Jonathan Nicholls

Jonathan Nicholls (born 1956) has been the Registrary of the University of Cambridge since October 2007.

Nicholls was educated at Culford School, the University of Bristol (first class English degree, 1978), and Emmanuel College (PhD, English, 1984). He was a Herchel Smith Scholar at Harvard. His career began at the University of Warwick, where he was appointed Registrar (education), moving to Birmingham University in 2004. He is a non-executive director of Graduate Prospects and a member of both the national Joint Negotiating Committee for Higher Education Staff and the Advisory Board of the Institute for Higher Education Policy.