Knighthood for Vice-Chancellor of Nottingham University

Professor David Greenaway, the Vice-Chancellor of The University of Nottingham, has been knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2014 in recognition of his wide-ranging achievements in higher education and public service.

He has led the University as Vice-Chancellor since 2008 and made a significant contribution on the national and international stage, both within the education sector and in broader public life. He was appointed to the University as a Professor of Economics in 1987 and was subsequently a Dean, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, and founding Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy. He is a Member of the Government’s Asia Task Force and Higher Education Task Force, Chair elect of the CASE Europe Board or Trustees and a Deputy Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire.

Professor Greenaway said: “This is an extraordinary thing to have happened. When I received the offer, I was speechless, but sufficiently in control to accept by return of post!

“I am proud to have spent most of my working life at Nottingham, learning from many thousands of students and staff, and it has been a privilege to lead the University. This is just as much an honour for the University as it is for me.

“I and my family are immensely proud of this award.”

The knighthood will be conferred at an official ceremony at Buckingham Palace.

A lecturer in economics, Professor Greenaway publishes research widely in the fields of exporting and productivity, cross-border investment, international trade and economic development. He leads an institution with more than 44,000 students worldwide, 7,000 staff and a turnover of £570m. The University was the first foreign university in the world to establish a campus in mainland China (2004) and the first British institution to open a fully operational overseas campus, the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, in 2000.

In public service he played a key advisory role regarding payment, benefits and charges for members of the UK’s armed forces. More recently he has completed a major independent review that will help to shape the way doctors are trained in the UK.

Professor Greenaway, 62, has played a personal role in the University’s biggest-ever fundraising campaign — so far cycling 3,000 miles over the last three years to raise more than £750,000.