Professor Chris Gaskell
GovernorAcademic Governors and University Governor
We encourage our staff and students to be enterprising in all they do and we maintain close ties with regional employers
View contentBiography
Chris Gaskell is a veterinary surgeon and career academic, and until retiring in 2016 was Vice-Chancellor of the Royal Agricultural University at Cirencester, having previously been at the University of Liverpool. He is a graduate of the University of Bristol. Chris has served on the executive of GuildHE, a representative body for smaller and universities of which the University of Winchester is also a member, and as a Board member of UCEA, the university’s employers association. He has been Chair of the Science Advisory Council (SAC) for DEFRA, and is currently a member of the Welsh SAC and an advisory group for Bovine Tuberculosis control in Wales. Chris has a wide interest in all things higher and further education and feels privileged to be a member of this university’s Board.
Chris lives in Gloucestershire where he is an officer in the Honourable Company of Gloucestershire; he is married to Rosalind, also an academic vet, and has two grownup children and five grandchildren, whose activities, delightfully, take up any spare time available.
Appointed 1 September 2017
- Finance and Resources
- Human Resources Committee