Professor Claire Pike is Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Student Education and Experience at the University of East Anglia, in which she leads the university’s educational portfolio development and delivery, enhancement of academic quality, and partnership working with students and external stakeholders. She was previously Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education Enhancement) at Anglia Ruskin University, in which she led the institution to a Gold award in the Teaching Excellence Framework, strategically led widespread growth in degree apprenticeships, and led the Talent/Skills strand of the cross-institutional Innovate Cambridge strategy.

A molecular biologist by background, Claire has undergraduate and doctoral degrees from the University of Cambridge, has lectured on a wide range of biological and biomedical subjects in Cambridge and London, and supervises PhD candidates in biomedical and pedagogical subjects.

Claire is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a National Teaching Fellow, President of the Heads of University Centres of Biomedical Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology. She is passionate about the power of education positively to transform people’s lives.