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Professor Madeleine Atkins CBE

Professor Madeleine Atkins

Position(s):
President of Lucy Cavendish College
Email:
lcc-pres@lists.cam.ac.uk
Association(s):
 
Central committee memberships Membership type Term end
​University Postdoctoral Matters Committee ​Class (d) ​31 December 2025
​Cambridge Commonwealth, European and International Trust ​Trustee ​25 February 2025
Remuneration Committee ​Class (2) ​31 December 2024
Committee on Benefactions and External Legal Affairs ​Class (a) - Members of Council ​31 December 2024
General Board of the Faculties ​Class (c) - Members of the Regent House ​31 December 2024

University Council

Class (a) - Heads of Colleges

31 December 2024

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About this member:

Professor Madeleine Atkins CBE, FAcSS was appointed President of Lucy Cavendish College in October 2018. Professor Atkins’s background includes reading Law and History as an undergraduate at Cambridge University (Girton College), teaching in a large comprehensive school in Huntingdon, and completing a PhD and post-doctoral research contracts at the University of Nottingham.

Following various senior positions at Newcastle University, including Pro-Vice-Chancellor, she was Vice-Chancellor of Coventry University between 2004 and 2013. She then joined the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) as its Chief Executive in January 2014 retaining that post until March 2018.