David Mino Allen Green (born August 1952) is an economist and university administrator.
Green is the son of Mino Green (1927âÂÂ2022), a Jewish New York-born electronics scientist, and his wife Diana (née Allen) (- 2012). Mino's father was a jewellery and antiques dealer who served in the anti-communist White Russian army before fleeing the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.
He studied economics at St John's College, Cambridge.
He has been Vice-Chancellor of the University of Worcester since 2003.
In 2017, he accused Tory MP Chris Heaton-Harris of McCarthyism, after Heaton-Harris wrote to him in an attempt to compile a "hit list" of university professors who teach Brexit courses. Green called it "the first step to the thought police".
In 2018, he was appointed a CBE for services to higher education, but faced criticism over his high pay, which was ã319,000 at the time. He has been Deputy Lieutenant of Worcestershire since 2021.
In September 2024, he opposed a rise in university tuition fees, arguing that funding for universities needed to be overhauled as the current system was broken.