Alice Petry Gast

President of Imperial College London,  previously 13th President of Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA, from 2006 to 2014. Other leadership roles include Vice-President for Research and Associate Provost and Robert T. Haslam Chair in Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2001 - 2006. She was a professor of chemical engineering at Stanford University from 1985 to 2001 and affiliated with the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory. Professor Gast is a member of a number of international advisory committees and boards.