UCL ACADEMIC SERVICES

Professor Sir Malcolm Grant CBE

Ex officio member of Council (President and Provost) – since 2003

Professor Grant was educated at the University of Otago, New Zealand. A Lecturer at the University of Southampton (1972-86), he first came to UCL in 1986 as a Professor of Law. In 1991 he took up appointment at the University of Cambridge as Professor of Land Economy and Fellow of Clare College. While at Cambridge he was also Head of the Department of Land Economy and was appointed a Pro Vice-Chancellor in 2002. He took up appointment as President and Provost of UCL in August 2003. Notable appointments have included: Chairman of the Local Government Commission for England (1996-2002); Chairman, Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Commission (2000-05); Chairman, Independent Steering Board for National Public Debate on Genetic Modification (2002-03); Chairman, Statutory Independent Panel for the Remuneration of Councillors in London (1998-2004); Chairman (2004-08), Standards Committee, Greater London Authority; and Chairman of the Russell Group of UK Research Universities (2006-09). Professor Grant is an Honorary Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute and of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors; an Honorary Life Member of New Zealand Resource Law Management Association; and a member of the Bench of Middle Temple (2004). In 2011 he was appointed by the Government as the inaugural Chair of the new NHS Commissioning Board. He is also currently a Member of the Governing Body of the London Business School (since 2003); a Governor of The Ditchley Foundation (since 2003); a Governor of the British Malaysian Society (since 2005); a British Business Ambassador appointed by the Prime Minister; a member of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and of the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong. He was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2013 for services to higher education.

Mr Edwin Clifford-Coupe

Ex officio student sabbatical member of Council – since 2012

Edwin graduated this year on the Dean’s List from a BA in Ancient History. He has been involved in UCLU and UCL for almost three years, serving as Student Academic Representative (StAR) in the History Department (2010-2011), Social and Historical Sciences Faculty Representative (2010-2011), NUS Conference Delegate (2011) and part-time Education Officer (2011-2012). This will be his third year as a member of UCLU Council. He has been actively involved in campaigning on campus against the Coalition government’s education policy, for free education and for the introduction of the London Living Wage for all workers at UCL.

Ms Natasha Gorodnitski

Ex officio student sabbatical member of Council – since 2012

Natasha Gorodnitski is taking a sabbatical year from her Environmental Geography degree at UCL to work as the Ethics, Environment & Operations Full-Time Officer in the UCL Union. She has previously served as the part-time Ethics & Environment Officer (2011-2012) and the Social & Historical Sciences Faculty Representative (2010-2011) at UCLU, and was the Undergraduate Representative on the Staff-Student Consultative Committee of UCL's Geography Department (2010-2011). In Los Angeles, she served as the Director of Sustainability at the Associated Students of Santa Monica College (2009-2010), and was a Sustainability Commissioner to the DoS (2008-2009).

Lay member of Council – since 2012

Ven Balakrishnan was educated at UCL. He is a partner in the Commercial Diligence and Strategy practice of Ernst & Young, where he has been since 2001.  His work primarily involves advising private equity houses and banks on investment / restructuring decisions, and corporates on business strategy.  Prior to Ernst & Young, he worked at PriceWaterhouse Coopers and Boston Consulting Group as a strategy consultant.  He is a member of UCL’s Finance Committee, a chartered accountant and member of the Association of Corporate Treasurers.

Lay member of Council - since 2012

Lord Clement-Jones is a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took a degree in Economics and Law. A communications professional and a solicitor, he was Group Company Secretary and Legal Adviser of Kingfisher Plc from 1986 until 1995, where he coordinated Kingfisher's contribution to the Shopping Hours Reform Campaign which led to the Sunday Trading Act 1993. Before Kingfisher, he held senior legal positions at Grand Metropolitan and London Weekend Television. He is now the London Managing Partner of DLA Piper, the global law firm, and Chairman of its China and Middle East Desks.

