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became professors at the Australian and now continuing with a life of 1940s National University here in Canberra, its own, in which more than thirty Australia. He encouraged me to learn dramatists were invited to revisit David Grove (1941) to play the recorder, as he did! the entire Shakespeare canon and At 96 the most exciting thing present versions that were completely that happens is the birth of great- intelligible to a contemporary audience grandchildren. My fifth was born in while changing as few of Shakespeare’s January to Melody Grove, actress; her 1950s original lines as possible. As expected, sister, Leila Feld, lawyer, is expecting considerable controversy followed the sixth later this year. Good to Professor Barry Cox (1950) this project in the American press, know that my genes will continue to Well, at the age of 87, it seems the but in the case of the two plays for flourish, albeit somewhat diluted. time has come to let my computer which I was responsible, both have cool down – though I hope to keep already received sumptuous, full- Hyla Holden (1942) my body warm for a few years more! A scale productions at the Alabama Rather deaf and wobbly, I continue few years ago, I published the last of Shakespeare Festival, under the to write – music and musings my research papers on the structure direction of a British-born and (neither publishable). I also play and evolution of a group of fossil -trained director, Geoffrey Sherman; viola occasionally in a string reptiles older than the dinosaurs. Now, and, judging by audience and critical quartet. No awards except those I have finally sent off to the publisher reaction, the risks of undertaking that I decided to claim recently for the last, tenth, edition of my book this experiment were fully justified. military service during the Second Biogeography: An Ecological and Evolutionary World War and later in Palestine. Approach, which has been in print ever Professor Ian Macdonald (1952) since 1974. During that time, Wiley/ For the first time since I have been Edward Gelles (1944) Blackwell’s have sold some 80,000 sending a contribution to the Balliol About 20 years ago I began my study copies in the English edition, there is a News and Notes, I have nothing novel of Jewish history and the millennial Brazilian edition, and I’ve no idea how to report. I continue to teach public migrations of European Jews. This has many copies the Chinese sold in the policy (for better or worse, there is no become an inter-disciplinary approach two versions in that language. I shall shortage of material) at York University involving history, genealogy, genetics, now have to find something to do in in Toronto, play Oldtimer ice hockey onomastics, and other ancillary my newly increased spare time – but twice a week (mainly for my own subjects and includes the study of I know that my wife, Marie-Helene, amazement), and prepare to drink a genetic admixtures between ethnic will welcome that! Floreat Domus! toast to Balliol and other formative groups. The results of my ongoing influences in my life on the occasion work – including my published books Professor Hugh Burkhardt (1952) of my 90th birthday on 27 June 2019. – can now be seen on the College’s Was the winner of the first Emma Archives & Manuscripts website Castelnuovo Award of the International Sir Geoffrey Owen (1952) under ‘Papers of Edward Gelles’. Commission for Mathematical Having retired from teaching at the Instruction ‘for the practice of LSE, he is now head of industrial Emeritus Professor Malcolm Whyte mathematics education’, jointly with policy at Policy Exchange. (1948) his Nottingham colleague Malcolm I gave a talk to a Probus Club recently Swan. Robert Kernohan (1953) as part of a session on the Rhodes Reduced mobility and other Scholarship Scheme, about my Kenneth Cavander (1952) inflictions of age have reduced my experiences as a Rhodes Scholar in Staged readings of my versions of writing, broadcasting, and travelling. the ‘Peculiar Scholars’ scheme for two late Shakespeare plays – Timon of But my wife and I managed a totter ex-servicemen. Although I did not Athens and The Tempest – will take place to London for the wedding of our reside in the College, I was relatively in New York City, at CSC Repertory granddaughter Juliet. The speech of closely associated with it. The moral Company Theater on 22 June and 29 her father (Hugh Kernohan, 1977) tutor allotted to guide me was Sandy June respectively. These readings are sustained the eloquence of Balliol, Ogston (1929, Fellow and Tutor in the culmination of a project begun but the splendid occasion was very Physiology, 1937–1960). We both later by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, much an Imperial College affair.

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John Ford (1954) a beautiful baby girl, Evelyn Linda them they are not technically ‘Irish His latest book, Rudolph Ackermann & the Lauriente, on 25 October 2018, twins’ but the dynamic is much the Regency World (Warnham Books, 2018), in Richmond, BC, Canada. same. As all who have been there know, has been well received in terms of both grandparenting is all joy. Otherwise scholarship and book production. Professor John- I played wing man for my son, who Christopher had ‘gardening leave’, having left one John Littler (1954) Spender (1957) investment bank for another, on Recently downsized and moved to The Institute travel through Morocco and Israel last Woking, to be near my daughters. of Ethical December. The camels we rode in the Pleased to become a great-grandfather Leadership Erg Chebbi desert were Xman and Bob on 26 December, on the arrival of at Rutgers Marley. I still teach trial practice every a delightful great-granddaughter. Business School fall at George Washington Law School Helping to set up a group to study has appointed John-Christopher and occasionally try my hand as ‘second global warming in the local U3A, and (JC) Spender as its first Emeritus chair’ in civil trials. I would enjoy seeing singing with Woking Choral Society. Research Fellow. This position is any and all who may be passing through for retired scholars who have had or near the Washington, DC area. The Revd Dr Peter Davison (1955) distinguished academic careers and are For the last seven years Sabine and still actively engaged in research that Dermot Glynn (1959) I have lived in Dundas, Ontario, is related to ethics and leadership. Very pleased to say my eldest conveniently close to our three sons and granddaughter has been offered a their spouses, our six grandchildren, and Anthony Sperryn (1957) place, subject to A-Level results, to my sister and her family. In the last year, Anybody who wants to see what I have read physics at Balliol. for the second time, I have been interim been occupied with of late is invited priest-in-charge at St James, Dundas, to Google my name (and search the The Revd Dafydd Miles Board (1959) but I expect to be back in retirement by extended entry). Also, to look at the Since my web-based poetic/allusive the summer. Many of us are concerned public items on my Facebook page, work on motherhood, inc. Alma with the political populism which in particular, my album ‘My Claim Mater, to which I devoted all my seems to be a mask for libertarianism to Fame’. This is not journalism creative effort this last decade (http:// at best, or neo-fascism at worst. May in a conventional sense, but it is a conceptabercraf.com/new3/storymaster. we find leaders who will care not only contribution to the cause of saving html if you’d like to follow icons to my for the common good today but for the our world and caring for its people. I rich Oxford Years), I’ve had a baleful well-being of future generations whose spend quite a lot of time reading and reminder of getting ill at Holywell future is precarious. Part of my hope commenting on various, mostly political Manor with a sort of derivative resides in Balliol and its succeeding Facebook pages and websites. This is, smallpox and encephalitis in 1962. In generations of members. Floreat Domus! incidentally, party political, but my basis the affected arm where all that started is my membership of the Church of from that Balliol-time vaccination gone Professor Thomas Sherman (1956) England, which, at present, seems to be very wrong, I’ve had two recent cancer Book published by Oxford University getting it more or less right. I would add operations, the latest in November Press in 2018, which makes reference that I am on public record for stating 2018, which removed all the lymph to A.G. Ogston (1929, Fellow and Tutor my view that the policies of the current glands from the damaged underarm. in Physiology, 1937–1960), Baruch British Conservative government are Plus slight leukaemia. Frankly, the Blumberg (Master 1989–1994), Oliver incompatible with Christianity. worst of it has been paralysing fatigue. Smithies (1943 and Honorary Fellow No matter. I’ve had 80 fine years, for 2004–2017), and R.P. Bell (1924, Sir Richard Heygate Bt (1958) Pete’s sake! All passion duly spent. But I Fellow 1933–1967, Honorary Fellow I am still enjoying my unique role do not lack support. My close family of 1967–1996). Entitled Energy, Entropy, and as international consultant to one of 29 progeny plus partners and offspring the Flow of Nature, it has been kindly China’s largest state owned entities. Also greeted me just before the op with a called by WorldCat.org ‘A fresh and I am a partner in Beyond Laboratories, splendiferous 80th birthday celebration unified exploration of the laws that a UK/China company that raises serious – as we say here – ‘up Wales’. May I govern natural change, examining money for UK innovation. Met the CEO use our new photobearing facility the historical roots and meaning of of Oxford University Innovation (OUI) to include you, my dear and ancient the concepts of energy and entropy.’ at a dinner in Balliol Hall and learnt contemporaries, into it (if you are still A copy is in the Balliol Library. how Oxford, OUI and the well-funded on earth. Even, hopefully, if you aren’t)? OSI (Oxford Sciences Innovation) Harry Johnstone (1957) are now firmly UK leaders in this Has retired as General Editor of the space. Very much looking forward distinguished series Musica Britannica to working with my old university. after 17 years at the helm. Henry Lloyd (1958) Brian Richardson (1957) Much of my time is now spent with My wife and I were blessed with the my grandchildren, aged six, a boy, and birth of our first great-grandchild, five, a girl. With 14 months between

