{"id":699,"date":"2026-07-24T12:12:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/?p=699"},"modified":"2026-07-24T12:15:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:15:35","slug":"proconsuls-and-consuls-2026-27-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/2026\/07\/24\/proconsuls-and-consuls-2026-27-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Proconsuls and Consuls 2026-27"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor\u00a0Xiao\u00a0Yun Xu<\/span><\/a>\u00a0has accepted the appointment of\u00a0Proconsul from 1 October 2026 to 31 August 2029,\u00a0to replace Professor Jonathan Mestel\u00a0following his\u00a0<\/span>appointment as Associate Provost (Academic Promotions)<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Xu has served in the past as Consul (2016-2019) and Proconsul (2021-2023).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

T<\/span>he\u00a0updated\u00a0list o<\/span>f Consuls and Proconsuls for 2026-2027 is as follows:\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Consuls\u00a0<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Ann Muggeridge \u2013 Senior Consul\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Renata Kosova \u2013 Consul for the Faculty of Engineering and Business School\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Martyn McLachlan \u2013 Consul for the Faculty of Engineering and Business School\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Charlotte Bevan \u2013 Consul for the Faculty of Medicine (non-clinical)\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Graham Taylor \u2013 Consul for the Faculty of Medicine (Clinical)\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor David van Dyk \u2013 Consul for the Faculty of Natural Sciences and cross University organisations\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Anne Dell CBE FRS \u2013 Consul for the Faculty of Natural Sciences and cross\u00a0university organisations\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Proconsuls\u00a0<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Martin McCall\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor\u00a0Xiao\u00a0Yun Xu\u00a0\u2013<\/span>\u00a0replacing Professor Jonathan Mestel\u00a0from 1 October 2026<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Miriam Moffatt\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Peter Openshaw\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Wisia Wedzicha<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor\u00a0Xiao\u00a0Yun Xu\u00a0has accepted the appointment of\u00a0Proconsul from 1 October 2026 to 31 August 2029,\u00a0to replace Professor Jonathan Mestel\u00a0following his\u00a0appointment as Associate Provost (Academic Promotions).\u00a0\u00a0 Professor Xu has served in the past as Consul (2016-2019) and Proconsul (2021-2023).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318749],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consuls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}