Mr Keith Bedell-Pearce

Keith Bedell-Pearce is the senior independent director of F&C Asset Management plc and non-executive chairman of 4D Data Centres Ltd. He is a member of the Warwick Business School Advisory Board, where he is also an Honorary Professor, and a member of the Investment Advisory Board of the Royal Society.

Before he retired in 2001, Keith was a main board director of Prudential plc. His 30 year career at Prudential spanned being a computer systems designer, the company's in-house solicitor, a director of its investment management business, marketing director and running operating businesses both in the UK and abroad.  Immediately after retiring from the Prudential, he was appointed chairman of the Student Loans Company and chairman of the Norwich & Peterborough Building Society. He retired from both businesses in 2008 after extended second terms of office. In 2004, he was asked by the Government to become chairman of Directgov, having been closely involved in the design and early stage development of what was to become the Government’s destination website for individuals for all public sector information and transactions.

Keith is a solicitor and a Fellow of the Marketing Society. He has been connected with the University of Warwick for more than 40 years, having gained an MSc as part of the second year intake of the fledgling Warwick Business School in 1969. He was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2009 for public service.

Keith Bedell-Pearce began his first term of office as a lay member of the University Council in August 2009. He also serves on the Audit Committee.

Mr Andrew Bradley

Andrew Bradley is President of the University of Warwick Students’ Union. He graduated from Warwick in 2009 having studied Politics in the Department of Politics and International Studies. Outside the lecture hall, Andrew trod the boards with Music Theatre Warwick, presented RaW News on Radio Warwick, edited the Travel Section of the Warwick Boar and wrote a weekly Comment Column for the newspaper as well as serving on the executive committee of a number of societies including Amnesty International and People & Planet. He also worked as a Student Ambassador with Warwick Welcome Service, taking tours of campus and leading Aim Higher workshops to raise aspirations in local schools.

As Forum Event Manager for One World Week 2009, Andrew organised and arranged talks such as ‘Do we live in a Dis-United Kingdom?’ with the Sociologist and multiculturalism scholar Tariq Modood and human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell and ‘The Untold Story of Afghanistan’ with award-winning foreign correspondent Christina Lamb.

Professor Lee Bridges

Lee Bridges is a Professor in the School of Law and Chair of the Board of Graduate Studies at the University of Warwick. He formerly served as Director of the Legal Research Institute (1997 – 2003) and Chair of the School of Law (2001 – 2005). His research interests lie in the fields of criminal justice, legal aid and the legal profession, public law and race and the law.

Lee Bridges has served on the Council as one of the appointees of the Senate since 2005. 

Professor Simon Bright

After completing a PhD in Plant Biochemistry at Cambridge University, Simon Bright spent 10 years at Rothamsted Research getting involved in the emerging field of plant biotechnology.  He spent a year in the USA in 1984 - 1985 at a start up biotechnology company, before returning to the UK as ICI was establishing its crop biotechnology research. From 1986-2004 he was involved with the international research, development,  management  and commercialisation of crop biotechnology for ICI which became Zeneca and then latterly Syngenta through mergers and demergers over the years. Latterly his emphasis was on international research collaborations in genomics and biotechnology. 

Simon left Syngenta in 2004 to move to the University of Warwick as  head of the new department: Warwick HRI.  The department was established in April 2004 from a government institute specialising in Horticulture, Plant and Microbial Sciences. It has developed its research into the areas of sustainable agriculture, resource efficiency, plant-based materials and energy and has formed strong interdisciplinary links across the University.  He was a council member of the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (2004-2007) and is currently a member of the UK National Horticulture Forum and the Nutrition Committee of the Rank Prize Trust.  Simon chairs the Advisory Board of Egenis, the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society, at Exeter University.

Simon Bright began his first term of office on the Council, as one of the appointees of the Senate, in August 2008.

Professor Ann Caesar

Ann Hallamore Caesar is a Professor of Italian and is serving in her first year as Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Student Experience).  She began her professional career as an extra-mural lecturer before taking up a University Lectureship in Italian at Cambridge where she was Fellow of Corpus Christi College and, in her last five years, Head of Department before moving to Warwick in 1999 to the University’s first Chair in Italian Studies.  Between 2004 and 2008 she served as Chair of the Board of the Faculty of Arts.  Her research interests are in Italian narrative and theatre of the 18th, 19th and early 20th century and European avant-gardes.  She is currently working on the rise of the modern novel in Venice and 19^th century print culture.

