Paul Wellings (Lancaster University)

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Paul Wellings was born in Nottingham on 1 November 1953. He was educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School and the universities of London (King's College London), Durham and East Anglia. In 1981, he moved to Australia as a research ecologist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), becoming Chief of the Entomology Division in 1995. In 1997 he was seconded to the Australian Commonwealth Government Department of Industry, Science and Resources as Head of the Science and Innovation Division and returned to CSIRO in 1999 as Deputy Chief Executive.

Professor Wellings moved to the UK in the autumn of 2002 to take up his appointment as Lancaster University's fifth Vice-Chancellor.

Paul Wellings has previously been a Director of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and the Cumbrian Rural Regenaration Company. He is presently a Board member of Universities UK and chair of UUK's International and European Policy Committee, and a Board member of HEFCE and Chair of HEFCE's Research Committee.