Vice-Chancellor

Professor Andrew Wathey MA DPhil FRHistS FRSA FSA

Professor Andrew Wathey is Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of Northumbria University. He was previously Senior Vice-Principal at Royal Holloway University of London (2006-08), serving also as Vice-Principal Planning and Resources (2003-6), Dean of Arts (2002), and Head of Music (2000-02). He was appointed Professor of Music History at Royal Holloway in 1999, having been, from 1989, successively, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader. As Senior Vice-Principal he had policy responsibility for strategic planning and for the College's financial resources and its estate, leading the development of Royal Holloway's Corporate Strategy 2005-2010, developing strategic collaborations, and overseeing a £100 million capital programme. He also led its Music Department to a 5** in the 2001 RAE.

He was Lecturer in Music at Lancaster University (1988-89), Research Fellow at Downing College, Cambridge (1985-8), Junior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford (1982-5), graduating from St Edmund Hall, Oxford University in 1979. He was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford in 1998.

Andrew is Chair of the regional higher education association, Universities for the North East and in this capacity is a member of the CBI Regional Council.  He is Deputy Chair of the University Alliance.  He was Chair of the Music subject panel in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, and was also active in the 1994 Group of Universities, chairing its Strategic Planning and Resources Group. He has been a Vice-President of the Royal Musical Association since 2001.

He is a Director of the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM), which he co-founded, and is also a Fellow of the Industry and Parliament Trust, of the Royal Historical Society, of the Royal Society of Arts, and of the Society of Antiquaries.

Andrew is a governor of Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and a Board member of the Centre for Life, ING and NGI.