| Caption: | Professor Vanessa Lemm |
| Citizenship: | Germany and Australia |
| Nationality: | German and Australia |
| Spouse: | Professor Miguel Vatter |
| Vanessa Lemm | |
| Era: | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region: | Western philosophy |
| School Tradition: | Continental |
| Main Interests: | Poststructuralism Political Philosophy Hermeneutics |
Vanessa Lemm is provost and deputy vice-chancellor at the University of Greenwich, United Kingdom. She was appointed in 2024.[1] Lemm was previously vice-president and executive dean of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University. She is chief editor of the journal Nietzsche Studien, and has published on the topics of Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault. She was the executive dean of the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University (2021-2022).
Before moving to Australia, Lemm was Director of the Institute of Humanities at the Diego Portales University in Santiago de Chile and DAAD Visiting Professor at the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Potsdam, Germany.
At the University of New South Wales she was professor of philosophy and head of the School of Humanities and Languages for more than four years. During this time she was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales (FRSN).[2]