Lord Clement-Jones was made a life peer in 1998 and until July 2004 was the Liberal Democrat Health Spokesman in the House of Lords. Thereafter until the General Election in 2010 he was Liberal Democrat Spokesman on Culture, Media and Sport. He was Chairman of the Liberal Party from 1986 to 1988 and was the Treasurer of the Liberal Democrats from 2005-2010. He was responsible for the passage of the 2003 Tobacco Advertising and Sponsorship Act and the Live Music Act 2012 as private members bills through Parliament. He was formerly the Chairman of Crime Concern, the UK national crime prevention charity. Until its merger with Macmillan Cancer Support in 2008 he was a Trustee of Cancerbackup, the UK cancer information charity founded by his late wife, Dr Vicky Clement-Jones FRCP. He is Hon President of Ambitious About Autism (formerly known as Treehouse), the autism education charity, and is the former Chairman of the Council of the London School of Pharmacy, University of London. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the College of Medicine.

Lay member of Council – since 2008

Ms Foster Back was educated at UCL. She has worked at Citibank NA (1977-79); with the Bowater Group, now known as Rexam, leaving as Group Treasurer (1979-88); with DC Gardner plc as Finance Director (1988-90); as a consultant assisting the Association of Corporate Treasurers to implement new professional examinations, and serving as President from 1999-2000; as Group Treasurer at Thorn EMI (1993-2000); and as a non-executive director for various periods with the Ministry of Defence, the Highways Agency, the Milk Development Council, the Investors Compensation Scheme, and the Commissioner of Tax. Since 2001 Ms Foster Back has been the Director of the Institute of Business Ethics. She is also currently a non-executive member of the Board of the Institute of Directors, the Norfolk & Norwich University Foundation Hospital Trust, APM, RAND Europe, the UKTI Defence Advisory Group, Barrier Biotech Ltd; and is Chairman and a Trustee of the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust.

Lay member of Council – since 2005

Mr Knight was educated at Liverpool University. After graduating in law (LLB Hons), he qualified as a solicitor in 1968. He worked at the international law firm Linklaters from 1969-77 and thereafter for 22 years with The Thomson Corporation, a North American public corporation (with interests in publishing, oil and gas, and travel), concentrating on law, tax and finance. He spent 10 years as main board director and, when The Thomson Corporation floated its travel interests in 1998, continued in a similar role in Thomson Travel plc. Mr Knight subsequently studied as a full-time undergraduate at UCL, reading philosophy and graduating in 2003. He is a Governor of the Thomson Foundation, a registered charity providing training and consultancy services in journalism and broadcasting to developing nations. Mr Knight is also a Governor of St George’s CE Primary School, Wrotham, Kent. He has chaired UCL’s Audit Committee since 2006.

Lay member of Council - since 2012

Mr Melliss was educated at the University of York. Between 1974 and 1978 he worked at Whinney Murray (now Ernst & Young), qualifying as a Chartered Accountant.  

In 1978 he joined Reed International plc where he held a number of financial management positions. From 1989 to 1991 he was Group Financial Controller of Sketchley plc. In 1991 he joined Hammerson plc and served as Chief Financial Officer from 1995 until his retirement in June 2011. He is currently a Non-Executive Director, and Chairman of the Audit Committee, of Whitbread PLC, and Chairman of Hermes Property Unit Trust. 

Lay member of Council – since 2005

Ms Parry was educated at Bedford College, University of London and UCL. She was National Organiser for Birthright (now WellBeing of Women) from 1979 to 1994. She has worked as a presenter and reporter for BBC TV, including Tomorrow's World (1994-97) and Panorama, and as a News of the World columnist (1998-2002), and has been a Trustee of the Diana Memorial Fund and a lay member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation. Ms Parry is currently a freelance writer and author specialising in science and health. She writes for many publications, including The Times, The Guardian, and The Mail on Sunday. Her books include The Truth About Hormones. Notable work as a broadcaster has included Inside the Ethics Committee and ‘Am I normal? for Radio 4. Ms Parry is currently a Council member of the Medical Research Council (since 2008) and a Board member of the Science Media Centre (since 2003). She was elected Vice-Chair of UCL Council in 2008.

Lay member of Council – since 2008

Ms Roseveare was educated at UCL. She worked at The Marketing Partnership Ltd from 1997 until 2003, leaving as Client Services Partner and Director. As Founder and Agency Director of Intelligent Marketing & Communications Ltd, a marketing and communications agency, Ms Roseveare worked with organisations including HSBC, Diageo, Timberland, Lufthansa and Woolworths. She was recognized as one of Management Today’s 35 under-35 high flying women; a top 10 ‘one to watch’ in media in The Observer Courvoisier Future 500; and a winner of NatWest Women in Business Award. Ms Roseveare is now Group Relationship Director at Nectar, which is owned by Aimia Inc.

