Professor Jennings was appointed to the UUK UK Board on 1 January 2026.
Professor Jennings has been Vice-Chancellor and President of Loughborough University since 2021 and was previously the Vice-Provost for Research and Enterprise at Imperial College London.
Professor Jennings is a Fellow of many distinguished professional societies including the Royal Society, Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the British Computer Society, the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Professor Jennings was the UK Government’s first Chief Scientific Advisor for National Security, and the inaugural Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton.
He is one of the world's most highly cited computer scientists, and his research has been deployed to save lives in the aftermath of disasters, to win Olympic medals for TeamGB, and to monitor the impact of climate change on glaciers.
The thing I love most about my job is interacting with our amazing staff and students and creating an environment in which they can flourish and make a positive impact on society and the planet. By working together with our partners, we can make lives better at a local, national and international scale.