NEWS AND NOTES 2 Anthony Williams (1959) SF and fantasy in London, in November 2017 for a It is bliss having given up being in Avilés in the three-year term. Richmond is a private chairman of the Bristol branch of north of Spain, not-for-profit university established the English Speaking Union and and I was guest Cristina Macia in 1972 and the only university to hold just taking a back seat at meetings. of honour at both US and UK degree-awarding

NEWS AND NOTES I am still president, still enjoying conventions powers. I am also now a governor playing golf – I’ve just returned from in Sweden and of Aiglon College, an HMC and IB the Pedagogues North Norfolk tour, France. Also, boarding school in the Swiss Alps, playing 36 holes at Brancaster and regarding food, and took over as chair of the Aiglon 18 at Sheringham – and enjoying my we visited College Association earlier this year. grandchildren, three of whom are the giant taking their GCSEs this summer. permanent Reid Chambers (1962) gastro-exhibition Eataly in Bologna. On 11 April 2019 I was honoured by the Federal Bar Association’s section Andrew Hallan (1961) on Federal Indian Law with a lifetime 1960s What job gets you to Kabul airport achievement award for my advocacy of but no further? In the middle of the Indian rights, both when I served as David Gordon (1960) mess of migration, I have become chief Indian lawyer at the Department Maggi and I moved to California from a human rights monitor of forced of the Interior from 1973 through 1976 New York in 2013 to be closer to our two returns of failed asylum seekers from and thereafter as a private practitioner sons, one of whom has since produced the EU. I started doing this for forced in Washington, DC, representing a grandchild and married a lovely returns from Luxembourg in 2010 Indian tribes and tribal organisations. Brazilian lady. We live in Sierra Madre, and became a founder member of the a small village within the boundaries EU pool of monitors in 2014. I have John Moisson (1962) of Los Angeles County, in the foothills been responsible for the development In 2015 I was awarded a distinction of the San Gabriel mountains. When I of the monitoring protocol, and I by the Open University for my MA got here, I discovered my contemporary am flying missions with different dissertation, ‘Anglo-Catholicism and Chris Brennen (1960) was nearby – but police forces every month and acting the “Condition” of Frome 1852–1886: he has since gone East. I am president as a trainer for new monitors. What Liturgy or Charity?’, inevitably relying of the local small theatre, on the board I am doing is just a very small part on the work of Simon Skinner (Keen of an extraordinary history museum in of implementing realistic border Fellow and Tutor in History). Culver City about the Cold War, and still management for the EU. I do it in the a (founder) director of Profile Books, spirit of the Schuman Declaration of Professor the Hon Robin Wilson which, as a private company, has not 9 May 1950: ‘L’Europe ne se fera pas d’un (1962) yet aged me off the board. I hike a lot, coup, ni dans une construction d’ensemble: elle Two more books have been do pilates, have a trainer and eat many se fera par des réalisations concrètes créant recently published: Robin Wilson oranges – but do not drive a convertible d’abord une solidarité de fait.’ When I meet and Amirouche Moktefi (ed.), The (yet). Visiting Balliolites of any my colleagues in different European Mathematical World of Charles L. Dodgson generation welcome – but we tend to be cities there is always this common (Lewis Carroll) (Oxford University in London during Pathfinder season. determination to build something that Press, 2019); and June Barrow-Green, works. It is a world away from a narrow Jeremy Gray and Robin Wilson, The Nick Vanston (1960) view of the EU as a trading bloc! History of Mathematics: A Source-Based During the annual British Screens Approach (Mathematical Association Film Festival in Nîmes this March, Richard Morris (1961) of America, 2019). In March 2019, in I met Daniel-Konrad Cooper (2002), Nothing of great import to report; at Boca Raton, Florida, I was presented producer of the film Dead in a Week my age, continued existence is possibly with the Stanton Medal by the (Or Your Money Back). Its blend of something of an achievement. I have Institute of Combinatorics and its heartless humour and heartfelt prostate cancer, slightly complicated by Applications, for ‘outreach activities emotion was much appreciated. having also had one of the rarer blood in combinatorial mathematics’. cancers (essential thrombocythemia) Ian Watson (1960) since 2013. Seem to have become Robin Gilbert (1963) In April in my capacity as a science something of a lay expert on the latter, When the 2019 Cheltenham Poetry fiction writer I’ll be giving the keynote but nothing positive to say about the Festival is done and dusted, I shall address at a three-day conference in former. Still try to keep physically be hanging up my co-Director’s the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at active, but Aberdeenshire terrain has hat and wearing the bottoms of the University of Oporto, Portugal, encouraged me to succumb to the lure my trousers neatly rolled. regarding food resources and of electric assistance for the bicycle. sustainability in utopian/dystopian Professor Graeme Davison (1964) settings, the conference title being Nicholas Tate (1961) Last year I published Hugh Stretton: ‘More Meals to Come’. As every year, my I was elected chairman of the board of Selected Writings (LaTrobe University wife Cristina and I co-organised Celsius trustees at Richmond University – The Press/BlackInc). In his prime, Stretton 232, the biggest international festival of American International University (1923–2015) was one of Australia’s