Ann Caesar served as one of the appointees of the Senate to the University Council from 2001 to 2003 and from 2004 to 2007. She began her current term of office in her capacity as Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Student Experience) in August 2009.

Dr Roy Chung JP

Roy Chung, a co-founder of Techtronic Industries Co. Ltd., is currently the Vice-Chairman & Executive Director of the Company. Dr Chung completed his Msc degree at the University of Warwick in 1993. He is steeped in the electric appliances/electronics industry with over 30 years of solid experience. With his keen interests in this industry, Dr Chung is committed to participating in and promoting related industry training to foster the industry leaders of the next generation. He was the Deputy Council Chairman of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University between 2002-07. Dr Chung won the 1997 Hong Kong Young Industrialists Award. He was appointed as Justice of Peace by the Hong Kong SAR Government effective on 1st July, 2005. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor by the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia in 2006. He was further awarded an Honorary Doctor of Business Administration by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2007.

Dr Chung is highly dedicated to the advancement of the industry and sits on a number of committees and organizations. He is currently a Council Member of Vocational Training Council, a Court Chairman of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a member of the Advisory Board for Lingnan University's Faculty of Business, a member of Home Affairs Bureau - Sports Commission, Chairman of Electronics/ Electrical Appliances Industry Advisory Committee of Hong Kong Trade Development Council, Vice-Chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Industries, a Council Member of  Employers' Federation of Hong Kong, Elected Council Member and Executive Committee Member of Hong Kong Management Association, Vice-Chairman of Hong Kong Standards and Testing Center Limited, Director of the Hong Kong Safety Institute Limited, Director of Hong Kong Design Center Limited, Vice-Chairman of the Governing Board of the Dongguan City Association of Enterprises with Foreign Investment.

Dr Chung began his first term of office as a lay member of the University Council in 2007.

Mrs Viki Cooke

Viki Cooke is Joint Chair of the Research & Engagement Division of Chime Communications and Chief Executive of Opinion Leader.  The Division currently has six businesses : Opinion Leader, Brand Democracy, Ledbury, Caucus, Facts International and Naked Eye. 

Following a successful career in advertising, communications and planning, Viki co-founded Opinion Leader in 1992.  Since that time the company has successfully grown and is now considered one of the top research and engagement agencies in the UK.  Her success has been recognised in recent years by winning several awards and commendations from the Market Research Society, Association of Qualitative Researchers, Westminster & Whitehall World, Chime Communications and Marketing Magazine. In 2007 Opinion Leader was shortlisted for “Best Agency” by research magazine.

As Chief Executive, Viki has played a leading role in developing new thinking about social influence, permanent campaigning, reputation management, trust and enabling behaviour change. She has been at the forefront of developing new deliberative and collaborative research methods that engage citizens and consumers with the services that affect them.

Viki is a frequent media commentator, particularly on news and current affairs programmes, a regular conference speaker and writer. In her spare time Viki is a Trustee of the charities Changing Faces and Global Action Plan.

Viki began her first term of office as a lay member of the University Council in 2008.  She also serves on the Building Committee and the Honorary Degrees Committee.

Sir George Cox

George Cox is a Board Member of NYSER Euronext, the global exchange group and an independent director of Shorts, the aerospace company.  He is a past Director General of the Institute of Directors and the past Chair of the Design Council.  George started his professional life as an aeronautical engineer. As an entrepreneur, he formed the highly regarded IT consulting and research company, Butler Cox, in 1977, developed it, floated it on the London Stock Exchange, and presided over its sale to a major international group in 1991. As a corporate executive, he was Managing Director of Unisys UK, before becoming Chairman and taking over responsibility for all European Country Managers. As Senior Independent Director of LIFFE (the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange) until 2002, he played a significant part in overseeing the restructuring and turnaround of the Exchange.

Other past roles include member of the Management Board of the Inland Revenue; independent director of Bradford & Bingley; Chair of Merlin (the international emergency medical aid charity); President of the Management Consultancies Association; Master of the Guild (later Worshipful Company) of Management Consultants; Board Member of VSO; Visiting Professor at the management school of Royal Holloway; and Chairman of Enterprise Insight.  In 2005 he carried out the Cox Review (of creativity in business) for HM Government and spoke on the outcome at the following World Economic Forum in Dallas.  In 1995 he was knighted for services to business.

