Amatey Doku is the current Vice President for Higher Education and Deputy President at the National Union of Students. He is the former President at Cambridge University Students’ Union and in that role was Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Union and also a Trustee of the University of Cambridge.
In that role he is also on the Board of Trustees for NUS and was appointed as Deputy President by the NUS President, Shakira Martin.
Before taking up his position within the NUS, Amatey had served for a year as the President of Cambridge University Students’ Union. In that role, he was a Trustee of the University of Cambridge, by virtue of his position, as well as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Students’ Union.
Amatey graduated in 2016 with a BA in Human, Social and Political Sciences, specialising in Sociology. His dissertation, titled “Is Oxbridge Institutionally Racist?” focused on institutional racism across the HE sector using Cambridge as a major case study.
He studied at Jesus College Cambridge and was heavily involved in student representation, elected first as the independent College Council student representative before being elected as President of the Jesus College Students’ Union, representing 800 students at the College.
As Vice President for Higher Education, Amatey will be leading work on tackling institutional racism across the HE Sector, taking a lead on the NUS’s Brexit strategy and working closely to embed student representation alongside the implementation of the HE reforms.