3 FLOREAT DOMUS JUNE 2019 NEWS AND NOTESNEWS leading intellectuals and a social Roy Hay (1965) Bob Wallace (1965) democratic thinker of international My new book, Philosophical Mysticism in Plato, stature. A Victorian Rhodes Scholar Aboriginal People Hegel, and the Present: forthcoming (1946), he was elected a Fellow of and Australian in fall 2019 or winter 2020 from Balliol before his Modern History Football in the Bloomsbury Publishing. Finals, taught alongside Christopher Nineteenth Century Hill (Master 1965–1978) and his (Cambridge Graham Arthur (1966) lifelong friend economist Paul Streeten Scholars, After seven years organising the Isle of (Balliol 1944, Tutorial Fellow in 2019), has been Jura Fell Race I handed over to a new Economics 1948–1966, Professorial published. team last year, ran the West Highland Fellow 1968–1978, Honorary Fellow Way race in a fraction under 24 hours, from 1986), and returned to Australia as Hubert Murray (1965) and started the process of joining a Professor of History at the University I have finally graduated from full-time Highland mountain rescue team. My of Adelaide in 1954. His prolific writing professional employment. Now that son, previously president of OULRC, on values in history and the social I march to my own schedule I am as coached Oriel to Torpids headship. sciences, city planning, economics, busy as ever, designing and developing housing and the environment owed a kindergarten in Aida refugee camp Stuart Baldock (1966) much to the intellectual milieu of in Bethlehem; writing articles and Celebrated 50 years of living in Balliol in the post-war years. giving talks on architectural and France and birth of fifth grandchild. urban responses to a warming planet; Very happy to be a French citizen Sandy Gray (1964) and working on creating mobiles and and still working as a partner in A big birthday passed two and half other non-functional structures in my our property consultancy, travelling years ago, putting up travel insurance studio. Of the nine ‘high impact’ and between France, UK and Greece. rates. Nine months have already ‘high probability’ risks identified by Thirty-fifth wedding anniversary this passed since our golden wedding the World Economic Forum in 2019, year. Onwards, and usually upwards! anniversary. Gloom about domestic six relate directly to the design of our and global politics is offset by keeping built environment. I am pleased to Stephen Bergman (1966) very busy with being in charge of a have chosen the As Sam Shem (my pen name) I have local group which records churches right profession, recently seen my first novel, The House for the Arts Society/V&A; running our sorry only that of God, about medical internship – 3 local Speedwatch group, which tries to our political million sold – celebrate its 40th educate drivers (with some success!) to leadership fails birthday. It was honoured in 2016 proceed more safely; battling property to recognise its on Publishers Weekly’s list of ‘The Ten developers as they try desperately importance in Best Satires of All Time, as #2 (#1 Don to ravage the Conservation Area we planning for a Quixote, #3 Catch-22). NYU Medical live in (with somewhat less success); collective and School, at which I have been Professor and, amongst many other good equitable survival of Medicine in Medical Humanities, things, thoroughly enjoying our four of the species. Literature, and Bioethics, celebrated granddaughters, who are growing up with a colloquium: ‘The House of God far too quickly. No basis for complaint! Professor Brian Tanner (1965) at 40: Healing Then and Now’. In every Like a number of retired physics speaking engagement I make, on the David Willington (1964) professors, I have become fascinated five non-iced-over continents, I talk My second novel was published with the history of science. I have about the same thing: ‘Staying Human in September last year. One of its been fortunate to be a member of in Medicine: The Danger of Isolation themes was the Resistance to Hitler the genuinely interdisciplinary and the Healing Power of Good and naturally Adam von Trott (1931) Ordered Universe project studying Connection’. Big news: the sequel to The appears. I am hopeless at DIY and the scientific works of the 13th- House will be published in November in do not play bridge. Therefore I need century polymath Robert Grosseteste. the USA by Penguin/Random. It’s called an indoor occupation for the long Prior to retirement in 2016, I thus Man’s 4th Best Hospital and it focuses on Scottish winters. I am working on managed to publish scholarly articles medicine now. While medicine has another novel, set in Palestine during (in reputable places) in the three done marvellous things, in the USA the time of the British Mandate. An disciplines of science, social science, despite spending $10,000 per person, it interesting period, with plenty of and arts and humanities. Somewhat is 39th in the world for quality, below controversy and action to work into unexpected outcomes have been public Togo. Somebody had to write about this the narrative. I enjoy the research talks in the last six months at light in ‘fiction’, and I guess it’s me. As the almost as much as the writing. art festivals in Napa, CA and Poole, narrator, Roy Basch, says, ‘I’m called to and a forthcoming paper at the Leeds write of a time when medicine could Bill Drayton (1965) International Medieval Congress in go one of two ways: either toward Elected a Member of the American July. Together with much double bass more humane treatment, or toward Philosophical Society, America’s and organ playing and continuing to money and screens (computers), oldest learned society (founded by chair the County Durham Economic which means money and money. The Benjamin Franklin in 1743), April 2019. Partnership, I am kept out of mischief. general public does not realise that

NEWS AND NOTES 4 the screens are not designed for good 2019). The reviews covered all the bases! a climate warrior if it’s not too late. treatment, but are billing machines.’ I Paperback to follow in September. I’ve also started using my middle envision that, because of the icon status name, Patrick, hoping finally to ditch of The House, the new Man’s 4th will Andrew Buxton (1968) Nigel. I should have done that 50 enter the conversation of healthcare I had a dance published last year by years ago when I arrived at Balliol.

