Rama Thirunamachandran
Mr Thirunamachandran became the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Keele University in June 2008.
He was Director for Research, Innovation and Skills at the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) from 2002 and was educated at Cambridge in Geography and Natural Sciences.
Rama worked on a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) funded project carrying out research on the effects of flooding in Bangladesh.
He was on the Editorial Board of the higher education journal Perspectives and has written and presented widely on a range of higher education issues.