
Chair of The National Archives’ Board
Andrew was Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of Northumbria University from 2008 to 2022. He is currently an External Member of Council of the University of Cambridge.
He is a graduate from the University of Oxford, where he also took his doctorate in Music. He held posts in the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Lancaster before moving to Royal Holloway, University of London, where in 2006 he became Senior Vice-Principal. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Society of Antiquaries, and was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford in 2023-24. He was Vice-President of the Royal Musical Association from 2001 to 2009.
His published research focuses on the social and cultural history of music in late-medieval England and France. He is a co-founder of the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM).
Andrew has served on a number of national bodies and committees. He was chair of the UK Standing Committee for Quality Assessment from 2016 to 2022, and was a Non-Executive Director of the Student Loans Company 2018-23, serving as its Interim Chair in 2020. He served on the Board of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, and the Council of the All Party Parliamentary Universities Group. Until 2020 he was Governor of Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Andrew was appointed a CBE in 2016 for services to Higher Education.