Vincent Watts

British academic and businessman

Vincent Challacombe Watts OBE (born 11 August 1940) is a British academic and businessman.[1]

He was educated at Sidcot School, Peterhouse, Cambridge (MA, Molecular Biology),[2] and at the University of Birmingham (MSc). He served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia[3] from 1997 to 2002, leaving to focus full-time on his role as Chairman of the East of England Development Agency.[4] Prior to joining the University of East Anglia he was at Andersen Consulting.[2]

References

  1. ^ "People of Today". Gale Biography In Context. Web. Retrieved 28 June 2011.
  2. ^ a b Willcock, John (8 July 1997). "People & Business: Third time lucky as Snoddy moves over to Murdoch". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 17 August 2022. Retrieved 28 June 2011.
  3. ^ "Author dies in road crash". BBC News. 15 December 2001. Retrieved 28 June 2011.
  4. ^ Baty, Phil (1 January 1999). "Power players for the regions". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 28 June 2011.
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Vice-Chancellors of the University of East Anglia
  • Frank Thistlethwaite (1961)
  • Sir Michael Thompson (1980)
  • Derek Burke (1987)
  • Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll (1995)
  • Vincent Watts (1997)
  • David Eastwood (2002)
  • Bill MacMillan (2006)
  • Edward Acton (2009)
  • David Richardson (2014)
  • David Maguire (2023)


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