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Vice-Chancellor's Office

 

There are five Pro-Vice-Chancellors whose role, as well as supporting the Vice-Chancellor in providing academic leadership to the University, is to work in partnership with senior administrators to help drive strategy and policy development.

Full contact details for the office

Professor Andy Neely OBE, FREng, FAcSS

Position

  • Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Enterprise and Business Relations
Email address: 
andy.neely@admin.cam.ac.uk
Professor Andy Neely OBE

Profile

Professor Andy Neely OBE is Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor, and Professor of Manufacturing at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. His previous appointments include Head of the Institute for Manufacturing at the University of Cambridge, the Royal Academy of Engineering Professor of Complex Services at the University, the Deputy Director of the Advanced Institute of Management Research, a UK national research programme and the Director of the Centre for Business Performance at Cranfield University.

During his career, Andy has founded several major research centres and groups, including the Cambridge Service Alliance and the Centre for Digital Built Britain, both at the University of Cambridge, and the Centre for Business Performance at Cranfield University. He is co-founder of Anmut, the data valuation specialists, a Non-Executive Director at the High Value Manufacturing Catapult and a member of the Board of Trustees of the American University of Sharjah.

He has written over 100 books and articles, including Measuring Business Performance, published by the Economist and The Performance Prism, published by the Financial Times. In 2020 he was awarded an OBE for services to research and university-industry collaboration.

Professor David Cardwell FREng

Position

  • Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Strategy and Planning
Email address: 
david.cardwell@admin.cam.ac.uk
Professor David Cardwell

Profile

Professor David Cardwell FREng is the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Strategy and Planning. He is Professor of Superconducting Engineering and was previously Head of the Department of Engineering. He founded the Cambridge Bulk Superconductivity Research Group on the processing and applications of bulk high temperature superconductors, which can be used to generate very high magnetic fields, including the world record field on 17.6 T in a bulk superconductor set in 2014.

Professor Cardwell was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2012 in recognition of his contribution to the development of superconducting materials for engineering applications. He was awarded a ScD by the University of Cambridge in 2014 and an honorary DSc by the University of Warwick in 2015. Professor Cardwell has been a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College since 1993, where he was Admissions Tutor for Sciences between 2000 and 2013, and has served 19 years as a Tutor to undergraduates.

Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith FRS, FMedSci

Position

  • Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and International Partnerships
Email address: 
anne.fergusonsmith@admin.cam.ac.uk
Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith

Profile

Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith is the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and International Partnerships. She is the Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics (since 2015). Formerly, she was the University’s Head of the Department of Genetics. She became the President of the Genetics Society in 2021, and is a member of the UKRI BBSRC Council.

Professor Ferguson-Smith is a mammalian developmental geneticist and epigeneticist. An expert on genomic imprinting, her team studies the epigenetic control of genome function with particular emphasis on epigenetic inheritance. 

She was elected to EMBO in 2006, as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences’ in 2012, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2017. Professor Ferguson-Smith became Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research in 2021 and was appointed to the Research and International Partnerships role in 2022. She is a Fellow of Darwin College, University of Cambridge.

Professor Kamal Munir

Position

  • Pro-Vice-Chancellor for University Community and Engagement
Email address: 
kamal.munir@admin.cam.ac.uk
Professor Kamal Munir

Profile

Professor Kamal Munir is Pro-Vice-Chancellor for University Community and Engagement, and Professor of Strategy and Policy. Professor Munir has published numerous articles in leading organisational and management journals. His work has been quoted and cited in several forums, including the BBC, CNN, ABC, World Economic Forum, Financial Times, the Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Wired magazine, and BusinessWeek among many others. Professor Munir has won several teaching awards and consulted for several public and private sector organisations. He is a Fellow of Homerton College, Cambridge and Academic Director of the Centre for Strategic Philanthropy.

Professor Bhaskar Vira FAcSS

Position

  • Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education
Email address: 
bhaskar.vira@admin.cam.ac.uk
Professor Bhaskar Vira

Profile

Professor Bhaskar Vira FAcSS is Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education, and Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Geography, a Fellow of Fitzwilliam Colleage, and an Honorary Fellow of St John's College.

Trained as an economist, Professor Vira's research focuses on the political economy of land-use and landscape level strategies, water use and management, forest management, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services and human well-being, with a specific focus on South Asia. He works with a number of PhD students and early-career researchers on his broad interests in the political economy of environment and development, and has collaborations with colleagues in both academic and non-academic institutions in South Asia and around the world. He is currently leading a major initiative on Decent Work and Youth Livelihoods. He has led large-scale applied research projects that involve interdisciplinary conversations across the natural and social services, and contributes regularly to policy advisory processes across the science-policy interface.