Pro Vice-Chancellor, Monash South Africa

Professor Tyrone Pretorius commenced as Pro Vice-Chancellor, Monash South Africa in April 2005. His responsibilities include:

• helping Monash South Africa further embrace its role in the development of South African society;
• developing the campus into a world-class teaching and research facility.

Professor Pretorius has an outstanding record of academic leadership and a strong background in higher education management. Before joining Monash he was deputy vice-chancellor (academic) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) and spent 10 years as dean of community and health sciences at UWC.

With a background in psychology, Professor Pretorius has doctorates from UWC and the University of the Orange Free State in South Africa and a post doctoral fellowship from Yale University in the United States . In 2001 he received an award from the Psychology Society of South Africa recognising his contribution to the field of psychology.

Professor Pretorius has published extensively on coping and stress, statistics and research methodology and remains an active researcher. He is also a past associate editor of the South African Journal of Psychology.

His professional involvement includes being chairman of the Ministerial Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse. He is also a member of the South African Medical and Dental Council, the South African Universities Vice-Chancellors Association and the New York Academy of Sciences.

Contact

Charmain Caroto
Executive Assistant
Tel:  +27 11 950 4060
Fax:  +27 11 950 4066
Email: charmain.caroto@adm.monash.edu