Contact
- Email the Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor’s Office: pdvcdiary@leeds.ac.uk
- Email Professor Hai-Sui Yu’s Executive Assistant Sally Banton: s.banton@leeds.ac.uk
- Email Professor Hai-Sui Yu’s Executive Officer Gareth Dant: g.j.dant@leeds.ac.uk
About
As Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Hai-Sui Yu is the standing deputy for the Vice-Chancellor and President, providing oversight and coordination of the University’s academic strategy and its strategic planning and delivery against the University’s key performance indicators (KPIs). He also leads on the University’s international strategy.
Professor Yu holds the role of Professor of Geotechnical Engineering in the School of Civil Engineering.
His other key leadership responsibilities include:
- line managing the Executive Deans of all seven academic faculties and taking the executive lead on the University’s strategic planning and performance through its annual Integrated Planning Exercise and strategic change programmes;
- line-managing the Director of Strategic Planning and Performance, the University’s Deans for Global Engagement and Digital Transformation;
- line managing the Dean for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI), supporting the development and implementation of the University’s EDI strategy;
- leading the development and delivery of Leeds’ sector-leading Climate Plan, based on our seven climate principles.
Professor Yu served as Interim Vice-Chancellor and President from 1 November 2023 to 31 October 2024.
Prior to joining the University of Leeds in 2016, Professor Yu served as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement), Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Head of the School of Civil Engineering, and Professor of Geotechnical Engineering at the University of Nottingham.
During his academic career, Professor Yu has worked with many leading institutions in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, France, Austria, and Italy.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2011 for outstanding personal engineering achievement.