The Pro Vice-Chancellor (International) - Professor Kent Anderson

	Professor Kent Anderson

Role of the Pro-Vice Chancellor (International)

The role of the Pro Vice-Chancellor (International) is to provide strategic direction for the University of Adelaide in its internationalisation. The Pro Vice-Chancellor (International) leads the University’s international engagement and internationalisation strategy.

Key responsibilities include:

• identification of international opportunities, facilitation of strategic alliances and institutional links and management of the university's international agreements;
• development of strategies for international student recruitment;
• quality assurance in relation to the provision of services for international students;
• provision of support and advice to Faculties to ensure the incorporation of internationalisation activities as part of their core business.

These responsibilities are carried out in the context of the wider university and involve close collaboration with the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Academic), Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Research), Executive Deans and Associate Deans (International), Academic Board, Adelaide Graduate Centre and Student Services.

Biography of Professor Kent Anderson

Professor Kent Anderson is a comparative lawyer specialising in Asia.  He joined the University of Adelaide in 2012 as Pro Vice-Chancellor (International) and Professor of Law in the Adelaide Law School.  He has an eclectic background doing his tertiary studies in Japan, US, and UK in Law, Politics, Economics, and Asian Studies.  Kent first worked as a marketing manager with a US regional airline in Alaska, then as a practicing commercial lawyer in Hawaii, and subsequently joining academia as associate professor at Hokkaido University School of Law.  For the decade before joining the University of Adelaide, Kent was a joint appointment at the Australian National University College of Law and Faculty of Asian Studies, where he was Director from 2007-2011.  He was the Foundation Director of the School of Culture, History and Language in the ANU’s College of Asia and the Pacific.

Kent obtained his BA degree in International Politics and Economics cum laude from Middlebury College (Vermont). This included a year-abroad at Nanzan University in Japan. Subsequent to that he studied in the Faculty of Law at Kobe University, obtained an MA in Asian Studies and Juris Doctorate (JD) from Washington University, and a Magister Juris (LLM/BCL) in International and Comparative Law from Oxford University.

His research and teaching are focused on insolvency, private international law, and recently the introduction of Japan’s new quasi-jury system (saiban-in seido). He is editor of Journal of Japanese Law, on the editorial board of Australian Year Book of International Law, and on the editorial advisory board of Australian Journal of Asian Law.

He has been a visiting professor at Waseda, Nagoya, Kyushu, Doshisha, Ritsumeikan University and Chuo Universities in Japan, and at University of Hawaii.

Kent is a Board Member of the Asia Education Foundation and Vice-President of the Asian Studies Association of Australia. He was President of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia in 2007-2009.