In a letter to workers and college students, Sir Anton mentioned: “By subsequent yr, I’ll have served 16 years as Principal, and I’ll have served over 20 years in College senior administration.
“I really feel that is the correct time to lastly step again from my present position, and to allow a brand new Principal to come back ahead to steer our establishment by the following chapter.
“That is an opportune time at hand over the management of the College.
“We’re on the finish of a strategic planning cycle, and we have now accomplished the primary part of our campus growth, backed by a extremely profitable fundraising marketing campaign.
“The College is in an excellent place at current, each academically and financially. That is your achievement.”
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Born in Italy in 1962, his dad and mom relocated to Glasgow by way of the Netherlands, and he went on to be educated on the Excessive Faculty of Glasgow.
Sir Anton’s affiliation with Glasgow College goes again greater than 40 years, together with his time as a scholar, lecturer and professor.
He graduated with an undergraduate diploma in political economic system in 1984 and full a PhD in economics in 1989.
He was a lecturer, senior lecturer and professor of political economic system from 1984 to 1994, and the Daniel Jack Professor of Political Economic system from 1994 till 2007.
Sir Anton has additionally been a guide to the World Financial institution and the European Fee, and a member of the Panel of Financial Advisers of the Secretary of State for Scotland from 1998 to 2000.
In 2008, he was appointed to chair an unbiased professional group for the Calman Fee on Devolution, arrange by the Scottish Parliament and UK Authorities and led by then-chancellor of Glasgow College, Sir Kenneth Calman.
Sir Anton will stay in publish till his retirement to allow the college to nominate a successor.
He added: “There might be loads of alternatives within the coming months for me to replicate and thank all the colleagues, college students, pals and stakeholders who’ve formed my tenure as Principal.
“I really feel that is the correct time to step again from my present position, to get pleasure from retirement and proceed to be a loyal supporter of our establishment, albeit from a brand new and totally different perspective.”
Sir Anton added that he was stepping down with Glasgow College at the moment the top-rated centre for greater training in Scotland, and among the many 100 finest universities on the planet.
It is accolades had come “regardless of appreciable headwinds, like Brexit, financial instability and the worldwide pandemic”, mentioned Sir Anton, including: “We now have remodeled ourselves from a smaller Russell Group College to a number one research-intensive college with international attain and even stronger civic roots in Glasgow.
“We now have grown a repute as a College which widens entry to training, is proudly worldwide, and makes use of our analysis to impact constructive change on a neighborhood and international scale.
“I’m proud that we have now been in a position to develop our educational base considerably in recent times, supporting and investing within the scholar expertise.
“We now make use of nicely over 11,000 workers and we have now grown to have a £4.4bn financial affect on the UK and Scottish economies.”
