Executive team

The Vice-Chancellor's Executive is made up of senior leaders from across the OU. The purpose of this leadership team is to provide strategic and operational direction to the Vice-Chancellor in their capacity as Chief Executive of The Open University. The Vice-Chancellor retains ultimate executive responsibility for proposing the Strategic Plan and budget to Council and remains accountable for their implementation.

What is its remit?

• Monitoring and agreeing unit and faculty institutional action plans, budgets, performance and risk
• Reviewing and approving pan-university policy issues and business decisions before presentation at a governance level
• Resolving difficult pan-university issues
• Briefings on important internal and external events requiring senior leadership oversight

Membership

• Vice-Chancellor: Professor Tim Blackman
• Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Professor Josie Fraser
• University Secretary: Dave Hall
• Executive Deans: Professor Adrienne Scullion (FASS), Professor Mark Durkin (FBL), Dr Klaus-Dieter Rossade (WELS), Professor Nick Braithwaite (STEM)
• Pro-Vice-Chancellor Students: Professor Ian Pickup
• Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research & Innovation:  Professor Kevin Shakesheff
• Chief Financial Officer: Paul Traynor
• Chief People Officer: Vikki Matthews
• Chief Digital and Information Officer: Emma Stace
• Vice-Chancellor's Delegate International: Professor Devendra Kodwani
• Nation Director The OU in Ireland: John D'arcy
• Nation Director The OU in Scotland: Susan Stewart
• Nation Director The OU in Wales: Ben Lewis