Professor Edward Peck became Chair of the OfS board in July 2025. He has many years of experience in the higher education sector and was the Vice-Chancellor of Nottingham Trent University for over ten years. Before that, he held various senior roles at the University of Birmingham, including Pro Vice-Chancellor of the College of Social Sciences, Head of the School of Public Policy, and Director of the Health Services Management Centre.

He was the first Higher Education Student Support Champion at the Department for Education, and subsequently Chair of the Higher Education Mental Health Implementation Taskforce, between 2022 and 2025. He was Deputy Chair and then Interim Chair of UCAS between 2020 and 2025.

He has served on the board of the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) and Universities UK (UUK). He was a member of the Post-18 Fees and Funding (Augar) Review Panel, 2018-2019.

He is the Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Nottinghamshire and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours List for Services to Higher Education.