NEWS AND NOTES reform in the upcoming presidential the Royal Scottish Country Dance election. And I owe my writing to the Society, ‘Farewell to Balfour Road’. Professor David Ulph (1968) Rhodes and Balliol: having failed my In October 2018 I was appointed as a first writing class as Harvard I figured Professor Anthony Ferner (1968) Commissioner on the Scottish Fiscal that since I was 4,000 miles away, A new novel, Life in Translation (Holland Commission, the body that provides I could try again, in a marvellous, Park Press, 2019), Anthony Ferner’s independent forecasts to the Scottish exciting place and time, Balliol and the third novel to come out since he Government and Scottish Parliament resistance movement that helped put retired as a professor of international of the flows of revenue arising from the civil rights laws on the books and business in 2014, concerns a literary devolved taxes and spending. It plays a ended the Vietnam war. And resistance translator who finds it hard to broadly similar role to that of the Office is called for even more vitally now. make sense of the opaque syntax of Budget Responsibility in England. of his own life and relationships. Professor Roger Eatwell (1966) Professor Lawrence Keppie (1969) Co-authored (with Matthew Goodwin) David Gartside (1968) Published Pontius Pilate: The National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal A recent addition to my modest Scottish Connection (2018). Democracy (Pelican, 2018), which was volunteering portfolio has been Sunday Times Books of the Year choice. helping a community group promoting The Hon Bob Rae (1969) a small-scale hydro plant adjacent to A productive year! As we approach our Professor Benjamin Fine (1966) an existing weir on the River Dane 40th anniversary my wife Arlene and I retired after 20 years at Birkbeck in Cheshire. They seem to think my I are now grandparents to five (four in and 27 years at SOAS. particular area of expertise is health 2018). Leaving elected politics in 2013, and safety. My involvement is focused I received Canada’s highest civilian Philip Kendall (1966) on trying to manage the wilder honour, the Companionship in the Adopted a year-old rescue dog flights of impractical construction Order of Canada. I am now counsel from Cordoba, a Ratonero fantasy generated by the enthusiastic to OKT LLP, a law firm focusing on Bodeguero Andaluz. Very energetic. committee, while supporting them in indigenous law and policy, and am Anyone with a rat problem in getting all the necessary permissions also a Professor of Public Policy at their wine cellar can call me. from a range of authorities – all of the University of Toronto, which whom proudly boast their green includes a cross appointment to both Andrew Scull (1966) credentials, but can often prove the Law School and Victoria College. My new book, Psychiatry and Its remarkably reluctant to do anything Since the fall of 2017 I have served as Discontents, will be published by the that might result in any tangible action. Special Envoy for Canada to Myanmar, University of California Press in dealing with the Rohingya refugee August 2019. Roger Harrison (1968) crisis. My report ‘Tell Them We’re Moved back into our own home Human’ was published a year ago, John Blakely after 14 months of repairs post house and a second report is coming soon. (1967) fire. New granddaughter (sixth). I’m also working on a new book, my My second book, fifth. Warm memories of Balliol. The Persuasion of Peter Hutchinson (1968) Love, has been I now have three wonderful published by grandchildren, who bring so much Circle Books. It fun and love. I have probably retired is an exposition (for the second time) after four of the idea that years consulting mainly in Paris. ‘the meaning of the universe is Professor (Nigel) Patrick Thomas love’ and offers reasons for suggesting (1968) that care for the environment is at the Following my retirement in September heart of Christian belief – or should 2017 I am of course as busy as ever – be. An endorsement by the Dean of St chair of trustees at our local theatre, Professor Lindsay Watson (1969) Paul’s Cathedral says ‘read it with joy’. helping support two Syrian refugee I have just published Magic in Ancient families, and still doing various bits Greece and Rome (Bloomsbury Academic, Professor Francis Green (1967) of research, writing and lecturing. In 2019), my first fully fledged foray into a My book, co-authored with historian other news I am now a grandfather: our topic which has been of long-standing David Kynaston, was published in son Gwyn and his wife Jess produced interest, and my third monograph February: Engines of Privilege: Britain’s Kushla Non on 24 February. Needless to appear since retirement from the Private School Problem (Bloomsbury, to say she is wonderful, and will be University of Sydney in 2012. The first

5 FLOREAT DOMUS JUNE 2019 NEWS AND NOTESNEWS two of these volumes were co-authored Michael Hodges (1970) some joint concert trips keep me in with my wife and colleague Patricia Published The Knights Hospitaller in close touch with Neil Robinson (1974), Watson. Golf being now sadly at an end Great Britain in 1540 (St Omers Press, and also with Tim Boardman (1975). due to back problems, I divert myself 2018); The Urns and Sepulchres of Mortality: with improving my Italian via courses The Church Monuments of Wiltshire (St Richard Grant (1972) in Sydney and Italy itself, along with Omers Press, 2018); Roll of Deceased I retired from my full-time career in opera-going in the UK and Europe British Members of the Order of June 2017 having completed 23½ years as and performing in amateur opera (a Malta from the 19th century to 2018. Finance Director of the Cadogan Estate run of Don Giovanni, with myself as in Chelsea, London, a privileged and Leporello, is just coming to an end). We Professor Ronald King (1970) generally enjoyable role for many years. now divide our time between Australia Professor Emeritus of Political Science Somewhat by chance I now find myself and Europe, with eight months in at San Diego State University, Ronald acting as a non-executive director for a the former (we have never regretted King has been named recipient of the number of property companies based moving from Sydney to the beautiful university’s Alumni Association Award in London, some listed, some private. Blue Mountains in 1995), and four for Outstanding Faculty Contributions. This affords a much improved work–life months in the latter, based mostly in His latest book, Removal of the Property balance and gives me a chance to spend our Summertown flat, which allows us Qualifications for Voting in the United time on a variety of leisure activities. I to avail ourselves of the resources of the States: Strategy and Suffrage (Routledge am part way through a circumnavigation Sackler Library. As ever we look forward Press), was published in late 2018. of Great Britain on our Nelson 45 to catching up in July–September motor boat. Currently we have reached with old friends from Oxford days. HE Philip McDonagh (1970) the west coast of Scotland and we I’m principal author of a report are planning to return south through Professor David Williams (1969) published in January, ‘Religion the Irish Sea and round Land’s End, I have been hugely fortunate in being and Security-building in the OSCE aiming to be back in our home port of able to keep in touch with Oxford life Context’, and I continue to work in Chichester towards the end of May. in recent years with two term visiting the same general area at Princeton positions at Exeter (2009), St John’s and at the Edward M. Kennedy Nicholas Morris (1972) (2014) and Corpus Christi (2017). As my Institute (NUIM) in Ireland. Last year I published Management and career as a full-time academic drew to Regulation of Pension Schemes: Australia: a close in December 2018, a flurry of Sir David Gilmour (1971) A Cautionary Tale (Taylor and Francis). awards have come my way: Honorary My book The British in India: Three Centuries Also I received a new appointment Fellow of the American Society for Legal of Ambition and Experience (Allen Lane, as Adjunct Professor, La Trobe Law History (2017); Honours Tie from my 2018) was published in September 2018. School, Melbourne, Australia, and old school, Wanganui Collegiate School my Visiting Professorship at China (2017); and election as a Fellow of the Nigel Bryant (1972) Executive Leadership Academy, Royal Society of New Zealand (2018). Following The History of William Marshal Pudong, China, was renewed. What is pleasing is that the citations (2016), I have published a translation of for each of these awards mentioned another chivalric biography, The Song of Neil Record (1972) my contributions to advancing Bertrand du Guesclin (Boydell & Brewer, In 2018 I became a grandfather to scholarship on the rights of indigenous 2019). George, the son of my eldest son peoples in post-colonial societies. Chris (2006). I’m seeing a surprisingly Given that my work of such issues Martin Fisher (1972) large number of Balliol alumni at the was dismissed and much maligned I retired in August 2018 after 42 years free-market think-tank the Institute early in my career, it is very satisfying in trading standards with Hampshire of Economic Affairs, which I chair. that such work is now considered County Council and Cornwall Council. These include Mark Littlewood (1990) important and worthy of accolades. I was made a Fellow of the Chartered (Director General), Professor Patrick Trading Standards Institute in 2014, so Minford (1961) (Trustee) and Shanker had presumably done something useful Singham (1986) (Head, International in that time. I am now at the point of Trade & Competition Unit). I am 1970s packing second and last daughter off also in touch with Charlotte Leslie to Aberystwyth University. My main (1997), who lost her seat as MP for Peter Cookson (1970) social activities these days are a return Bristol NW in 2017. I am retiring Term of office as chairman of the to choral singing, and helping run a as Vice-Chairman of Governors at British Association of Barbershop chamber music society in Truro, for Magdalen College School, Oxford, in Singers completed at the end of which I now write all the programme December 2019; I have given up all 2018. Commenced a part-time notes. So overdue thanks to Balliol my roles at Nuffield College, Oxford, Master’s research degree at York Chapel Choir and the Musical Society: with the exception of the college’s University in April 2019. Topic of long may they prosper. Membership Remuneration Committee, which I study is ‘Blend in Close Harmony of the Cornwall branch of the chair. Rather rashly, I have also recently A Cappella Singing’. Back to using Oxford Society stimulates the brain become Chairman and funding co- the analytical tools I learned about occasionally, and also the taste buds! founder of a tech start-up, operating in all those years ago at Balliol! Family visits to and from Stafford and the health sector; I have done enough

