Charles Egbu

Charles Egbu is the first Black Vice-Chancellor of a United Kingdom University, following his appointment as the Vice-Chancellor of Leeds Trinity University in July 2020.

With over 25years of experience in higher education, he has lectured, nationally and internationally, at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in areas such as sustainable development, resilient communities, construction economics, contract procurement, project management, construction management, and Innovation & knowledge management in complex environments. 

Egbu was previously Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education and Experience at the University of East London, where he was responsible for student experience, student success, student retention, quality assurance and enhancement, the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, and the Students’ Union. He is also a member of various external bodies, including the Advance HE Pro-Vice-Chancellor Network and QAA Panel of Experts.

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Previously, he was Dean of the School of Built Environment and Architecture at London South Bank University and Head of the School of Built Environment at the University of Salford and held academic posts at University College London, Glasgow Caledonian University and Leeds Beckett University (formerly Leeds Metropolitan).

Egbu has developed several education and training programs for the construction industry and construction organizations. He has attracted more than £25m from many research funding bodies – nationally & internationally and managed several large multi-disciplinary research projects. Egbu’s research interests focus on project management, construction management, and sustainable development; subjects on which he has written over 10 books and contributed to more than 350 publications in various international journals and conferences. 

Until 2014, he was a Director and member of the Board of Trustees for the Association for Project Management (APM), and Chairman of the Professional Standards and Knowledge (PS&K) committee of the Association for Project Management.  

The professor was admitted to the Worshipful Company of Constructors in May 2017 and received the Freedom of the City of London in 2017.