About Us / Team

Ms. Sandrea Maynard has been a qualified Barrister-at-Law since 1998 and has practiced both privately (domestic and internationally) and for the United Kingdom’s Crown Prosecution Service. Her journey working in academia began in 2012 as a Senior Lecturer and advanced to an Associate Professor in Law. She has held senior leadership and management roles within UK universities across the sectors of law, business and university group subsidiaries both nationally and regionally, and managed multi-disciplinary and multifunctional teams through globally disruptive changes such as BREXIT and COVID-19. She has been responsible for driving the development of and sustainability of internationalisation in higher education, and managing global partnerships. More recently, her particular focus has been on income generation nationally and globally within Higher Education. She was instrumental in the development of a national curriculum in the criminal justice sector in the UK, and led on, and secured significant government contracts. She has also spearheaded the development and delivery of global executive and governmental training and international student recruitment. PVC Maynard also serves as a Visiting Professor in France and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy UK.

As Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Global Affairs at The University of the West Indies (The UWI) she leads the regional university’s global engagement portfolio and coordinates all internationalisation and strategic global initiatives across The UWI system. She also the CEO and President of the new International School for Developmental Justice. The ISDJ forms part of the new UWI Global Campus, leveraging the high reputation and interlect of this regional university to build capacity and generate revenue as a core part of the University's financial future. As part of her portfolio is the University Office of Global Partnerships and Sustainable Futures (OGPSF). The OGPSF has played a pivotal role in deepening The UWI’s collaborations with multilateral development partners, international foundations, and university consortia. In addition to spearheading the mobilisation of significant funding for The UWI, Ms. Maynard has successfully led several flagship initiatives that have helped to bolster The UWI’s global positioning. Ms. Maynard’s office has coordinated with The UWI’s regional Sustainability Futures initiatives, examples include Global Institute for Climate-Smart and Resilient Development, Centre of Excellence for Oceanography and Blue Economy, Climate Justice Advocacy, International Universities Climate Alliance, Race to Zero Commitment for Universities and Colleges, Future Earth Project and Responsible Futures. Ms Maynard secured and leads the partnership with UNESCO IESALC and UNOSSC with the pilot project, Youth-Led Greening Technology Transfer within the South-South University Cooperation Network (SUCN).