NEWS AND NOTES 6 unsuccessful start-up investing to Paul Taylor (1973) an invitation to direct a well-funded have known better – but hope, as they Is now a contributing editor for the and immensely exciting programme say, springs eternal! Finally, I remain news website POLITICO, where he of aerial archaeology around Al-Ula Chairman of Record plc, the currency writes the ‘Europe at Large’ column, in Saudi Arabia, the outcome of two specialist firm I founded 36 years ago. and a senior fellow at the Friends of feature articles on my work in The New

NEWS AND NOTES Europe think-tank, for which he writes York Times. Officially 1½ days a week for Professor Martin McLaughlin (1973) reports about European defence. His two years but nearer 4–5. Happily I have Retired as Agnelli-Serena Professor publications are available at www. four talented staff to make it all happen, of Italian at Oxford in September friendsofeurope.org/index.php/project/ and whirling in a helicopter above the 2017. In the same month he received european-defence-cooperation-studies. superb landscapes and archaeology of the British Academy’s Serena Medal He retired from Reuters in 2016 after the Hedjaz is magical. Publications in for services to Italian literature and 39 years as a foreign correspondent, Roman archaeology continue (most culture. In 2018–2019 he is Francesco bureau chief, diplomatic and European recently a chapter on Christianity in the de Dombrowski Visiting Professor at affairs editor with numerous postings rural landscape of ancient Philadelphia Harvard’s Villa I Tatti in Florence. in Europe and the Middle East. He and (modern Amman). A more recent his wife Catherine live in Paris with interest in the western travellers ‘East Denis Nowlan (1973) their two children and soon-to-be of Jordan’ in the 19th century led to an I am alarmed to realise that I three grandchildren, and in Provence. article on those who visited Petra in have completed 30 years working He became a citizen of France in 1857. My 70th birthday in 2018 was the for the BBC, the first half in 2019, retaining his UK nationality. opportunity to spend a weekend with programme production, the second He decided to apply for French old friends from my undergraduate in commissioning and channel citizenship after being denied the right days at the University of Manchester management. I am now Head of to vote in the 2016 UK referendum on (1971–1974). Some I had not seen since Station Management for three national European Union membership because we graduated but are now retired and stations: Radio 3, Radio 4 and Radio 4 he had lived more than 15 years as grey/white as I am. We continue to Extra. Like other broadcasters, we are abroad … in the European Union. spend half of each year in Oxford, a preoccupied with the historic shift delightful base for modest walks along from linear schedules to on-demand Martin Edwards (1974) the Thames Path or Oxford canal, a daily listening and viewing. However, the I have had an interesting couple of run round Port Meadow (for my wife) underlying mission remains the same, years as chair of the Crime Writers’ and longer supported walks (in north- yet seems more relevant than ever: to Association, while also serving as eastern Spain and along the Ridgeway in report and interpret our age truthfully president of the Detection Club; my 2018). In 2019 it will be Hadrian’s Wall. and impartially, in all its complexity; seven predecessors in the latter role to share the best that is being thought include G.K. Chesterton and Agatha Giles Vardey (1974) and said in the world; and to tell Christie. I’m the latest recipient of the I am now an executive coach working stories and play music that enrich the CWA Dagger in the Library, awarded with senior managers and CEOs as I lives of the widest possible audience. by UK librarians for a body of work, complete my MSc in Coaching and and last autumn my book for the Behavioural Change at Henley Business James Ramage (1973) British Library, The Story of Classic Crime School. Thoroughly enjoying helping In November 2018 I jointly received in 100 Books, received the Macavity people; otherwise I continue to enjoy the Institute of Physics Katharine award from board work and veterans rowing. Burr Blodgett Gold Medal and Mystery Readers Prize for outstanding and sustained International. Professor Ronald Beiner (1975) contributions to the application of My latest novel, Published Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, physics in a commercial context. Gallows Court Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right (Head of Zeus), (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018). Neil Stuart (1973) has just been Well, I am afraid that I haven’t published in Derek Delves (1975) written a book, received an award paperback in the I am living in Vienna, Austria or had a baby. I have had two letters UK (see page 17 in (partial) retirement from the published in the Daily Telegraph in the of Floreat Domus). International Atomic Energy Agency last couple of months on that topic. I after 31 years of service, for which have also renewed acquaintance with Gary Jenkins (1974) I received the IAEA’s distinguished Steve Venables (New College, 1972) Has moved to Brighton with his son service award. I was fortunate to meet (the first Brit up Everest without Nicolas. HE Philip McDonagh (1970) and his oxygen) who was a fellow member wife Dr Ana Grenfell-McDonagh while of the OU Mountaineering Club and Professor David Kennedy (1974) Philip was Ambassador of Ireland to we are planning climbing together I retired in October 2017 – 41 years the Organization for Security and in Spain in May. I continue to try since I first started on a lectureship at Cooperation in Europe in Vienna, to find European climbs that are Sheffield, and ending with 27 years at and I participated in Balliol Master’s easy enough for me to get up: it is the University of Western Australia. seminars that Philip hosted. I am becoming increasingly difficult. Work soon returned – in the shape of still chairman of the Vienna 1% for

