Eddie Newcomb – former Registrar – University of Manchester

Eddie Newcomb was Registrar and Secretary of the Victoria University of Manchester from 1995 until his retirement in 2004. Before that he held comparable posts at the universities of Leeds and Essex. He has been a member of many national groups concerned with higher education (including the Funding Group of the Dearing Committee of Enquiry into Higher Education) and has developed extensive links with universities abroad. From 1998 to 2004 he was Chair of the Association of Heads of University Administration.

Since 2004 he has worked as consultant or project manger on a wide range of CUC and Leadership Foundation projects, particularly in the area of governance, as well as undertaking studies for other national bodies and individual universities in the UK and overseas. He is Chair of the Board of Rose Bruford College. Eddie Newcomb was awarded the OBE for services to higher education in 2002. In 2004 he was appointed Distinguished Fellow of AUA and was awarded an honorary doctorate of the Victoria University of Manchester.