Professor Graham Virgo will take responsibility for leading and coordinating the work of the Pro-Vice-Chancellors.
Professor Graham Virgo, the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education, has been designated Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor with effect from 1 July. The Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor takes responsibility for leading and coordinating the work of the Pro-Vice-Chancellors. Graham will take over the role from Professor Duncan Maskell, who is leaving Cambridge to become Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne.
Graham, who is Professor of English Private Law in the Faculty of Law, has been Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education since 2015 and will continue in that role while he is Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor. As Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education, he is leading an important and visionary programme of work to enhance the University’s educational provision, including a major review of exams and assessment and the strategic development of digital teaching and learning at Cambridge.
The other Pro-Vice-Chancellors are: Professor Chris Abell (Research), Professor Eilís Ferran (Institutional and International Relations), Professor Andy Neely (Business and Enterprise Relations). Professor David Cardwell, who is currently Head of the Department of Engineering, will take up the post of Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Strategy and Planning on 1 August.