Purpose

The International Strategy Committee (ISC) is a joint committee of the General Board and the Council. The Committee shall exercise general oversight of the international strategy and international partnerships of the University.

International Strategy Committee membership

The Committee consists of the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Institutional and International Relations), as Chair; no less than seven persons appointed by the General Board chosen to represent a range of institutional interests, of whom a number, to be determined by the Board, shall also be members of the General Board; two persons appointed by the Council. The Committee may, from time to time, invite other persons to attend for particular items of business. 

Name Affiliation

Professor Deborah Prentice (Chair)

Vice-Chancellor

Renata Schaeffer (Secretary) 

Head of Global Engagement Office

Professor John Danesh  

Head of the Department of Public Health and Primary Care 

BHF Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine 

Faculty Member at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute 

Professor Bhaskar Vira 

Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education 

Professor of Political Economy, Department of Geography 

Dr Elisabeth Kendall Mistress of Girton College
Professor Nigel Peake Head of School of the Physical Sciences

Mandy Hill 

Managing Director of Academic Publishing at Cambridge University Press & Assessment 

Professor Gishan R. Dissanaike

Dean, Cambridge Judge Business School

Adam Smith Professor of Corporate Governance

Director of Studies in Management Studies at Trinity College

Professor William Hurst 

Chong Hua Professor of Chinese Development, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies 

Deputy Director, Centre for Geopolitics 

Professor Joanna Page

Professor of Latin American Studies

Director of Studies in MML at Robinson College

Director of the Centre of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Professor Manali Desai

Head of School of the Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS)

Professor of Comparative and Historical Sociology, Fellow of Newnham College

Professor Sharon Peacock

Director, COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium (COG-UK)

Professor of Public Health & Microbiology

Professor Caroline Trotter 

Director of Cambridge-Africa, Department of Pathology 

Professor of Global Health, Department of Veterinary Medicine 

Professor Lynn Gladden 

Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology 

Professor Sir John Aston Pro Vice Chancellor for Research, Harding Professor of Statistics, Statistical Laboratory

Meetings

The Committee meets at least twice in each academic year.

For further information regarding the International Strategy Committee, please contact Renata Schaeffer.