A former international rowing coach and Olympic selector, he is the President of the Leander Club.

George Cox has served as a lay member of the University Council since 2004.  He also serves on the Finance and General Purposes Committee, the Nominations Committee and the Remuneration Committee, and is the Chair of the Warwick Business School Advisory Board.

Professor John Davey

John Davey has been a Professor in Warwick Medical School since October 2008, but has a 30-year relationship with Warwick as an undergraduate, a PhD student, and a Professor in Biological Sciences.  He obtained his BSc and PhD in Cell Biology at Warwick (1978-1984) and was a research fellow of the European Molecular Biology Organisation in Heidelberg.  A short period as a lecturer at the University of Dundee was followed by 10 years lecturing at the University of Birmingham before he returned to Warwick in 1996 with a Fellowship from the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine.  He was appointed a Professor in Biological Sciences in 2000.  He was founding director of the University spin-out company Septegen and was CEO from 2001 until the company wound up in 2006.

John transferred to Warwick Medical School in October 2008 to take up the roles of Director of the Clinical Sciences Research Institute and Associate Dean (Biomedical Research).  His research focuses on understanding how hormones bring about changes in cell behaviour, and he continues to teach in both Biological Sciences and Warwick Medical School.

Professor Davey began his first term of office on the University Council, as one of the appointees of the Senate, in August 2007.

Mr Patrick Dunne

Patrick Dunne is Group Communications Director for 3i Group PLC, a FTSE100 company and a world leader in private equity and venture capital. He joined in 1985 and as well as being an experienced investor he has held a number of leadership roles within the group including building up management buy-in, independent director activities and running Marketing.

He is also the Chairman of ‘Leap - Confronting Conflict’ the UK's leading charity in the field of helping young adults deal with conflict, a member of the CBI's London Council and a former member of the DTI Secretary of State's economic advisory panel.

His educational interests include a Visiting Professorship at Cranfield University where he gained his MBA, membership of the circle of Patrons of INSEAD and a visiting fellowship at Kingston University. Patrick is the author of three successful books and a regular speaker and commentator on boardroom issues internationally. He is also a regular guest host on CNBC Europe's Squawkbox show.

He has a degree in Mathematics and Statistics from Warwick and after graduating spent four years in the chemical industry with Air Products in operations research.

Patrick Dunne began his first term of office as a lay member of the University Council in 2006 and was re-appointed for a second term in 2009.  He also serves on the Finance and General Purposes Committee.

Mrs Penny Egan

Penny Egan is the Executive Director of the US-UK Fulbright Commission, taking up the post in February 2007. Prior to this she was the first woman to lead the RSA (Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce) in its 250 year history.  She was appointed to the post in 1998, stepping down in 2006.

Penny was an internal appointee to the top job and prior to that she was RSA Programme Development Director (1994 - 1998) and RSA Lecture Secretary (1984 - 1994). Her early career includes the posts of Press and Publicity Officer at the Crafts Council (1978 - 1982); Press Officer at No 10 Downing Street (1975 - 1978), and Press Officer at the Victoria & Albert Museum (1972 - 1975).  Penny is the Chair of the Geffrye Museum, and a trustee of DEMOS and of Sing London.  

Penny Egan began her first term of office as a lay member of the University Council in 2007.  She also serves on the Art Collection Committee, the Nominations Committee and the Honorary Degrees Committee, and chairs the Faculty of Arts Advisory Board.

Ms Trudi Elliott

Trudi Elliott is the Regional Director of Government Office for the West Midlands, one of nine Government Offices in the English regions delivering policies and programmes at regional and local level on behalf of 12 Government Departments.

Within the West Midlands Trudi currently chairs the Regional Economic Inclusion Panel, the Programme Monitoring Committee (for European programmes), the Regional Resilience Forum, the West Midlands Regional Climate Change Panel and West Midlands Regional Board. Trudi leads for the Government Office network on Resilience, the work of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Olympic Legacy and Regional Governance.  Trudi also leads the Civil Service West Midlands Project and the roll out of the Civil Service in the English Region’s Programme across England.  Trudi is the principal advisor to Ian Austin MP, Regional Minister for the West Midlands.   

Trudi has experience of working across all sectors – public, private and voluntary.  She has worked as a lawyer in both the public and private sectors.  Her previous roles have included Chief Executive of Bridgnorth District Council and Chief Executive of West Midlands Regional Assembly and West Midlands Local Government Association.