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Development Fund, which has detachment, while trying to work out supported 319 community development how to keep their reasonable deal with projects in 72 countries since its the EU – a sort of Swembrace (not a inception. Present and former staff Swexit as we are still outside). At least members of UN System organisations climate change has started to come based in Vienna pledge to contribute at onto the political agenda at last, at least least 1% of their incomes to the Fund. in Switzerland. On the family front, The 1% Fund was endorsed by my younger son Áedán is in his third former United Nations Secretary year at the ETH in Zurich (Electrical General Kofi Annan. I co-founded the Engineering and IT) and apart from Fund in 1985 – inspired in part by the running his start-up he is also project Refugee Scholarship Fund which I and the Resurrection’ in Pastoral managing an IT project with a budget had helped to run at Balliol and the Review 15 (2019), 56–61; ed. with Johan of CHF 1 million. Not bad for a University in the 1970s. I was pleased Bergström-Allen, Revisiting the Fountain of 22-year-old! His brother Seán will start to learn that it has been reconstituted. Elijah: Essays in Honour of Wilfrid McGreal studying Life Sciences at the ZHAW in (Edizioni Carmelitane, 2018). I attach Wädenswil, near Zurich in September. Dato’ Dr M. SHANmughalingam a photo of myself with Sir Ronnie In the meanwhile he is working on (1975) McIntosh (1939), a member of a parish ecological projects as an intern. My wife My new book of humorous short run by the Carmelite Friars [who has become Chief of Staff for the Design stories, Marriage and Mutton Curry, died 1 April 2019 at the age of 99]. Department of the Zurich University published by Epigram Singapore, is of the Arts. I am still studying. In the No. 1 on the MPH bestseller list in Russell Campbell (1976) meanwhile I have two Certificates of Malaysia. It covers three major periods A year and a half into life as Resident Advanced Study in Design Thinking and in Malaysia’s history, i.e. British Malaya, Judge at Taylor House, London’s Design Technologies and am halfway the Japanese Occupation and the early immigration and asylum tribunal through CAS Design Cultures. This years after Independence. HRH Sultan hearing centre. Bewitched every year, I aim to complete the Master of Nazrin Shah has commented: ‘Dato’ day by Clerkenwell’s lanes, coffee Advanced Studies in Strategic Design. Dr Shan is a master storyteller, as this shops and delis. Both daughters Otherwise, my employer is forcing me collection amply demonstrates.’ Many gainfully employed. Progress! into early retirement, but I am already other comments are available at https:// getting involved with a start-up myself! shop.epigrambooks.sg/products/ Professor Jonathan Michie (1976) I’m also still active on the music front, marriage-and-mutton-curry, where The third edition of my edited book The mostly singing and conducting singers. an e-version is also available. Storytel Handbook of Globalisation (Edward Elgar has just acquired the audio rights. Publishing) was published in April 2019. Francis Dodds (1977) The obituaries for John Prest (Fellow Chris Turner (1975) Mathur B. Bijoy (1977) and Tutor in Modern History 1954– A lot of revision taking place in the Teaching science to middle school 1996, Emeritus Fellow 1996–2018) in Turner household: my son Charles with children has opened a new dimension the 2018 Annual Record reminded me his GCSEs and myself with photography of the teaching–learning process. of the formidable team of history qualifications. Putting together a 40 Using the Oxford tutorial system and tutors – Maurice Keen (Fellow and years since leaving Oxford celebration space-ed., we managed to have children Tutor in Modern History 1961–2000, for Balliol and St Hugh’s chemists. perform at high levels of excellence. The Emeritus Fellow 2000–2012), Donald memory of Professor Stephen Hawking Pennington (1938, Tutor in History John Was (1975) is nostalgic because he worked in the 1965–1982, Emeritus Fellow 1982–2007), The state pension at last! I don’t science area when I was in College. Colin Lucas (Fellow and Tutor in suppose anyone wants Oxford Studies in History 1973–1990, Master 1994–2001, Ancient Philosophy (48 volumes spanning Andy Buchanan (1977) Honorary Fellow) and John – given the 30 years), assiduously (sit venia verbo) I have just published World War II in unenviable task of moulding this ill- copy-edited and typeset by yours truly? Global Perspective, 1931–1953: A Short formed intellect into something capable History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2019). of critical analysis and argument. I’ve The Very Revd Dr Kevin Alban (1976) tried to repay my time at Balliol by Published ‘Fighting Lollardy with David Christie (1977) deploying those skills in the world of the Rule: Thomas Netter and the A year ago (and the year before that!), academic publishing, a sector I’ve now Doctrinale’ in M. Sauer and K. I wrote about Brexit and Trump. We worked in for over 30 years (proving Alban (eds), Celebrating St Albert and watch on with incredulity how those the adage that those who can do, those his Rule: Rules, Devotion, Orthodoxy and two stories are still unfolding, or who can’t teach, whilst those who can’t Dissent (Edizioni Carmelitane, 2018); perhaps unravelling. The actual Brexit do either publish the other two). In ‘Carmelite Marian Studies in the date has become fuzzy. Meanwhile, between my duties as Editorial Director, Twentieth Century’ in Sentire cum ecclesia repressive autocrats are in power in I’ve found time to publish a few articles Festschrift for Christopher O’Donnell O. many places around the world, some reflecting on trends in academic Carm (Edizioni Carmelitane, 2018); even in the EU or nearby. The Swiss publishing and apparently now have ‘Beauty in the Liturgy: The Carmelites retain their own particular sense of an impact factor (though, in my case,

NEWS AND NOTES 8 slight dent would be a more apposite (Routledge, 2018) has just been The Construction and Establishment of description). In 2018 I celebrated 25 published, and a collection of my essays Trans and Non-Binary or Genderqueer years of marriage to Philippa and entitled Language, World, and Limits: Essays Identities in a Trans Youth Group’. just over 20 years of being a father in Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics to my daughters Imogen and Isobel (OUP) is due out in the summer. Tom Minney (1979)

