Professor Sir Alec Broers steps down this week after seven years as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. His term of office has seen major innovation and expansion at Cambridge and a period where Cambridge has topped league tables and drawn investment from the international business community.
Professor Sir Alec Broers steps down this week after seven years as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. His term of office has seen major innovation and expansion at Cambridge and a period where Cambridge has topped league tables and drawn investment from the international business community.
In 1997, less than a year after Sir Alec’s appointment, software billionaire Bill Gates created Microsoft’s first research base outside the US, and then the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation endowed the £134m Gates Scholarship Trust, the largest donation the University has ever received. Collaborations with other global companies - from BP to Unilever - followed, and in 1999, the University joined forces with MIT to create the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI).
Professor Sir Alec Broers has championed a wide range of projects. The 2001 launch of the University’s new Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), the recent development of a large new campus in West Cambridge, and a string of ambitious administrative reforms, have all moved the University forward.
Professor Sir Alec Broers said:
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