Lay member of Council – since 2009

Dr Samuels was educated at the University of Sheffield (BSc Physiology) and the University of Birmingham (PhD Neuropharmacology). Appointments held in the course of her career include, among many others: Executive Director of Science Policy and Scientific Affairs, Europe, Sandwich Laboratories of Pfizer Global Research and Development; Director of Cardiovascular Biology, Pfizer; President of the Association of Science Education; Director of the Babraham Institute; and membership of the Council of the Royal Institution and of a number of strategy and advisory committees of the UK Research Councils. Dr Samuels was also a member of government commissions on Human Genetics and Intellectual Property Rights and of the UK Government Healthcare Foresight panel (1999-2000), Chair of the Global Forum for Health Research Foundation Council (2007-2010), and a Board Member of the Drugs for Neglected Infectious Disease Initiative. A co-author of SETFair, the Greenfield Report on Women in Science, Dr Samuels has also served as Vice-President of the Association of Women in Science and Engineering, Chair of the Cheltenham Science Festival, and as a member of the Rosalind Franklin Award Panel of the Royal Society. Awards received include the CBE for services to the Bioscience and Pharmaceutical industries (2002), the CBI’s ‘First Woman in Science’ award (2006) and an honorary doctorate (DSc) from the University of Sheffield (2006).  She is currently a Special Advisor to the British Council, a Board Member for the Cheltenham Festivals, and a Trustee of the Science Museum. She is the Vice Chairman of the University Women’s Club and is a Board Member of UCL Business.

Lay member of Council – since 2008

Professor Thompson was educated at UCL, studying medicine and psychology. His appointments have included Wellcome Research Fellow and Lecturer, Institute of Psychiatry; Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry, Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School; Professor of Psychiatry and Head of the School of Medicine, University of Southampton; Registrar and Vice-President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists; Founder and President of the International Society for Affective Disorders; Trustee of the Mental Health Foundation. Professor Thompson is currently Chair of UCL’s Campaign Executive Committee, Board Director and Chief Medical Officer of the Priory Group and a Board Member of the Depression Alliance.

Lay member of Council – since 2005

Sir Stephen Wall was educated at the University of Cambridge. He was, for 35 years, a member of HM Diplomatic Service, serving in a number of posts overseas (New York, Addis Ababa, Paris and Washington) and in various jobs in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London. Appointments held by Sir Stephen have included: Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary (1988-90) and to the Prime Minister (1991-93); Ambassador to Portugal (1993-95); UK Permanent Representative to the EU (1995-2000); Principal EU adviser to the Prime Minister and Head of the European Secretariat in the Cabinet Office with the rank of Permanent Secretary, responsible for coordinating official advice on EU issues (2000-04). In 2004-05 he was Principal Adviser to Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, the senior Roman Catholic Archbishop in England and Wales. Sir Stephen is now an official historian for the British Government; Vice-Chair, Business for New Europe; Trustee, the Thomson Foundation, Member of the Franco-British Council, and Honorary President, UACES.

Lay member of Council – since 2010

Baroness Warwick was educated at Bedford College, University of London. She held the post of Chief Executive of Universities UK between 1995 and 2009. Other appointments held in the course of her career include: Senior Negotiator, Civil and Public Services Association (1972-83); General Secretary, Association of University Teachers (1983-92); Board member, British Council (1985-95); Chief Executive, Westminster Foundation for Democracy (1992-95); Member: Employment Appeal Tribunal (1987-99), Executive and Council, Industrial Society (1987-97), Commonwealth Institute (1988-95), Nolan/Neill Committee on Standards in Public Life (1994-99), OST Technology Foresight Steering Group (1997-2000). Created a Life Peer in 1999, Baroness Warwick is currently a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, and the British American Parliamentary Group. She was appointed Chair of the Human Tissue Authority on 1 January 2010.

Elected professorial member of Council – since 2010

Professor Attwell, Jodrell Professor of Physiology at UCL, was educated at the University of Oxford, studying physics and physiology. After post-doctoral studies in Berkeley, California, he came to UCL in 1981. He set up the four-year PhD programme in Neuroscience in 1996; was a key player in the development of UCL’s Andrew Huxley Building in 2000; and served as a Vice-Head of the Graduate School from 2003 to 2009. Notable external appointments have included Committee Member of the Physiological Society (1994-1998) and Chair of the Wellcome Trust Neuroscience and Mental Health Panel (1998-2001). Professor Attwell was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2000 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2001.

