Council Member Biographies
Chancellor
The Right Hon, The Lord Mayor of London
Alderman David Wootton
Other members of Council
Pro-Chancellor and Chair of Council
Mr Rob Woodward
Rob is Chief Executive Officer of STV group plc, the Scottish based media company. Prior to this he was a senior advisor to LongAcre Partners, Europe's leading independent mid-market corporate finance house focusing on the media and internet sectors. Until 2005 Rob served as Commercial Director of Channel 4 Television. He was an executive member of the Channel 4 Corporation Board and responsible for Channel 4's commercial wellbeing. Included in his responsibilities was the management of the portfolio of commercial businesses in 4 Ventures. These businesses included digital channels such as E4 and Film Four, New Media Services and Rights Exploitation. During his tenure, Rob developed and executed a commercial strategy for Channel 4 which has positioned the Corporation at the forefront of digital media. He transformed the performance of Channel 4's commercial businesses from heavily loss-making to significantly profitable.
Prior to joining Channel 4, Rob was a Managing Director at UBS Corporate Finance where he worked in both London and New York. Before this, Rob was the Managing Partner of Braxton UK, the strategy consulting practice of Deloitte. He also led Deloitte Consulting's European Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) group. He has specialised in advising TMT companies on strategic and corporate finance issues for the past 20 years.
Mr Woodward was appointed to the board of trustees of the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) on 1 November 2009, with responsibility for representing Scottish interests.
He has a BSc Hons from Durham University and an MBA from Edinburgh University.
Deputy Pro-Chancellor
Mr Roger Bright
Roger Bright graduated from Cambridge in 1973 and joined the Department of the Environment, where he went on to hold a series of senior positions, including Principal Private Secretary and Press Secretary to the Secretary of State. He left the Civil Service and became Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Housing Corporation in 1991 and then held senior posts including Chief Executive at the Personal Investment Authority. Subsequently he was Head of the Investment Business (Personal Investment Authority firms) Department at the Financial Services Authority.
Mr Bright joined the Crown Estate in June 1999 as Director of Finance and Administration and was appointed to the Board in April 2000. In June 2001 he was appointed Chief Executive of The Crown Estate, but has recently retired from this post.
Vice-Chancellor - Professor Paul Curran
Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Curran joined City University London in 2010 having served previously as Vice-Chancellor at Bournemouth University and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Southampton.
Read Professor Curran's biography.
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research & International) - Professor Constantinos (Dinos) Arcoumanis
Professor Arcoumanis leads on Research and International at City University London. He joined City in 2000 as Head of the Aeronautical, Civil and Mechanical Engineering Department and Dean of the School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. Professor Arcoumanis was appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor with responsibility for research and international links in 2006 and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research & International) in 2008.
Read Professor Arcoumanis' biography.
Deputy Vice-Chancellor - Professor David Bolton
Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor David Bolton is responsible for educational aspects of the University's academic activity. He has held several posts at City University London and prior to his current appointment was Dean of the School of Informatics until 2008 and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Learning & Teaching).
Read Professor David Bolton's biography.
Professor Sir Drummond Bone
Professor Sir Drummond Bone was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool from 2002 to 2008 and President of Universities UK from August 2005 to August 2007. Previously he was Principal of Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London and Pro-Chancellor of the University of London.
He now chairs Laureate Inc's International Advisory Board, and acts as a Consultant to higher education through several organisations, including the British Council. He is Chair of The Observatory of Borderless Education, Chair of i-Graduate and the UK Library Research Project funded by HEFCE. He has recently completed a report for the Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills on the internationalisation of UK Higher Education over the next ten to fifteen years.
He was previously a Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow, known internationally for his work on Romantic Studies, and continues to co-edit the journal 'Romanticism'.
In the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours List he received a knighthood for his services to higher education and the regeneration of the north-west of England.
Dame Lynne J Brindley, DBE
Dame Lynne Brindley has been the Chief Executive of the British Library since July 2000, leading a major strategic development and modernisation programme to ensure that the British Library remains relevant, innovative and accessible in the 21st century.
Dame Brindley came to the British Library from the University of Leeds where she was Pro-Vice-Chancellor. Previously she was a senior consultant with KPMG and has held leadership positions in information technology and knowledge management at Aston University and at the London School of Economics.