Trudi Elliott began her first term of office as a lay member of the University Council in 2008, and also serves on the Audit Committee.

Ms Vikki Heywood 

Vikki Heywood is the Executive Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. She was appointed in 2003 having followed a successful career in theatre management for many years.  Prior to the RSC Vikki was joint Chief Executive of the Royal Court Theatre from 1996.  During her time there she produced over 100 world premiere productions in London and on Broadway and was responsible for a £20 million programme to rebuild the theatre in Sloane Square.

She is a Director of the Society of London Theatres , a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and is on the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad Board and the Cultural Leadership Advisory Board.

Vikki Heywood began her first term of office as a lay member of the University Council in 2008, and also serves on the Building Committee. 

Mr John Higgins

John Higgins was appointed in 1998 as Director General of Intellect, the Trade Association for IT, Communications and Electronics companies. He has chaired a number of Industry/Government task forces and is currently a member of the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform’s Information Age Partnership and Vice-President of the European industry body, EICTA. He has an Honours degree in Mathematics from the University of East Anglia, a Diploma in Accounting and Finance from the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s 2005 Birthday Honours.

John Higgins served on the Council as a lay member from 2002 to 2008 and was appointed for another term from August 2009.  John also chairs the Audit Committee.

Professor Richard Higgott

Richard Higgott has been at Warwick since 1996. He is a Professor of Politics and International Studies and a Pro-Vice-Chancellor. He was Foundation Director of the ESRC Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation and is currently Director of the EU Framework 6 Network of Excellence on Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation involving 42 major institutions from 15 EU countries.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, the Academy of the Social Sciences of the UK and has held Chairs at the University of Manchester and the Australian National University where he was also Director of Graduate Studies for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Director of the Australian Institute of International Affairs. He is an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and has been President of the Australasian Political Science Association, Vice President of the American International Studies Association and a Ministerial Advisor and consultant to several major multinational corporations. Richard's awards include a Fulbright Fellowship at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, the Australia-Canada Bicentennial Award, 'la Chaire Asie' at the Fondation Nationale des Science Politiques in Paris and Visiting Professorships at the Institute for Strategic and International Studies in Singapore, the Stiftung Wissenchaft und Politik in Berlin and the Diplomatische Akademie Marie Therese in Vienna.

He is author/editor of some 16 books and in excess of 100 articles and is currently the editor of The Pacific Review. He has particular expertise in the international economics and politics of East Asia and the international economic institutions, especially the WTO. In 2007, he directed the first Warwick Commission into the 'Future of the Global Trade Regime after the Doha Round'.

Professor Richard Higgott serves on the Council as an ex-officio member in his capacity as Pro-Vice-Chancellor.

Mr Glenn Howells

Glenn Howells is the founding director of Glenn Howells Architects and established the practice in 1990. Glenn has led the practice to win numerous major design competitions and awards for a diverse range of building types including residential, commercial, urban regeneration, education and arts projects

Glenn is on the Design Review Panel for the Commission for the Built Environment (CABE) Olympic Design Review Panel and LOCOG (The London Organising Committee of Olympic Games). He is Chair of MADE and also Chair of the IKON Gallery in Birmingham and advises Bradford Centre Regeneration, Birmingham City Council and Sheffield City Council.

In the academic field, Glenn is a visiting Professor at Nottingham Trent University and is currently an external examiner at Sheffield Hallam University.  He was previously an external examiner at the University of Nottingham and Queen's University, Belfast.

Glenn Howells began his first term of office as a lay member of the University Council in August 2009. He also serves on the Building Committee.

Professor Koen Lamberts

Professor Koen Lamberts was born in Hasselt, Belgium.  He holds degrees in Philosophy (1985), Experimental Psychology (1987) and a PhD in Experimental Psychology (1992), from the University of Leuven.  He was a Research Associate at the University of Chicago (1991-1992), and a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader at the University of Birmingham (1992-1998).  Following this, he became a Reader and Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Warwick (1998).  He was Head of Department of Psychology between 2000 and 2008, and was appointed as Chair of the Board of the Science Faculty in 2007. 

Since 2006, he has been a Director of the Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems.  He was a recipient of the British Psychological Society’s Cognitive Award (1996) and of the Experimental Psychology Society Prize (1997).  Professor Lamberts' research interests include mathematical models of visual perception and object recognition, models of categorization, and recognition memory.

