David Andrew Phoenix OBE DL FREng FAcSS (born 1966) is an English biochemist and Chief Executive of London South Bank University.
He has held Visiting Chairs in Russia, China, Canada and the UK, including King's College London and Sichuan University.
He was awarded a long-term fellowship by the European Molecular Biology Organisation which enabled him to investigate the importance of amphiphilicity in protein translocation at Utrecht University Centre for Biomembranes and Lipid Enzymology.
He continued to work on amphiphilic helices, being one of the first to help characterise their role as membrane protein anchors and identifying key design features of bioactive peptides.
In 2012 he became Chair of UCLan Cyprus Ltd and provided the academic lead on the de novo creation of a private university in Larnaca, obtaining a licence to operate from the Ministry of Education with approval to initially run courses in business, languages, law, computing and mathematics.