Rector
Professor Greg Barton, one of Australia’s leading scholars on Indonesian culture and politics, is the Rector of The Deakin University Lancaster University Indonesia campus.
Professor Barton has thirty-seven years of experience researching Islam and social movements in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. He is one of Australia’s leading scholars of Indonesia, Islam, Muslim society, security and politics. He is recognised among the world’s top 2% scientists in the 2025 list compiled by Elsevier and Stanford University.
From August 2015, he took up the position of Research Professor in Global Islamic Politics in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation (ADI), at Deakin University and previously was Herb Feith Research Professor for the study of Indonesia at Monash University (2007-2015).
He was also a member of the Australia-Indonesia Centre (AIC) staff team from the time of the establishment of AIC at Monash in 2014. Professor Barton is also an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Strategic and Global Studies (SKSG), University of Indonesia, and a Senior Fellow with the UAE-based Hedayah Center in Abu Dhabi.
