Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington AO PFHEA B.Ed (Hons) Tas, DPhil Oxon

Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington AO is the strategic and operational leader for research and development, translation and commercialisation at the University of South Australia. Her role is to oversee the design, delivery and to review of approaches that advance novel insights, and industry and community partnerships for social and economic growth, renewal, wellbeing, and sustainability.

 Marnie has a global profile as a systems philosopher who works to show how our understandings of the past shape our present, and our future. In 2008 she was named the Australian Prime Minister’s University Teacher of the Year, and in 2022, she was made an Officer in the Order of Australia for distinguished service to higher education governance, leadership, and mentoring.