Emeritus Professor Denise Bradley AC

Chair of the Higher Education Review Expert Panel

Emeritus Professor Denise Bradley AC is the former Vice‐Chancellor and President of the University of South Australia (UniSA), the largest university in South Australia. She became head of UniSA in 1997, the third woman ever selected as a president of an Australian university. After a decade in the role, she retired in May 2007.

Emeritus Professor Bradley has been extensively involved in national education policy groups for more than two decades. She was a member of the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Commission (CTEC) (1986‐1988) and a member of the National Board of Employment, Education and Training (1988‐1994).

She was a member of the TAFE Council of CTEC (1983‐1986); a member of the Advanced Education Advisory Council of CTEC (1986‐1988); a member of the Commonwealth Review of TAFE funding in 1985; a member of the Higher Education Council of National Board of Employment, Education and Training (1988‐1994); and its Deputy Chair (1991‐1994).

In 2002 she was a member of the Australian Government’s Higher Education Review Reference group.