Douglas Proctor, PhD

Douglas Proctor, PhD is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement) at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. He provides leadership across the university on global engagement and oversees Swinburne’s global strategy in teaching, research and outreach, with a particular focus on the development and maintenance of global partnerships.

A Senior Fellow of the International Education Association of Australia (IEAA), Douglas has held international education leadership roles in Australia and Ireland, and received his PhD in international higher education from the University of Melbourne.

Douglas is a Global Board Director for the Climate Action Network for International Educators (CANIE). With Dr Laura Rumbley, he co-edited The Future Agenda for Internationalization in Higher Education (Routledge, 2018) which offers new perspectives on the future of internationalization in higher education from a younger generation of scholars and practitioners.