NEWS AND NOTES (all three are still talking to me, so I Tom is a consultant, focused on capital count myself a success). I’m currently John Sloan (1978) markets development in Africa. He the most unlikely of entrepreneurs My most recent book, Robert Louis is also a journalist and writer, mostly as co-founder of Burleigh Dodds Stevenson: A Life in Stories (VesaliusUK), about African business, maintains a Science Publishing which, though it was published in 2018. blog and writes for Chartered Institute sounds like a second-rate wrestling for Securities and Investment, as act, is having some impact publishing The Revd Michael Wilcockson (1978) well as editing. With all the children monographs in agricultural science. I have been busy writing several graduated and working, there is more We hope to play our part in a more religious studies textbooks for the new chance to explore new ideas, such as sustainable agriculture able to feed the A-Level and for the new Key Stage 3 how blockchain technology transforms 9 billion people expected on the planet Theology, Philosophy and Religion business in Africa (and UK). Based by 2050. Looking back, though Balliol course which I have been developing in London, he also enjoys advising was a sometimes traumatic experience – all published by Hodder Education. small and medium enterprises – on for a shy, state school pupil, it set a I was ordained deacon in the Church governance, investors and strategy. standard for excellence and engagement of England at Christ Church, Oxford, to which I still aspire each day. last June and am now curate at Eton Daniel Nanavati (1979) College – probably the first one for My mother, the poet Shanne Sands, Professor Neil Harris (1977) more than a century. I retired as died in July 2016. So begins the second The birth of a daughter, Anjuli Commanding Officer of Eton College chapter in my life. Launching Blueskin Ellen Harris, on 5 November 2018 CCF but plan to join the Royal Army Saves America in Detroit this August. (mother Shéza Moledina). Chaplains’ Department at the end of Have been in Washington, DC for four this academic year once I am priested. months avoiding the White House. Jeffrey Hawthorne (1977) This will be my final year at Eton Met up with Nancy Ann DeParle (1979) Having spent 35 years teaching after 23 years; in July we will return to and Bennett Freeman (1979) – great science and promoting international our house just south of Cambridge. evening. Appointed European Editor educational links, I was inspired by for the journal New Art Gazette. Happy to a Balliol friend to train for Licensed Ian Harnett (1979) hear from anyone interested in writing Lay Ministry in the Anglican Life continues much as before for clearly and with passion about art. Church and my wife and I are now Sara and myself. I continue to help into our second year. However, my run Absolute Strategy Research, Penny Phillips (1979) four grown-up children are not an independent economics and After 35 years in book publishing I am always impressed if I have an essay investment strategy research and jumping ship, and from 29 April I shall crisis! Our jazz band continues to consultancy business, and Sara remains be the Sub-Editor of The Oldie magazine. play monthly in St Christopher’s Deputy Head at Godolphin & Latymer There’s life in this old(ie) dog yet. Hospice restaurant and we are also School in Hammersmith. Our son, playing for their Fun Walk in May. George (2007), was appointed Counsel The Revd Dr Stephen Spencer (1979) in the International Dispute Resolution In 2018 appointed as Director for Neil Johnston (1977) Team at Squire Patton Boggs. Our Theological Education in the Anglican Sharing my time between the UK daughter Elizabeth (Jesus College, Communion, based in London. Also and Grand-Champ, Morbihan, Oxford, 2010) was awarded a DPhil for published Growing and Flourishing: The France, where I kayak, sail, cycle her thesis ‘Responsible Investment Ecology of Church Growth (SCM Press, and walk (old friends welcome). and ESG: An Economic Geography’, 2019). Volunteering includes helping with analysing the mainstreaming of maths and science in a primary school responsible investment knowledge and in Stevenage and teaching French practice from an economic geography children to make (English) bread! perspective. She now has a position 1980s as a Postdoctoral Research Associate Richard Fisher (1978) with the Oxford Sustainable Finance Mahir Ali Khan (1980) Since January 2018, I have been Programme in the Smith School. My wife and I had the delightful Deputy Chairman of Yale University experience of becoming first-time Press and Vice-President of the Royal Andolie Marguerite (1979) grandparents when Olivia was born Historical Society; I was winner of I am now Dr Marguerite. I studied for on 30 March to our son, Rahul, the Lifetime Achievement Award for my PhD in the Education Department and daughter-in-law, Lisa-Marie. British Academic Publishing, 2018. at Goldsmiths. I successfully defended my thesis in October 2018. The title Professor Hilary Carey (1980) Professor Adrian Moore (1978) is: ‘Who Do They Think They Are and Hilary Carey has published Empire of A third edition of my book The Infinite What Do They Think They Are Doing: Hell: Religion and the Campaign to End

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Convict Transportation in the British Empire, Officer for the British Business Bank, a module on Learning Design at the 1788–1875 (Cambridge University helping to set up and create the UK’s end of May. Celebrated 25 years of Press, 2019). This campaign had some development bank. Am now the Chief marriage to Wanda Pelczynski at parallels with the anti-slavery campaign Risk Officer for Homes England, the the New Year. Zoe graduated from and used some of the same tactics, government agency responsible for Goldsmiths in English and creative including the extensive involvement delivering on housing policy. Have also writing, while Toby is both a fashion of religiously minded advocates advised the Nuclear Decommissioning student and part-time employed, for reform and later abolition. For Agency and Land Registry on the working regularly on London and Paris a blog post which looks at some of Risk Management Frameworks. fashion shows. Still mates with friends the issues see www.cambridgeblog. from across the University. Long may org/2019/03/empire-of-hell/. There Angela Jackman (1981) that last! ’Til our dying days, I suspect. are also interesting Bristol links with I was granted Fellowship of the Higher the convict trade, which you can read Education Academy in October 2018. David Waller (1981) about in another story: www.bris.ac.uk/ Published The Reputation Game news/2019/march/empire-of-hell.html. Jonathan Ostry (1981) (Oneworld, 2017), co-written with I have published two books: Taming the Rupert Younger, which is all about Geoffrey Carr (1980) Tide of Capital Flows (MIT Press, 2018); how to build and hold on to a Published a novel (my first!). A techno- and Confronting Inequality: How Societies good reputation in business and thriller about artificial intelligence, Can Choose Inclusive Growth (Columbia private life. Moved to Bermondsey called Genesis (Elsewhen Press, University Press, 2019), the latter and grew a beard, so at last in my 2019). Still running the Science and with a foreword by Nobel Laureate fifties I have become a hipster! Technology section of The Economist. Joe Stiglitz. I have also co-edited, together with Nobel Laureate Robert Alan Whiteley (1981) Christopher Gallop (1980) Shiller, Sovereign GDP-Linked Bonds: After a small disagreement with 37.5% Pleased and proud that Cloudfm, Rationale and Design (CEPR Press, 2018). of the UK voting population and the facilities management company I was appointed a Research Fellow their seeming animus towards our I joined as a business advisor in 2013 at the Center for Economic Policy neighbours in Europe, Andy and I have when it was still a start-up and where Research (CEPR) in London in 2018. I upped sticks and moved to France. We I am now Group Managing Director, continue to serve as Deputy Director are now quietly establishing ourselves has been granted a Queen’s Award of Research at the International in Poitou-Charente, having taken on for Enterprise, in the Innovation Monetary Fund, though I will assume a wonderful property, and are slowly category. We opened offices in Dublin new duties shortly as Deputy Director improving our language skills while and Barcelona over the past year and of the Asia-Pacific Department. simultaneously enjoying good cuisine, now employ well over 300 people. sampling fine wines and tackling the Professor Jane Stapleton (1981) complexities of French bureaucracy. Duncan Taylor (1980) In 2018 I delivered the Clarendon La vie est belle, as they say over here. We are now living in Oxford and I am Lectures in Law, Oxford University; doing all those things I should have received the John Fleming Prize in Timothy Galpin (1982) done but never did as an undergraduate Tort Law, a biennial international Dr Galpin defended – including going to lectures. Alas, I award for outstanding contributions his PhD dissertation, no longer have the appetite or stamina to the field; and was awarded the ‘Repealing the Glass- for doing all the things I like to think degree of Doctor of Laws (honoris Steagall Framework: I did when I was a student, so living causa) by the University of Adelaide Deregulatory here is a very different experience in acknowledgement of distinguished Impact and Policy second time round. A number of old service to the law in Australia, the Considerations in Historical Context’ Balliol friendships have been rekindled United Kingdom and the United States. at the University of Maryland, recently, and with the prospect of Baltimore County, on 3 April 2019. an imminent second Gaudy within Jonathan Vernon (1981) the space of four years (just like the Engrossed in developing online Kenneth Lee (1982) proverbial buses) I hope that there learning using video and virtual reality. Making the regular trek from will be more coming down the line. Coaching swimmers to national events Lancashire to Oxford once again, as and about to spend the Easter weekend my younger son is reading classics at Peter Telford (1980) at the London Aquatics Centre. Brasenose. Never thought that the old I spent six happy and interesting Digital Editor for education charity gown would see the light of day again. months of 2018 in Stamford, the Western Front Association. And Connecticut, on secondment. so riled by Brexit politics that I find Patrick McGuinness (1982) Just how my US colleagues came myself a town councillor candidate and In 2018 I left government service after to hear about University Challenge potentially an MEP candidate as the more than 33 years, latterly as the lead (1982) I still want to know. May 2019 election season approaches. in Cabinet Office on National Resilience Not satisfied with MAs in geography, and Security. I am now enjoying a Mark Gray (1981) history and education, let alone sports portfolio career as a Senior Adviser Spent the last five years as Chief Risk coaching qualifications, I am starting at Brunswick Group and working

