Irene has been College Secretary at King’s College London since May 2017 and has been working in university governance for almost 40 years, having previously served in the same role at three Canadian universities.
As College Secretary at King’s, she works closely with the Council’s leadership as well as the senior executive leaders of the university, providing strategic advice and support on a range of governance and policy development matters.
In addition to responsibility for the work of both the Council and the Academic Board and their various committees, her team has oversight of internal audit, business assurance, records management, access to information and protection of privacy, and legal matters.
Irene also took part in our panel session at the Professionalising Governance in Higher Education Conference in 2019. See highlights here.
Irene also features in one of our Governor Dialogues project videos on Board Diversity. The Governor Dialogues project also featured contributions from Chris Sayers, Dame Shirley Pearce, Stuart Palmer, Bill Rammell, Sana Iqbal and Paul Greatrix. They are intended to prompt discussion and further debate within universities on key governance topics and are used to support our governor development programme.
