Professor Sir Peter Gregson FREng is Chief Executive and Vice-Chancellor of Cranfield University. He has previously been President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Southampton University.
Educated at Imperial College London, and recipient of the Donald Julius Groen Prize of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Rosenhain Medal and Prize of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, he has been elected to Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Irish Academy. He holds Honorary Degrees in the UK, Ireland, India and Japan.
He has been Non-Executive Director of Rolls-Royce Group plc, Strategic Advisor to Lockheed Martin UK and served on the Councils of The Royal Academy of Engineering and the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils. He was Chair of the Milton Keynes 2050 Futures Commission.