Dan works for Universities UK, the collective voice of 140 universities across the UK. Dan leads Universities UK’s research policy programme, which includes activities on university research funding, culture, impact and collaboration. Before Universities UK, he worked for the British Universities Finance Directors Group and the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy. Dan studied politics at Loughborough University and spent a semester at Lund University in Sweden. Dan has an MA in Media and Cultural Analysis, also from Loughborough.