Alec Cameron (academic)
Alexander (Alec) John Cameron (born 5 February 1963) is an Australian engineer and university administrator, currently serving as Vice-Chancellor and President of RMIT University. Early life and education Cameron was educated at Knox Grammar School (1969–1980) where he was school captain in Year 12. He attended the University of Sydney in 1981–1985, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Pure Mathematics and Physics in 1984, and a Bachelor of Engineering degree with First Class Honours and the University Medal in 1986. While at Sydney University he played in the breakaway (flanker) position in the university club's first grade rugby union XV. He was selected as the Rhodes scholar for New South Wales in 1986. At the University of Oxford, he was a member of University College, and obtained his DPhil in the Robotics Research Group in 1989, under the supervision of Hugh Durrant-Whyte. He was a member of Oxford University Rugby Football Club and won a Blue in Rugby in 1988. Career Cameron joined Philips Research Laboratories in Briarcliff Manor, New York, as a Senior Member of Research Staff from 1989 to 1993. He then returned to Sydney in 1993 as the founding Program Director of the