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Professor Dame Madeleine Atkins BDBE, DL, FAcSS

Madeleine is the former President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge University (1st Oct 2018- 30 Sept 2025) and joined the Cambridge Trust's board in 2024.

Madeleine’s background includes reading Law and History as an undergraduate at Cambridge, teaching in a large comprehensive school in Huntingdon, and completing a Ph.D. and post-doctoral research contracts at the University of Nottingham.

Following various senior positions at Newcastle University, including Pro-Vice-Chancellor, she was Vice-Chancellor of Coventry University between 2004 and 2013. Madeleine then joined the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) as its Chief Executive in January 2014, retaining that post until March 2018.