members are: president and vice-chancellor (or simply vice-chancellor), provost and deputy vice chancellor, chief financial officer, executive director of corporate services, executive director of academic services, five faculty vice-presidents, three cross-cutting vice-presidents (education, innovation and research), and university secretary. The board provides leadership and management, as well as advises the vice-chancellor on operational matters. the vice-chancellor is the chief executive and accountable officer of the university. The current vice-chancellor is Koen Lamberts, and the provost and deputy vice chancellor is Gill Valentine.
==== Court ====
The Court was the University's supreme governing body, which existed to foster relations between the University and the community, and included lay members, many of whom are university alumni. Ex-officio members of the Court included all the members of Parliament (MPs) of Sheffield, the Bishops of Sheffield and Hallam, and the chief constable of South Yorkshire Police. It also included representatives of professional bodies such as the Arts Council, Royal Society and the General Medical Council. The Court of the University was disbanded during the 2014-15 academic year, and is no longer a University committee.
==== Vice-chancellors ====
1905: William Mitchinson Hicks
1905: Charles Eliot
1912: Herbert Fisher
1917: William Ripper (acting)
1919: William Henry Hadow
1930: Sir Arthur Pickard-Cambridge
1938: Irvine Masson
1953: John Macnaghten Whittaker
1965: Arthur Roy Clapham (acting)
1966: Hugh Robson
1974: Geoffrey Sims
1991: Gareth Roberts
2001: Bob Boucher
2007: Sir Keith Burnett
2018: Koen Lamberts
==== Chancellors ====
1905: Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk
1917: Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe
1944: Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood
1947: Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
1959: Rab Butler, Baron Butler
1979: Frederick Dainton, Baron Dainton
1999: Sir Peter Middleton
2015: Dame Anne Rafferty
2025 (incoming): Andy Haldane FRS
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