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Previous officers 179

  1. Professor Martin Russell Jones 2025-2026 Director View profile
  2. Right Honourable James Mark Dakin Purnell 2023-2024 Director View profile
  3. Professor Iain Miles Macgregor Gillespie 2023-2024 Director View profile
  4. Professor Sir Gerry Mccormac 2023-2025 Director View profile
  5. Professor Karen Cox 2022-2024 Director View profile
  6. Professor Nishan Canagarajah 2022-2025 Director View profile
  7. Stephen Andrew Marston 2022-2023 Director View profile
  8. Professor Elizabeth Tulip Treasure 2021-2023 Director View profile
  9. Dr Wendy Ann Thomson 2020-2023 Director View profile
  10. Professor Francis Gerard Mccormac 2020-2022 Director View profile
  11. Elizabeth Florence Barnes 2020-2021 Director View profile
  12. Dr Paul Warwick Thompson 2020-2023 Director View profile
  13. Professor Colin Gareth Bailey 2020-2023 Director View profile
  14. Professor Christopher Paul Day 2019-2022 Director View profile
  15. Edward William Peck 2019-2022 Director View profile
  16. Professor Shearer Carroll West 2019-2025 Director View profile
  17. Professor Paul John Layzell 2019-2022 Director View profile
  18. Professor Adam Thomas Tickell 2019-2024 Director View profile
  19. Sir Christopher Roy Husbands 2019-2023 Director View profile
  20. Professor David Phoenix 2018-2021 Director View profile
  21. Professor Graham Harold Galbraith 2018-2021 Director View profile
  22. Baroness Valerie Amos 2017-2020 Director View profile
  23. Professor Patrick Arthur Nixon 2017-2020 Director View profile
  24. Bill Rammell 2017-2019 Director View profile
  25. Gaoqing Max Lu 2017-2019 Director View profile
  26. Professor Alistair David Fitt 2017-2020 Director View profile
  27. Sir Robert Alan Langlands 2017-2019 Director View profile
  28. Professor Dame Louise Mary Richardson 2017-2019 Director View profile
  29. Professor Rama Shankaran Thirunamachandran 2017-2025 Director View profile
  30. Debra Jean Humphris 2017-2024 Director View profile
  31. Professor John Latham 2016-2017 Director View profile
  32. Professor Paul Joseph Boyle 2016-2025 Director View profile
  33. David John Maguire 2016-2019 Director View profile
  34. Professor Andrea Mary Nolan 2016-2020 Director View profile
  35. Professor Dame Julie Elspeth Lydon 2015-2021 Director View profile
  36. Sir Nigel Martyn Carrington 2015-2020 Director View profile
  37. Professor Quintin Archibald Mckellar 2015-2024 Director View profile
  38. Professor David Andrew Phoenix 2015-2017 Director View profile
  39. Sir David Greenaway 2015-2017 Director View profile
  40. Cliff Allan 2015-2016 Director View profile
  41. Professor David Seymour Latchman 2013-2016 Director View profile
  42. Professor Barry William Ife 2013-2015 Director View profile
  43. Professor Christopher Roy Husbands 2013-2014 Director View profile
  44. Professor Dame Julia Clare Buckingham 2013-2021 Director View profile
  45. Sir David Robert Bell Kcb 2013-2019 Director View profile
  46. Professor Sir Steven Murray Smith 2013-2020 Director View profile
  47. Professor Michael John Gunn 2013-2015 Director View profile
  48. Dr Nicholas Petford 2012-2015 Director View profile
  49. Professor Chris Hendrik Brink 2012-2015 Director View profile
  50. Professor Simon James Gaskell 2012-2017 Director View profile
  51. Professor Pete Downes 2012-2016 Director View profile
  52. Professor Patrick Mcghee 2012-2013 Director View profile
  53. Jeremy Wealbund Holmes 2011-2015 Director View profile
  54. Professor Michael John Godfrey Farthing 2011-2014 Director View profile
  55. Professor John Gerard Hughes 2011-2013 Director View profile
  56. Professor Seamus Mcdaid 2011-2012 Director View profile
  57. Professor Dame Julia Elizabeth King 2011-2016 Director View profile
  58. Sir Ian David Diamond 2011-2017 Director View profile
  59. Professor Mary Stewart Stuart 2011-2014 Director View profile
  60. Barry William Ife 2010-2013 Director View profile
  61. Professor Joy Carter 2010-2013 Director View profile
  62. Dame Julia Mary Goodfellow 2010-2017 Director View profile
  63. Graham Henderson 2010-2015 Director View profile
  64. Professor Paul Gerard O'Prey 2010-2018 Director View profile
  65. Professor Janet Patricia Beer 2009-2022 Director View profile
  66. Professor Colin Bryan Riordan 2009-2017 Director View profile
  67. Professor Bernard King 2009-2011 Director View profile
  68. Michael James Paul Arthur 2009-2012 Director View profile
  69. Professor Sir David Stephen Eastwood 2009-2019 Director View profile
  70. Professor Madeleine Julia Atkins 2009-2009 Director View profile
  71. Professor Julian Moray Crampton 2008-2015 Director View profile
  72. Professor Patricia Mary Broadfoot 2008-2010 Director View profile
  73. Professor Merfyn Jones 2008-2009 Director View profile
  74. Professor John Anthony George Craven 2008-2012 Director View profile
  75. Noel Glynne Lloyd 2008-2011 Director View profile
  76. Professor Anton Muscatelli 2008-2019 Director View profile
  77. Professor Alison Richard 2007-2010 Director View profile
  78. Professor William Donald Macmillan 2007-2009 Director View profile
  79. Professor Caroline Victoria Gipps 2007-2011 Director View profile
  80. Professor Adrian Frederick Melhuish Smith 2007-2008 Director View profile
  81. Professor Christopher Maxwell Snowden 2007-2017 Director View profile
  82. Sir Haines, Andrew Paul, Professor 2007-2010 Director View profile
  83. Professor Dame Glynis Marie Breakwell 2006-2018 Director View profile
  84. Professor Michael Wright 2006-2007 Director View profile
  85. Professor John Stuart Brooks 2006-2010 Director View profile
  86. Professor Malcolm John Grant 2006-2009 Director View profile
  87. Professor Andrew Hamnett 2006-2009 Director View profile
  88. Sir Muir Russell 2006-2009 Director View profile
