Keir, Lord Ashby of Brandon, Michael Grant, Sir Arthur Vick, Sir Peter Froggatt, Sir Gordon Beveridge, Sir George Bain and Sir Peter Gregson.
The role of chancellor is a largely a ceremonial one, involving attending graduations, acting as an ambassador for the university abroad and serving as an advisor to the vice-chancellor. The current chancellor is Hillary Clinton, who was appointed the university's first female chancellor in January 2020 (and was inaugurated in September 2021), taking over from previous incumbent Thomas Moran, who died in August 2018. Clinton had been given an honorary doctorate from the university in October 2018. Previous chancellors have included Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury, Field Marshal Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, Sir Tyrone Guthrie, Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby, and George J. Mitchell.
=== Finances ===
In the financial year ending 31 July 2024, Queen's had a total income of £474.2 million (2022/23 – £462.8 million) and total expenditure of £345.9 million (2022/23 – £466.5 million). Key sources of income included £160 million from tuition fees and education contracts (2022/23 – £160.9 million), £107.4 million from funding body grants (2022/23 – £108.2 million), £105.2 million from research grants and contracts (2022/23 – £103.1 million), £12.4 million from investment income (2022/23 – £8.1 million) and £3.6 million from endowment donations (2022/23 – £3.1 million).
At year end, Queen's had endowments of £70.9 million (2023 – £65.6 million) and total net assets of £658 million (2023 – £505.4 million). It holds the twentieth-largest endowment of any university in the UK.
== Academic profile ==
=== Research ===
Queen's University Belfast was admitted as a member of the self-appointed Russell Group of UK research-intensive universities in November 2006. In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF), which assesses the quality of research in UK higher education institutions, the university is ranked 37th by GPA and 24th for research power (the grade point average …
