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4 September 2025 Speech
4 September 2025 Speech
Professor Malcolm Press CBE DL was elected as UUK President on 1 August 2025. Professor Press previously served on the UUK UK Board as Vice- President (England and Northern Ireland) and prior to that as Board appointed member.
As UUK President, Professor Press is a member of the UUK Resources Committee, Remuneration Committee and the Governance and Nominations Committee.
Professor Press has been Vice-Chancellor of Manchester Metropolitan University since 2015, having previously held positions at the universities of Birmingham, Sheffield, Manchester and UCL.
Malcolm is currently a trustee of the English National Opera (ENO). Previously, he has served as president of his subject association, the British Ecological Society, and has also served as a trustee of UCAS, the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, WWF-UK and the British Council, a council member of the National Trust, and a board member of the Institute for Apprenticeships & Technical Education (IfATE). He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2022 in recognition of his contributions to education.
I love the transformative effects that universities have on the lives of all the people we touch – our students, our staff and our communities, and our partners, everywhere from here in Manchester to across the globe.