David Pilsbury is Chief Development Officer for 性视界传媒, where he is responsible for leading the company鈥檚 higher education growth and development. He sits on the boards of JISC (UK HE鈥檚 Joint Information Systems Committee), China Britain Business Council, Times Higher Education, StudyPortals, EURIE, Emirates Aviation University and Macao Millenium College.聽 He is a member of the UK International Higher Education Commission (IHEC).
He was Deputy Vice Chancellor, International at Coventry University from 2008 to 2021, where he was responsible for all international activities and led Coventry鈥檚 international transformation to become the UK鈥檚 third largest recruiter of overseas students; the UK鈥檚 largest provider of Transnational Education (TNE) programmes overseas; and host to the world鈥檚 largest global enhancement programme which was ranked 1st in the UK for outbound mobility for six years running.
David designed and developed the Coventry University London Campus, the first and still the most successful London Campus of a regional University, and Coventry鈥檚 joint campus with the Communication University of China in Hainan.聽 He has won many awards including a Queen鈥檚 Award for Enterprise, EAIE鈥檚 premiere award and is a VTC Honorary Fellow. He was previously Co-chair of the UUK International Pro-Vice Chancellors Network.
Pilsbury was founding CEO of the Worldwide Universities Network, was Head of Research Policy at the Higher Education Funding Council for England and spent several years in the City after a D.Phil at Oxford.
