Professor Aldwyn Cooper
Chief Executive and Principal, Regent's College

Aldwyn Cooper is a cognitive psychologist by background having studied and worked at London, Bristol, Stanford, Berkeley and the Open Universities. He was on the senior staff at Henley – The Management College where he developed its innovative distance learning programmes and was made Professor of Management Science.

He worked in television as managing director of a successful production company and also as a consultant on culture change and internal communications for many blue chip companies.

He became Pro Vice Chancellor and Professor at the University of Glamorgan in January 2000, led the university’s extensive, development of ‘e-learning’ and was also the Director of The Glamorgan Business School.

In 2007 he took up the role of Principal and CEO of Regent’s College – a private, not for profit, higher education institution with a very strong global commitment which delivers British and American programmes at Batchelors, Masters and Doctoral levels, in Business, Management, Languages, Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, Psychotherapy, Media and Performance. He is currently leading the College in its application for Degree Awarding Powers.