Professor Koen Lamberts began his current term of office on the University Council, as one of the appointees of the Senate, in December 2007.

Mr John Leighfield

John Leighfield is Pro-Chancellor of the University and is Chair of the University Council; positions he has held since 2000 and 2002 respectively. He is Chairman of RM plc (the leading provider of IT services to education) and a Director of a number of other IT-related companies. He has in the past been a member of the Board of UKERNA who provide JANET, the UK national academic network, and Chairman of the Birmingham Teaching Company Scheme Centre. He was President of the Computing Services and Software Association from 1995 to 1996, of the British Computer Society from 1994 to 1995 and of the Institute for the Management of Information Systems from 2000 to 2006.  He is a Freeman and Member of Court of the Company of Educators, and was Master of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists from 2005 to 2006.  He also serves as a Governor of CTC Kingshurst Academy.

John was awarded the Mountbatten Medal in 2006 by the Institute of Engineering and Technology in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the promotion of electronics and information technology and their application. John Leighfield has a Master's degree from Oxford University and Honorary Doctorates from the University of Central England, De Montfort University and the University of Wolverhampton.

John Leighfield served on the University Council as a lay member from 1990 to 1996 and 1997 to 2000 and now serves as an ex officio member in his capacity as Pro-Chancellor.  In addition to chairing the University Council he serves as an ex-officio member of the Finance and General Purposes Committee and chairs the Honorary Degrees, Remuneration and Nominations Committees.

Professor Robert Lindley

Robert Lindley is founding director of the University's Institute for Employment Research which was established in 1981 and has been a professor in the Faculty of Social Studies since 1982. His principal fields of research are the labour market; the roles of education, training and knowledge production in economic development; and European integration. He also has a special interest in the development of the research base and the role played by social science in the policy system. He has served on many UK and EU advisory and related bodies. During 2004-05 he was a member of the Research Careers Committee, chaired by Sir Gareth Roberts and set up by the Research Base Funders' Forum. He has chaired the Association of Research Centres in the Social Sciences (2004-07), and is a member of the ESRC's Strategic Forum for the Social Sciences.  He was Pro-Vice-Chancellor for International Affairs and Equality and Diversity from 2005 to 2007 and wasChair of the Faculty of Social Studies from 2007 to 2009. 

Robert Lindley has been a member of the University Council since 2001 either as one of the Senate appointees or as a Pro-Vice-Chancellor and began his current term of office in August 2007.

Dr Gerard Lyons

Dr Gerard Lyons is an expert on the world economy, international financial system, macroeconomic policy and global markets in his role as Chief Economist and Group Head of Global Research at Standard Chartered. Lyons is also an Economic Advisor to the Board and is a member of the Bank’s Executive Forum. He has over twenty years experience in the City in senior positions, and previous roles include Chief Economist at DKB International and consultant to the Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Chief UK Economist at Swiss Bank Corporation, beginning his career with Chase Manhattan. He has a PhD from the University of London.

Gerard has published widely on economic and financial issues and is invited frequently to address audiences around the world. At the end of 2007, for instance, he testified to the US Senate Banking Committee and last year to the US Congress Foreign Affairs Committee, and in June this year he spoke about China at the Institute of International Finance’s major conference in Beijing.

Lyons is a Committee Member of the Hong Kong Association, a Member of the Joint Advisory Board for the Grantham Institutes at Imperial College and London School of Economics, on the International Council of the Bretton Woods Committee, a Council Member of the No Campaign, a member of the Mayor of London’s Informal Panel of Economic Advisors, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, sits on the operating committee of the World Economic Forum's financial services group and is heavily involved with Asia House, the Japan Society and the UK Business Council for Britain. In recent years he has also held other positions such as Chair of the Steering Committee of the Asia Study Group at the Royal Institute for International Affairs, was on the Committee at the Centre for Economic Policy Research and was a Council Member of the Society of Business Economists for twelve years.  He is also a member of the Sky News Money Panel and at the end of last year topped the Sunday Times annual forecasting table for the second time.

Dr Gerard Lyons is a graduate of the University of Warwick and began his first term of office as a lay member of the University Council in August 2006 and was reappointed for a second term in 2009. He also serves on the Audit Committee.