She is a council member of the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and is on the board of the Creative Industries Knowledge Transfer Network. Lynne chaired the national Online Learning Taskforce set up by HEFCE and was a member of the UK's Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property (SABIP). She is on the Court of the Goldmsiths' Company. She is active in high level international, European and national bodies concerned with media and information society initiatives, digital infrastructure and libraries, and cultural and public sector leadership.
Dame Brindley was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours List 2008.
Ms Cherry Freeman
Cherry Freeman is Managing Director of ILK Partners Ltd.
Her previous roles include Divisional MD and Corporate Development Director at Computacenter plc, Chief Operating Officer at iMPOWER and Associate Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.
Ms Freeman studied at Christ's College, Cambridge and has a degree in History.
Mr Richard Gillingwater
Richard Gillingwater CBE is the Dean of Cass Business School. He formerly held senior positions in investment banking in BZW and CSFB, where he was Chairman of European Investment Banking. After his career in the City, Richard was the founding CEO of the Shareholder Executive, an entity responsible for the Government's state-owned enterprises.He is non-executive Chairman of CDC (formerly known as the Commonwealth Development Corporation) and a non-executive Director of Scottish and Southern Energy and Tomkins.
Mr Andrew Halper
Andrew Halper qualified as a barrister and solicitor in Vancouver in 1982 and practised at the Bar there until 1989, when he joined Canada's diplomatic service. A fluent speaker of Mandarin, he worked in Beijing for 7 years, first as a diplomat and then as a lawyer, and settled in the UK in 1998. He holds degrees in Chinese and in Law from the University of British Columbia and a degree in Comparative Law from the Université de Paris. In addition to full-time practice as a lawyer, he has lectured on Chinese law at the universities of London (SOAS), Cambridge and Oxford.
Mr Philip Harding
Philip has been Chief Finance Officer at City University London since May 2009. Prior to that he was Director of Finance at the University of Westminster for 8 years and has worked in higher education at Board level for a total of 12 years. Before moving into the sector, Philip spent 5 years as FD of an NHS Trust and his early career was in the private sector, including spells at BP and Prudential. He is Chair of the British Universities Finance Directors Group, Chair of the governing body of an FE college in London and sits on several policy committees and boards. Philip was a founder trustee of the Chair of Hope, a charity that helps provide corrective surgery and treatment of children from around the world.
Dr John Low
John Low is Chief Executive of the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), which seeks to stimulate giving, social investment and the effective use of funds by offering a range of specialist services to charities and donors. He is also an Independent Member of the House of Lords Appointments Commission and a Director of the Euclid Network of European Third Sector Leaders.
Prior to joining CAF Dr Low was Chief Executive at the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID). John moved to the voluntary sector after pursuing a 20-year career in the technology industry. He holds a PhD in Bio-Medical Physics, is a Chartered Engineer, a Companion of the Institute of Management and a fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA). John was awarded a CBE for services to the Voluntary Sector and to Deaf People in 2008 and recently stood down as Chairman of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO).
Mr Kieran Murphy
Kieran Murphy has been a Partner at the UK corporate finance advisory firm, Gleacher Shacklock LLP since 2004. Gleacher Shacklock specialises in providing high level advice on mergers, acquisitions and restructuring to large corporations and the private equity industry. Prior to joining Gleacher Shacklock, Kieran was a Managing Director in the Investment Banking Division of Dresdner Kleinwort (previously Kleinwort Benson), which he joined in 1988. During his nearly 20 years as an advisory banker, Kieran has worked extensively with large companies in the UK and across Western Europe. Kieran began his career as a civil servant in HM Treasury.
Mr Murphy is also a non-executive director of Aliaxis SA, the Belgian based world leader in the manufacture of plastic plumbing products.
He holds an MA from Cambridge University and a Diploma from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.
Professor Stanton Newman
Professor Stanton Newman, Dean of the School of Health Sciences, joined City University in September 2010. He is a Professor of Health Psychology and completed his B.Soc. Sci. (Hons) degree and doctorate at the University of Natal, South Africa. Professor Newman became a lecturer at LSE and Guys and Middlesex Hospital Medical Schools before joining University of College London. In 2003 he set up the Centre for Behavioural and Social Science in Medicine, a unique project to encourage interdisciplinary working in physical illnesses at UCL.
Professor Newman manages a large research group working in a range of different physical illnesses. His portfolio of awarded grants is extensive, most recently including BUPA, British Heart Foundation, Baxter Healthcare and the Department of Health. Professor Newman's work is widely published in over 260 research papers and chapters as well as 14 books and several documentaries.
