Professor Graeme Wilkinson is a Pro-Chancellor and Emeritus Professor of the University. He was formerly the Vice-Chancellor of the University for ten years from 2012 until 2022. He is also currently the Chairman of the Board of Governors of Sunway College. He is from the UK and is a physics graduate of Imperial College London and holds a doctorate from Oxford University. He has worked in management consulting and was formerly an environmental remote sensing specialist with the European Commission in Italy researching the use of AI in analysing data from Earth observation satellites. He held senior management positions in three UK universities before coming to Malaysia.

He has authored, co-authored and co-edited over 100 academic publications, including books on information technology and advanced computing techniques such as Fundamentals of Information Technology, Neurocomputation in Remote Sensing Data Analysis, and Machine Vision and Advanced Image Processing in Remote Sensing. He also formerly served on the editorial boards of several international academic journals, including The International Journal of Geographical Information Systems, The Journal of Geographical Systems, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, and SPIE Applied Remote Sensing.

He has two written books for higher education staff, namely Getting Promoted in Academia and Managing Effectively in Academia, both published by Sunway University Press. He also has keen interests in the visual arts and has co-authored with his wife a book on a Malaysian painter (Colours of Malaysia: The Art of Amirudin Ariffin). He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.