UNIVERSITY OF LONDON - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chancellor Partnerships and Governance
He was CEO of Universities UK from 2017 to 2022. Leading the representative body for the UK's 140 universities - a registered charity and six subsidiary entities - his role included influencing policy, strategy and member engagement. Before this, he was Deputy CEO and Director of External Relations since 2013.
Previously, he was a Director at the University of Birmingham and has held external engagement roles for national organisations.
Alistair received a CBE in 2022 for services to Higher Education and supporting the sector during the covid-19 crisis.
He is a member of the UCAS Board of Trustees and a member of the advisory boards of Wonkhe, the UPP Foundation and the Discovery Decade project. Alistair was educated at the Universities of Kent, Leicester and the Institute of Education, UCL.
Professor Jo Fox began her career at Durham University as a lecturer in Modern European History. She became Durham History Department's first female professor in 2010 and its first female Head of Department in 2016. She was appointed as the first female Director of the Institute of Historical Research at the School of Advanced Study in 2017.
Jo Fox is a specialist in the history of propaganda, rumour and disinformation. She is the author of two major monographs, and has published widely in leading journals. She is currently co-investigator on a Leverhulme project on ‘The Political Warfare Executive, Covert Propaganda and British Culture' and Principal Investigator on an AHRC COVID-19 rapid response project on ‘COVID-19 rumours in historical context. Jo is a regular commentator on historical and contemporary disinformation campaigns (‘fake news'), most recently appearing at the Körber Stiftung History Forum in May 2019. She regularly assists museums and archives in their public programmes and exhibitions.
Jo has previously served as the Honorary Communications Director of the Royal Historical Society. She is a National Teaching Fellow (2007), a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS), and a Fellow of the Royal Society for Manufactures and the Arts (FRSA).
Since 2019, she has served as Chair of the Humanities and Social Science Early Research Awards panels at the Wellcome Trust.
Jo is a committed advocate for gender equality in Higher Education, and has served as an Athena Swan panel chair and as a member of the working group for the Athena Swan Charter Mark.
Throughout her career, Professor Mary Stiasny OBE has worked to deliver and promote quality accessible education across the world. As Pro Vice-Chancellor (International), she has responsibility for over 50,000 students studying in 190 countries worldwide, as well as the 1.4 million learners enrolled on the University of London's MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses).
Prior to becoming Pro Vice-Chancellor (International), Professor Stiasny provided strategic direction and leadership at the Institute of Education, in her capacity as Pro-Director with responsibility for Learning, Teaching and International.
Professor Stiasny began her career in higher education at Goldsmiths College, where she was involved in initial teacher education, becoming Director of PGCE and Deputy Head of the Department of Educational Studies. This was followed by a move to Oxford Brookes University, where she was appointed Deputy Head of the School of Education. After her time at Oxford Brookes, she returned to London, to become Head of the School of Education and Training at the University of Greenwich. Professor Stiasny then spent four years at the British Council as Director of Education and Training before joining the Institute of Education.
Professor Stiasny's practical and strategic experience in educations spans across a wide range of roles, including providing consultancy for a number of education projects that have attracted external funding, and as an external examiner.