Middlesex University


Financial Statements 2015/16


Organisation University Executive


The Executive team advises the Board of Governors on the strategic direction of the University and ensures delivery of the institute’s mission and values. Each member individually carries out specific responsibilities determined by the Vice-Chancellor.


Professor Tim Blackman Vice-Chancellor


Professor Blackman was appointed Vice-Chancellor of Middlesex University in July 2015. Prior to coming to Middlesex he was Acting Vice-Chancellor at The Open University and previously Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Quality.


Professor Blackman has extensive leadership experience in higher education. Having graduated from Durham, he returned to the University to hold positions including the Head of the School of Applied Social Sciences, Director of the Wolfson Research Institute and the Dean of the University’s campus in Stockton-on-Tees. He has also served as Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law at Teesside University and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law at Oxford Brookes University.


A Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and Royal Society of Arts and a Trustee of the Legal Education Foundation, Professor Blackman has also served as an assessor for Social Policy & Social Work in the 2014 UK Research Excellence Framework exercise.


Professor Andrea Dlaska Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Learning and Innovation


Andrea started at Middlesex University in April 2016 coming from the University of Surrey where she most recently held the position of Pro Vice-Chancellor, Learning and Teaching. Previous positions include Director of the joint


Language Centre of the University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, which she established in 2002, and lecturer in German at Warwick University.


Andrea provides executive leadership to student success and the student experience. She is also responsible for success in the forthcoming Teaching Excellence Framework.


10 Katie Bell Chief Commercial Officer


Katie started at Middlesex in 2009 following a career in brand marketing, innovation and strategic planning for Nestlé UK and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare. Her role before joining Middlesex was Vice-President of Global Digital Marketing. She has


also worked for several years in Portugal and Spain, and was the Dean of the European University Business School in Barcelona and Madrid.


As a member of the University’s Executive Team, Katie is accountable to the Vice-Chancellor for strategic leadership, management and development of the University in relation to home and international student recruitment, marketing and communications, alumni and external relations, international development, and academic and corporate partnerships.


She is also a Non-Executive Director for UCAS Media.


James Kennedy Chief Financial Officer


James Kennedy has worked in a variety of different sectors, most recently as Chief Operating Officer with an NHS Foundation Trust. He joined Middlesex University in June 2016 and is responsible for strategic financial planning, capital investment and driving


strategies to optimise the effective and efficient utilisation of resources and processes.


Prior to working at Middlesex, James worked for 10 years at Thermo Fisher Scientific, a US quoted Company, where he held a number of UK and European director level positions. James is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland and holds a Master’s Degree from the University of Oxford in Engineering Science.


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