People

The Higher Education Commission comprises more than 20 leaders from across the education, parliamentary and commercial sectors.

Lord Norton

Chair, Higher Education Commission

Lord Norton is the Chair of the Higher Education Commission and a Conservative member of the House of Lords. Professor of Government in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Hull, Lord Norton has been described as the UK's greatest living expert on Parliament and a world authority on constitutional issues.

Lord David Blunkett

Co-chair, HE Commission

David Blunkett was awarded a peerage in the dissolution Honours List in 2015, taking the title of Lord Blunkett, of Brightside and Hillsborough in the City of Sheffield. He also in that year took up a post as Professor of Politics in Practice at the University of Sheffield Department of Politics and became Chair of the board of the Univers