Professor Sir David Eastwood

Professor Sir David Eastwood is Non-Executive Chair of the INTO University Partnerships Board of Directors. He served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham from 2009–2021.

Former posts include Chief Executive at the Higher Education Funding Council for England, Vice-Chancellor at the University of East Anglia, and Chief Executive of the Arts and Humanities Research Board. His early career was spent at the University of Oxford, where he was Fellow and Senior Tutor of Pembroke College. He later held a Chair in Modern History and was Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Swansea University.

He chaired the Russell Group of Universities (2012-2015), Universitas 21 (2014-2021), and also Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS, 2015-2021). He also served as an international member of the Hong Kong University Grants Committee (2011-2021). He has been a member of numerous national commissions include the Browne Review of Higher Education Funding (2009-2010) and the Nurse Review of Research (2014-2015).

In January 2012 he was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant for the county of West Midlands, and was awarded a Knighthood in 2014 for services to education.