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Yve Buckland, Interim Chair

Dame Yve BucklandChair

Yve Buckland started her professional life as an archivist, having completed a history degree and archives training at Leeds and Liverpool Universities.  She went on to have a series of managerial roles in local government, working for Cheshire and Birmingham councils, and then in the early nineties she was appointed by Nottingham City Council as their City Secretary the first female Chief Officer in the Council since its establishment in the 1880s.

By 2000 she had achieved her first national role. Yve was appointed by the Government to set up the Health Development Agency, a body which put together the evidence-base for tackling key public health problems such as childhood obesity and smoking-related diseases. She was awarded a DBE for her work in this area.

Dame Yve went on to become the Chair of the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement based at Warwick University, a post she held from 2005 to 2010 also between 2005 and 2015, was she was the founding Chair of the Consumer Council for Water.  She was Chair of the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital until January 2021 and Chair of the Dudley Group NHS Trust between 2019 and 2021.

In June 2017 Dame Yve was appointed Chancellor of Aston University, a role she held until March 2024.  She is also a Trustee of the Tessa Jowell Foundation.

In 2022 Dame Yve was appointed Chair of University Hospitals Birmingham.