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4 September 2025 Speech
4 September 2025 Speech
Professor Malcolm Press CBE DL was appointed as Vice-Chancellor of Manchester Metropolitan University in 2015, having previously held positions at the universities of Birmingham, Sheffield, Manchester and UCL.
Malcolm is an ecologist who has studied the impacts of climate and environmental change in northern Europe and the Arctic, the regeneration of tropical rain forests in Malaysian Borneo, and the impact of parasitic weeds on subsistence farming in sub-Saharan Africa.
Malcolm is currently a trustee of the British Council and English National Opera (ENO), and President of Universities UK (UUK).
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, and WWF-UK, 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.