Margaret Gardner

Margaret Gardner
Vice-Chancellor of Monash University
In office 2014 – Current
Preceded by	Ed Byrne
Personal details
Spouse(s)	Glyn Davis
Alma mater	University of Sydney
Profession	Economist

Margaret Elaine Gardner, AO is an Australian academic, community leader and economist, and the current Vice-Chancellor of Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

Gardner earned a Bachelor of Economics with first class honours from the University of Sydney, and later a PhD with a thesis on Australian industrial relations. Following the completion of her PhD, she was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship and studied in the United States at the University of California, Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cornell University.

Gardner has had a prominent career as an academic, and has served in executive positions with Deakin University, Griffith University and Queensland University of Technology.

Prior to her appointment as the Vice-Chancellor of RMIT, she was the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Queensland. Prof. Gardner was appointed Vice-Chancellor of RMIT on 4 April 2005, taking over from care-taker Vice-Chancellor Chris Whitaker.

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