President

The President (currently Olivia Lancastle) is the figurehead of WSC, and is responsible for the overall coordination of its events and day-to-day activities. The role, as one of the two roles necessitated by the Students' Union, was originated at the society's inception by Nick Landau.

Current constitutional responsibilities

• Figurehead(s) of WSC.
• Ultimately responsible for coordinating all activities of WSC.
• Responsible, along with the Treasurer, for the finance of WSC.
• Chairs Exec Meetings, General Meetings, and the Annual General Meeting.
• Maintains good contact with Union Sabbatical officers and works to resolve any difficulties which may arise.
• Responsible for hosting any special events.
• Works with the External Relations Officer(s) to ensure good relationships with sponsors and supports in attracting new ones.
• Ensures that WSC as a whole is working effectively.
• Responsible for sending out appropriate e-mails to the membership on a weekly basis.
• Works with the Vice President(s) to prepare meeting agendas.
• Works with the Vice President(s) to moderate and maintain the Exec and Alumni mailing lists.
• Responsible for overall Health and Safety requirements.
• First port of call for any equal opportunities matters and complaints and should attend the relevant course.
• Responsible for co-ordinating key issuing in accordance with the .Key Allowances and Agreements. document.
• Works with the Vice President(s) to organise and undertake all other roles and responsibilities.
• Shall have knowledge of the code to WSC's safe, and may only distribute the safe code to members that require it.
• Responsible, along with the Treasurer and Chief Duty Manager(s), for ensuring the on-going security of this code, which may include regularly changing the code.

Previous holders of the role

Different tables denote changes in the constitution that led to the creation or dissolution of roles.

Name	Exec(s)	Notes	Vice-President	Treasurer	Films Officer	Chief Duty Manager	Chief Projectionist	Technical Officer	Publicity Officer	Marketing Officer	IT Officer	Events & Socials Coordinator
Daniel Kallin	2024-25	Current role holder	Freya Clinton	Eric Liu	Marnie McCrudden	Muhammad Hashir	James Patt	Position Vacant	Eleanor Armstrong and Martha Gibbs	Dallon Costello and Siddharth Nair	Position Vacant	Tomas Caldon
Olivia Lancastle	2023-24		Daniel Kallin	Ethan Dougall	Zain Mothupi and Dillan Patel	James Patt	Eric Liu	Alex Pointon	Sophie Cooper	Jay Patel	Adam Skrzymowski and Josh Heng	Tomas Caldon
Max King	2022-23		Olivia Lancastle	Alex Pointon	Samuel Chee (resigned December 2022) and Zain Mothupi	Sueda Oktay (co-opted March 2022)	Ethan Graham (resigned January 2023)	Position Vacant	Sueda Oktay (co-opted March 2022)	Ethan Dougall and Sophie Emeny	Adam Skrzymowski	Sophie Cooper
Alex Pointon	2021-22		Callum O'Sullivan	Lachlan Jack	Aryan Aneja and Josh Howard	Sueda Oktay	Barnaby Sproats and Max King		Sueda Oktay	Matthew Sidney-Woollett (co-opted May 2021, resigned January 2022)	Adam Skrzymowski (co-opted September 2021)	Anna Taylor and Sueda Oktay (co-opted October 2021)
	2020-21			Ana Blanco Moreno		Jack Spagnoli	Matt Randell		Sueda Oktay and Jordan Ilan	Eliska Kalinova and Hannah Skillman	Harry Talbot and Toby Bailey	Elena Salmon
Antoinette Clare	2019-20		Jamie Rolinski	Divyah Suresh	Nazish Malik	Matt Potter	Callum O'Sullivan	Alex Pointon (co-opted March 2019)	Christopher Greenland (co-opted March 2019, graduated Summer 2019) then Kieran Hall (co-opted October 2019)	Jamie Lok and Marta Meazza

Name	Exec(s)	Notes	Vice-President	Treasurer	Films Officer	Chief Duty Manager	Chief Projectionist	Technical Officer	Publicity Officer	Marketing Officer	IT Officer	Events & Socials Coordinator	External Relations Officer
Irene Mercader	2018-19		Casper Davidson	Taylor Wilkes	Josh Bullin and Alice Glasgow	Iain Walker	Kieran Hall	Alex Pointon	Nicky Leathard and Anna Solecki	Matt Davies	Benji Levine	Hilla Hamidi (elected March 2018)	Todd Olive
Reece Goodall	2017-18		Anjana Radhakrishnan	Matt Williams	Matt Davies	Caleb Gilliam-Scott			Chris Greenland	Hamish Brown		Lakshmi Ajay	Richard Kirk (resigned May 2017), then Irene Mercader (elected June 2017)

