Professor Ingrid Moses was elected at the XIIth Triennial in Brussels in 1999 as President-Elect of IAUP and served as President from 2002-2005.

Ingrid became Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of New England in Armidale, Australia in mid-1997 following a successful academic and senior administrative career. Born and educated in Germany she gained her Master and PhD at the University of Queensland in Australia, where she had moved with her Australian husband. She held academic positions at the University of Queensland and as Professor of Higher Education and Founding Director, Centre for Learning and Teaching at the University of Technology, Sydney, followed by four years as Pro and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Canberra. She served for 8 ½ years as Vice-Chancellor and retired in early 2006. She is currently serving her second term as Chancellor, ie Chair of the governing board, of the University of Canberra, and continues to be active in higher education.

She holds national and international awards for her work in higher and international education, among them honorary doctorates from the University of Technology, Sydney and California State University, Sacramento. She has worked as a consultant, speaker, auditor, and reviewer for universities across the globe and for OECD/IMHE, UNESCO and the UN. She was on the Council of the United Nations University, 1999-2005 and Chair of Council for two years. She was also the Australian representative on the Council of the University of the South Pacific, a university owned by twelve member states and spread across thousands of miles.

When appointed as IAUP President-Elect she was only two years into her first term as university president. Her first encounter with IAUP was an IAUP human resources regional conference in Canberra, Australia, in 1998 and it was here that she was earmarked as a future IAUP presidents by the ‘elders’. IAUP was fairly unknown in Australia and New Zealand, but Ingrid selected two highly respected Vice-Chancellors as team members – Professor James McWha of Massey University in New Zealand as Secretary General who later, in 2002, took up his current position of VC of The University of Adelaide in Australia, and Professor Denise Bradley, AO of the University of South Australia as Treasurer. During the Australian Presidency about half of the university presidents were IAUP members – probably the highest proportion of any country.

The XIIIth Triennial Conference was organized by the Australian team and held in Sydney, June 24-27 2002. It addressed ‘Academic Values, National Dreams, Global Realities’. By all accounts it was a most stimulating conference with excellent contributions and participation and an outstanding calendar of professional and social events. For the first time we had a delegation from North Korea.

During the Triennium we tried to increase communication and collaboration with other international organizations, notably the International Association of Universities (IAU), the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), the OECD/IMHE (Institutional Management in Higher Education) programs, UNESCO and the UN – and were successful in this. At regional levels European associations and Asia/Pacific associations as well as the American Council on Education were also partners in projects and conferences.

During much of our Presidency part of the world was in turmoil, affecting us as citizens and presidents, but also making the work of IAUP more difficult – the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, SARS, the Bali bombing and the tsunami. We responded  by working with Afghanistan presidents, seeking assistance for Iraqi presidents and helping countries devastated by the tsunami.

Despite the unrest and health scares we continued to hold Executive Committee meetings throughout the regions of the world – in the Blue Mountains in Australia; in Brega, Portugal and New Jersey, USA; in Florianopolis, Brazil and Cairo, Egypt; finishing with the pre-Triennial meeting in Bangkok. And we encouraged Regional Chairs to engage Presidents through conferences and all members to participate in both IAUP and other international conferences and meetings. We were successful in achieving this and the Presidency, too, had a high profile.

The overriding theme for our Triennium was Equity for all, quality in all, building on successful programs from the past, refocusing others and setting new agendas. We considered peace education to be more important than ever. Links Between Universities and Industry remained on the agenda. Our commitment to quality assurance and accreditation standards continued through various activities and working parties.

We focused on women’s participation, and women’s career opportunities in higher education. IAUP and IAU organized a conference on Women and Leadership in Higher Education: How thick is the Glass Ceiling? in Monterrey, Mexico, 12-14 June, 2003. - Within IAUP I greatly increased the number of women in the Executive Committee and appointed Eudora Pettigrew as Vice-President

We participated in the Dialogue of Cultures in many conferences and meetings, including at the UNESCO-CEPES Jubilee International Conference on ‘Higher Education in the 21^st Century: Its Role and Contribution to Our Common Advancement’, held in Bucharest, Romania, from 6-8 September,  2002.

In a world where globalization of education is a reality, to Promote Good Practice in Transnational Education became an important agenda item. Several of us contributed to conferences on this theme, including at the 7^th Annual GATE Conference, ‘Assuring Excellence in the Business, Technology and Globalization of e-Learning and Online Education’, Paris, September 2002; the UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education plus 5 Partner Meeting in Paris, June 2003; the first Global Leaders in International Education Forum in Melbourne, 20-21 October 2003 followed by the annual Australian International Education; American Council on Education conferences. Executive Committee members and the President also contributed to symposia in Asia and sessions of the American Council on Education conferences.

We were pleased that during the Triennium the IAUP profile had increased, we had initiated and sustained collaboration with international organizations and agencies, our paying membership had grown, our finances and the database were put in good order, IAUP News was a substantive publication, and we had documented the administrative procedures to facilitate handover from Presidency to Presidency.

Since 2005 I have presented at a number of international conferences sponsored or co-hosted by IAUP, the last being at Istanbul Technical University, 12-14 April 2010 with a keynote address on ‘Women and Leadership in Higher Education – The Australian Experience’.