Registrar and University Secretary

Richard Martin

Richard Martin is Registrar and University Secretary at Imperial. Reporting to the President as University Secretary (and also to the Chair of Council as Clerk to Council) and to the Provost as Registrar, Richard has overall management responsibility for corporate governance and the Academic Services Group.

Richard began his career in Higher Education as a Graduate Management Trainee at Imperial in 2000, before moving to work at UCL’s Faculty of Engineering Sciences and in Australia where he was responsible for establishing UCL’s first overseas campus in Adelaide as Chief Operating Officer of UCL Australia. Richard returned to Imperial in 2011 to take up the role of Faculty Operating Officer for the Faculty of Engineering, after which he served as Director of Transformation and in 2020 was appointed Director of Academic Services. Richard was appointed Registrar and University Secretary in March 2024.  

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