John Niland

Who is John Niland?

John Rodney Niland AC is an Australian academic and company director. He is currently on the Board of Macquarie Group and Macquarie Bank. Niland obtained a Bachelor and Master of Commerce from the University of New South Wales and was President of the University Union and Students Union when he was a student at the university. He holds a PhD from the University of Illinois.

Before engaging in corporate business, he held academic appointments at Cornell University, the University of Illinois, the Australian National University and UNSW. He is a Professor Emeritus of the UNSW and was fifth Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the university from 1992 to 2002. Before that he was the Dean of the UNSW Faculty of Commerce and Economics. While UNSW Vice-Chancellor, he was a foundation director of Universitas 21 and of Australia 's Group of Eight Universities. He also served a term as president of the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee, and as a member of the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council.