Matthew Moss

MVO FRSA MCIPR

Photograph of Matthew Moss
Photograph of Matthew Moss

From 2014 to 2023, Matthew led the office responsible for communications, events and engagement with the Homerton community.  He devised and led Homerton 250: Cambridge Now, the year-long celebration of the foundation of the College in London in 1768, and was an elected Fellow member of College Council for six years.  On leaving Homerton in September 2023 he was appointed as an Associate Fellow.

A graduate in Modern Languages from St John’s College, Matthew joined Homerton from the Vice-Chancellor’s Office at Cambridge, where as the Chief of Staff to Dame Alison Richard and Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, he wrote over 400 speeches, and was responsible for the Cambridge business of two Chancellors of the University, Lord Sainsbury and his predecessor HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He was appointed a Member of the Royal Victorian Order in the New Year’s Honours 2012 for services to Prince Philip as Chancellor. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.

For the University he is a member of the Military Education Committee, and since 2017 has held the post of Honorary Captain of the Cambridge University Officers' Training Corps, acting as the principal civilian adviser to successive Commanding Officers.

Links to online publications, articles or other work

'Research Funding: trends and challenges' in Luc E. Weber and James J. Duderstadt (eds), Preparing Universities for an Era of Change, Economica, Paris, pp. 51-63. Published 2014.

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