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President and Vice Chancellor to feature on BBC Radio 4

10 Jul 2014

Nancy Rothwell discusses The Leadership Gap

Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell

The President and Vice Chancellor Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell features in a BBC Radio 4 series about leadership.

The Leadership Gap will broadcast its first episode at 11am tomorrow (Friday 11 July).

The series of three episodes has been produced in the light of recent crises of leadership in some of our large organisations, public and private. Sir John Tusa, former Head of the BBC World Service and London's Barbican Centre, takes an objective look at the state of leadership in large UK organisations today.

In tomorrow’s opening episode, Sir John explores two kinds of gap between leaders and those they lead.

The series also sees him address another, more difficult, gap between leader and led: pay. He discovers how, with public sector leaders' pay now a prominent issue, some organisations, from the NHS to the University, are seeing leaders' pay held static or lowered.

Others interviewed along with Professor Rothwell include Director-General of the BBC Lord Tony Hall, Chair of Public Accounts Committee Margaret Hodge MP, President of Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and former Chief Constable of Northern Ireland Sir Hugh Orde, and ex-CEO of Marks and Spencer Sir Stuart Rose.