The president of Imperial College London is the highest academic official of

Imperial College London Imperial College London, also known as Imperial, is a Public university, public research university in London, England. Its history began with Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, who envisioned a Al ...

. The president is the

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and is elected by the council of the college and chairman of the senate. The position is currently held by Hugh Brady, who succeeded

Alice Gast Alice Petry Gast (born May 25, 1958) is an American researcher, was the 16th president of Imperial College London, and sits on the board of directors of Chevron. Gast was named one of the top 100 "Modern Era" engineers in the US under the cate ...

in August 2022. In 2012 the responsibilities were separated into two posts, the ''president & rector'' (later simplified to president) whose duty is to "promote Imperial's position as a global university" and '' provost'' who is "responsible for advancing and delivering the College's core academic mission - education, research and translation." From 2013, Alice Gast served as president & rector, while James Stirling became the first provost of Imperial College London in August 2013. The president's residence is a large house on

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, at the southwest corner of the college's campus in

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, London.

List of rectors

* 1908 Henry Bovey * 1910 Alfred Keogh * 1922

Thomas Henry Holland Sir Thomas Henry Holland (22 November 1868 – 15 May 1947) was a British geologist who worked in India with the Geological Survey of India, serving as its director from 1903 to 1910. He later worked as an educational administrator at Ed ...

* 1929

Henry Tizard Sir Henry Thomas Tizard (23 August 1885 – 9 October 1959) was an English chemist, inventor and Rector of Imperial College, who developed the modern "octane rating" used to classify petrol, helped develop radar in World War II, and led the fir ...

* 1942 Richard Southwell * 1948

Roderic Hill Air Chief Marshal Sir Roderic Maxwell Hill, (1 March 1894 – 6 October 1954) was a senior Royal Air Force commander during the Second World War. He was a former Rector of Imperial College and Vice-Chancellor of London University. The Departmen ...

* 1954 Patrick Linstead * 1966 Owen Saunders (Acting Rector) * 1967

William Penney William George Penney, Baron Penney, (24 June 19093 March 1991) was an English mathematician and professor of mathematical physics at the Imperial College London and later the rector of Imperial College London. He had a leading role in the d ...

* 1973

Brian Flowers Brian Hilton Flowers, Baron Flowers FRS (13 September 1924 – 25 June 2010) was a British physicist, academician, and public servant. Early life and studies The son of the Rev. Harold Joseph Flowers and Mrs Marian Flowers, Brian Hilton Flowe ...

* 1985 Eric Ash * 1993 Ronald Oxburgh * 2000 Richard Sykes * 2008 Roy Anderson * 2009

Keith O'Nions Sir Robert Keith O'Nions (born 26 September 1944), is a British scientist and ex-President & Rector of Imperial College London. He is the former Director General of the Research Councils UK as well as Professor of the Physics and Chemistry of Mi ...

(Acting Rector) * 2010

(Full appointment) * 2014

* 2022 Hugh Brady

List of presidents

Until some time into Alice Gast's tenure the role was known as both president and rector. * 2012

* 2014

* 2022 Hugh Brady

References

External links

Imperial College London website
* * Imperial College London, Presidents

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List of rectors

List of presidents

See also

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