Steve Cannon (University of Aberdeen)

Steve Cannon began his career in higher education management at the University of Warwick in 1982 and in 1985 he became the first Financial and Administrative Manager of the newly established University of Warwick Science Park. In 1988 he moved to Scotland to take up the post of Financial Manager at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School in Dundee, at that time the largest purpose built teaching hospital in Europe. In 1992 he became Secretary of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and led the negotiations that led to the College's merger with its neighbour, the University of Dundee, in 1994. Steve became Deputy Secretary of the University following the merger. In 1996 he was invited to join the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council as its Secretary and Director of Finance, Strategy and Corporate Affairs and in 1998 he was appointed Secretary and Director of Operations at the University of Aberdeen.

Steve serves and has served on numerous task forces and committees concerned with higher education. He is a member of the Delivery Partnership Working Group. He was recently a member of the Advising Group that reviewed guidance on sector-wide institutional governance. He is a Board member of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) and has been on the Boards of Higher Education and Research Opportunities in the UK (HERO) and Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges (APUC). He is on the Governing Group of the Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) Programme of the OECD. He is a former adviser to the Ministry of Education in Ethiopia and the Tertiary Education Council of Mauritius.

Steve has written several publications and given numerous domestic and international presentations on governance, leadership and management in higher education.Steve is a non-executive Director of a number of companies and a member of the Board of Governors of Strathallan School.

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