Board of Governors

Mr Sandy Anderson (Member of Employment Policy Committee) Formerly Senior Vice-President, Technology, ICI. Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Durham; Chairman of EPICC; Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering and Institution of Chemical Engineers.

Mr Jonathan Blackie (Member of Resources Committee) Director of Strategy and External Affairs, One NorthEast; Member of Arts Council, Capital Panel.

Mr Neil Etherington (Member of Employment Policy Committee) Chief Executive of Tees Valley Development Company; Director of Teesside Chemical Initiative; Member of EPICC, Safe in Tees Valley, Cleveland Arts and South Bank SRB; Chair of Economic Co-ordination Group; Vice-Chair of Middlesbrough Football Academy.

Mrs Margaret Fay (Chair of Student Experience Committee) Managing Director of Tyne Tees Television; Member of Young Enterprise Regional Board and Newcastle Gateshead Initiative; Trustee of Cleveland Community Foundation; Director of Darlington Building Society.

Mr John E Foster (Member of Audit Committee) Chief Executive of Middlesbrough Council; Board Member of Middlesbrough Town Centre Company and Tees Valley Tomorrow; Member of Government Urban Sounding Board; Non-Executive Director of New Local Government Network.

Mr John R Foster (Member of Resources Committee and Employment Policy Committee, Chair of Student Disciplinary Appeal Committee) Chairman of South Tees Acute Hospitals NHS Trust; Non-Executive Director of Housing Corporation; Trustee of Cleveland Community Foundation, Dorman Museum and Butterwick Hospice; Member of Tees Valley Tomorrow and Audit Commission; Director of Botanic Centre.

Professor Derek Fraser (Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive) Board Member of North East Regional Development Agency; Chairman of University Vocational Awards Council, Independent Football Commission and Graduate Apprenticeship Steering Committee.

Miss Kay Gibson (Representative of Students’ Union and Member of Student Experience Committee) President of Students’ Union 2000/2001; formerly Education and Welfare Officer and Acting President of Students’ Union; Chair of Students’ Union Executive Committee; Member of Darlington Ladies Hockey Team.

Mr John P Hackney (Chair of Board) Formerly Chief Executive of Tees & Hartlepool Port Authority.

Mr Ernie Haidon (Member of Resources Committee) Educational Consultant; External Verifier for IT, City & Guilds.

Mr John Irwin (Member of Resources Committee) Director of Storey Sons & Parker Limited; Fellow of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors; President of North East Chamber of Commerce; Chair of Tees Valley Tomorrow Limited; Director of Middlesbrough Town Centre Company and Northern Business Forum; Member of Tees Valley Partnership.

Mr Eric Lloyd Managing Director of Business Furniture Centre (Holdings) Ltd; Board Member of Business Link Tees Valley Ltd and Manufacturing Challenge Ltd; Chair of Governors, Breckon Hill Primary School, Middlesbrough.

Dr Iftikhar A Lone (Member of Employment Policy Committee) General Practitioner, Middlesbrough; Deputising Liaison Officer, Tees Health; Member of Board of Cleveland Multidisciplinary Audit Advisory Group and Middlesbrough & Eston Primary Care Group and Clinical Governance Lead; Vice-Chairman of Cleveland Local Medical Committee; Justice of the Peace, Teesside Branch.

Mr Christopher S Lord (Member of Student Experience Committee and Student Disciplinary Committee) Head Teacher, Laurence Jackson School, Guisborough; formerly Chairman of Redcar & Cleveland Headteachers’ Association.

Mr John D McDougall (Member of Resources Committee) Managing Partner of John McDougall Ltd, Independent Management & Engineering Consultants; formerly Managing Director of WS Atkins Consultants Ltd; Chairman of the Board of Tees Valley Training & Enterprise Council; Vice-President of Institution of Mechanical Engineers; Member of Northern Council of the Confederation of British Industry, Tees Valley Development Group, Northern Business Forum and Teesside Tomorrow.

Dr Barbara L McGuinness (Representative of Academic Board, Member of Nomination Committee and Student Experience Committee) Deputy Director of the School of Social Sciences (Teaching and Research in Political and Moral Philosophy).

Dr Gus Montgomery (Member of Student Experience Committee) Senior Lecturer in Biotechnology; Chairman of the University Genetic Manipulation Safety Committee; University Biological Safety Officer.

Mr Keith Robinson (Member of Audit Committee) Senior Partner, Keith Robinson & Co, Chartered Accounts and Business Advisers.

Mr Barry Shaw (Member of Audit Committee) Chief Constable, Cleveland Constabulary; Chair, No 2 (North East) Region, Association of Chief Police Officers and Teesside Common Purpose; Director of Safe in Teesside Ltd; Member of Chief Constables’ Council and Association of Chief Police Officers.

Mr Tom Shovlin (Chair of Resources Committee) Formerly Chief Financial Officer, ICI Chemicals and Polymers. Director of Irish Fertilizer Industries Ltd.

His Honour Judge Leslie Spittle (Chair of Audit Committee) Circuit Judge at Teesside Crown Court.

Mrs Judyth J Thomas (Chair of Employment Policy Committee, Member of Remuneration Committee and Student Disciplinary Committee) Chair of Trustees of Hospital of God at Greatham.

Ms Pat White (Member of Student Experience Committee) Schools & Colleges Liaison Manager, Corporate Communications Unit; Director of CETPASE.

Professor Dianne Willcocks (Member of Student Experience Committee) Principal of York St John College; Professor of Social Gerontology; Adviser to the Northern College of Adult Residential Education; Governor of Wakefield College; Member of Yorkshire Arts Board and Yorkshire and Humberside University Association; Board Member of Standing Conference of Principals and Higher Education Staff Development Agency.

Sir Ian Wrigglesworth (Deputy Chair of Board) Executive Chairman of UK Land Estates Ltd; Deputy Chairman of John Livingston & Sons Ltd.

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