A graduate in Civil Engineering from UniSA’s antecedent, the SA Institute of Technology, Dr Klingberg’s 34-year career in engineering includes extensive national and international experience. He was Managing Director of Kinhill Ltd from 1986 to 1998, where he played a major role in developing the small Adelaide-based group into one of the largest and most successful firms of professional engineers in Australia and South East Asia.
He was appointed Chancellor at UniSA in 1998 and over the next decade, through his governance role, supported the new institutions rapid growth. During that period, he also served as the inaugural Chair of the national Universities Chancellors’ Council.
Now a professional company director, Dr Klingberg is Chairman of Centrex Metals Limited and a director of E & A Limited and Codan Ltd. He has previously held the positions of Chairman of Barossa Infrastructure Limited and the South Australian Premier’s Climate Change Council and was a member of the boards of Snowy Hydro Limited and Invest in SA. He is a patron of the Cancer Council of South Australia and the St Andrew’s Hospital Foundation.
He was awarded a Centenary medal for his services to civil and mining engineering and in 2008 was named Australian Professional Engineer of the Year. In 2009 was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for his contributions to governance policy in the tertiary education sector and to commercial and economic development and infrastructure projects and in the same year he was made an Honorary Doctor of the University of South Australia.
