Alec Cameron

Professor Alec Cameron has been Vice-Chancellor and President of RMIT University since January 2022.

Prior to joining RMIT, he was Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive at Aston University in the UK since 2016.

Professor Cameron is a Rhodes Scholar (1986) with a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Oxford in Robotics (1989). He is also a graduate of the University of Sydney with Bachelors’ degrees in Science and Electrical Engineering.

His early career involved executive roles at Sun Microsystems and Telstra, and he was the inaugural Dean of the Australian School of Business, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Resources and Infrastructure) University New South Wales (2003-12) and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education), University of Western Australia (2013-16). In 2022, Alec was appointed Director of AARNET, Australia's national research and education network.

The Vice-Chancellor works with the leadership team, staff and students at RMIT to deliver an enhanced education experience for the nearly 100,000 students in Australia and internationally.