DAVIES Graeme
Vice-Chancellor and President, University of London
Session: Sustainability - Education and Governance for Trust and Sustainability
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
- 15.00-16.30
Sir Graeme is currently Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of London, a post he took up in October 2003. The Vice-Chancellor of the University of London is the head of the federal University with its nineteen Colleges and the ten Institutes of the School of Advanced Study. The student population of the federal University exceeds 120,000 of which more than 47,000 are postgraduate with a further 45,000+ students in 180 countries registered on the External Programme studying on more than 100 degree programmes.
He was Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow from 1995 to 2003. He was Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England from 1991 until 1995 having been Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool from 1986 to 1991. He was Professor of Metallurgy in the University of Sheffield from 1977 to 1986 having taken up that post after 16 years in the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science in the University of Cambridge where he was also a Fellow of St. Catharine's College. He was educated in the School of Engineering of the University of Auckland, New Zealand where graduated with a BE degree in Aeronautical Engineeringand a PhD in Materials Science from the University of Auckland and received both an MA and ScD from St Catharine's College, Cambridge.
Currently he is Chairman of the Higher Education Policy Institute and a member of the Council of the Association of Commonwealth Universities. He sits on the London Economic Panel. He has held Visiting Professorships in New Zealand, Brazil, China, Argentina, South Africa, Israel and India. He is a consultant to the Australian Universities Quality Assurance Agency and the Hong Kong University Grants Committee. He is currently President of the British University Vietnam and a member of the Board of the University of the Seychelles.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Honorary Graduate of the Universities of Liverpool, Sheffield, Strathclyde, Manchester Metropolitan, Nottingham, Edinburgh, Auckland, Glasgow, Ulster, Paisley and London South Bank and an Honorary Fellow of the Trinity College of Music.
He was Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow from 1995 to 2003. He was Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England from 1991 until 1995 having been Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool from 1986 to 1991. He was Professor of Metallurgy in the University of Sheffield from 1977 to 1986 having taken up that post after 16 years in the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science in the University of Cambridge where he was also a Fellow of St. Catharine's College. He was educated in the School of Engineering of the University of Auckland, New Zealand where graduated with a BE degree in Aeronautical Engineeringand a PhD in Materials Science from the University of Auckland and received both an MA and ScD from St Catharine's College, Cambridge.
Currently he is Chairman of the Higher Education Policy Institute and a member of the Council of the Association of Commonwealth Universities. He sits on the London Economic Panel. He has held Visiting Professorships in New Zealand, Brazil, China, Argentina, South Africa, Israel and India. He is a consultant to the Australian Universities Quality Assurance Agency and the Hong Kong University Grants Committee. He is currently President of the British University Vietnam and a member of the Board of the University of the Seychelles.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Honorary Graduate of the Universities of Liverpool, Sheffield, Strathclyde, Manchester Metropolitan, Nottingham, Edinburgh, Auckland, Glasgow, Ulster, Paisley and London South Bank and an Honorary Fellow of the Trinity College of Music.
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