David Eastwood

Biographical Information
"Professor David Eastwood, Vice-Chancellor, University of Birmingham.

"Professor Eastwood was appointed to Birmingham in April 2009 having previously been Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia. Professor Eastwood was Chief Executive of the Arts and Humanities Research Board and held a chair in Modern History at the University of Wales, Swansea, where he was also a Head of Department, Dean, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor. He was Fellow and Senior Tutor of Pembroke College and is now an Honorary Fellow of both St Peter’s College and Keble College, Oxford.

"Professor Eastwood has served on numerous national bodies and committees, including the Roberts Review of the Research Assessment Exercise, the Tomlinson Group on 14-19 Education 2003-2004, the Sainsbury Laboratory and the Board of the Quality Assurance Agency. He has chaired the 1994 Group of Universities and UUK’s Longer Term Strategy Group. He was a member of the Government’s recent Independent Review Panel looking at Higher Education Funding and Student Finance, is Chair-Elect of Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) and serves as an International Member of the Hong Kong University Grants Committee.

"While at Swansea he co-founded the National Centre for Public Policy. He has published extensively on the history of the British state, the history of ideas and electoral politics. Professor Eastwood is married with three children. He enjoys music, politics, walking, sport, and good wine; and includes writing on football amongst his list of intrests."

Affiliations

 * Director, Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership