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Paul Fawcett GreenfieldAO was the President and Vice Chancellor of The University of Queensland from 1 January 2008 to 13 January 2012.

Career

As Vice Chancellor, he was the university's chief executive officer and responsible to the University Senate for the overall direction of strategic planning, finance and external affairs.^[1] As a chemical engineer, he was made an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia in 2006 for service to science and engineering, thereby providing recognition of his "distinguished service of a high degree to Australia".^[2] His annual salary in 2010 was reported to be A$1,069,999.^[3]

Greenfield resigned from his position as president and vice-chancellor of the university on 13 January 2012 in the aftermath of what was known as the UQ admissions scandal.

The scandal related to an "irregularity" in the enrolment of a student in the medicine course^[4] who was a "close re