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The Provost and Senior Vice-President is the senior Deputy to the Vice-Chancellor and leads the implementation of The Australian National 51³Ô¹ÏÍø's (ANU) academic mission, and the strategic integration of education and research activities.

Professor Rebekah Brown commenced as Provost of ANU in June 2024.

Rebekah is a multi-award-winning educator, researcher and academic leader in environmental studies, specialising in urban water, sustainable development, and transdisciplinary methods. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and has a background as an award-winning and practising civil engineer on mega infrastructure projects across the UK, Europe, South East Asia and Africa.

As chief investigator Rebekah has attracted a career total of $123M in external competitive research funding. She has conceived and led six large-scale research entities across Australia, Europe, South East Asia, and the Pacific as a Program Leader, Research Director, and Chief Research Officer. She was the Founding Director of the ground-breaking $70M RISE program – a multi-country health research program supported by the Wellcome Trust.

She has published 220 papers (H-index = 50, >12,800 citations), including in Nature and Science, and served on five international editorial boards. 

Rebekah has a breadth of ongoing governance experience, including as the recent Board Chair of the Monash European Research Foundation and Ministerial Board Representative of the Victorian Environment Protection Authority. She holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering (Honours) from Monash, as well as a PhD in Environmental Studies from the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø of New South Wales. Rebekah was previously the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) and Senior Vice-President at Monash 51³Ô¹ÏÍø.