{"id":719,"date":"2026-09-09T16:58:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/?p=719"},"modified":"2026-09-09T16:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:58:23","slug":"vice-president-advancement-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/2026\/09\/09\/vice-president-advancement-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice-President (Advancement)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/brandoncbaker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Brandon Baker<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0has accepted appointment as Vice-President (Advancement) and will join Imperial in autumn 2026.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Reporting to the President, Brandon will lead the Advancement Division, a dynamic professional team that raises funds for scholarships, academic positions, research centres and capital projects, secures philanthropic support for Imperial\u2019s mission, and helps strengthen the university\u2019s global reputation.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Brandon joins Imperial from the University of Southern California\u00a0(UCA), where he currently serves as Associate Senior Vice President of Advancement. In this role, he has shaped ambitious fundraising programmes and played\u00a0a central role\u00a0in the planning of the university\u2019s next comprehensive fundraising campaign. Prior to this, he has served as Vice President of Development at the RAND Corporation and held senior advancement roles at the University of California, Los Angeles\u00a0(UCLA).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/news\/articles\/2026\/brandon-baker-appointed-vice-president-advancement-at-imperial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more in the news story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Baker\u00a0has accepted appointment as Vice-President (Advancement) and will join Imperial in autumn 2026.\u00a0\u00a0 Reporting to the President, Brandon will lead the Advancement Division, a dynamic professional team that raises funds for scholarships, academic positions, research centres and capital projects, secures philanthropic support for Imperial\u2019s mission, and helps strengthen the university\u2019s global reputation.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319054],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senior-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","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=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":722,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}