Name	Exec(s)	Notes	Vice-President	Treasurer	Films Officer	Chief Duty Manager	Chief Projectionist	Technical Officer	Publicity Officer	Marketing Officer	IT Officer	Events & Socials Coordinator	Chief Editor
Chris Greenland	2016-17	Elected June 2016	Anjana Radhakrishnan	Alex Holmes	Jacek Kopanski	Matt Williams	Lakshmi Ajay	Alex Pointon	Reece Goodall (co-opted February 2016), then Richard Kirk (elected June 2016)	Hannah Freeman	Joel Speed	Phil Beckett (resigned October 2016), then Mike Le Guillou (elected November 2016)	Dominic Lam
Jonatan Benarroch		Resigned June 2016
Lorraine Li	2015-16		Reece Goodall	Giles Hutchings	Jonatan Benarroch	Anjana Radhakrishnan	Phil Beckett		Emma Smith	Richard Kirk		Joe Lacey	Allie Wyant (graduated July 2015) then Lauren Howard (co-opted November 2015)
Reece Goodall	2014-15	Acting President from December 2014		Allie Wyant	Jess Carroll	Rachel Keighley (from May 2014)	Charlie Roberson		Jordan Flynn (from June 2014)		Thomas Purchas	Bonita Chung	Chloë Pugh
Oliver Brown		Resigned December 2014

Name	Exec(s)	Notes	Vice-President	Treasurer	Films Officer	Chief Duty Manager	Chief Projectionist	Technical Officer	Publicity Officer	Marketing Officer	IT Officer
Kat Sroga	2013-14		James McLachlan	Catherine Allkins	Harry Austin	Natalie Teutsch (resigned September 2013) then Liam McNamara (from October 2013)	Georgina Rawson	Alex Pointon	Alina Haddad	Samuel Kidman	Thomas Purchas
Fergus Cooper	2012-13	From October 2012	Timothy Green (resigned October 2012) then Georgia Ellison (from October 2012)	Edward McCutcheon	James McLachlan	Harry Austin (from March 2011)	Enrik Nako	Robert Maas	Clarissa Gillingham (resigned September 2012) then Katherine Sroga (from October 2012)	Scott Griffiths (resigned October 2012) then Samuel Kidman (from October 2012)	Richard Townsend
Michael Lee		Resigned September 2012
Edward McCutcheon	2011-12		Fergus Cooper	Liam McNamara (resigned November 2011) then Michael Lee (from November 2011)	Oliver Bell		Timothy Green	Alex Ware (resigned October 2011) then Robert Maas (from October 2011)	Joseph Morgan (resigned May 2011) then Louise Formby (from May 2011)	Scott Griffiths (from March 2011)	Matthew Wilkinson

Name	Exec(s)	Notes	Secretary	Treasurer	Films Officer	Chief Duty Manager	Chief Projectionist	Technical Officer	Publicity Officer	IT Officer
Fergus Cooper	2010-11		Sophie Carroll	Nikita Shah (from November 2009)	Owen Rye	Robert Gardner (co-opted February 2010)	Sam Brown (election invalidated March 2010) then Matthew Breeze (from March 2010)	Tim Bradley (from March 2010; resigned November 2010) then Alex Ware (from November 2010)	Linas Trumpickas	Edward McCutcheon
Matthew Gardner	2009-10		Gyonyul Aptula		Robert Gardner	James McLachlan (co-opted February 2009)	Victoria Forman	Matthew Breeze	Owen Rye	Ben Lewis (from March 2009)
Robert Gardner	2008-09		Kathryn Chase	Martin Mee (resigned October 2008) then Pierre Schramm (from October 2008; resigned February 2009)	Sebastian Averill (resigned September 2008) then Matthew Gardner (from October 2008)	Matthew Pusey	Ed Harry (resigned May 2008) then Victoria Forman (from June 2008)	Aiden Peakman	George Marshall	Tim Davidson
James Cotton	2007-08		Eleanor Hutchinson	Helen Coe	Claire Justin	James McLachlan	Maria Shvedunova (graduated July 2007) then Ed Harry (from June 2007)	Tom Hunns
James Emmott	2006-07		Michelle Foy	Robert Gardner	James Cotton		Rachel Crofts	Martin Mee	Victoria Galloway	Matthew Pusey

Name	Exec(s)	Notes	Films and Admin Officer	Treasurer	Chief Duty Manager	Chief Projectionist	Technical Officer	Publicity Officer	Equal Opportunities and Socials Officer	IT Officer
Mick March	2005-06	Resigned June 2005	Mark Gibson	Michelle Foy (elected President June 2005), then Max Leung (from June 2005)	George Marshall	Rachel Crofts (from December 2005)	Martin Mee	Lucy Ayrton (resigned May 2005)	Peter Thomas	Richard Winskill (from May 2005)
Michelle Foy		From June 2005)
Phil Lurie	2004-05		Sebastian Ng	Jacob Wood (resigned October 2004) then James Kopka (from November 2004)	Richard Winskill	Tim Davidson	Nick Marsh	Andrew Maddison	Rosanna Wilson & Jon Downing	Kishan Popal (resigned September 2004)
James Wickens	2003-04		Julie Ngo	Ste Williams	Greg Taylor (co-opted)	Amanda Window	Simon Johnstone	Andrew Maddison	Peter Kirwan	Matthew Knight (resigned August 2003) then Greg Franklin (from December 2003)
Skylar Webber	2002-03		Greg Taylor	Kyra Obolensky	Vicki Robertson	Andrew Maddison	Amanda Window	David Palmer	James Wickens	Jonathan Pallant
Richard Bray	2001-02		Emma Seldon	Jo Loon	Sam Williams	Greg Franklin	Matt Knight	Sophie Robinson	Ben Goddard	Andrew Maddison