Elected professorial member of Council – since 2010

Professor Tyler, Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering at UCL, was educated at the Royal College of Music, the Polytechnic of Central London (now the University of Westminster) and UCL. He worked as Operations Manager at Unichem Ltd (1984-85) before joining UCL in 1987, holding appointments as Research Assistant, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader at UCL in the period 1987 to 2002, when he was appointed to a professorship. Since 2003 Professor Tyler has been the Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (renamed Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering in 2007). He is also Director of UCL CRUCIBLE Centre and UCL Accessibility Research Group. A Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Professor Tyler’s notable appointments outside UCL include: Member of EPSRC Healthcare Technologies Programme Strategic Advisory Team 2011; Member of the Chief Scientific Adviser’s review team for the Department for Transport 2009; Member of the Advisory Panel for Infrastructure UK 2010; Adviser to Chinese Government Ministry of Science and Technology on Low carbon transport (2010). He was appointed CBE for Services to Technology in the 2011 New Year’s Honours list.

Elected professorial member of Council – since 2008

Professor Wyke was educated at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. She was a Junior Research Fellow at Queen’s College, Oxford (1985-87); Joint College Lecturer in Classics at Newnham and Corpus Christi colleges, Cambridge (1987-1992); Honorary Research Fellow at UCL (1992-93); and Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and Professor at the University of Reading (1993-2005).  Other notable appointments held by Professor Wyke include: member of editorial board of journal Gender & History (1989-1996); member of Faculty of Archaeology, History and Letters of the British School at Rome (1997-2001); Member of Academic Board of The Courtauld Institute (2002-06); Member of the British School at Rome Publications Advisory Committee (2003-07); Sub-Panel Member for RAE 2008; panel expert for Research Evaluation of University of Gothenburg, Sweden (2010); Sub-Panel Member for REF2014. The author of books on Roman literature and the reception of ancient Rome, Professor Wyke is a founding member of the Classical Reception Studies Network and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (since 2008).  She joined UCL as Chair of Latin in 2005, and was Head of the Department of Greek and Latin from 2009 to 2012. She is currently a member of the AHRC peer review college (since 2004), the Warburg Institute Higher Degrees Sub-committee (since 2009), the advisory council for the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London (since 2010), and the Council of the Society for the promotion of Roman Studies (2012-15). 

Elected non-professorial member of Council – since 2010

Dr Barber, a Research Associate in the Department of Physics and Astronomy of UCL, was educated at the University of Birmingham (BSc 1968) and at UCL (MSci 2002, PhD 2006). Between 1968 and 1976 he held various positions in manufacturing industry then worked as a financial analyst from 1976 to 1997 before joining UCL. During that time Dr Barber was elected a Member of the London Stock Exchange (1985) and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment. He is a Member of the Institute of Physics, the International Astronomical Union and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, having served on its Finance Committee and Governing Council. He is also a member of the Governing Council and Finance Committee of the British School at Athens, a member of UCL Finance Committee and a Trustee of UCLU.

Elected non-professorial member of Council – since 2010

Dr Schorge was educated at Yale University and Brown University. She has held the following appointments at UCL: post-doctoral researcher, Department of Pharmacology (1999-2004); senior post-doctoral researcher, Institute of Neurology (2004-2005); Pewterers Research Fellow, Institute of Neurology (2005-2010). She is now a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Institute of Neurology. She has also served as a member of the Academic Staff Appointments and Promotions Committee (2005-10) and as a member of the Academic Promotions Committee (2007-08). She is a member of the Science Advisory Committee for Epilepsy Research UK.

Elected non-professorial member of Council – since 2012

Sarah B. Snyder, Lecturer in International History at UCL, was educated at Brown University, UCL, and Georgetown University. She previously served as the Cassius Marcellus Clay Postdoctoral Fellow and the Pierre Keller Post Doctoral Fellow in Transatlantic Relations at Yale University and as a Professorial Lecturer at Georgetown. She is the author of publications on the Cold War, human rights activism, and United States human rights policy, including Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War: A Transnational History of the Helsinki Network (Cambridge University Press).