Simon Meacher is the Head of the Executive and Governance Office at Newcastle University. He is responsible for the overall leadership and direction of the Executive and Governance Office, is secretary to University Executive Board, and works closely with the Vice Chancellor, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Registrar and Chair of Council on all matters of University governance. He has worked at Newcastle University since 2002, the year he completed a doctoral thesis on ‘The Aestheticization of Green Ideas in German Literature of the 1980s and 1990s’ at the University of Exeter.