Pro Vice-Chancellor (Innovation & Advancement)
The Pro Vice-Chancellor (Innovation & Advancement) provides leadership of strategic initiatives to build growth in research and education outcomes through strategic partnerships with industry, government and not-for-profit organisations.
The portfolio’s key roles are to:
- provide oversight or policy on commercialisation, intellectual property management, development funding, industry engagement, international commercial partnerships and collaborations, and business liaison
- coordinate innovation and advancement strategies to ensure that the ANU brand is managed to realise its full potential
- develop strategies for institutional positioning and fundraising
- provide oversight of strategic plans to engage the ANU community in the ANU advancement function, including growth in philanthropic support
Professor Michael Cardew-Hall
Pro Vice-Chancellor (Innovation & Advancement)
T +61 2 6125 0330
F +61 2 6125 5955
E pvc.ia@anu.edu.au
Dr Keats Nelms
Director, Business Development
T +61 2 6125 2524
E keats.nelms@anu.edu.au
Priscilla Kan John
Executive Officer
T +61 2 6125 6464
E priscilla.kanjohn@anu.edu.au
Joanne Gash
Executive Assistant
T +61 2 6125 1888
E joanne.gash@anu.edu.au
Related links
- Innovation
- Alumni
- Development
- Business Development Office
- Commercialisation Office
- ANU Enterprise
- ANU Edge
- ANU Connect Ventures
Professor Michael Cardew-Hall
PhD (Imperial College, London, 1988), BSc(Hons) (Nottingham, 1983)
Professor Michael Cardew-Hall is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Innovation & Advancement) at ANU.
He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and Institution of Engineers Australia. He has held technical and management positions with GEC and Rolls-Royce Aero Engines in the UK prior to joining the ANU in 1993. He has been an active researcher in the area of CAD, Computer Aided Manufacture, application of machine learning and knowledge based systems to manufacturing and optimisation of manufacturing processes, in particular sheet metal forming. Much of this work has been carried out in collaboration with industry partners, particularly in the automotive sector. He is involved with the Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Automotive Technology (AutoCRC) being a member of their expert panel.
He has ongoing interest in technology transfer, commercialisation and industrial policy and has been involved in a number of spin off start up companies. He is currently CEO of ANU Connect Ventures, a pre-seed venture capital fund associated with the ANU.
Professor Cardew-Hall has held the position of Head Department of Engineering, Deputy Dean, and Acting Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the Australian National University.
