Genevieve Bell | |
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13th Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University | |
Assumed office 1 January 2024 | |
Chancellor | Julie Bishop |
Preceded by | Brian Schmidt |
Personal details | |
Born | Australia |
Alma mater | Bryn Mawr College Stanford University |
Occupation | Cultural Anthropologist Distinguished Professor |
Academic background | |
Thesis | Telling stories out of school: Remembering the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1879-1918 (1998) |
Doctoral advisor | Arthur Wolf Hill Gates |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Anthropology |
Institutions | |
Genevieve Bell AO FTSE FAHA FASSA is the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University[1] and an Australian cultural anthropologist. She is best known for her work at the intersection of cultural practice research and technological development (including as a pioneer in the field of futurist research[2]), and for being an industry pioneer of the user experience field.[3] Bell was the inaugural director of the Autonomy, Agency and Assurance Innovation Institute (3Ai), which was co-founded by the Australian National University (ANU) and CSIRO’s Data61, and a Distinguished Professor of the ANU College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics.[4][5] From 2021 to December 2023, she was the inaugural Director of the new ANU School of Cybernetics. She also holds the university's Florence Violet McKenzie Chair,[6][7] and is the first SRI International Engelbart Distinguished Fellow.[8] Bell is also a Senior Fellow and Vice President at Intel. She is widely published, and holds 13 patents.
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