Professor Carolyn Evans is Vice Chancellor and President of Griffith University. Carolyn graduated with degrees in Arts and Law from the University of Melbourne and a doctorate from Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
Prior to commencing at Griffith, Carolyn held the positions of Dean of Law, Deputy Vice Chancellor and Deputy Provost at the University of Melbourne. In 2019, Carolyn was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and became a member of Chief Executive Women.
She is President of the Australian Higher Education Industrial Association, was Chair of the Innovative Research Universities from 2021-2022, former board member of Open Universities Australia from 2019-2023, current Board member of Universities Australia and the Committee for Economic Development of Australia.
Carolyn is an internationally recognised expert in religious freedom and has written and edited multiple books and papers on this topic. She has been an invited speaker on religious freedom and human rights topics in in the United States, United Kingdom, Russia, China, Greece, Vietnam, India, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Malaysia, Nepal and Australia, as well as giving evidence to major inquiries in Australia.