Vice Chancellor and President Professor David Lloyd

Professor David Lloyd is Vice Chancellor and President of the University of South Australia and co-Vice Chancellor of Adelaide University. A Dublin-born and educated chemist with a specialisation in computer-aided drug design, Professor Lloyd has positioned UniSA as Australia's university of enterprise, reshaping the institution's activities to better meet the challenges of today's learners. Most recently he has co-led the creation of the new Adelaide University - the first comprehensive public Australian university to be created this century - formed through the amalgamation of the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia.

Professor Lloyd is currently a ministerially-appointed member of the Australian Universities Accord Implementation Advisory Committee (IAC) and was a member of South Australia's Economic Development Board (EDB) from 2014 to 2018. He is a former Chair of the Australian Technology Network - a group of technology-focused universities - and of Universities Australia (UA), the peak body representing the university sector. He was also UA’s lead Vice-Chancellor for both Indigenous issues and for Research and Innovation. Additionally, Professor Lloyd has previously served on the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) Advisory Comittee, where he provided independent strategic guidance and helped strengthen the ARC’s ability to support research and innovation in Australia. 

Before joining the University of South Australia, Professor Lloyd was Vice President for Research, and later, Bursar and Director of Strategic Innovation at Trinity College Dublin. Professor Lloyd was Chair of the Irish Research Council and prior to entering academia, worked in the pharmaceutical industry in the UK. He holds an honorary Professorship from Tianjin University and is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering.

Professor Lloyd holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Applied Chemistry and a PhD in Medicinal Organic Chemistry from Dublin City University. He also holds an MA (j.o.) from Trinity College and an Honorary Doctorate from the late Sir Terry Pratchett’s Unseen University.

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