Sir Graeme Davies - Profile
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of London is Sir Graeme Davies BEng, PhD, MA, ScD, FREng, FRSE who took up office in October 2003.
He was born and brought up in New Zealand and graduated BE, PhD from the University of Auckland and MA, ScD from St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. After academic posts at the Universities of Auckland and Cambridge and visiting professorships in Brazil, Israel, Argentina and China, he became Professor of Metallurgy at Sheffield University in 1978.
From 1986-91 he was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool. He was chief executive successively of the Universities Funding Council and the Polytechnics & Colleges Funding Council. He became Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England in 1992. From 1995-2003 he was Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow.
Sir Graeme is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Honorary Graduate of the Universities of Liverpool, Strathclyde, Manchester Metropolitan, Nottingham, and Edinburgh, and an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College of Music.
The Vice-Chancellor is the principal officer of the University and is responsible to the Board of Trustees for the organisation and conduct of the business of the University.
The part-time office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor is normally filled by a Head of College. See Structure of the University.
The Vice-Chancellor sits on the University Board of Trustees and chairs the Collegiate Council.