.
Professor Harding is an experienced company director and has been a long-term Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Her governance, senior executive and advisory roles span a wide range of sectors and undertakings in Australia and abroad, involving government and government agencies as well as private and not-for-profit organisations over many years. Over the past ten years, major capital developments have been a focus of her executive and governance oversight activity.
- Board member from March 2011
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