Name	Exec(s)	Notes	Secretary	Treasurer	Films Officer	Chief Projectionist	Technical Officer	Publicity Officer	Equal Opportunities and Socials Officer	IT Officer
Dean Martin	2000-01		Andrew Taylor	Adrian Shemmell	Emma Brittle	David Goody	Phil Holbourn	Jon Corfe	Richard Bray	Chris Pendlebury
Alan Chan	1999-2000		Andrew Taylor (resigned), then Aarti Mahbubani	David Goody	Abi Davies	Andrew Maddison	Mark Pickering	Kirsty Stokes	Christopher Campbell	Peter Oliver

Name	Exec(s)	Notes	Secretary	Treasurer	Films Officer	Chief Projectionist	Technical Officer	Publicity Officer
Alan Chan	1998-99		Cyril Morcrette	Tom Kenny	John Shilling/Ed Rolinson	Jon Constances	Mark Pickering	Simon Williams
Andrew Maddison	1997-98		Anne-Marie Little	Philip Manville	Andrew Maddison	Phil Brown	Anthony Claydon	Jonathon Handford {resigned Summer 1997}, then Andrew Maddison & Gavin Porter
Caroline Smith	1996-97		Lawrence Dagley	Gavin Porter				Mark Chambers
Sam Hillyard	1995-96		Caroline Smith	Andrew Boucher, then Meryl Bunnock (from October 1995)	Chris Hughes, then Jeremy Doran (from October 1995)	Ann Masin (resigned November 1995)		Adrian Grimshaw
Steve Marvell	1994-95		Chris Hughes	Andrew Boucher	Alex Craig	Kate Rose	Laurence Claydon	Catherine Lumbers (resigned Summer 1994)
Chris Lloyd	1993-94		Nick Gibbins (resigned)		Timothy Bird, then Paul Hardy	Neil Fowler Wright (resigned), then Jamie Sadler		Kavita Gupta
David Groves	1992-93		Tom Jewel	Simon Brake	Andrew Smaller	Mark Jackson	Brian Marriage	Nicola Mackenzie
Richard Humphreys	1991-92		Sophie Currell	Joseph Lowe	Ian Alexander	Ruth Walker	Richard Foster	David Groves
Paul Capper	1990-91		Mark Wright		Haydyn Brown	Larry Bauer	John Bagguley	Stuart Clark

Name	Exec(s)	Notes	Secretary	Treasurer	Chief Projectionist	Publicity Officer	Technical Officer
Richard J. Cox	1989-90		Gary Young	Steve Shipway	Robert Kibble	John Bagguley	Ian McLernon
Carolyn Hughes	1988-89		Richard J. Cox	B. Otway/Steve Shipway	Paul Maubach	Shi Ruh Lee
Dave Pask	1987-88		Jackie Ramagge	Nikki Kitchener	K. Parnell	I. Stone/Shu Ruh Lee	M. Patton
Jackie Ramagge	1986-87		W. Ingram	R. Tomlinson	J. Betts/J. Haines	M. Schreiber	Dave Towers
Dave Pask	1985-86		S. Mason	W. Ingram	M. Veasay/R. Tomlinson	S. Hall
Nick Butler	1984-85		K. Hathrell	Dave Pask	A. Morton/A. Martin	D. Brothers	R. Matthews
D. Williamson	1983-94		G. Hart	Nick Butler	S. Williams	C. Rees	P. Newton

Name	Exec(s)	Notes	Secretary	Treasurer	Chief Projectionist	Publicity Officer
C. Helks/N. Towers	1982-83		D. Williamson	P. Kewell/Nick Butler	John Buckle	C. Bivens
T. Sparks	1981-82		Nick Young
Nick Forman	1980-81			Nick Young
Adrian Hanson-Abbott	1979-80				Nick Forman
Dave Cook/Nick Morris	1978-79		Niall Cosgrove	Adrian Hanson-Abbott
Chris Tait	1977-78			Dave Cook
Andy Markowski	1976-77			Chris Tait	Dave Buckland
Clive Gardener/Brian Howorth	1975-76			Stephen Spencer
Nick Landau	1974-74			Charles Griffin	Clive Gardener

Trivia

• Only two people have been President for two consecutive years: Alex Pointon and Alan Chan.
• Five people have been President twice: Alex Pointon, Reece Goodall, Fergus Cooper, Alan Chan, and Dave Pask. Both Reece Goodall and Fergus Cooper were Vice-Presidents who served one term as President after a presidential resignation.
• Two execs have seen four Presidents (former, current or future) in their ranks: the 2006-07 exec and the 2012-13 exec.