Professor Renée Leon is the Vice-Chancellor and President of Charles Sturt University, a role she commenced in September 2021. She has extensive experience in commonwealth and state public administration, and was appointed National President of the Institute of Public Administration Australia in 2022. Professor Leon has been the Secretary of both the Department of Human Services and the Department of Employment, and has served as the CEO of the ACT Department of Justice and Community Safety. She was awarded a Public Service Medal in 2013 for outstanding service to public administration and law in leadership roles in the ACT and the commonwealth.