website birth_place title birth_date article_title name
-lsb- http://www.bristol.ac.uk/university/vc/ bristol.ac.uk / university/vc / -rsb- hartlepool , england vice-chancellor of bristol university 24 march 1953 eric thomas -lrb- gynaecologist -rrb-
 sir eric thomas
eric thomas -lrb- gynaecologist -rrb-

sir eric jackson thomas fmedsci -lrb- born 24 march 1953 in hartlepool , county durham -rrb- is an academic who was vice-chancellor of the university of bristol from 2001 to 2015 .
from 2003 to 2007 , he was chair of the worldwide universities network and was the president of universities uk from 2011 to 2013 .
