Professor Sharon Pickering is the Vice-Chancellor and President of Monash University,
appointed 29 January 2024.
Professor Pickering is a leading international scholar in the field of criminology with global
expertise on border crossings, migration and trafficking. Her work across criminology and
higher education has attracted numerous awards including an Australian Human Rights
Commission Award, the Leon Radzinowicz Prize, the CM Alder Prize, the International
Education Association of Australia Best Practice Award and the Australian Financial Review
International Education Award. In 2018, she was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy
of the Social Sciences. Professor Pickering has held an Australian Research Council (ARC)
Future Fellowship and ARC funding over many years and served on the ARC College and
ERA panels. She has served on numerous editorial boards and held editorial positions with
leading journals and publishers.
In senior management at Monash University, Professor Pickering previously served as
Acting-Provost and Senior Vice President, providing leadership of the ten Monash Faculties,
as well as the University’s international campuses: Monash University, Malaysia, Monash
University, Indonesia, Monash Suzhou in China, the IITB-Monash Research Academy in
India and the Monash University Prato Centre in Italy.
Professor Pickering has also served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) and Senior
Vice-President with responsibility for education strategy, student experience, teaching and
learning, scholarships, executive education, online education and related functions for the
University.