Sir Graeme John Davies

Principal
Vice-Chancellor
University of Glasgow

Professor Davies is currently Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. He was, until September 1995, Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (and, previously, the Universities Funding Council and the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council). He moved to the Funding Councils from being Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool, a post he held from April 1986 to June 1991. Previously he was Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Sheffield having taken up that post in 1978 after 16 years in the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science at the University of Cambridge where he was also a Fellow of St.Catharine's College. He was educated in the School of Engineering of the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

He has held Visiting Professorships in New Zealand, Brazil, China, Argentina, South Africa, Israel and India.

Sir Graeme was created Knight Bachelor in the 1996 New Years Honours list. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Freeman of the City of London, a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He holds Honorary Degrees from Liverpool, Sheffield, Nottingham and Manchester Metropolitan Universities and is an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College of Music, London.

Currently, he is Chairman of the Scottish Office's Scottish Education and Training Export Group and of the Universities Superannuation Scheme Ltd. He sits on the Science and Engineering Committee and the Committee for International Co-operation in Higher Education of the British Council, the Scottish Enterprise Technology Ventures Group and the Council of the Committee of Vice-Chancellor and Principals.

He is the author or co-author of 6 books and more than 120 scientific and technical papers in learned journals and conference proceedings dealing with forming processes, welding, solidification and casting, and the mechanical properties of metals and materials.

Qualifications: B.E., M.A., Ph.D., Sc.D., Hon LI D (Liverpool), HonDMet (Sheffield), HonDSc (Nottingham), Hon DEng (Manchester Met), HonFTCL, CEng, FIM, FIMechE, FRSA, CBIM, HonFRSNZ, FEng, FRSE.