Nic Beech is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Salford and was previously Vice-Principal at the University of St Andrews, Provost of Dundee University and Vice-Chancellor of Middlesex University. He is Chair of the Quality Council for UK Higher Education, a Commissioner on the International Higher Education Commission, Treasurer and on the Board of both Universities UK and the Academy of Social Sciences and on the board of the QAA. He also chairs the NUS advisory group on tackling antisemitism.
Nic’s academic background is in business and management and his research focused on identity, diversity, change leadership and learning. He is the only person to have been awarded both the Lifetime Achievement Award for Research by the British Academy of Management and the Exceptional Service to the Field of Management Worldwide Award by the Global Learned Society, the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management.