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Official record Companies House · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Previous officers 79

  1. Professor Carolyn Maree Evans 2024-2026 Director View profile
  2. Professor Hai-Sui Yu 2024-2025 Director View profile
  3. Reddy, Batmanathan Dayanand, Professor Emeritus 2023-2024 Director View profile
  4. Professor Banchong Mahaisavariya 2022-2024 Director View profile
  5. Rogers, Mark, Acting President 2022-2024 Director View profile
  6. Letschert, Rianne Monique, Prof.Dr 2022-2026 Director View profile
  7. Professor Tawana Kupe 2022-2023 Director View profile
  8. Herman, Frederic, Rector 2021-2026 Director View profile
  9. Professor Margareth Hagen 2021-2024 Director View profile
  10. Professor Barnabas Nawangwe 2020-2026 Director View profile
  11. Professor Simone Elisabeth Buitendijk 2020-2023 Director View profile
  12. Professor Nouria Hernandez 2020-2021 Director View profile
  13. Professor Mark Edmund Smith 2020-2025 Director View profile
  14. Dr Sarah Mangelsdorf 2020-2026 Director View profile
  15. Mccarthy, John, Provost 2019-2022 Director View profile
  16. Professor Rosina Mamokgethi Phakeng 2019-2023 Director View profile
  17. Feldman, Richard, President 2019-2020 Director View profile
  18. Professor Saul Jonathan Benjamin Tendler 2019-2020 Director View profile
  19. Goulart Almeida, Sandra Regina, President 2018-2026 Director View profile
  20. Professor Rocky Sung-Chi Tuan 2018-2025 Director View profile
  21. Professor Andrew Deeks 2018-2022 Director View profile
  22. Professor Jaime Arturo Ramirez 2017-2018 Director View profile
  23. Dr David Alejandro Garza Salazar 2017-2026 Director View profile
  24. Professor Peter Mulwa Felix Mbithi 2017-2019 Director View profile
  25. Dr Huey-Jen Jenny Su 2017-2023 Director View profile
  26. Professor Ebenezer Oduro Owusu 2017-2021 Director View profile
  27. Professor Liu Wei 2016-2024 Director View profile
  28. Newman, Katherine Shelley, Provost & Senior Vice Chancellor 2016-2019 Director View profile
  29. Professor Peter Lennie 2016-2026 Director View profile
  30. Professor Christopher Maxwell Snowden 2015-2019 Director View profile
  31. Professor Dr Andrea Gabriela Maria Schenker-Wicki 2015-2017 Director View profile
  32. Professor Hugh Redmond Brady 2015-2022 Director View profile
  33. Dr David Turpin 2015-2021 Director View profile
  34. Professor WU, Zhaohui, President 2015-2022 Director View profile
  35. Professor Ernest Aryeetey 2015-2017 Director View profile
  36. Professor Antonio Loprieno 2015-2015 Director View profile
  37. Subbaswamy, Kumble, Chancellor 2015-2022 Director View profile
  38. Barron, Eric, President 2014-2015 Director View profile
  39. Sir Alan Robert Langlands 2013-2020 Director View profile
  40. Prof Jane Clare Grenville 2013-2013 Director View profile
  41. Professor Dag Rune Olsen 2013-2021 Director View profile
  42. Professor Jianhua Lin 2013-2015 Director View profile
  43. Rebecca Blank 2013-2014 Director View profile
  44. Professor Martin Paul 2013-2022 Director View profile
  45. State University of Campinas 2012-2013 Corporate-director View profile
  46. Professor Fernando Ferreira Costa 2012-2012 Director View profile
  47. David Ward 2012-2013 Director View profile
  48. Rodney Erickson 2012-2014 Director View profile
  49. Professor Paul Johnson 2012-2018 Director View profile
  50. Seligman, Joel, President 2011-2019 Director View profile
  51. Sung, Joseph, President 2011-2018 Director View profile
  52. Young, Michael, President 2011-2012 Director View profile
  53. Professor John Patrick Hearn 2011-2018 Director View profile
  54. Professor Stuart Norman Mccutcheon 2011-2020 Director View profile
  55. Professor Carolyn Martin 2011-2012 Director View profile
  56. Dr Phyllis Wise 2011-2011 Director View profile
  57. Dr Michael James Spence 2010-2020 Director View profile
  58. Dr Graham Spanier 2010-2011 Director View profile
  59. Yang, Wei, President 2010-2013 Director View profile
  60. Dr Max Price 2010-2019 Director View profile
  61. Professor Sigmund Gronmo 2010-2013 Director View profile
  62. Dr Indira Vasanti Samarasekera 2010-2015 Director View profile
  63. Professor Jun Chen 2010-2014 Director View profile
  64. Professor Alan David Robson 2010-2011 Director View profile
  65. Professor Donald Nutbeam 2009-2015 Director View profile
  66. Mark Emmert 2009-2010 Director View profile
  67. Professor Sir Keith Burnett 2007-2018 Director View profile
  68. Professor Alan David Gilbert 2005-2007 Director View profile
  69. Michael James Paul Arthur 2004-2013 Director View profile
  70. Professor Brian Cantor 2002-2013 Director View profile
  71. Sir Eric Jackson Thomas 2002-2015 Director View profile
  72. Professor Sir Ron Cooke 2002-2002 Director View profile
  73. Professor Robert Francis Boucher 2002-2008 Director View profile
  74. Sir William Arnot Wakeham 2002-2009 Director View profile
  75. Sir Martin Best Harris 2002-2005 Director View profile
  76. Prof Sir Alan Wilson 2002-2004 Director View profile
  77. Pinsent Masons Director Limited 2002-2002 Corporate-nominee-director View profile
  78. Helena Mary Smith 2002-2025 Secretary View profile
  79. Stephen Anthony Kelly 2002-2002 Secretary View profile

Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.

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About

What it does
Other education n.e.c.
Incorporated
07/06/2002
Registered office
Leeds
Previous names
The WUN Foundation (until 13/08/2010)

Financials

Net assets
£484,321
Total assets
£484,321
Cash
£537,293
Employees
2
Turnover
Not reported (small or micro-entity accounts)
Profit/loss
£65,885

Figures from accounts filed at Companies House (iXBRL), period ending 2025-07-31. Where turnover is absent, small and micro-entity accounts are not required to report it, so it is not shown as zero.

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.

15 directors on the board

4.2y median 3.7y
average tenure
12.5y
longest tenure

Directors past 6 years

First-time vs portfolio directors

First-time (10)

Portfolio (5)

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.

Business services 6Education 6Other services 5Arts and leisure 2Finance 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
04456762
Status
Active
Type
PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)
Accounts next due
30/04/2027
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.

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