Aaron Porter is a consultant and journalist, having previously been President and chair of trustees of the National Union of Students during the high profile tuition fee debate during the last academic year (2010-11). He has served on the boards of UCAS, the Higher Education Academy and the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education, has appeared on a range of programmes including Question Time, Newsnight and The Politics Show, and has written for a range of publications including The Times, the Guardian and the New Statesman. Previously Aaron studied English Literature at the University of Leicester, led the students’ union for two years and was also editor of the student newspaper the Ripple as an undergraduate. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.