Stephen Bruce Dowton (born 1956) is the fifth Vice-Chancellor and President of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.
He is a paediatrician, researcher, and academic, and has served as a senior medical executive at universities, healthcare institutions, and consulting organisations.
As a laboratory scientist, his work focused on regulation of the expression of genes for an important class of blood proteins.
Macquarie University announced the appointment of Dowton as their fifth Vice-Chancellor in July 2012,[7] and he assumed the role in September that year,[8] leaving his post as clinical professor of paediatrics at the Harvard Medical School.
[9] Alongside his role as Vice-Chancellor, Dowton holds the following positions: He was a member of the Board of the Maggie Beer Foundation from 2014 until 2016.