Appointment of ANU Chancellor selection panel Chair Emeritus Professor Peter Coaldrake

On 27 April 2026, TEQSA accepted a voluntary undertaking from the Australian National University (ANU) for a process to recruit the next Chancellor.

The selection panel will be chaired by Emeritus Professor Peter Coaldrake, a former Chief Commissioner of TEQSA and Vice Chancellor of the Queensland University of Technology for 14 years. Professor Coaldrake has extensive governance, strategic and operational knowledge of the university sector. In 2022 Professor Coaldrake completed a major review of culture and accountability of the Queensland public sector.

Professor Coaldrake will not be making public or media statements in relation to the selection panel at this time.

Details of the selection process will be published in coming weeks, on a dedicated ANU webpage.