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International Strategy Committee (ISC) 

Purpose

The International Strategy Committee (ISC) is a joint committee of the General Board and the Council. The Committee shall exercise general oversight of the international strategy and international partnerships of the University.  

 

ISC Membership 

The Committee consists of the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Institutional and International Relations), as Chair; no less than seven persons appointed by the General Board chosen to represent a range of institutional interests, of whom a number, to be determined by the Board, shall also be members of the General Board; two persons appointed by the Council. The Committee may, from time to time, invite other persons to attend for particular items of business. 

Name 

Affilitiation 

Chair 

To be confirmed (formerly Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and International Partnerships) 

Renata Schaeffer (Secretary) 

Head of Public International Partnerships, Strategic Partnerships Office 

Prof. John Danesh  

Head of the Department of Public Health and Primary Care 

BHF Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine 

Faculty Member at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute 

Prof. Bhaskar Vira 

Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education 

Professor of Political Economy, Department of Geography 

Catherine Arnold 

Master of St Edmund’s College 

Mandy Hill 

Managing Director of Academic Publishing at Cambridge University Press & Assessment 

Prof. Christopher John Young 

Head of the School of Arts and Humanities 

Professor of Modern and Medieval German Studies, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics 

Prof. William Hurst 

Chong Hua Professor of Chinese Development, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies 

Deputy Director, Centre for Geopolitics 

Prof. Jane Clarke 

President of Wolfson College 

Prof. Rachael Garrett 

Moran Professor of Conservation and Development, Department of Geography 

Prof. Tim Harper 

Head of the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences 

Professor of the History of Southeast Asia, Faculty of History 

Prof. Caroline Trotter 

Director of Cambridge-Africa, Department of Pathology 

Professor of Global Health, Department of Veterinary Medicine 

Prof. Lynn Gladden 

Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology 

 

Meetings 

The Committee meets at least twice in each academic year. Please find below the meeting dates for the 2023-2024 academic year: 

Wednesday 25th October 2023. 

Monday 26th February 2024. 

Wednesday 17th June 2024.  

 

For further information regarding the ISC, please contact Renata Schaeffer.