Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Business Engagement and Innovation)

Stuart Brocklehurst is Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Business Engagement and Innovation, leading the University’s collaboration with business and our drive to deliver innovation through our research and education. In addition, as Director of Green Futures Solutions he heads the university’s drive to translate our world leading work on climate change into practical impact.

Stuart started his career in banking, holding roles with Barclays in the UK and Africa, then as Senior Vice President for Digital Commerce at Visa International CEMEA leading the adoption of new business models and technologies. Following a period as a Partner at consultancy Carbon, Stuart joined Amadeus in support of its IPO and served as Group Communications Director after the flotation. He went on to run his own business up to its sale to the Troy Group, where he remains a board advisor.

Stuart is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute, a Chartered IT Professional, a Chartered Manager, a Freeman of the City of London, and holds a degree in theology from Oxford.

He has served on numerous company boards, on the synod and Bishop’s Council of the Diocese of Exeter, as a Governor of Petroc College in North Devon and as a Leadership Fellow of Exeter Business School.

He Chairs the Exeter Science Centre Advisory Board and the Military Education Committee for Devon and Cornwall and serves on the Boards of Great South West Pan Regional Partnership, SETsquared, GW4, the Centre for Resilience in Environment, Water and Waste, the South West Investment Fund’s Strategic Advisory Board and the Exeter Liveable Place Board, and on the Executive Committee of parliament’s Rural Economy Research Group and the Selection Committee for the Zayed Sustainabilty Prize.