David Pilsbury
Chief Development Officer
David Pilsbury has been appointed as Chief Development Officer at Oxford International Education Group where he will be responsible for leading the group’s higher education growth and development strategy.
David was previously Deputy Vice Chancellor, International at Coventry University, a position he had held since 2008. He was responsible for all international activities including joint ventures, recruitment, collaborative delivery, curriculum internationalization, mobility and enhancement.
He implemented an ambitious agenda involving a more than 6 fold increase in recruitment; establishing the UK’s largest overseas collaborative delivery programme ~20,000 students in 27 countries; and developing the world’s largest international enhancement programme which has ranked No.1 for overseas mobility since records began.
He has won many awards including a Queen’s Award for Enterprise and the premier award of EAIE and holds a number of Board level positions including with JISC, China-Britain Business Council and advisory positions including with IDP Connect, EURIE, NARIC and the Hainan Provincial Government. He was previously Co-chair of the UUK International Pro-Vice Chancellors Steering Group on the future of Global Engagement, a founding CEO of the Worldwide Universities Network, Head of Research Policy for HEFCE and Assistant Director R&D at Cambridge University Hospital.
David spent a number of years in strategic consultancy and investment banking after a D.Phil and postdoctoral research at Oxford University.
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