Lesley Wilson
 

Lesley Wilson joined EUA at its creation in 2001 and formally took over as Secretary-General in 2002. Previous to this she held a number of senior positions in higher education and research management at European level, including that of Director of UNESCO’s European Centre for Higher Education in Bucharest (UNESCO-CEPES), as well as Head of the newly established Science Policy Unit at the European Science Foundation in Strasbourg (1994/1995) and Director of the EC TEMPUS Office in Brussels.

A graduate of the University of Glasgow and of the Institut des Hautes Etudes Européennes at the University of Strasbourg, she spent her early career as a scientific staff member of the German Science Council in Cologne before moving to Brussels in 1988 to join the newly established ERASMUS Bureau.