Ken Sloan

Professor Kenneth Mark Sloan (born 1972) is a British educational leader who has been Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive Officer of Harper Adams University since 2021.^[1]

Ken Sloan was born on 26 1972 in Wallasey, Merseyside, England. He was educated at St Mary's College in Wallasey, then read English literature at Glasgow University, graduating with a honours Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1995.^[2]

He went on to study an MBA at the University of Warwick in 2001.^[2]

Sloan started his career as an Audit trainee at KPMG between 1995 and 1997. He served as an admin officer at the University of Warwick between 1997-1999, then Assistant Registrar between 1999-2003, Director, 2003-2007 and Deputy Registrar 2008-2010.^[2]

He joined Serco as Business Development Director between 2010-2012 before moving to Australia to take up the post of Registrar and Chief Operating Officer at Monash University, then Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Enterprise between 2016 and 2021, becoming Adjunct Professor of Practice at Monash Business School.^[2]

In 2022, Sloan became Director of GuildHE and Director of University and Colleges Employers Association in 2022 (Chair, Finance and Audit Committee, 2023).^[2]

Certified Practising Accountant, Australia in 2016. MInstD in 2023, MIAgrE in 2023 and Fellow of the Association of University, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2016 and a Fellow of the Association of Higher Education Professionals in 2023 and a Leadership Fellow of the Society of Leadership Fellows, also in 2023.^[2]