Our Senior team

Lizzie joined the RCVS in February 2005 as Head of Communications, bringing with her 13 years’ experience working in marketing, public relations, communications and public affairs both in the UK and across Europe.

As Head of Communications, and later Director of Strategic Communications, Lizzie and her team were responsible for all of the College’s communications, including media, publications, events, web and digital, design and public affairs. Lizzie was also responsible for managing the RCVS side of the joint RCVS/British Veterinary Association project, Vet Futures.

In autumn 2014, Lizzie set up the Mind Matters Initiative (MMI), alongside its then Chair, Neil Smith. MMI aims to make a difference to the mental health and wellbeing of members of the veterinary team.

Lizzie took up the role of Acting CEO in September 2017 and was appointed CEO in November 2017.

Lizzie is an Accredited PR Practitioner with the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and holds a degree in English Language and Literature from St John’s College, Oxford, a postgraduate qualification in journalism, and diplomas in the History of Art, also from Oxford.

Corrie McCann is the Director of Operations and Assistant Registrar. She is responsible for making sure we have the right working environment, appropriate financial framework in place and, also for registration with the RCVS and maintenance of the registers in accordance with relevant legislation.

Corrie is a Chartered Accountant and has experience of working in the charity sector, the fire brigade, commercial sector and internal audit.

Julie qualified as a veterinary nurse in 1987 after spending her training years in small animal practice in the West Midlands. She quickly progressed to a head nurse position where she became responsible for training student nurses.

Julie’s enthusiasm for encouraging and supporting student training lead her to take a teaching position with a private training provider where she gained considerable knowledge and experience of the UK educational systems and processes. Since leaving full time practice in 2000 she has kept her clinical skills up to date in veterinary practice.

Julie’s position with the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons has been varied; she started as an external verifier, quality assuring student veterinary nurse training programmes and progressed through the ranks to become the Director of the Veterinary Nursing Department.

Julie is responsible for nine members of staff who work to support the Veterinary Nurse Council in the College’s regulatory remit. Specifically, she manages and co-ordinates regulatory functions relating to the Register of veterinary nurses and post qualification veterinary nursing awards.

Julie is Chair of the Accreditation Committee for Veterinary Nurse Education (ACOVENE) and a Board member of the Veterinary European Transnational Network for Nursing Education and Training (Vetnnet) and has, over the past ten years been involved with several Leonardo da Vinci European funded projects developing veterinary nurse training across the European Union.

Lisa is responsible for the people agenda at the College and was delighted to join the team in May 2019.

She is accountable for maintaining and enhancing the wellbeing, performance and development of colleagues at the College with special focus on attracting a more diverse and inclusive team to provide support to the veterinary professions.

In previous roles she has been instrumental in enhancing the performance of HR teams to deliver positive internal and external relationships and has introduced a more automated approach to key activities to provide organisations with a valuable people-led service.

A Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development and with a Masters degree in strategic change, Lisa has worked in various organisations, including financial services, not-for-profit and real estate in HR leadership roles and is accomplished at supporting leaders to grow and develop.

Linda is a highly respected educationalist with 20 years’ experience across the health, and higher / continuing education, sectors.

She initially trained as a scientist and has a PhD in Molecular Virology, however she was drawn to the field of Education from an early stage in her career, and has obtained an International Master’s Degree and PhD in Medical Education from Maastricht University in the Netherlands.

In Higher Education, Linda has successfully held posts of Associate Dean for Learning, Teaching and the Student Experience, Associate Dean (Academic) and also Professor of Professional Education.

Within the NHS, Linda has led a wide range of educational projects on a national level, including the development, validation and implementation of competency frameworks for different healthcare professions, the development of a quality assurance framework for CPD, and a new approach for the successful remediation of doctors with performance problems.

She specialises in assessment methodology, and developed programmatic approaches to assessment for health professionals postgraduate training, as well as quality assuring Royal College examinations.

Linda is responsible for leading the Education Department within the College, including the accreditation of University Veterinary School degrees, oversight and quality assurance of the Certificate of Advanced Veterinary Practice and Specialists register. Linda and her team also develop and implement the Statutory Membership Examination, and are working on a range of new initiatives in consultation with the profession around Graduate Outcomes and outcomes CPD for members.

Angharad Belcher joined the RCVS as Director for Advancement of the Professions in January 2021, with the responsibility for leading a number of College projects founded for benefit of the profession including the Mind Matters Initiative, the ViVet innovation initiative, the RCVS Fellowship, Sustainability, Leadership and the Diversity & Inclusion Strategy.

She was previously Head of Partnerships and head of Congress at the British Small Animal Veterinary Association (BSAVA) where she led Congress’ move to Manchester after 30 years in Birmingham. She also led the design of the 2021 Virtual event, oversaw Congress’ rebrand, and as Head of Partnerships formed strategic partnerships across the veterinary world. During her time at BSAVA she was most known for driving sustainability and diversity projects through Congress and across the BSAVA as well as supporting a range of veterinary initiatives in this space such as Paddle Against Plastic, Learning Without Landfill, Vetlife and the British Ethnicity & Diversity Society (BVEDS).

Prior to BSAVA she had experience of PR, communications and strategic planning across the agricultural and veterinary sector. In all her work she has made it her mission to bring people together to share ideas, challenges and solutions. 

She lives in Cheltenham with her husband, daughter and cat and outside of work is a member of the Bee Veterinary Association and a committee member for the Veterinary Marketing Association.

Her hobbies include baking, reading and spending time in nature.