Teesside has new Chair of Governors

The University of Teesside has a new Chair of its Governing Body.

He is Sandy Anderson, a former ICI Director who managed the chemical giant’s Teesside operations from 1989 to 1994 before becoming the company’s Director of Engineering and then Senior Vice President, Technology for the ICI Group Wordwide.

He chairs his first meeting of the Board of Governors tomorrow (Friday 14 January).

Mr Anderson, 60, was born in Fife, Scotland, and embodies much of the spirit of the University of Teesside.  He was a coal miner’s son; the first in his family to go to High School and the first in the family to get a degree. In his case this was a BSc in Chemical Engineering from Heriot Watt College  (now Heriot Watt University), Edinburgh.

He joined ICI Billingham as a research engineer directly after graduating and, later, got to know the University well as Chairman of the European Process Industries Competitiveness Centre (EPICC) which the University set-up with industrial partners in 1995. He joined the Board of Governors in 1998.

Mr Anderson, who lives in Darlington, said: “It is a very exciting time to be taking over from John Hackney as Chairman of the Board of Governors. The University has been more successful than many people could ever have ever imagined and it is  unrecognisable from the place it was 12 years ago when Derek Fraser was appointed as Vice Chancellor.

“Now under the new Vice-Chancellor, Professor Graham Henderson, I am confident we can build on the strengths that Professor Fraser developed. Teesside has a lot going for it, and most importantly, it knows where it is going. It has a first-rate management team, accomplished academic leadership and excellent staff. Critically it is financially sound, which is essential as higher education moves into an even more competitive environment and adjusts to new funding  arrangements for student fees.”

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