The Faculty is delighted to announce that Professor Graham Virgo has been appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education. He will take up position in October 2014.
The Pro-Vice Chancellors support the work of the Vice-Chancellor, providing academic leadership to the University and work in partnership with senior administrators to help drive strategy and policy development.
Professor Virgo is Professor of English Private Law in the Faculty of Law, and has been a Fellow of Downing since 1989. He was Senior Tutor at the college between 2003 and 2013, and has also served as Director of Studies in Law. He received a Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching in 2002.
He said: "I am delighted to be appointed to the office of Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education and look forward to building on the excellent work of Professor John Rallison.
"One of the most significant responsibilities of the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education involves oversight of the implementation of education policies within all part of the collegiate University, as well as developing new strategies and responding to external policy initiatives.
"Having been educated at Cambridge and taught and researched here for nearly 25 years, I recognise the profound importance of undergraduate education at Cambridge, both nationally and internationally, to which both the colleges, through admissions and the supervision system, and faculties and departments, make a significant contribution."
Professor Virgo added: "Graduate education is of equal significance to the collegiate University, and I will seek to identify mechanisms for more efficient and collaborative use of existing resources and, where possible, to identify new resources to ensure that the best students are able to come to Cambridge to pursue their graduate studies."
Professor Virgo will continue to teach on Restitution Law for the Faculty and to supervise for Downing College.