In 2009 Professor Newman was appointed the Principal Investigator on the Whole Systems Demonstrator Project funded by the Department of Health to evaluate the role of assistive technologies in health and social care. He is a key speaker on tele-health and tele-care, regularly presenting at conferences in the UK and abroad.
Professor Newman is an Honorary Member of the Royal College of Physicians and a Fellow of the British Psychological Society. He is a Chartered Clinical and Health Psychologist and engaged directly in clinical work seeing patients at his weekly clinics held at University College and King Edward VII's Hospitals.
Ms Hunada Nouss
Hunada Nouss is currently Finance Director General at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) which is one of government's largest departments providing services to over 20 million citizens each day. Her role is to support ministers in delivering a challenging reform agenda, whilst maintaining business operations, within an increasingly constrained financial envelope. Prior to joining DWP, Hunada was Director General, Finance and Corporate Services at the Department for Communities and Local Government.
Hunada began her career with Arthur Andersen and has held a number of senior financial, commercial and strategic roles in the private sector, including Finance Director for Burger King (a Diageo subsidiary) in the UK, where she delivered business turnaround in a highly challenged commercial environment. Hunada held a number of prominent roles at Diageo plc working in London, Amsterdam and Miami, where she was involved in shaping growth and step-change strategies to transform business profitability. She has led major organisation restructures, mergers and cultural change programmes.
Other current roles include - Trustee for the Breast Cancer Campaign and Member of the Audit and Risk Committee of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Hunada is also a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Taxation.
Ms Carolyn Regan
Carolyn Regan is currently Interim Managing Director of the West London Clinical Commissioning Consortium, working with General Practitioners across the London Boroughs of Kensington & Chelsea and Westminster. She has 25 years experience of working for the NHS in a variety of roles, including as Chief Executive of three Health Authorities between 1996 and 2006, finally heading the North East London Strategic Health Authority from 2002.
Carolyn was Chief Executive of the Legal Services Commission from 2006 until March 2010, during a period of significant change including the implementation of major reforms to the provision of legal aid.
Carolyn also has experience of working in the not-for-profit sector, most recently as Chief Executive of the Children's Legal Centre, a unique charity offering advice, information and legal representation to children and young people. She led the successful amalgamation of that charity with Coram, the UK's oldest charity. From May to September 2010, Carolyn undertook freelance work for UNICEF, including advising the Vietnamese government on child protection services and systems.
She is a Trustee of Action Space Ltd, an arts organisation working with people with learning disabilities, a member of the Court of Essex University and a strategic adviser to Just for Kids, a charity working with young people.
Carolyn chairs the Remuneration Committee.
Professor Hein Schreuder
Professor Dr Hein Schreuder is based in Maastricht in the Netherlands. He has both an academic and business background and has recently retired from being Executive Vice-President of Corporate Strategy and Acquisitions at Royal DSM NV, a Dutch multinational company in the fields of Life Sciences and Material Sciences.
His previous academic functions include Director of the Economic and Social Institute of the Free University of Amsterdam and Professor of Business Economics, Strategy and Organisation at Maastricht University. He also served as Fellow of the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management and as President of the European Accounting Association. He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Washington and at Harvard Business School. Currently, he is Distinguished Visiting Professor at CEIBS, the China-Europe International Business School in Shanghai.
He joined DSM in 1991 in the management team of the Polymers Division. In 1994 he assumed the position of Deputy Director of Corporate Planning and Development DSM. In 1996 he assumed his current position, which was expanded over the years to include full executive responsibility for all DSM's corporate strategic and M&A activities.
Hein Schreuder also serves as member of several advisory and supervisory boards. He lives in Maastricht with his wife Ellen and their three children. His eldest son Hans has worked at investment banks in the City before moving to Dubai.
Mr Rob Scully
Rob is currently taking his second sabbatical year in the Students' Union, having been Vice President Activities & Development last academic year. He is studying BSc Investment & Financial Risk Management at the University. Before coming to University Rob spent a year as a Deloitte Scholar, working in the Audit department at their Leeds office.
Rob is a keen sportsman, having been captain of the Rugby Team in his second year and playing for local clubs. Throughout his university career he has been engaged with student activities and the Students' Union, and has won Sportsperson of the Year and is a member of the Noble Order of the Carrot.
On completing his degree, Rob hopes to pursue a career in the Civil Service or Financial Regulation.