Sir Michael James Paul Arthur FMedSci (born 3 August 1954) is a British academic who was the tenth provost and president of University College London between 2013 and January 2021.
[5] Arthur was appointed president and provost of University College London (UCL) on 10 December 2012, starting in September 2013, to succeed Sir Malcolm Grant.
[8] Earlier in the next year, UCU voted to strike after 54 staff at the University lost their jobs, in the midst of plans for 700 more to suffer the same fate.
[10][11] As of 2019, Arthur was faced with continuing controversy in his role as Provost of UCL, with 94% of the academics present at an informal meeting in 2018 voting no confidence in the college’s governance.
[13] Arthur first developed his interests in the cell and molecular pathogenesis of liver fibrosis on a two-year Fogarty International Travelling Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco (1988–1990).
In 2002, he took up a Fulbright distinguished scholar award to conduct cell biology research at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.
Other roles have included membership of the Department of Health’s advisory group on hepatitis (1998–2004) and president of the British Association for the Study of the Liver (2001–2003).