Malcolm Gillies

Professor Malcolm George William Gillies (born 23 December 1954) is Vice-Chancellor of London Metropolitan University.

Career

Gillies graduated with a degree in classics from the Australian National University, and subsequently earned a further degree in music from the University of Cambridge. He holds a masters and doctoral degree from King's College London, and a doctoral degree from the University of Melbourne.

He was previously Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) and then Vice-President (Development) of the Australian National University, based in Canberra, Australia and latterly at Yale University in New Haven, United States. During 1983-5 he was a Hungarian Government Scholar at the Academy of Sciences in Budapest. Between 1998-2001 he was the President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and during 2004-6 the inaugural President of the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.

Since coming to the United Kingdom Malcolm Gillies has become an alternate director of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator, Vice-Chair of London Higher and a Trustee of the City of London Academy Islington. He is also on the Research Policy Committee of Universities UK. In July 2008 he was appointed the Schools-Higher Education "Champion" for London by the quondam Schools Minister, Lord Adonis.

A musician and linguist by training, Malcolm Gillies has published a dozen books and over one hundred articles, chapters and reviews.^[1] In 2007 his book Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger (with Pear and Carroll) gained a Deems Taylor Award of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. He has edited Oxford University Press's series Studies in Musical Genesis, Structure and Interpretation since 1997. Since 2000 he has been Board Chair of the international contemporary-music ensemble, Elision.

Gillies served as Vice-Chancellor and President of City University London from 2007-2009.^[1]

London Metropolitan University announced on 19 November 2009 that The Board of Governors had appointed Malcolm Gillies as the university's new Vice-Chancellor. Professor Gillies took up the post on 25 January 2010.

Serves on the Executive Board of Nyenrode Business University.^[2]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Malcolm Gillies: a brief background". http://www.city.ac.uk/vco/malcolmgillies/index.html. Retrieved 2008-12-30. ^{[dead link]}
2. ^ "About Nyenrode". http://www.nyenrode.nl/About/organization/Pages/Boards.aspx. 

Academic offices
Preceded by David Rhind	Vice-Chancellor of The City University 2007–2009	Succeeded by Julius Weinberg (acting)

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