Mr Kumar Muthalagappan

Kumar Muthalagappan is a chartered accountant and practised with KPMG from 1983 to 1997 in the areas of audit, tax and corporate finance. He is the founder of Pearl Hotels and Restaurants Group, a themed hotel and specialist restaurant group which has developed the premium brands of Georgetown restaurants, Coconut Lagoon Restaurants, Peacock Hotels, the Grand Hotel and Colwick Hall Hotel operating in London, Birmingham, Kenilworth, Nottingham, Leeds and Stratford Upon Avon.

Kumar Muthalagappan was appointed to the Olympics Delivery Authority Board at its creation by Parliament and holds responsibility within the Audit, Finance and Remuneration Committees. This challenging role involves working with the Government, Mayor of London, LOCOG and multiple stakeholders to carry out this major national project. He has been a board member of VisitBritain since 2002 and chairs its Audit Committee. This role involves significant contact with overseas offices, regional tourism bodies and trade partners. Kumar was on the board of the Belgrade Theatre until 2004, and has recently been appointed as Deputy Chairman of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (the CBSO).

Kumar Muthalagappan is a graduate of the University of Warwick and began his first term of office as a lay member of the University Council in August 2007.  He also serves on the Honorary Degrees Committee and the Nominations Committee.

Mr Andy Perkins

Andrew Perkins graduated from Warwick in 2009 having studied Economics.  Over his three years as a Warwick student, Andrew had two passions outside of his academic studies: Union democracy and ten-pin bowling.  Andrew has been heavily involved in Union democracy, having previously been a member of Union Council before being elected as Chair of the Union’s Democracy Committee for last year.  Alongside his studies Andrew worked part-time in the Union’s Marketing department for two years.

This year, as Governance and Finance Officer of the Students' Union, Andrew’s main aims centre around the Union’s imminent legal status change, but he is also working hard to encourage more democratic engagement among the student body by ensuring that it is more relevant and focused on student needs.  He also aims to try and improve relations between Warwick SU and the National Union of Students.

Mr Alan Rivett

Alan Rivett was appointed as Director of the Warwick Arts Centre in 2001 following a successful period as Deputy Director since 1991. Alan started a long-term career in theatre aged 15 as a member of the National Youth Theatre and has held a variety of posts in theatre and company management across the UK. In 1985 he was appointed Drama Officer for the Arts Council.

Alan is Chair of the Fierce Festival of contemporary performance for the West Midlands and also Chairs the UK Dance Touring Partnership. He was formerly Chair of the Metier, the UK industry lead body for training in the arts and entertainments sector. He was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Arts Council's Creative Partnerships initiative in 2003. Alan is also a member of the Coventry Cultural Partnership.

Alan Rivett was appointed by the Senate as the non-academic member of the University Council in 2006 and re-appointed in this capacity in 2009.

Mr Nick Sanders

Nick Sanders was a Director in the Department for Education and Skills for over 15 years. He was Principal Finance Officer from 1989 to 1993, when much of the work was concerned with the doubling of the participation rate in higher education. He was one of the Schools Directors from 1993 to 1999, with teacher education as one of his responsibilities. He was a Director for Higher Education from 1999 to 2005. Earlier in his career he spent three years as a private secretary at 10 Downing Street, serving James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher. He has a science PhD from Cambridge. He was awarded the CB in 1998 and has an honorary LLD from the University of Manchester.

Nick Sanders has served as a lay member of the University Council since 2004.  He also serves on the Finance and General Purposes Committee, the University Health and Safety Committee and the University Health and Safety Executive Committee.

Professor Mark Smith

Mark Smith is Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research (Science and Medicine) at the University of Warwick. He obtained his BA from Cambridge in Natural Sciences (Physics and Theoretical Physics) before moving to Warwick to study for his PhD in physics. He then moved to Bruker’s (an industrial scientific research instrument manufacturer) main research and development laboratory in Rheinstetten, Germany, followed by working for the CSIRO’s (the national research organisation of Australia) Division of Materials Science, Melbourne, Australia. He moved back into academia first at the University of Kent and then to Warwick in 1998, becoming Professor of Physics in 2002. His research centres on developing solid state NMR techniques to broaden the fields of application of the technique. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and has served as the secretary of the British Radio-frequency Spectroscopy Group.

Mark Smith served on the University Council as one of the appointees of the Senate from 2005 to 2007 and now serves as an ex-officio member in his capacity as Pro-Vice-Chancellor.

