RMIT is pleased to announce that Professor Gael McDonald will take up theposition of President, RMIT Vietnam from 17 February 2014. Gael is currently Pro Vice-Chancellor of the Faculty of Business and Law at Deakin University and is Secretary of the Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC).
Professor McDonald has had extensive international education experience, including as Vice-President of International, and later Vice-President of Research, at Unitec in New Zealand. Gael has widely published in academic and professional journals and taught human resource management, international marketing and organisational behaviour in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Macau, the United States and Canada. Professor McDonald has a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Western Australia and a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Gael’s experience as an educational leader in Australia and internationally will be essential as RMIT Vietnam continues to consolidate its position as the leading foreign-owned university in Vietnam and the largest and most successful branch campus of any university in the world.