Michael Davis appointed as Chair of Capital City College

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Michael Davis as Chair of Capital City College’s Board, effective from October 2024.

Michael is the Chief Executive Officer at the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen). Previously, he held several senior positions at the marketing data and analytics business Kantar, most recently as its Chief Business Performance Officer. Michael was also the Chief Executive of the former UK Commission for Employment and Skills.

The current Chair, Alastair Da Costa, will stand down at the Board’s next meeting in October but will continue as a board member until December. It is 13 years since Alastair was first appointed a governor in 2011 at City and Islington, where he was appointed as Chair in 2014. He then assumed the Chair role of Capital City College Group through the mergers with Westminster Kingsway in 2016 and The College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London in 2017.

Michael said: ‘Alastair leaves an impressive legacy of achievement behind him and a set of very big boots to fill. The Board is enormously grateful to Alastair for his strong leadership and for taking the group, to be one of the largest within the country, delivering technical and vocational education that allows 30,000 students annually to achieve their ambition and meet the needs of 2,000 local employers’.  

Alastair said: ‘Having led the group to a £130m revenue institution with 35,000 students and achieved Good status with Ofsted, I feel now is the right time to step aside and let our CEO Angela Joyce and Michael lead the organisation through its next stage of development. I have been lucky to meet many of our fantastic students and witness their amazing achievements, an experience for which I am very grateful.’

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