James Alexander Angus (born 15 February 1949 in

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) is an Australian pharmacologist, who has served as the Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria since 12 November 2021. He held the Chair in Pharmacology at the

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from 1993 to 2003, and was the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne from 2003 to 2013. He was elected a

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(FAA) in 1996, awarded the

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in 2001, and appointed an

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in 2010. Angus was made an Honorary Fellow of the

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in 2015. After Linda Dessau finished her term in June 2023, he stood in as acting

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until

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assumed office on 9 August 2023.

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