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Chancellor

Dr Helen Nugent AO

Dr Helen Nugent AO is Chancellor of Bond University.
 
She is also a non-executive Director of Macquarie Group, Origin Energy and Freehills, as well as being Chairman of Funds SA.  She is President of Cranbrook School.  In 2004, Dr Nugent was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for her services to business, particularly banking, in the areas of corporate governance, the arts and the community.
 
Before becoming a company director in 1999, Dr Nugent was Director of Strategy for Westpac Banking Corporation and a Partner with McKinsey & Company.
 
She has had an active involvement in education.  She has been Professor in Management and Director of the MBA Programme at the Australian Graduate School of Management at the University of New South Wales, where she also taught courses in Strategic Management.  From 1971 to 1980, at the start of her career, she was a Tutor and Senior Tutor in history at the University of Queensland. 
 
Her other involvements in education related bodies include the following:
 
  • Member of Bradley Review into Higher Education (2008)
  • Member of the Advisory Council of the Australian Business School (prior to that the AGSM) at the University of New South Wales (2004-2009)
  • Member of Council at Monash University (1987-1992)
  • President of the Harvard Business School Association of Victoria (1988-1990) and prior to that a Director (1984-1988). 

She has also been actively involved in the arts.  In 1999, she was Chairman of the Federal Government's Inquiry into the Major Performing Arts.  She has also been Chairman of the Major Performing Arts Board of the Australia Council; Deputy Chairman of the Australia Council; Deputy Chairman of Opera Australia; and a Director of the Playbox Theatre Company. Dr Nugent was appointed Chairman of the National Portrait Gallery on 22 September 2011.

Dr Nugent has an MBA (with Distinction) from the Harvard Business School; a Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Queensland; and a Bachelor of Arts (with 1st Class Honours) from the University of Queensland.  In 2009, she was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Business from the University of Queensland.
 

Former Chancellors

Dr Trevor Rowe AO

Chancellor 30 May 2003 to 22 May 2009

Dr Imelda Roche AO

Chancellor 5 August 1999 to 25 November 1999 (Acting)
Chancellor 25 November 1999 to 30 May 2003

Dr Paul Scully-Power AM, DSM, NSM

Chancellor 1 January 1998 to 5 August 1999

Emeritus Professor Harry Messel CBE

Chancellor 3 April 1992 to 31 December 1997
Executive Chancellor 7 February 1993 to 2 March 1996

Ms Elizabeth Nosworthy

Acting Chancellor from March 1990
Chancellor 1991 to 11 February 1992

Sir Sydney Schubert

From inception in 1987 to 13 March 1990

Dr Helen Nugent AO, Chancellor of Bond University