Professor Rob Kemp
Professor Rob Kemp is the Deputy Principal and he is esponsible for Planning, Resources and 
Partnerships. He joined the Geography Department at Royal Holloway in 1989, was promoted to Professor of Physical Geography in 1999 and was Head of the 5* RAE- rated department from 2001-04. He became Vice-Principal (Academic Affairs) on 1 August 2006, Deputy Principal in 2008 and was Acting Principal from August 2009 until August 2010.
Active in research, Professor Kemp has been concerned with a range of soil-related issues spanning agriculture, sports pitch management and quaternary science. Recent Leverhulme and National Environmental Research Council (NERC) funded projects have focused on the role of soils in providing information on landscape development, climatic change and pre-Hispanic human activity in South America.
Professor Kemp has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Quaternary Research Center at the University of Washington and is closely involved with the Centre for Quaternary Research at Royal Holloway.
Personal Assistant to the Deputy Principal: Suzie Breton|
Tel: 01784 276318
Professor Philip Beesley
Professor Philip Beesley has been appointed Vice-Principal (Research and Enterprise) for a period of one year from 1st August 2011, having served as Dean of Science at Royal Holloway for the previous six years.
As Professor of Molecular Neuroscience in the School of Biological Sciences, Professor Beesley continues his active research with a focus on: The molecular mechanisms that underlie synapse formation and stabilisation, the functions of cell-cell recognition and adhesion molecules in the central nervous system and on neuroprotective mechanisms in response to neuronal stress such as ischemia.
In addition to the College's research strategy and operational planning, the portfolio for the Vice-Principal (Research and Enterprise) includes responsibility for research students and other PGR matters in a role that is supported by the Associate Deans (Research) across the College.
Personal Assistant to Professor Beesley: Dawn Charles|
Tel: 01784 414147
Professor Rosemary Deem
Rosemary Deem is Vice-Principal (Education) and Professor of Higher Education Management. She was previously Dean of History and Social Sciences. Before joining Royal Holloway in 2009, she was Professor of Education at Bristol University.
An Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences, Professor Deem is a sociologist who has also worked at Lancaster & the Open Universities and North Staffordshire Polytechnic. She directed the Education Subject Centre ESCalate (2001-2004), has been an RAE sub-panellist (1996, 2001, 2008) twice chaired the British Sociological Association and was Vice-Chair of the Society for Research into Higher Education (2007-2009). She is an Editorial Board member of The Sociological Review, Studies in Higher Education, Equal Opportunities International, Higher Education and Higher Education Quarterly. Her research interests include higher education policy, management, leadership and governance, public sector organisations and equality in educational settings.
Her Vice-Principal responsibilities include teaching, learning and assessment strategy/policy and quality assurance for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
Personal Assistant to Professor Deem: Christine Brown|
Tel: 01784 276171
Listen to a podcast| of Professor Rosemary Deem’s 2010 Inaugural Lecture “The 21st century University – dilemmas of leadership and organisational futures”
Professor Geoff Ward
Professor Geoff Ward has been Vice-Principal (Planning and Resources) since June 2008, and Vice-Principal (Students and Staff) since August 2011, having come to Royal Holloway first as Dean of Arts in 2007.
He is a Professor of English, and has published numerous books and articles on American literature, modern poetry and the legacy of the Romantic movement. His books include Statutes of Liberty (1993; rev ed 2000), the first study of the New York School of Poets, and The Writing of America (2002). He has been a Fellow of the Leverhulme Trust, and has lectured in many countries, working in Japan for a year in 1994-5, and in Washington DC in 2000.
A member of the Editorial Board of The Cambridge Quarterly, Professor Ward has also published several collections of his own poetry, and written and presented programmes on American writers for BBC Radio 3.
The portfolio for Professor Ward includes staff and student matters, the College estate environment and Human Resources issues
Tel: 01784 276318