John Annette

John Annette is the retired president and vice chancellor of Richmond, the American International University of London. He went to Richmond from Birkbeck College, University of London, where he was Pro Vice Master; prior to which he taught political science at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Annette has been part of the debate about, and subsequent creation of the Office for Students and the new HE framework. He was a member of the 1994 Group of Universities Strategy and Resources’ Senior Management Group, and of the Academic Board of the University of London’s International Academy. Annette was also an advisor to the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s Beacons for Public Engagement in Higher Education, and for projects for the Higher Education Academy UK (now part of Advance HE), and on the steering group of the Higher Education Academy’s GPA Pilot Project, chaired by Sir Robert Burgess.

He is a board member of the London Institute of Banking and Finance, and was a member of the Commission on the Future of Volunteering.