Timothy O'Shea

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Timothy O'Shea (born Hamburg 1949 [1]) is the current Vice-Chancellor and Principal of The University of Edinburgh in Scotland, United Kingdom.

Professor O'Shea was brought up in London and went to school in Essex. A Computer Scientist, he was Master of Birkbeck College from 1998 and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of London from 2001. A graduate of the Universities of Sussex and Leeds, he has worked in the United States and for the Open University where he founded the Computer Assisted Learning Research Group and worked on a range of educational technology research and development projects. He was a Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, Department of Artificial Intelligence, from 1974 to 1978. [2]

Professor Timothy O'Shea became Principal of the University of Edinburgh in October 2002. He sits on the Boards of Scottish Enterprise, the Intermediary Technology Institute Scotland Ltd and the British Council. He is a member of the Governing Body of the Roslin Institute and is Convenor of the Research and Commercialisation Committee of Universities Scotland. In 2004 he was elected Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh.