Macquarie University Emeritus Professor Sam Lieu from the Department of Ancient History has been elected to the office of President of L’Union Académique Internationale (UAI) at the biannual meeting of the UAI General Assembly recently.
The UAI is the global organisation of national academies in the fields of the humanities and social sciences. Its aims are to initiate, recognise, foster and fund basic long-term international research projects.
Created in 1919 in Paris with a general secretariat established in Brussels, the UAI comprises at the moment more than a hundred academies from 63 countries from all continents.
Professor Lieu is only the second Australian to be elected to the UAI Presidency.
The UAI is the global organisation of national academies in the fields of the humanities and social sciences. Its aims are to initiate, recognise, foster and fund basic long-term international research projects.
Created in 1919 in Paris with a general secretariat established in Brussels, the UAI comprises at the moment more than a hundred academies from 63 countries from all continents.
Professor Lieu is only the second Australian to be elected to the UAI Presidency.
