Professor James Drummond Bone
Professor J Drummond Bone, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool, succeeded Professor Ivor Crewe, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Essex, as President of Universities UK on 1 August 2005 and will hold the post of President for the two academic years 2005/6 and 2006/7.
Professor Bone has been Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool since 1 September 2002.
Before this he was Principal of Royal Holloway, University of London. He was educated at the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford. Formerly Senior Vice-Principal at the University of Glasgow, he is a Professor of English Literature internationally known for his work in Romantic Studies, particularly on Byron. He co-edits the journal ‘Romanticism’. As a University leader and manager he has been part of a number of initiatives at both institutional and national level, many of these aimed at bringing the worlds of business and industry closer to universities.
Professor Bone is a Universities UK Board Member and a member of the Universities UK England and Northern Ireland Council.
He is married to Vivian, an academic publisher, and he lists his recreations as music, skiing and Maseratis - but like most Scots, he also plays golf.