Principal Officers of the University - 2021/22
- Chancellor: Karen Jones CBE
- Pro-Chancellor and Chair of the Council: Dr Sally Howes, OBE (Cantab), PhD (Bristol) (2024)
- Treasurer: Mr Mark Williams, BA (Hons), MSc (East Anglia), ATT, CTA, CLD (2022)
- The Deputy Chair of Council: Mr Jeremy Clayton, MA (Oxon) (2025)
- Vice-Chancellor and President: Professor David Richardson, BSc (Keele), PhD (Birmingham)
- Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Professor Christine Bovis-Cnossen, BA Hons (McMaster), MA (Wilfred Laurier), PhD (Hull)
- Pro-Vice- Chancellor Research and Innovation: Professor Fiona Lettice, BSc (Bradford), MSc, PhD (Cranfield), BA (OU) (2022)
- Pro-Vice-Chancellor Student Experience and Education: Professor Emma Sutton (2022)
- Pro Vice-Chancellor Arts and Humanities: Professor Sarah Barrow, BA, MA (Cantab), PhD (Sheffield) (2022)
- Pro Vice-Chancellor Medicine and Health Sciences: Professor Charles ffrench-Constant, MA, MB, BChir (Cambridge and UCL), MRCP (London) (2026)
- Pro Vice-Chancellor Science: Professor Mark Searcey, BSc (Loughborough), PhD (Hertfordshire) (2024)
- Pro Vice-Chancellor Social Sciences: Professor Frances Bowen, BA (Oxon), PhD (Bath), HEA (2023)
- Chief Resource Officer and University Secretary: Mr Ian Callaghan, BA Hons (Sheffield), ACMA, GCMA, ACIB
- Chief Operating Officer: Ms Jenny Baxter, BSc Hons (Surrey), Knight Wallace Fellow (Michigan)
(A year after an Officer’s name indicates that the term of office expires on 31 July of that year.)