Governance Committee of Academic Board

Find out more about UCL's Governance Committee of Academic Board, including terms of reference, membership, and meetings dates.

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Overview

Reports toAcademic Board
ChairProfessor Benet Salway
Secretary

Freya Markwell
f.markwell@ucl.ac.uk 

For agendas and minutes; apologies for absence

Scheduled meeting dates: 2025-26

  • Monday 8 September 2025, 9.30am
  • Tuesday 16 September 2025, 3.45pm
  • Thursday 9 October 2025, 2.00pm
  • Monday 20 October 2025, 12.00pm
  • Monday 10 November 2025, 11.00am
  • Wednesday 12 November 2025, 2.00pm
  • Monday 26 January 2026, 2.00pm
  • Monday 2 March 2026, 11.00am
  • Monday 11 May 2026, 11.00am
  • Friday 26 June 2026, 11.00am
     

Minutes

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Terms of Reference

The Governance Committee of Academic Board is charged by Academic Board to:

  1. advise Academic Board on the running and structure of the Board, including proposing standing orders for its own running to Academic Board, and scrutinising strategic decisions that impact academic work at UCL;
  2. improve the representation of the views of Academic Board on matters affecting the academic work of UCL to the University Management Committee (or equivalent) and to Council;
  3. act as the nomination committee on behalf of the Board when approached by the chair of the Board, or the Council, or charged by the Board or by UCL Management, provided that the procedures laid down in SO6 are followed;
  4. assist, when approached, any committee, sub-committee of, or group established by UCL on behalf of the Board on questions of governance: any such assistance shall be reported to the Board at its next regular meeting;
  5. provide reports and memoranda to the Board on matters coming before it that affect the academic work of UCL;
  6. have the power to put papers before AB, and to distribute reports to AB, within its Terms of Reference, at any time;
  7. have the power to communicate with members of the Board;
  8. be able to request that the Secretary provide it with access to any existing information that the Board is entitled to receive in order to make an informed decision on matters coming to the Board that affect the academic work of UCL.
     

Membership

  • Where the name of a committee member appears in square brackets, this indicates that member’s second or subsequent appearance in the list.
All persons formerly (but not currently) elected to Council from Academic Board within the last 6 years and who are still at UCL, who shall be invited to attend ex officio as voting members:
  • Professor Lucie Clapp (Vice-Chair)
  • Dr Alun Coker
  • Professor Patrick Haggard
  • Professor Hynek Pikhart
  • Professor Helen Roberts
Up to 9 members to be elected by and from the professorial membership of Academic Board as voting members:
  • Professor Ian Eames
  • Professor Evangelos Himonides
  • Professor Martin Koltzenburg
  • Professor Francesca Medda
  • Professor Gemma Moss
  • Professor Sacha Stern
Up to 6 members to be elected by and from the non-professorial membership of Academic Board as voting members:
  • Dominque Drai
  • Professor Sandra Leaton Gray
  • Dr Jennifer McGowan
  • Dr Saladin Meckled-Garcia (Vice-Chair)
  • Professor Benet Salway (Chair)
  • Justin Siefker (Vice-Chair)
Up to 2 student members selected by the UCL Students’ Union in any one year, as voting members, at least one of whom shall be a member of Academic Board and the other selected from those who are serving on Council:
  • Sarah Jilani
  • Darcy Lan
Up to 2 members of the Executive Committee of Academic Board, one of them being the Chair of that committee, the other one elected by that committee, as voting members:
  • [Professor Evangelos Himonides]
  • [Dominique Drai]
Any expert persons invited by the committee to assist in its deliberations, as non-voting members, and who do not count towards the quorum:
  • Dr Danae Azaria
  • Dr Martin Fry
  • Professor Ralf Schoepfer
Secretary
  • Freya Markwell