Professor Reddy will be responsible for academic matters, including the faculties, and his portfolio includes: academic teaching and learning; academic staffing, and health sciences and provincial matters.

Professor Reddy will chair the Academic HOD Working Group, the consultative forum on academic staffing, the Exams and Assessment Committee, the Fellowships Research Committee, and the Senate Academic Planning Committee.

He will represent the Vice-Chancellor on the Advisory Board of the Graduate School of Business. The six faculty deans, the Dean of Higher Education Development, and the Director of the Graduate School of Business all report to Professor Reddy.