Next Chair of QAA announced
| Date: | January 10 - 2025 |
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The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education is pleased to announce the appointment of Christian Brodie as the next Chair of its Board.
Christian will join QAA in March 2025, succeeding Professor Simon Gaskell, the Agency’s Chair since 2019.
Christian Brodie enjoyed a successful executive career as a corporate finance lawyer in London and New York, and in investment banking, where he occupied senior positions at UBS, including as a member of the UBS Group Management Board.
Since 2013 he has held numerous non-executive roles. He is currently Chair of United Learning, the largest multi-academy trust in England, and of Agile Property & Homes, which delivers safe low carbon affordable homes for people in housing need.
Among his previous governance roles, he has served as Chair of the Public Chairs’ Forum, Chair of the Student Loans Company, Chair of the Council and Pro Chancellor of the University of Sussex, Chair of the Council of UCAS, Chair of Pentathlon GB, Chair of the South East Local Enterprise Partnership, Director of the LEP Network, and Director of the Universities and Colleges Employers Association.
"We are enormously grateful for Simon's ongoing contribution to our work, where he has made a real impact in a complex period for the agency; and we are delighted that Christian will be joining us as an independent Board member and our next Chair," said Vicki Stott, Chief Executive of QAA. "Christian brings an exceptional wealth of knowledge and experience, and will be an incredible asset to the Board and to the Agency. We are very much looking forward to working with him."
"I am looking forward very much to taking up this new role in March," said Christian. "The quality of tertiary education is vital to society and to the economy, and QAA’s role is more important than ever. The Agency is renowned for its work in the UK and around the world, and I look forward to contributing to its efforts to assure and enhance the experience and impact of higher study in the interests of the sector and students."