Purpose

To consider strategic issues relating to people, culture and EDI (Equality, Diversity & Inclusion). To help Imperial’s leaders to remain proactive and make well-informed and strategically aligned decisions relating to people, which support the institution to further develop and achieve its ambitious strategy.

Core Membership

• President (Chair)
• Provost (Deputy Chair)
• Director of Human Resources
• Assistant Provost (EDI)
• Nominee from each Faculty
• Vice Provost (Education and Student Experience)
• Vice Provost (Research and Enterprise)
• Director of Communications
• Director of Academic Services 
• ICU President
• Senior Consul

Secretary

For all questions relating to the People and Culture Committee, please contact Amy Hill, Secretary to the Committee, via amy.hill@imperial.ac.uk. 

Purpose

To propose and oversee the academic mission of the College: research, education, innovation and translation activities in line with the strategic aims of the College. To oversee the development of new strategic academic initiatives and major new policies affecting the academic mission and recommend them for further consideration to the relevant committees or for approval to the University Management Board.

Core Membership

• Provost (Chair)
• Vice-Provost (Education & Student Experience)
• Vice-Provost (Research & Enterprise)
• Vice-President (International)/Associate Provost (Academic Partnerships)
• Dean of each Faculty
• Associate Provost (Estates Planning)
• Director of Strategic Planning
• Director of Academic Services

 Secretary

For all questions relating to the Academic Strategy Committee, please contact Ewan Roberts, Secretary to the Committee, via ewan.roberts@imperial.ac.uk.

Purpose

Oversee the Annual Planning Round, the development and implementation of Financial Strategy and the College’s Investment Portfolio.

Core Membership

• Provost (Co-Chair)
• Chief Operating Officer (Co-Chair)
• Vice-Provost (Education & Student Experience)
• Vice-Provost (Research & Enterprise)
• Associate Provost (Estates Planning)
• Vice President (International)
• Dean of each Faculty
• Director of Academic Services
• Interim Chief Financial Officer
• College Secretary
• Director of Financial Strategy
• Director of Strategic Planning

Secretary

For all queries relating to the Planning, Finance and Investment Committee, please contact Maria Knight, Secretary to the Committee, via maria.knight@imperial.ac.uk. 

Purpose

Oversee the delivery of strategies, programmes, projects and significant initiatives to deliver a world leading digital and physical infrastructure and operational services to colleagues, students and other stakeholders.

Core Membership

• Chief Operating Officer (Chair)
• Director of Academic Services (Deputy Chair)
• Faculty Operations Officer of each Faculty
• Chief Information Officer
• Director of Communications
• Interim Chief Financial Officer
• Director of Human Resources
• Director of Campus Services
• Director of Estates Operations
• Managing Director, ICU 

 Secretary

For all questions relating to Operations and Infrastructure Committee, please contact Louise Lindsay, Secretary to the Committee, via l.lindsay@imperial.ac.uk. 

Purpose

Oversee the organisation level health, safety and environment framework, risk framework and registers, crisis management and business continuity plans. To oversee the code of ethics and corporate compliance policies and processes and support Council Audit and Risk oversight.

Core Membership

• College Secretary and General Counsel (Chair)
• Chief Financial Officer 
• Director of Academic Services 
• Vice-President (International) 
• Vice-Provost (Education & Student Experience) 
• Vice-Provost (Research & Enterprise) 
• Chief Information Officer  
• Faculty Operations Officer of each Faculty 
• ICU Managing Director
• Director of Risk Management
• Director of HSE
• Director of HR

Secretary

For all queries relating to the Risk, Compliance and Ethics Committee, please contact Riccardo Feasey, Secretary too the Committee, via riccardo.feasey@imperial.ac.uk. 

Purpose

Delivery and operation of the White City campus and activities in support of the College’s academic vision for the campus and supporting objectives of the College Strategy.

Core Membership

• Chief Operating Officer (Co-Chair)
• Provost (Co-Chair)
• Vice-Provost (Research &Enterprise)
• Vice-Provost (Education &Student Experience)
• Vice-President (International)/Associate Provost (Academic Partnerships)
• Associate-Provost (Academic Planning)
• Associate Provost (Estates Planning)
• Director of Public Affairs and Chief of Staff
• Director of Financial Strategy
• Director of Estates Operations
• Director of External Partnerships, Faculty of Medicine

Secretary

For all questions relating to the White City Programme Board, please contact Tom Bailey, Secretary to the Board, via t.bailey@imperial.ac.uk. 

Purpose

To oversee the goals, priorities and implementation of the Sustainability Strategy at Imperial with the aim of being an exemplar organisation.

Core Membership

• Dean of the Faculty of Engineering (Chair)
• Interim Chief Financial Officer (Deputy Chair)
• Academic Leader in Sustainability
• Representative from each Faculty
• ICU representative
• Silwood Park representative
• Academic Services representative
• ICHT NHS Trust representative
• Director of Estates

Secretary

For all questions relating to the Sustainability Committee, please contact Rhea Samra, Secretary to the Committee, via r.samra@imperial.ac.uk.  

Please send papers to the Secretary 7 working days before the meeting via umbsecretary@imperial.ac.uk. The paper deadlines can be viewed above. 

Please ensure your paper adheres to the following guidelines:

• The University Management Board Coversheet must be included.
• Your paper should be 3-4 pages in length and include sufficient information for decision making. Any other material should be included as a separate appendix.
• Please ensure a member of the UMB has approved the paper before submission.

To meet accessibility guidelines, we encourage papers to include the following:

• Consistent heading styles should be used to indicate grouping and add hierarchy to your content.
• All figures, tables, charts etc (including in appendices) are required to be clearly and consistently labelled.
• All link text must be clear, descriptive, and understandable without contextual content (do not use click here or include the URL).
• Please note, if required, it is the item lead's responsibility to ensure a fully accessible version of the paper submitted to UMB is available on request.
  • To ensure accessibility, papers can be checked against the College's guidance on publishing accessible documents. Additionally, the latest version of Office (365) has an accessibility checker that highlights issues and solutions. To access, click on the Review tab within the document and then click Check Accessibility.