Professor Dr Satish Visavadia

Satish Visavadia is a Professor of Education with a Master’s and PhD in Education — an entrepreneur and director with wide experience in higher education, management and business in the UK and overseas. He began as a mechanical engineer designing machine tools, then qualified as a teacher and moved into higher education as a lecturer, leader, assessor and verifier.

He went on to establish a leading higher-education institution in the UK with partners, serving as its principal for seven years — over two thousand students and one hundred and forty staff across five campuses.

His work has brought him membership of many professional bodies, including Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, Associate Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management, Associate Fellow of the Australian Marketing Institute and member of the Institute for Learning. In 2020 he was honoured as Professor of Marketing and Communications by Yaveh Hills University, South Africa, for his education work in Africa, and he became a participating member of the African Research Universities Association (ARUA).

He is Vice Chancellor of the Technological University of the Americas (TUA), a visiting professor at Akamai University, Hawaii, and Innovation University of Florida, and Dean of the London School of Media & Management. In 2021 he was appointed Chairman of CIEPUK.

He is an educator, lecturer, moderator and assessor working from London and Dubai across the public and private sectors.