Name Ian Diamond | Profession Statistician Spouse(s) Lady Diamond (Jane) | |
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Alma mater London School of EconomicsUniversity of St Andrews Similar People Camilla - Duchess of Cornwall, Maggie Chapman, William Elphinstone | ||
Residence Aberdeen, United Kingdom | ||
Universities UK: Professor Ian Diamond on the work Efficiency and Modernisation Task Group
Sir Ian Diamond on DFID's education programme priorities
Sir Ian David Diamond, DL, FBA, FRSE, FAcSS (born 14 March 1954) is the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen. He is also a Policy Network Chair of Universities UK.
Contents
- Universities UK Professor Ian Diamond on the work Efficiency and Modernisation Task Group
- Sir Ian Diamond on DFIDs education programme priorities
- Early life and career
- Honours and awards
- References
Previous appointments include Chief Executive of the Economic and Social Research Council, Chair of the Research Councils UK Executive Group and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Southampton. Chair of Lloyds Banking Group Foundation for England and Wales, Visiting Fellow at Nuffield College Oxford.
He is currently Chair of British Universities and Colleges Sport, Chair (Ex Officio) of the Mitchell Hospital Trust , Deputy Chair of UCAS and Interim Deputy Chair of the Department for International Development Research Advisory Group, 2017.
He is also Trustee of the Iona Cathedral Trust and the Population Investigation Committee.
He was knighted in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to social science and higher education. Sir Ian is also a qualified football referee and was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Aberdeen in 2013.
In 2016 he led a review of University finance in Wales which was commissioned by the Welsh Assembly Government, which recommended that grants towards tuition fees should be replaced with support for living costs instead.
He has authored or co-authored seven books and government reports, contributed to a further 34, and authored over 100 academic papers.
Early life and career
He was born Kingskerswell, Devon on 14 March 1954. He is married to Jane.
He obtained a BSc (Hons) degree in Economics in 1975 and an MSc degree in Statistics in 1976, both from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). In 1981, he received a PhD degree in Statistics from the University of St Andrews.
In August 2017 he announced he would be retiring from his role as Principal of the University of Aberdeen.