Professor Dawn Freshwater is an internationally recognised higher education leader, academic and researcher with extensive experience in university governance, strategy, research, international engagement and institutional transformation. Professor Freshwater has held senior leadership roles at some of the world’s leading universities. Most recently, she served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Auckland from 2020 to 2026, becoming the University’s first female Vice-Chancellor. Prior to this, she was Vice-Chancellor of The University of Western Australia (UWA), following earlier roles as UWA’s Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Registrar and as Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Leeds. She has held significant leadership and governance positions across the international higher education sector, including as the first female Chair of Australia’s Group of Eight (Go8), Chair of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) Partnership Board, and in leadership roles with Universities New Zealand, the Association of Pacific Rim Universities and Research Australia. She is currently Executive Director of the Worldwide Universities Network. An accomplished academic, Professor Freshwater holds a PhD from the University of Nottingham and has an extensive research and publication record spanning mental health, public health and leadership. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and an elected member of Academia Europaea. Dawn Freshwater 教授是國際知名的高等教育領袖、學者及研究人員，在大學管治、策略、研究、 國際交流及院校轉型方面經驗甚豐。 她曾在多所世界頂尖大學擔任高層領導職務。於2020至2026年出任奧克蘭大學校長，是該校 首位女校長。此前，曾於西澳大學擔任校長、高級副校長及教務長，亦曾出任里茲大學副校長。 她在國際高等教育界亦擔任多個重要領導及管治職位，包括出任澳洲八校聯盟首位女主席、 世界大學聯盟合作夥伴理事會主席，並曾在新西蘭大學聯會、環太平洋大學聯盟及Research Australia擔任領導職務。她現任世界大學聯盟行政總監。 她的學術成就卓著，持有諾丁漢大學博士學位，研究及著述廣泛多元，涵蓋精神健康、公共 衞生及領導學。她是英國皇家護理學院院士、愛爾蘭皇家外科醫學院院士，並獲選為歐洲 科學院院士。 Dawn FRESHWATER Executive Director of Worldwide Universities Network Former Vice-Chancellor of The University of Auckland 世界大學聯盟行政總監、奧克蘭大學前校長 37
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy NDk5Njg=