Chris Brink, CBE, FRSSAf (born 31 January 1951) is a South African mathematician and academic.
[6] In 1994 he joined with Gunther Schmidt to organize at Dagstuhl the initial RAMiCS conference on relation algebra.
[12][13] Nationally he has served on the Board of the Equality Challenge Unit (including two years as a Co-Chair),[14] the Board of the Quality Assurance Agency (and its Advisory Committee on Degree-Awarding Powers),[15] and the Advisory Committee on Leadership, Governance and Management of the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
[17] He was succeeded by Professor Chris Day, the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Medical Sciences at Newcastle, in January 2017.
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