– Beryl Platt, Baroness Platt of Writtle
2000–2013 – Allen Sheppard, Baron Sheppard of Didgemere
2013–present – Janet Ritterman
Vice-Chancellors
1972–1991 – Raymond Rickett (academic)
1992–1996 – David Melville
1992–2015 – Michael Driscoll
2015–2019 – Tim Blackman
2019-2023 - Nic Beech
2023-2024 - Sean Wellington (Interim)
2024-present - Shân Wareing
Tim Blackman announced his resignation in May 2019 to take the role of Vice-Chancellor at the Open University.
== Research ==
Middlesex's research covers a wide spectrum of subjects across its three faculties including Art and Design, Education, Human, Social and Economic Geography, Law, Music, Professional Practice, Software Engineering and Algorithms.
Research covers 29 areas. The UK Funding Councils' 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) rated 58% of research submitted to be world and internationally excellent.
The UK Funding Councils' 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) rated 90% of Middlesex's research internationally recognised.
In 2011 the university's research project on age diversity was selected for inclusion in the Research Councils' "Big Ideas for the Future" report. The report brings together the leading research projects currently taking place across UK universities.
== Student life ==
The university has a student body of around 19,000, in London and over 37,000 globally. The university has student exchange links with over 100 universities in 22 countries across Europe, the United States, and the world.
Until recently the number of students at the university has been declining fast, hitting a four-year low of 21,350 in the academic year of 2008–2009. The number of PG students fell 20% in four years (from over 6,000 graduates in 2005 to less than 5,000 in 2009), while the number of non-EU students were down by a third over the same period. In the academic year of 2009–2010, however, the number of students across all categories increased sharply. The trend continued the following year with particularly high increase in the number of students from …
