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President: Professor Brian Cantor, Vice-Chancellor
Professor Brian Cantor has been Vice-Chancellor of the University of York since 2002. He is responsible for providing strategic leadership for all the University's activities including overseeing its academic and organisational development, supporting staff and students and promoting the University throughout the UK and worldwide.
Brian was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Christ’s College, Cambridge and has worked at the Universities of Sussex, Banaras, Oxford and York, and with leading companies such as Alcan, Elsevier, General Electric and Rolls-Royce.
Brian has also advised agencies such as EPSRC, NASA, the EU, and the UK, Dutch, Spanish and German governments. At Oxford, he was Cookson Professor of Materials, Head of the Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, a Fellow of Jesus and St Catherine’s Colleges, founder of the Begbroke Science Park, and on the Boards of the Kobe Institute and Isis Innovation.
At York, Brian is on the Boards of Yorkshire Innovation, the White Rose Consortium, Worldwide Universities Network, the National Science Learning Centre, the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Centre for Low Carbon Futures.
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Deputy President: Patricia Renfro
(History and English, Langwith, 1966)
Patricia Renfro (nee Candlin) graduated from York in 1966 with a BA (Hons) in English and History. From 2000 to Spring 2011 she was Deputy University Librarian at Columbia University. She is now happily retired and she and her husband Charles, who also graduated from York in 1966, live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Southport, Maine.
Patricia earned an Academic Postgraduate Diploma in Librarianship from the University of London and an MA from the University of Kentucky. After moving to the US she worked at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the University of Kentucky and the University of Pennsylvania, before moving to New York and Columbia University. She has published a number of articles on information technology, research libraries and scholarly communication and has served on a number of national committees including the Steering Committee of SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition.
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Julia Morgan
(Biology, Goodricke, 1984)
Julia Morgan (nee Davies) graduated from York in 1984, BSc (Hons) Biology and now lives in New Canaan, CT with her husband of 20 years and their three children. The first female graduate trainee at Harlow and Jones Ltd, she was one of the few female Steel Commodity Traders in London in the 1980's. She then moved into food, firstly in the Far East and then with an Anglo American subsidiary. By 1993 she set up her first company, funded by Toyota Tsusho (UK) Ltd and then went on to set up a Joint Venture between herself and the Sekar Group, one of the largest Indonesian Food trading companies.
Julia's real strength/passion for the food commodities came through her knowledge of biology gained at York and it gave her a real advantage in a very male dominated area of business in the 80's/90's.
She moved permanently to America in 1999 and switched her focus to raising her family and voluntary work where she became very involved in fundraising activities for educational institutions & local charities.
Julia has had extensive involvement for over 15 years with numerous schools on both sides of the pond, especially her old school, Wellington College, serving on their general, and Executive and Finance Committees. She is also a Trustee of the Herbert Trust, which gives assisted places to children in changed circumstances.
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Nicholas Wapshott
(Politics and Sociology, Goodricke, 1973)
Nicholas Wapshott graduated from York in 1973 in Politics and Sociology, and now lives in New York. A biographer and journalist, he currently combines work as editorial consultant for oprah.com, a position as adjunct professor at New School, New York, with work on his latest book chronicling the rivalry between economists Keynes and Hayek was published in September 2011. Nicholas wrote for The Scotsman and The Times during the late 1970s and early 1980s. He became political editor of The Observer in 1988, followed by editing The Times Magazine and the Saturday Times. He moved to the US in 2001 to be North American correspondent for The Times, followed by The Sunday Telegraph, moving to be the national and foreign editor of The New York Sun between 2006 and 2008. He is married to Louise Nicholson and has two sons, William and Oliver.
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Simon Martin
(Sociology and Contemporary Culture, 1993)
Simon studied for an MA Sociology and Contemporary Culture and graduated in 1993. He was a member of James College. He currently lives in Washington DC where is he is Deputy Director, United States Sentencing Commission.
Born in London, Simon moved to the US when he was very young. He studied at undergraduate level at Occidental College and Evergreen State College and came to York as a mature student. Simon spent nine years working at the University of Washington: including as Administrator of the School of Art where he was responsible, amongst other things, for organising art exhibitions, alumni outreach programmes and fundraising. He then became Campus Operations Manager before moving to the US Courts in Seattle. He was recruited to work at the central offices of the Courts in DC in 2009.
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Dan Simon
(English & Related Literature, Halifax, 2000)
Dan lives in New York where he is the President of Cognito, a global communications agency focused on financial services. Dan oversees the company’s global PR operations and has represented some of the largest names in the financial industry including JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, RBS, as well as multi-billion dollar hedge funds and brand names such as Intel and AT&T. In 2009, Dan led the PR project to re-launch Bernard Madoff’s legitimate market making business and today he is the account lead for Bloomberg LP’s global financial PR efforts.
Dan is also the financial columnist for PRNews (www.prnewsonline.com) and a serves as a judge for PRNews' prestigious PR Platinum Awards, as well as an adjunct instructor at Media Bistro (www.mediabistro.com) teaching classes on Media Relations and Client Relationship Management. Dan is a regular contributor to publications including the New York Sun, PRWeek and AM New York. He is also a speaker at a number of financial and communications conferences including the Professional Association for Investment Communications Resources (PAICR) and HedgeCo.
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