Management Board

Management Board Meetings

Minutes and Papers

Management Board Members:


Professor Vivien Jones (Chair)

Pro-Vice-Chancellor
University of Leeds

Professor Tim Thornton (Accountable Body)
Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Huddersfield
(Accountable body and sector leader advanced engineering and manufacturing)

Professor Geoff Layer
Pro-Vice-Chancellor
University of Bradford (Sector leader health)

Professor Sally Brown
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic)
Leeds Metropolitan University (Sector leader arts, culture, media, sports and Sector leader digital)

Mark Shields
Assistant Principal (Resources & External Development)
Trinity and All Saints College, Nominated by West Yorkshire HEIs

Michele Sutton
FE Representative
Bradford College

Simone Wonnacott
FE Representative
Nominated by West Yorkshire Consortium of Colleges

Ian Billyard
Principal
Leeds College of Building (Sector leader construction and the built environment)

Kaye Fisher
Vice-Principal
Wakefield College (Sector leader leadership and management)

Peter Roberts
Principal
Leeds City College

Alison Wilson
Learning and Skills Manager
Yorkshire Forward

Clive Howarth
Skills Development Director
Learning and Skills Council Yorkshire & the Humber

Alan Roe
Regional Manager
Unionlearn/TUC

Stephen Challenger
Executive Director
West Yorkshire Lifelong Learning Network 

Victoria Waite
Higher Education Policy Adviser
HEFCE (observer role)

Ceri Nursaw (in attendance)
Project support
University of Leeds

Denise Ogden (In attendance)
Project Finance
University of Huddersfield



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