Sir Malcolm Grant is senior advisor to the President of Arizona State University and the Chair of the PLuS Alliance. Sir Malcolm was President and Provost of UCL for 10 years from 2003. He was previously Pro Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University, where he was the Professor and Head of Department of Land Economy and Professorial Fellow of Clare College. He was editor of the Planning Encyclopedia for nearly 25 years. In 2011 he was appointed by the Prime Minister to be the founding chairman of the restructured NHS England, where he served a 7-year term, and was also a director of Genomics England Ltd. He is the immediate past Chancellor of the University of York, President of the Council for At-risk Academics (CARA) and a senior adviser on higher education reform to the French government. He is a barrister and Senior Bencher of Middle Temple. He has previously served as chairman of the Russell Group. the Local Government Commission for England and the UK Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Commission. He was appointed CBE in 2003 and knighted in 2013.