Chris Cobb is Chief Operating Officer and University Secretary at the University of London. He was previously Pro Vice-Chancellor at Roehampton University and prior to that was at the London School of Economics where he was Director of Business Systems and Services.

Chris has sat on a number of national working groups relating to IT in Higher Education. Previously he has been a member of the HEFCE Shared Services working group, JISC Organisation Support Committee and UCISA CISG Executive Committee (chair 2003-2005).

Chris has also taught University IT Management at the HUMANE Winter School and has undertaken JISC funded research in the use of enterprise architecture within a university context with the specific aim of developing a services oriented architecture to enable shared services.

Chris is a judge on the Times Higher Education Awards and the Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards and is a member of the HEFCE Cloud Advisory Board.