Sally Wheeler (legal scholar)

Sally Wheeler
OBE MRIA FAcSS FAAL
Sally Wheeler (2017)
Vice-Chancellor of Birkbeck, University of London
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 January 2024
ChancellorAnne, Princess Royal
Preceded byDavid Latchman
Personal details
Born1964 (1964) (age 60)
Alma materPembroke College, Oxford (BA, DPhil)

Sally Wheeler, OBE MRIA FAcSS FAAL (born 1964) is Vice-Chancellor of Birkbeck, University of London and was previously Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International and Corporate) at the Australian National University, where she was also served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International Strategy) and Dean of the College of Law (2018-2022).[1][2][3] She is also a Visiting Full Professor at the UCD Sutherland School of law [4] and adjunct professor at Waikato University, New Zealand, and Jilin University, China. Wheeler was elected to the Academy of Social Sciences and the Royal Irish Academy in 2011 and 2013, respectively. She was previously a professor at Queen's University Belfast and was the Head of the School of Law at Queen's University Belfast for several years, she also served as Interim Dean of the Faculty of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS), Dean of Internationalisation (AHSS) and, in 2017, Interim Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research Enterprise. Wheeler is the author or co-author of several books on corporate governance, over 70 articles or book chapters, and she has edited or co-edited nine other books. Wheeler has given major addresses and led workshops around the world, and has also been cited as "one of the world's leading experts"[5] on the governance of pensions. In August 2023 her appointment as the incoming Vice-Chancellor of Birkbeck, University of London, was announced.[6]

  1. ^ "New Dean for the ANU College of Law". Australian National University. 9 November 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  2. ^ "ANU College of Law Appoints New Dean". Lawyers Weekly. 20 November 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  3. ^ "Professor Sally Wheeler OBE MRIA FAcSS FAAL". ANU. 13 June 2019.
  4. ^ "UCD Sutherland School of Law". University College Dublin. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  5. ^ Lekakis, George (6 November 2014). "Battle Over Super Trustees Intensifies". The New Daily. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
  6. ^ "Birkbeck announces Professor Sally Wheeler as its new Vice-Chancellor". 8 August 2023.