Professor Duncan Ivison, FAHA FRSN, is President and vice chancellor of the University of Manchester. Duncan completed his BA (hons) in political science and philosophy at McGill University, in Montréal, Canada, where he grew up, and his MSc and PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

He has held positions at the Australian National University, the University of York (UK), the University of Toronto and, for more than twenty years, at the University of Sydney.