Professor Rachel Mills
Biography
Professor Rachel Mills is the Senior Vice President (Academic) at King’s College London, leading on academic strategy and delivery in the Vice Chancellor’s senior team. She is responsible for shaping the academic vision and future plans for the University, while supporting external impact and partnerships.
Rachel previously carried out a wide range of leadership roles in the university sector, most recently as Provost at the University of Sussex. Prior to this, she worked at the University of Southampton for nearly 30 years, including over 15 years in leadership roles such as Executive Dean of the Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences and previously the Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Head of School of Ocean and Earth Science and Director of Graduate School of the National Oceanography Centre Southampton.
She is a deep-sea oceanographer who works on the chemistry of the seafloor and its impact on life in the sea; building interdisciplinary teams to further our understanding of key processes in the ocean system.
In 2021, she was appointed as a Non-Executive Director for the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science and is Chair of the Cefas Science Advisory Committee, providing leadership and challenge around the Cefas Science and Evidence Strategy which in turn advises government on fisheries policy, sustainable oceans and their contribution to net zero ambitions for the UK and wider territories.
Non-executive Director, Cefas
- Non-executive director of corporate management board