Ms. Sandrea Maynard

Ms. Sandrea Maynard has been a qualified Barrister-at-Law since 1998 and has practiced both privately (domestic and internationally) and for the United Kingdom’s Crown Prosecution Service. Her journey working in academia began in 2012 as a Senior Lecturer and advanced to an Associate Professor in Law at Coventry University. She has held senior leadership and management roles within UK universities across the sectors of law, business and university group subsidiaries both nationally and regionally, and managed multi-disciplinary and multifunctional teams through globally disruptive changes such as BREXIT and COVID-19.

She has been responsible for driving the development of internationalisation in higher education, and more recently, her particular focus has been on income generation nationally and globally within Higher Education. She was instrumental in the development of a national curriculum in the criminal justice sector in the UK, and led on, and secured significant government contracts. She has also spearheaded the development and delivery of global executive and governmental training and international student recruitment. PVC Maynard also serves as a Visiting Professor at two institutions in France.

As Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Global Affairs at The University of the West Indies (The UWI) she leads the regional university’s global engagement portfolio and coordinates all internationalisation and strategic global initiatives across The UWI system. She is also responsible for the progression of the new UWI Global Campus, leveraging the high reputation of the regional university to build capacity and generate revenue as a core part of the University’s financial future.