Dr Gary Brown
Pro Vice-Chancellor & Executive Dean - Greenwich Business School (Interim)
Gary has over 20 years of experience in higher education, spanning academic leadership, portfolio development, and institutional strategy. Prior to his appointment as Dean, he served as Associate Dean Student Success at Greenwich, leading cross-faculty strategies that delivered significant improvements in continuation, awarding gaps, graduate outcomes, and student satisfaction. His leadership was central to securing EFMD re-accreditation and driving curriculum reform aligned to institutional and sector priorities.
Before joining Greenwich, Gary held senior roles at the University of Liverpool Management School, including Director of Education for his subject group and later Director of Online and Innovation. In these roles, he led the transformation of the School’s online provision, expanding postgraduate taught programmes, embedding high-quality student experience at scale, and overseeing curriculum redesign to meet market and pedagogic demands.
He began his career at Edge Hill University, where he was Programme Leader and Senior Lecturer, completing his PhD at University of Liverpool. Across all roles, Gary has championed ambitious, data-driven, and student-focused approaches to academic leadership. He brings energy, clarity, and strategic intent to his work, building high-performing teams and fostering a culture of purposeful, values-led education.
Professor Natasha Vall
Pro Vice-Chancellor & Executive Dean - Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences
Natasha Vall is Professor of Urban and Cultural History and Pro Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean in the Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Greenwich. Natasha undertook her BA Honours in History at the University of Sheffield and a scholarship funded PhD in History at Northumbria University.
After completing her doctorate Natasha was awarded an AHRC fellowship at the Centre for North East England History. She was was appointed Lecturer in History in at Teesside University in 2006, conferred as Reader in 2011 and as Professor of urban and cultural history in 2016.
In 2022, Natasha was appointed as Dean in the School of Social Sciences and Law, Teesside University, having previously undertaken a number of leadership roles including Institute Director, Head of Department and Associate Dean, Research and Innovation.
Professor Stephen Corbett
Interim Pro-Vice-Chancellor
Professor Corbett joined the Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences as Deputy Dean in 2025. He is now the interim Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the faculty of Education, Health and Human Sciences.
Prior to joining Greenwich, Stephen was Interim Executive Dean for Humanities & Social Sciences at the University of Portsmouth (2023-2025) and before this Head of School for Education, Languages and Linguistics (2017-2023) during which time he also established the institution's Centre for Continuing Professional Development.
His career in education began in the further education sector, where he supported students with special educational needs and disabilities. He then trained as a Teacher in Accounting and Business and later progressed into leadership roles. After over a decade in the further education sector he transitioned from his college leadership role to leading a university collaborative network of further education initial teacher education providers over six campuses. This provision he later developed into an externally funded national programme which retrained military personnel to become qualified further education teachers. In recognition of his work across both Further and Higher Education sectors, Stephen was awarded an Advance HE National Teaching Fellowship in 2020.
Professor Peter Griffiths
Pro Vice-Chancellor & Executive Dean - Faculty of Engineering and Science
Professor Peter Griffiths' interest in nanotechnology, traditionally known as colloid science, started with a final year undergraduate research project on ferrofluids. Thereafter followed a PhD (University of Bristol, 1991), focused on developing NMR and scattering methodology to quantify the dynamics of polymer-polymer and polymer-particle blends, that saw Professor Griffiths' interests broaden into concentrated particle dispersions, and then to polymer-surfactant and polymer-small molecule systems, with post-doctoral research periods at University of Bristol (1991-1993) and the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (1993-1995).
In 1995, Professor Griffiths was appointed to a lectureship at Cardiff University that further consolidated these research themes, and took his attention towards the drug delivery field, in particular polymer-drug and polymer-protein conjugates, small molecule gels and vesicle dispersions.
Professor Griffiths’ contribution to the research field and education in general was recognized with the award of a DSc (University of Bristol, 2005), a "docenture" (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 2005) and conferment of Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, FRSC in 2002. He has also received distinguished service awards from both the SCI and the RSC.
