From Academic to Administrator to Advancement Champion

This thoughtful conversation takes us through President Saini’s path as an “accidental academic” to an “accidental administrator” to a champion of educational advancement. He has served as a university president in two countries, at Australia’s University of Canberra, and now at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Sue Cunningham asks President Saini about his perspective on international education, how higher education in Australia changed between the time he studied there as a graduate student and his return as a Vice-Chancellor; what his outlook is on philanthropy in education in India, and what inspires him about leading Dalhousie University, and its remarkable relationship with its local community.