Madeleine Atkins

Professor Madeleine Julia Atkins, CBE, DL is a former vice-chancellor of Coventry University, and current (from 2014) Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England.

Atkins was born 1952 and took a degree in Law and History at Cambridge. After a PhD at University of Nottingham she was a school teacher before joining Newcastle University, where she rose to be pro-vice-chancellor. She was vice-chancellor of Coventry University from 2004 to 2013, becoming Chief Executive of HEFCE on 1 January 2014. As of 2015, Atkins was paid a salary of between £230,000 and £234,999 by HEFCE, making her one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time.

She was appointed a CBE in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to Higher Education. and she is a Deputy Lieutenant of the West Midlands

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