Professor Sir John Temple

John Temple is a native of Salford, from where he entered Liverpool Medical School, qualifying in 1965 with an Honours degree and a distinction in Surgery. His postgraduate training was in the Mersey region and in 1974 he was appointed Senior Lecturer in the Department of Surgery at Manchester University and Hope Hospital, Salford. In 1979 he moved to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, as Consultant Surgeon with an interest in gastro-intestinal surgery. His unit rapidly became a regional centre for oesophageal surgery. He was awarded a personal chair in surgery by the University of Birmingham in 1996. His interest in training resulted in his appointment as Deputy, and in 1991 as postgraduate Dean in the West Midlands, a post he held until 2000. From 1995 to 2000 he chaired the UK Committee of Postgraduate Medical Deans (COPMeD). In 1995 he was invited by the Chief Medical Officer to lead the implementation of the Calman Higher Specialist reforms. In 1997 he became a member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and subsequently led the Council as its President from 2000 to 2003.  He was Hon. Colonel of the 202 (Midlands) Field Hospital from 2004-2009 and is currently Chair of the Research Development Council of the Healing Foundation.

John has served on and led numerous academic, educational, Department of Health and other professional bodies. He holds honorary fellowships or the equivalent of 14 colleges and associations in 10 counties. He was made a Knight Bachelor in the Queen’s birthday honours in 2003 for services to medicine and medical education.

John Temple began his current term of office as a lay member of the University Council in August 2007, having served since 2004.  He also chairs the Building Committee and serves on the Finance and General Purposes Committee and the Research Ethics Committee.

Professor Nigel Thrift

Nigel Thrift is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick. Prior to this he was the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at the University of Oxford. Professor Thrift was made Head of the Division of Life and Environmental Sciences at Oxford in 2003, before which he chaired the Research Committee at the University of Bristol (2001-2003) and Bristol’s Research Assessment Panel (1997-2001).

Professor Thrift was born in Bath, educated at Aberystwyth and Bristol and is an international research figure in the field of geography. During his academic career Professor Thrift has been the recipient of a number of distinguished academic awards including the Royal Geographical Society Victoria Medal for contributions to geographic research in 2003 and Distinguished Scholarship Honors from the Association of American Geographers in 2007.

Professor Thrift is an Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences and was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 2003.  He was awarded the Scottish geographical Medal in 2008 for his outstanding contribution to research in human geography.  Professor Thrift chaired Main Panel H of RAE 2008 from 2003-2006; was a member of the Panel for Geography for the RAE 2001; has been a member of the Leverhulme Prize Fellowship Geography Panel since 2000 and was a member of the ESRC Research Priorities Board between 2001 and 2005. He is a visiting Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Bristol.

Professor Michael Whitby

Michael Whitby is a Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History and a Pro-Vice-Chancellor. After a Junior Research Fellowship at Merton College, Oxford, he taught Ancient History at St Andrews University, becoming a Professor before moving to Warwick in 1996. He has published extensively on late Roman, early Byzantine history and historiography, including the Emperor Maurice and his Historian, The Chronicon Paschale, The Cambridge Ancient History XIV AD 425-600 (co-editor), The Ecclesiastical History of Evagrius of Scholasticus and a collection of essays on Sparta (2001). His latest books are the edition of the papers on early Christian topics by the late Geoffrey de Ste Croix (2006) and The Cambridge History of Warfare (2007), which was awarded the Society for Military Historians’ distinguished book prize in 2009.  He was chair of the 2008 RAE Sub-panel 59 and is a trained reviewer for the QAA.

Michael Whitby served on the University Council, as one of the appointees of the Senate, from 2001 to 2003 and has served as an ex-officio member in his capacity as Pro-Vice-Chancellor since that time.

Mr Brian Woods-Scawen

Brian Woods-Scawen is a non-executive director of a number of companies, including Chairman of Coventry Solihull and Warwickshire Partnership, West Bromwich Building Society and Martineau solicitors. He is a Chartered Accountant and was formerly a member of the Global Board of PricewaterhouseCoopers and Chairman of the Supervisory Board.

He is Chairman of Culture West Midlands (the regional Cultural Consortium), an adviser to the Prime Minister on governance in public life, a non-executive director of Government Office of the West Midlands and is a Board member of the Office of Legal Complaints and the Competition Commission.

