Stephen Shute
Biography
Professor Stephen Shute was appointed the 11th President of the IPPF in 2023. He is the first UK President of the organisation and the first person from the UK to serve on the IPPF Council.
He has been a full professor of criminal law and criminal justice in the UK for over 25 years. He is currently based at the University of Sussex, where he served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor from 2014 to 2021. Prior to that, he worked at the University of Birmingham (as Dean of Arts and Social Sciences and Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor), and at the University of Oxford (as a Fellow of Corpus Christi College).
He has published extensively, and his work has been cited by policymakers, law reformers, and scholars around the world. He has also held a number of significant external roles, including as Inaugural Chair of the Crime Statistics Advisory Committee; Founding Member of the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody; and Founding Member of the Ministerial Advisory Board on Joint Inspection in the Criminal Justice System.