Dr Leanne Holt is a Worimi/Biripai woman with over 25 years of experience in the higher education sector.
Dr Holt is is the inaugural Pro-Vice Chancellor (indigenous strategy) and Adjunct Academic Fellow at the Department of Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University. She is also a chief investigator on a number of national research projects related to Indigenous education and health.
Dr Holt has served on a range of community and professional local, national and international boards, committees and government expert panels; focusing on the advancement of Indigenous education, employment and community development. She has been chair of not-for-profit organisation Yadha Muru Foundation, deputy chair of the World Indigenous Higher Education Consortium, and director of the Bara Barang community development and training organisation. She was president of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Education Consortium (NATSIHEC).
Dr Holt holds a Masters in Business and Management and a PhD (Education). She is the author of ‘Talking Strong’, which is about the development of Aboriginal education policy in Australia through the voices of the National Aboriginal Education Committee.
In 2020 she was awarded the CEW Roberta Sykes Indigenous Education Foundation Scholarship to attend an executive program at Harvard University in 2022, and was also a State finalist in the Telstra Women’s Business Awards in 2019.
