Giles Carden

Giles joined Lancaster University’s Executive Team in October 2017 as Chief of Staff and Director of Strategic Projects. Giles’ role is principally focused on leading and coordinating major, transformational strategic initiatives, a recent example would be Lancaster University Leipzig; he also has responsibilities for HE policy matters. Giles also helps support the Vice-Chancellor in the coordination of activities across the Executive Team.

Giles’s academic background is in the earth sciences, he undertook a Ph.D. in geochemistry at the University of Liverpool and then a Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Leibniz Prize funded fellowship at the Rhur-Universitaet Bochum in Germany. Prior to joining Lancaster, he undertook a range of different professional services roles at the University of Warwick, latterly occupying the role of Director of Strategic Planning and Analytics.