| Birth Date: | 7 March 1963 | ||||||||
| Nationality: | British | ||||||||
| Salary: | £354,000 (2021–22)[1] | ||||||||
| Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick | |||||||||
| Term Start: | February 2016 | ||||||||
| Predecessor: | Nigel Thrift | ||||||||
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Stuart Croft (born 7 March 1963) is a British political scientist and the Vice-Chancellor of Warwick University, a position he has held since 2016.[2] He received a Ph.D. from Southampton University[3] and worked at Birmingham University before joining Warwick in 2007 as Professor of International Security. Croft has published widely in the field of international security and counter-terrorism and is a member of the Academy of Social Sciences and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.[4]
On 1 February 2019, Croft published an open letter on the Warwick University website in response to an incident on campus via a group messenger application that resulted in the temporary suspension of 11 individuals.[5] The letter, which does not mention the victims, was criticised in a response on The Boar – a student-run news website that first publicised the incident.[6] Croft later published a follow-up indicating that two of the men whose ban was lifted would not return.[7]