Adrian Webb

Sir Adrian Leonard Webb FLSW FRSA (born 19 July 1943) is a British academic and public administrator.

Education and early life[]

Born in Newport, Wales, Webb attended and the University of Birmingham; he graduated from the latter with a Bachelor of Social Sciences (BSocSci) degree in 1965, and then completed a Master of Science (MSc) in economics at the London School of Economics in 1966.

Academic career[]

He subsequently lectured there until 1974, when he spent two years as Research Director at the . In 1976, he joined Loughborough University as Professor of Social Policy and remained there until 1976; between 1983 and 1993, he was Director of Loughborough's Centre for Research in Social Policy; he was also Dean, then Pro Vice-Chancellor and then Senior Pro Vice-Chancellor at Loughborough. In 1993, Webb was appointed Vice-Chancellor at the University of Glamorgan, serving until 2004.

He has also sat on a wide range of public bodies as director, trustee or chairman, including membership of the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education (1996–97), the , the , the , the Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council, the Management Board of the National Assembly for Wales and several NHS Trusts.

Awards and honours[]

He was knighted in 2000, received a Doctor of Letters (DLitt) degree from Loughborough in 1993, and has been elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and the Royal Society of Arts.^[1][2]

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