President
Professor Sir Anthony Finkelstein
Executive Assistant: Ann Singer
Email: ann.singer@city.ac.uk
Professor Sir Anthony Finkelstein is the President of City St George's.
Professor Sir Anthony Finkelstein joined City, University of London as the University’s President in June 2021.
Prior to that he had served as the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security since 2015. During that time, Anthony’s research was based at The Alan Turing Institute and he held a Chair in Software Systems Engineering at University College London (UCL). Prior to this, he was Dean of the UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences and Head of UCL Computer Science. His scientific work is in the broad area of systems engineering.
Anthony has strong personal links to City; he was a Professor and the Head of Computer Science at City between 1994 and 1997, prior to his appointment at University College London. In 2018, Anthony was awarded an honorary degree by City for his outstanding contribution to science.
He is a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London, the University of South Australia and at the National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), an elected Member of Academia Europaea (MAE) and a Fellow of the City and Guilds of London Institute (FCGI).
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St George's School of Health and Medical Sciences
The following roles and structure applies to the newly formed St George's School of Health and Medical Sciences (working title).
Executive Dean
Professor Rachel Allen
Email: rallen@sgul.ac.uk
Executive Assistant: Xinyue Zhao
Email: xzhao@sgul.ac.uk
Professor Rachel Allen is the Executive Dean of St George's School of Health and Medical Sciences (working title).
The School operates jointly alongside City's School of Health & Psychological Sciences.
Rachel was previously the Director of the Institute of Medical, Biomedical and Allied Health Education at St George's. She joined St George’s in 2007 to specialise in the field of innate immune receptors and their ability to amplify or inhibit immune activity in disease. Prior to this, she obtained her D.Phil in Immunology from the University of Oxford, studying HLA B27 – a protein which predisposes some people to inflammatory arthritis. This work led to a post-doctoral position in Cambridge University, where she was subsequently awarded a Beit Memorial Fellowship to study the recognition of HLA B27 by innate immune receptors.
Across her time at St George’s, her academic portfolio has included research in innate immunity, undergraduate course Year leadership, postgraduate education and research capacity building.
Professor Allen is a member of the MS Society Research Strategy Committee and is an Associate Director and Capacity Building Lead for the NIHR South London Applied Research Collaboration.
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education)
Professor Jane Saffell
Email: jsaffell@sgul.ac.uk
Executive Assistant: Xinyue Zhao
Email: xzhao@sgul.ac.uk
Phone: 0208 725 5336.
Jane Saffell is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) at St George’s, University of London and Professor of Neurobiology and Bioscience Education. She leads a broad education portfolio with responsibility for strategic development across teaching and learning, student experience, portfolio growth, access & participation and student outcomes.
At City St George’s, University of London, Jane is a member of the Senior Leadership Team as Vice-President of St George’s. Externally, she is part of the OfS TRAC Development Group, was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by Advance HE in 2015 and was for many years a member of BBSRC Grant Committee D (Molecules, Cells and Industrial Biotechnology).
Jane joined St George’s in 2016 after 16 years as an academic at Imperial College London in the Faculties of both Natural Sciences and Medicine. Her career spans research into the role of adhesive interactions in nervous system regeneration, teaching innovation, and senior leadership of education. She was Deputy Head of the Division of Brain Sciences and led the Department of Medicine to Bronze and then Silver Athena awards.
PhD and postdoctoral research at Guy’s Hospital (King’s College London) followed a BSc in Biochemistry at Imperial. Jane grew up in Kenya and was the first person in her family to go to university. On arriving in the UK she worked in administration at the Royal Society of Arts for three years to gain home student status and is now a Fellow.
Jane has received teaching awards and medals for innovative approaches that give students insight into knowledge-creation and the socio-politics, creativity and culture of research.
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise)
Professor Jon Friedland
Email: jfriedla@sgul.ac.uk
Executive Officer: Cheryl Watson
Email: cfurness@sgul.ac.uk
Phone: 0208 725 4942.
Jonathan Friedland works to develop and enhance the university strategy of pursuing excellent and ambitious research, both responding to major and emerging healthcare challenges and delivering significant societal impact. In addition, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor helps foster a culture of enterprise involving diverse partners, including St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Chief Operating Officer
Dr Anna Dulic-Sills
Email: adulic-s@sgul.ac.uk
As Chief Operating Officer (Interim), Anna is a member of the Senior Leadership Team and has responsibility for the vast majority of St George’s Professional and Technical Services. Anna supports the Vice-Chancellor in determining the institutional strategy, ensures that the University is well-organised and operates as efficiently as possible, mitigating risks and seizing opportunities to drive progress. She is also the executive lead across a number of areas of the University, including strategic planning and risk, audit and efficiency.
Anna's professional journey began as a research scientist specialising in DNA repair, where she earned her PhD under the guidance of Nobel Laureate Tomas Lindahl. Anna went on to do clinical science/postdoctoral work at Bats and the London NHS Trust. She later changed her career path into research management and administration, and held a number of leadership roles at Queen Mary, University of London. Anna joined St George’s as a Director of Research Operations in 2019.
Anna is a member of the Association of Heads of University Administration and serves as a panel member for Advance HE Athena Swan initiative. In addition to her contributions within the academic sphere, she was also involved in a local primary school as an elected member of the Board of Governors, serving as a Vice-Chair of the Facilities and Curriculum Committees; and a co-director of a Community Interest Company.
Deputy Chief Operating Officer
Mr Naz Hussain
Email: nahussai@sgul.ac.uk
As Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Naz supports the strategic leadership and direction in delegated areas.
He takes the lead in, and oversee all relevant tasks and initiatives for Communications and Engagement, Education Operations, Marketing, Student Recruitment and Admissions and Registry.
Naz started his career in marketing and communications, working in a variety of roles in local government and higher education. He was Head of Marketing at London South Bank University, before joining St George’s as Associate Director of Marketing and Student Recruitment, then becoming Director of Marketing, Student Recruitment, and Admissions.
Senior Management Team
The senior management team consists of the below deans, directors of institutes and directors of professional services in addition to the above senior leadership team.
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