Professor Tim Dunne, FASSA FAcSS

Tim Dunne is Provost and Senior Vice-President at Monash University  a role that he took up in early 2026.  Formerly the Provost and Senior Vice-President at the University of Surrey  since 2022  and as Interim President and Vice-Chancellor between May and September 2025.

Before joining the University of Surrey, Professor Dunne held executive leadership roles at the University of Queensland (UQ) for more than ten years. There he served as Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (2010-2013). Executive Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (2014-2017), and Deputy Provost (2018-2021). Previously he held leadership roles at the University of Exeter where he had the opportunity to work closely with his long-standing mentor Sir Steve Smith during his presidency of the university.

Tim is recognised for his research on human rights protection and foreign policy-making in a changing world order. He has written and co-edited sixteen books, including Terror in our Time (2012), The Globalization of International Society (2017), and most recently the The Rise of the International (2024) co-edited with Professor Richard Devetak.

He is an elected Fellow of the Academic of Social Sciences in Australia and the Academic of Social Sciences in the UK. He proudly holds an Emeritus Professorship in the School of POLSIS at The University of Queensland.