PROFESSOR SIR DAVID MELVILLE CBE

Chair of Finance, Estates & General Purposes Committee
Member of Search Committee

David Melville is Chair of the Kent Surrey and Sussex NHS Postgraduate Deanery. From 2001 to 2007 he was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kent. Previously he was Chief Executive of the Further Education Funding Council, and before that he was Vice-Chancellor of Middlesex University and held various University posts as a Lecturer and Professor of Physics. He was a member of the Tomlinson Review of 14-19 Curriculum and Qualifications, the Foundation Degree Task Force and the Foster Review of the Future of Further Education Colleges.

He is a board member of Pearson Education Ltd, the Network for Black Professionals, K College, London South Bank University, Manchester Metropolitan University and is a patron of the 157 Group, Comprehensive Future, the Disabled Sailors Association and the Thames Gateway Young Chamber.

He has been the Government Thames Gateway Skills Envoy, Chair of Lifelong Learning UK, the Higher Education Statistics Agency, the Learning and Skills Council in Kent and Medway, the University Vocational Awards Council and Higher Education South East, Vice-Chair of the Marlowe and Folkestone Academies and a board member of the ifs School of Finance, the Higher Education Careers Services Unit, The Place, the Learning from Experience Trust and the Council for Industry and Higher Education.

He was educated at Sheffield and Columbia Universities, has Honorary Degrees from Southampton, Derby, Middlesex, Kent and Sheffield Universities and was awarded a CBE in 2001 and appointed a Knight Bachelor in 2007 for services to higher and further education.