Vice-Chancellor: Professor Calie Pistorius
Professor Calie Pistorius is the Vice-Chancellor of
the University of Hull, a post he has held since 1 September 2009.
He is a member of the Humber LEP, a director of Yorkshire
Universities and The Deep, a Yorkshire Patron and serves on the CBI
Council for Yorkshire and the Humber as well as the Bondholder
Scheme in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire.
Formerly he was the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the
University of Pretoria in South Africa (August 2001 - August 2009),
where he also served as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Built
Environment and Information Technology, Head of the Department of
Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Director of the Institute of
Technological Innovation and Director of Information Technology. He
was a member of the National Advisory Council on Innovation (NACI)
in South Africa (1998 – 2009) and served as its chair from 2004
until 2008.
He holds bachelors and honours degrees in electronic engineering
from the University of Pretoria (1979, 1981) (both cum laude),
masters and Ph.D degrees in electrical engineering from The Ohio
State University (1984, 1986) and a masters degree in the
management of technology from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (1994). He is also an alumnus of the Harvard Business
School, having completed the Advanced Management Program in
2003.
His research interests include the management of innovation,
management of technology and national innovation policy. He has
published widely in these areas as well as in the field of
electromagnetic scattering.
He is registered as a Chartered Engineer in the UK and a
Professional Engineer in South Africa, and is a Fellow of the
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Fellow of the
Royal Society of South Africa (RSSAf), Fellow of the South African
Academy of Engineers (SAAE), Fellow of the South African Institute
of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE), Senior Member of the Institute for
Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and member of the
Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf).
Contact details
E-mail: vc@hull.ac.uk
Alternatively please contact the Vice-Chancellor’s Assistant,
Heather Budgen, on + 44
(0)1482 465131.
Page last updated by Liz Jenkinson on
9/25/2012