Sir Graeme Davies
Sir Graeme Davies (BEng, PhD, MA, ScD, FREng, FRSE) has been Vice-Chancellor of the University of London since October 2003.
Sir Graeme 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. He received a knighthood in 1996 for services to higher education.
In 2005, Sir Graeme chaired the University of Ulster’s third independent Seven-Year Review Group, set up to examine how the University fulfils the objects of its Charter. The Review Group’s work covered the period 1998-2005 and Sir Graeme formally presented the report to the Council of the University on 17 February 2006.
