Heather Patricia Melville OBE, CCMI (born 1962) is a British banker, Senior Managing Director of Teneo and Chancellor of the University of York.

[1] Melville was director for strategic partnerships and head of business inclusion initiatives at Royal Bank of Scotland Group.

[9] In 2017 Melville was recognized and honoured with an Order of the British Empire for her ‘services to Gender Equality’ and was included in the 2019 edition of the Powerlist, ranking the 100 most influential Black Britons.

In 2022 it was announced that Melville was to become the seventh Chancellor of the University of York, due to her work to "support a real culture of fairness, equality and justice".

[13] She was appointed on 18 January 2023 in a ceremony where she bestowed honorary degrees on the actor Colin Salmon and the banker Dame Alison Rose.