Pro Vice-Chancellor (E-Strategies)
The Pro Vice-Chancellor (E-Strategies) provides leadership of strategic initiatives to develop the University's global information infrastructure and partnerships.
The portfolio’s key roles are to:
- improve ANU connectedness in the emerging global knowledge economy; position the University within national and global information infrastructures
- develop ANU e-research and e-education strategies in support of College plans
- develop e-partnerships and alliances that enhance ANU performance
- provide leadership in national research infrastructure, data and networking developments, including oversight of the High Performance Computing (HPC) project
- develop strategic opportunities focussed on HPC capacity
- provide leadership in the G08 Digital Futures Group
- create an ANU-CSIRO partnership for a national e-research centre.

Professor Robin Stanton
Pro Vice-Chancellor (E-Strategies)
T +61 2 6125 2504
F +61 2 6125 0700
E pvc@anu.edu.au
Nicole Ross
Executive Assistant
T +61 2 6125 9800
E nicole.ross@anu.edu.au
David Whisker
Executive Officer
T +61 2 6125 4275
E david.whisker@anu.edu.au
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Professor Robin Stanton
BE, PhD NSW, FTSE
Professor Robin Stanton is Pro Vice-Chancellor (E-Strategies) at ANU.
He was appointed Pro Vice-Chancellor in February 1998. Prior to this appointment he was the inaugural Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at ANU, a position he held from 1993 until 1997 when he became Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor. He was Head of the Department of Computer Science from 1983 until 1993.
Professor Stanton graduated from the University of New South Wales with a BE (Hons) in electrical engineering and a PhD in computer science in 1970. He held postdoctoral positions in the UK and the US before returning to Australia to take up a position at ANU.
He was Deputy Director of the Centre for Information Science at ANU and was appointed Executive Director of the Advanced Computational Systems Cooperative Research Centre from 1993 until 1998. His research interests focus on the information infrastructure and high performance computing.
Professor Stanton is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.
