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Place of Birth: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
About Mark Wainwright
- Mark Wainwright AM is an Australian academic.
- He served as seventh Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of New South Wales from July 2004 until June 2006.
- Prior to this appointment, Wainwright had been the Acting Vice-Chancellor of the University from mid-April 2004.
- Previously to that, Wainwright was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), an appointment he had held since January 2001. Wainwright joined the University of New South Wales in 1974 as a lecturer in the School of Chemical Technology.
- He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from McMaster University, and a DSc for research into skeletal catalysts from the University of South Australia. He was appointed a member of the Order of Australia in 2004 for services to chemical engineering as a researcher and academic, and to tertiary education. In March 2007 he was awarded an honorary doctorate of science by the University of New South Wales [1]
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