Bill MacMillan (academic)

Bill MacMillan (academic)

Bill Macmillan, born 1950, is Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia. [ [http://www1.uea.ac.uk/cm/home/services/units/registry/people/Bill+Macmillan Biography: Bill MacMillan; University of East Anglia - Official Website] ]

He was previously a Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Oxford since 2002, after an appointment of PVC (Academic). In that capacity, he was the principal author of Oxford's Academic Strategy and Corporate Plan. The former included the university’s first formal Research Strategy and a new Learning and Teaching Strategy. In 2005 he changed portfolios to become Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Planning and Resources), with responsibility for the university’s planning system, the budget, major development projects, and the academic services, including the Bodleian Library, the Museums and Scientific Collections, and the Computing Services. He has also been responsible for Oxford's international strategy, establishing a variety of links, strategic alliances, and partnerships, including the International Alliance of Research Universities.

He graduated with a first class honours degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Bristol and returned to take his PhD in Economic Geography. He began his academic career at the University of Kent as a Lecturer in Quantitative Social Science and had a short period as a visiting Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. In 1984 he moved to Oxford as a Lecturer in the School of Geography and a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, where he later became Senior Tutor. In 1995 he was elected as a Proctor and went on to serve the university in a number of roles before being made a Pro-Vice-Chancellor.

He was appointed Vice-Chancellor of UEA in September 2006. Amongst his duties as Vice-Chancellor are the chairmanships of the Trustees of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, the Trustees of the Sainsbury Research Unit, and the Management Board of the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures.

Professor Macmillan’s research interests centre on Theoretical Economic Geography, Agent-Based Modelling, Geo-Computation, Political Redistricting, and methodological issues in the social sciences. He has undertaken consultancy work for a variety of bodies at home and abroad including the Office of the Vice-President of the Republic of South Africa, the Mexican Federal Electoral Institute, and the UK Home Office. He has been centrally involved, with colleagues in Cambridge, in a project sponsored by the UNDP to provide an advanced leadership programme for senior Chinese officials.

His interests include the theatre, painting and sailing.

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