Brian is a Deputy Lieutenant of the West Midlands and is also the President of the Coventry Cathedral Golden Jubilee Appeal.  He has received honorary doctorates from Birmingham University and the University of Central England for services to the West Midlands. He was the 2004 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.  He holds degrees from the Universities of Sheffield and Warwick, and received a CBE in 2008 for services to business and the community in the West Midlands.

Brian Woods-Scawen has served as a lay member of the University Council since August 2001 and was appointed as the University Treasurer in October 2006.  He also serves ex-officio on the Nominations Committee, the Remuneration Committee and chairs the Finance and General Purposes Committee in his capacity as University Treasurer.

Professor Victor Zammit

Victor Zammit is Professor of Metabolic Biochemistry at Warwick Medical School.  He was Director of the School’s Clinical Sciences Research Institute between 2005 and 2008.  His area of research is in the metabolic mechanisms involved in the development of diabetes.  He has published over 190 peer-reviewed papers, reviews and book chapters.  He started his research career in 1971 at Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar, and was formerly Head of Cellular Biochemistry at the Hannah Research Institute.

Victor Zammit began his current term of office on the Council, as one of the appointees of the Senate, in September 2007.

Mr Jon Baldwin

Jon Baldwin joined Warwick as Registrar in 2004, and is responsible for the administration of the University under the direction of the Vice-Chancellor. Prior to his appointment at Warwick, he was Secretary and Registrar at UMIST from 2000 to 2004 and Registrar at the University of Wolverhampton from 1995 to 2000. He has also held management, teaching and administration posts at Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh and Lancashire Polytechnic as well as teaching at the Open University and in Further Education and publishing papers and articles on a wide range of education-related topics. He is Secretary to the University Council.

Ms Rosie Drinkwater

Rosie Drinkwater first came to Warwick in October 1993 when she was appointed as Senior Assistant Finance Officer with specific responsibility for the University’s Earned Income Group.  Before that she worked at senior manager level at the accountancy firms Grant Thornton and Price Waterhouse, specialising in advising family-owned businesses, SMEs and professional partnerships.  She is a graduate of St Mary’s College, Durham (Mathematics and Economics) and is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation.  As Finance Director, Rosie is responsible for overseeing all financial arrangements of the University.

Professor Stuart Palmer

Stuart Palmer has served as the University’s first Deputy Vice-Chancellor since August 2001, when he took responsibility for the allocation of resources, academic accommodation, the University’s Capital Programme and Human Resources. During 2007/08 one of his prime tasks was the submission of the RAE documentation. He joined the University of Warwick as Professor of Experimental Physics in 1987 from the University of Hull where he was a Reader in Applied Physics. He took over the Chair of the Physics Department in 1989 and held that position until April 2001. He became a Pro-Vice-Chancellor in 1995 where his responsibilities included Resources and Research. He has two major research interests; the study of magnetism and particularly the fundamental magnetic properties of materials, and the application of ultrasound to both industrial and medical problems. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2000.

Stuart Palmer served on the University Council as an appointee of the Senate between 1990 and 1993 and served as an ex-officio member, in his capacity as Pro-Vice-Chancellor and then Deputy Vice-Chancellor, from August 1995.

From September 2009 he has stepped down from his role as Deputy Vice-Chancellor to take on the role of Interim Chair of the School of Life Sciences, but retains a number of University responsibilities.  Externally he is the Honorary Secretary of the Institute of Physics and chairs the HEFCE TRAC Development Group.

Mr Ken Sloan

Ken Sloan is Deputy Registrar of the University of Warwick.  Ken is a graduate in English Language and Literature from the University of Glasgow and also of the DLMBA programme from the University of Warwick.  He began his professional career with KPMG in accountancy and joined the University of Warwick in 1996.  During his time at Warwick he has held a range of managerial posts which have covered Student Recruitment and Admissions, the Warwick Graduate School, the Vice-Chancellor's Office and Human Resources.  Prior to assuming his current post Ken spent three years as Director of Corporate Services and Head of the Student Academy with the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth which was based at the University until 2007.  He retains a keen interest in exploring innovative ways to support, challenge and connect bright young people and is leading the University's work on the development of the International Gateway for Gifted Youth (IGGY).  His current portfolio incorporates Governance (including services to Senate and Council), Risk, Internal Audit, Student Services, Legal Services, Sport and Culture.