  89. Professor Paul William Wellings 2006-2011 Director View profile
  90. Professor Richard Hughes Trainor 2006-2011 Director View profile
  91. Sir Graeme John Davies 2006-2008 Director View profile
  92. Professor Eric Jackson Thomas 2006-2015 Director View profile
  93. Professor Sir Leslie Colin Ebdon 2006-2012 Director View profile
  94. Professor Geoffrey Joel Crossick 2006-2012 Director View profile
  95. Professor David William Rhind 2006-2007 Director View profile
  96. Dr Malcolm Thomas Mcvicar 2005-2008 Director View profile
  97. Professor John Stuart Archer 2004-2006 Director View profile
  98. Professor Brenda Gourley 2004-2006 Director View profile
  99. Professor Drummond Bone 2004-2008 Director View profile
  100. Prof James Richard Lusty 2004-2006 Director View profile
  101. Professor Vernon David Van De Linde 2003-2004 Director View profile
  102. Murdo Alasdair Macdonald Smith 2003-2007 Director View profile
  103. Professor Robert Francis Boucher 2002-2007 Director View profile
  104. Professor William Stewart Stevely 2002-2005 Director View profile
  105. Professor Antony John Chapman 2002-2008 Director View profile
  106. Professor Michael John Driscoll 2001-2007 Director View profile
  107. Dr Diana Margaret Green 2001-2004 Director View profile
  108. Professor Sir Timothy Michael Martin O'Shea 2001-2004 Director View profile
  109. Professor Sir Kenneth Calman 2001-2005 Director View profile
  110. Professor Gilbert Arthur Smith 2001-2001 Director View profile
  111. Professor Patrick Joseph Dowling 2000-2004 Director View profile
  112. Professor Gillian Lesley Slater 2000-2003 Director View profile
  113. Dr Colin Renshaw Lucas 2000-2004 Director View profile
  114. Professor Sir Adrian Leonard Webb 2000-2002 Director View profile
  115. Professor Christopher Hubert Llewellyn-Smith 2000-2000 Director View profile
  116. Professor John Tarrant 1999-2006 Director View profile
  117. Dr Ian James Graham Bryce 1999-2000 Director View profile
  118. Dame Alexandra Vivien Burslem 1999-2005 Director View profile
  119. Prof John Owen Williams 1999-2000 Director View profile
  120. Prof Sir Alan Wilson 1999-2003 Director View profile
  121. Professor Janet Valerie Finch 1999-2010 Director View profile
  122. Dr Geoffrey Malcolm Copland 1998-2007 Director View profile
  123. Sir John Frank Charles Kingman 1998-2001 Director View profile
  124. Sir John Peebles Arbuthnott 1997-1999 Director View profile
  125. Lord Alec Nigel Broers 1997-2000 Director View profile
  126. Professor Roger Patrick King 1997-1999 Director View profile
  127. Professor Norman William Gowar 1997-2000 Director View profile
  128. Professor Ivor Martin Crewe 1997-2007 Director View profile
  129. Sir Roderick Castle Floud 1997-2005 Director View profile
  130. Dr Christine Elizabeth King 1996-2001 Director View profile
  131. James Robertson Graeme Wright 1996-2000 Director View profile
  132. Professor Philip Noel Love 1996-2002 Director View profile
  133. Professor Thomas Mutrie Husband 1995-1997 Director View profile
  134. Baroness Tessa Ann Vosper Blackstone 1995-1997 Director View profile
  135. Dr Michael Fitzgerald 1995-1998 Director View profile
  136. Sir Peter Machin North 1995-1997 Director View profile
  137. Professor Keith Gilbert Robbins 1995-1999 Director View profile
  138. Professor John Maxwell Irvine 1995-1998 Director View profile
  139. Sir Howard Joseph Newby 1995-2001 Director View profile
  140. Professor Sir Gareth Gwyn Roberts 1995-1999 Director View profile
  141. Professor Michael John Howard Sterling 1994-1995 Director View profile
  142. Prof Roger John Bull 1994-2002 Director View profile
  143. Sir David Melville CBE 1994-1996 Director View profile
  144. Keith Bruce Thompson 1993-1994 Director View profile
  145. Professor Graham John Zellick 1993-1997 Director View profile
  146. Sir Clive Booth 1993-1997 Director View profile
  147. Dr Anne Margaret Wright 1993-1995 Director View profile
  148. Professor Leslie Wagner 1993-2000 Director View profile
  149. Dr Michael Goldstein 1993-1994 Director View profile
  150. Professor Peter Toyne 1993-1995 Director View profile
  151. John Maurice Stoddart 1993-1996 Director View profile
  152. Dr Peter Clayton Knight 1993-2004 Director View profile
  153. Michael John Hamlin 1992-1993 Director View profile
  154. Professor Sir Eric Albert Ash 1992-1993 Director View profile
  155. Sir William Kerr Fraser 1992-1995 Director View profile
  156. Professor Harold John Hanham 1992 Director View profile
  157. Dr Kenneth John Richard Edwards 1999 Director View profile
  158. Sir David Harrison 1993 Director View profile
  159. Professor Sir David Glyndwr Tudor Williams 1995 Director View profile
  160. Arthur John Forty 1992 Director View profile
  161. Dr Clark Lannerdahl Brundin 1992 Director View profile
  162. Lord Sutherland 1998 Director View profile
  163. Sir Gordon Higginson 1993 Director View profile
  164. Sir Martin Best Harris 2003 Director View profile
  165. Professor Sir Michael Warwick Thompson 1993 Director View profile
  166. Sir Colin Murray Campbell 1996 Director View profile
  167. Sir John Michael Ashworth 1992 Director View profile
  168. David Gardner Roberts 1994 Director View profile
  169. Sir Brian Edward Frederick Fender 1995 Director View profile
  170. Sir David Evan Naunton Davies 1993 Director View profile
  171. Professor Sir Frederick Crawford 1995 Director View profile
  172. Professor Sir Herbert Duthie 1992 Director View profile
  173. Professor David John Edward Ingram 1994 Director View profile
  174. Christopher Robert Lambert 2005-2012 Secretary View profile
  175. Amanda Thomas 2005-2005 Secretary View profile
  176. Peter John Tuck 2001-2005 Secretary View profile
  177. Peter Jack Pendle 1999-2001 Secretary View profile
  178. Baroness Warwick Of Undercliffe 1995-1999 Secretary View profile
  179. Thomas Ulric Burgner 1995 Secretary View profile

Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.

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About

Incorporated
29/06/1990
Also a registered charity
Universities UK

Group

No further corporate or individual controller is recorded above Universities UK on the PSC register - it appears to be the top of its group.

17 other companies in this group

Ownership paths are calculated from Companies House persons-with-significant-control filings. Each step shows the filed nature of control and dates; a step marked "ceased" is historical, not current.

Grants received

13 grants · £2,236,710 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £1,054,880 (2 grants)
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £597,409 (6 grants)
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office · £577,088 (4 grants)
  • Department for Education · £7,334

Most recent

  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office £221,6492024-04-01
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £527,0602023-10-20
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £527,8202023-10-20
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £45,1372023-10-20
  • Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office £165,4382023-04-01
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.

19 directors on the board

3y median 2y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Directors past 6 years

First-time vs portfolio directors

First-time (1)

Portfolio (18)

Left in the last 12 months

Where else this board sits iWhere else this board sitsThe charitable fields these directors govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this company and any charity it is the legal face of.

Education 15Other services 11Property 10Professional services 7Business services 6Arts and leisure 5Finance 3Dormant 1

The sectors these directors govern in elsewhere. This company, and any charity it is the legal face of, are excluded - counting them would just tell you what you are already looking at.

Sources

Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Company number
02517018
Status
Active
Type
PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.

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