Brexit Could Cost the U.K. Top Talent. An Education Leader On What Universities Should Do Now

Brexit Could Cost the U.K. Top Talent. An Education Leader On What Universities Should Do Now

Professor Sir Ed Byrne, an educator and a neurologist, is one of the few people who can say, "it's not brain surgery" and really know what that means. He was knighted for his services to academia in 2020, after already being given the Companion of the Order of Australia, the country's highest honor, in 2014. He has spent the last six and a half years as president and principal of King's College London, where the Vision 2029 set out what a modern university could and should look like.That vision was before Black Lives Matter and definitely before COVID, but was launched months after the Brexit vote, where it set out the desire to be both at the center of London and at the center of the world, bringing universities together, whether that be in France, the U.S. or China.Before his time as the head of King's, he was President and Vice-Chancellor at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, director of neurology at St Vincent's Hospital and professor of clinical neurology at the University of Melbourne, founding director of the Melbourne Neuromuscular Research Unit and the Centre for Neuroscience and Professor of Experimental Neurology at the University of Melbourne in 2001.He just