Professor Leonie Tickle
Biography
Leonie Tickle is Executive Dean of Macquarie Business School and Professor in Actuarial Studies.
As Executive Dean, Leonie provides strategic and operational leadership of the business school and its academic and professional staff. This includes fostering high-quality business research and research training that advances knowledge and addresses society's major challenges, delivering engaging, quality-driven, research-informed and contemporary business education, and partnering with professional, business, government and academic partners. As a member of the University Executive, she also contributes to the management of the wider University, and the achievement of its strategic vision.
Leonie is an internationally recognised scholar in the fields of actuarial science and demographic forecasting, and the first female actuary professor in Australia. She has published in the highest-ranked international journals in her field including Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Annals of Actuarial Science – where she co-authored the highest-cited paper in the journal's history – and Population Studies, is the recipient of two national research awards, and has held various major industry-funded national and international research projects. An award-winning educator, Leonie has received a national teaching award and four Vice-Chancellor's teaching awards, and served as the Australian representative on the international Actuarial Education Committee.
Leonie has worked with an array of industry, external and professional networks and is a passionate advocate for inclusion in business education, transdisciplinary research collaboration, and partnering for impact in research and education.
Leonie completed a BEc (Actuarial Studies), graduating at the top of her class, and a BA from Macquarie University before completing the Fellowship of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia qualification. She previously held the leadership positions of Deputy Dean, Research and Innovation and Associate Dean, Learning and Teaching at Macquarie University Business School, before being appointed as Executive Dean in November 2024.