In a statement to staff he said it had been a decision which he had not taken lightly.

He said: “This does not reflect any diminishing appetite for or commitment to my job. Far from it. I have the same desire and energy as when I took on the role. But it is time to give more of that energy and commitment back to my family who have supported my 24/7 lifestyle for so long, and without complaint.” 

He added that he would use the next 13 months to see through developments key to future success and sustainability, saying “I will do everything possible to ensure my successor has the strongest possible platform on which to drive us forward, together with a superb senior management team, and an outstanding and inspiring 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ community."

John Mills, President of Council at The 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ of Nottingham said: "David has made a remarkable contribution not just to our 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ over many years but to the wider higher education and academic world.

“The 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ of Nottingham, through its teaching and research, has the ability to transform lives and David's commitment to that has been unrelenting. He has been, and remains, an exemplar of achievement through education."

Vice-Chancellors are appointed by Council in accordance with our Statutes and Ordinances and the appointment is made after consideration of a report of a Joint Committee of Council and Senate which will be established by Council in the coming months.

Sir David, who will be 65 on his next birthday, has led the 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ as Vice-Chancellor since 2008, is a renowned economist, researcher, teacher and academic leader with an international reputation.

He was appointed to the 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ as a Professor of Economics in 1987 and was subsequently a Dean, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, and founding Director of the Leverhulme Centre for 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ on Globalisation and Economic Policy. He was a Member of the Government’s Asia Task Force and Higher Education Task Force and is Chair of the CASE Europe Board of Trustees, Chair of the Russell Group of Universities, and a Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire.

As an academic, he continues to lecture on Current Economic Issues to first-year undergraduates in the School of Economics. He is the Co-editor of a leading journal and continues to publish research in the fields of exporting and productivity, cross-border investment, international trade and economic development.

As the Vice-Chancellor, he leads an institution with more than 46,000 students worldwide, 8,000 staff and a turnover in excess of £600 million.The 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ is a trailblazer in global higher education, as the first foreign university in the world to establish a Sino-Foreign campus in China (2004) and the first British institution to open a fully operational overseas campus, The 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, in 2000. 

Sir David’s public service has encompassed a wide range of roles. As a Chairman and member of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body between 1998 and 2010, he played a key part in advising the Prime Minister and Cabinet on levels of pay, benefits and charges for members of the UK’s armed forces.

Sir David was also a member of the UK Senior Salaries Review Body (2004-10) and has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the European Commission, the United Nations, the Department for Transport and the UK Treasury.

He was knighted in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to Higher Education.

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-Ends-

More information is available from Liz Cass on liz.cass@nottingham.ac.uk, Head of Media Relations atThe 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ of Nottingham UK or Josephine Dioniappu, PR & Communications Manager at The 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ of Nottingham Malaysia Campus on josephine.dionisappu@nottingham.edu.my.

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It is also one of the most popular universities in the UK among graduate employers and the winner of ‘Outstanding Support for Early Career 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ers’ at the Times Higher Education Awards 2015. More than 97% of research at The 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ of Nottingham is recognised internationally and it is 8th in the UK by research power according to the 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ Excellence Framework 2014. It has been voted the world’s greenest campus for four years running, according to Greenmetrics Ranking of World Universities.

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He will step down from the post on September 30 2017 at which point he will have served the 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ for 30 years, with 20 of those as a Member of its Executive Board: as Vice-Chancellor, Acting Vice-Chancellor and Pro-Vice-Chancellor.