NEWS AND NOTES 10 with investment funds on emerging John Lazar (1983) Thomas Hirschfeld (1984) technologies for cyber security and David Cohen (also 1983) and I have Together with his daughter Leila national security purposes. Government launched Enza Capital to invest in early- Hirschfeld, Tom Hirschfeld has just is still using me as an envoy on access stage African technology companies published It’s Up to You, Abe Lincoln to data in the context of Brexit. I live that are tackling pressing problems. (Crown Books for Young Readers,

NEWS AND NOTES near Oxford and am joining the Master 2018). A children’s biography, it on an Oxford Internet Institute- Professor Murray Pittock (1983) focuses on the ten key choices organised commission on elections and Chaired the Scottish Heritage Lincoln made in his life. It is the technology. I am also proud to be chair Partnership project on the evidence first in a series of biographies of trustees at St Joseph’s Hospice in base for the future development of Tom and Leila are publishing with Mare Street, E8, looking after the sick immersive technologies in heritage, Random House. It’s Up to You, Ben and dying of Newham, Tower Hamlets, collections and visitor attractions, Franklin is due for release this fall. Hackney and the City. Balliol folk which was funded by UK Research & willing or able to help are welcome! Innovation as part of the Audiences Jens Meurer (1984) of the Future section of the UK Judy Tossell and Jens Meurer (1984) are Mary-Anne Newman (1982) Industrial Strategy. The policy report still living and working as film-makers I started planning this year for life: was launched at Scotland House, in Berlin. Judy is currently producing phase three, having decided that London, on 21 March 2019. He is also Dead & Beautiful, a vampire comedy set I have spent a third of my life on currently being funded by the Scottish in Taiwan. Jens is in Cromer, filming a education and a third on building a Government for the first full economic kind of Brexit feel-good documentary pension pot (assuming I live until impact study of a writer, ‘Robert Burns about the world’s last ‘End of Pier’- I’m 81). I’m currently toying between and the Scottish Economy’, which show – old school on 16mm. Our son two options: doing a George Orwell reports in late 2019, and published Jasper decided not go to uni in the UK in a Jura bothy, or making like Hester Enlightenment in a Smart City (Edinburgh following the 2016 referendum, and is Stanhope and going off on a mad travel University Press, 2018), which uses studying European Culture and Politics scheme – I haven’t yet decided. In the modern urbanist and innovation in Groningen, Holland. Good man. meantime I’ve been working on an theory on early modern data to show investigation for the Department of how Enlightenment happened. Rupert Read (1984) Health and I am currently trying to Published a new book called A Film- write up a very complicated report. Professor Christine Sypnowich (1983) philosophy of Ecology and Enlightenment Will take leave from her position (Routledge, 2018). Book cover review: Daniel Walker (1982) as Head of Philosophy at Queen’s ‘Rupert Read is one of the most I am still working at Liverpool University, Canada, to come to Oxford significant environmental philosophers University, teaching various aerospace- as a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College alive. He is changing the way people and control-related subjects. Research in Trinity 2020, to work on her book think about and talk about the interests still in linear multi-variable about fellow Canadian and Oxford catastrophe of anthropogenic climate control and multi-body dynamics, political philosopher G.A. Cohen. She change. Any thinking person who especially as they apply to rotary- is also currently researching questions cares about non-human animals or wing aircraft. Son James (19.9.96) and of political philosophy and cultural about our ecological crisis – and that daughter Karina (19.12.98) grown up heritage, following up her book means any thinking person – will want and making their own way. Took my Equality Renewed: Justice, Flourishing and to read this book.’ Gary Francione C and C+E (class 2 and 1) licences in the Egalitarian Ideal, which came out in (Board of Governors Distinguished 2016 and 2017 respectively, and drive paperback in 2018 with Routledge. Professor of Law and Nicholas deB. articulated lorries around the country Katzenbach Scholar of Law and a fair old bit, which makes a change. Nozomu Takaoka Philosophy, Rutgers University, USA). Just about got the hang of reversing, (1983) Aside from that, my talk on climate and can now (usually) put a 45’ Tri- Since October 2018, change to Cambridge University Axle trailer where it needs to go. (My I am serving as students in November last year has Balliol education wasn’t wasted.) Consul General of been receiving a lot of attention, Japan in Edinburgh. with over 58k views to date!: www. Professor Matthew Bell (1983) youtube.com/watch?v=uzCxFPzdO0Y Thanks to the generosity of the Professor John Derrick (1984) Leverhulme Trust, I’m on study leave New book published, with Eerke Emma FitzGerald (1985) from this summer until January Boiten: Refinement: Semantics, Languages We moved to Geneva in January 2919 2021. Time to finish Goethe: A Life in and Applications (Springer, 2019). so that I could take up the role of CEO Ideas. May also get another dog. of Puma Energy, a global integrated Professor Sean Freeman (1984) energy solutions business with an Bridget Fox (1983) Chair of Science Board, Science emerging market focus. We are now I will be starting a new job by the and Technology Facility Council spoilt for choice in terms of outdoor end of May: Regional Head of 2016–2018. Head of School of pursuits to spend our weekends on. External Affairs (London and South Physics and Astronomy, University Our big dilemma is whether to buy East) at the Woodland Trust. of Manchester, 2017–. a car or a boat! David also graduated

11 FLOREAT DOMUS JUNE 2019 NEWS AND NOTESNEWS with a first- blockchain-based security product fence for the first time – and have been class honours for industry’s internet of things. exploring NZ coasts and lakes as the degree in Scandinavian sport of Swimrun takes engineering Theresa Heskins (1986) hold down under. and design I’m having quite a summer, transferring from the Open my production of Around the World Anne Houtman (1987) University in in 80 Days to New York and Florida, I am currently Provost and VP for 2018. We had then returning home to transfer The Academic Affairs (and Professor of a very happy Worst Witch to the West End. It would Biology) at Rose-Hulman Institute day with all feel impossibly glamorous if it of Technology, Indiana. On 1 July I his parents wasn’t such hard graft – so somehow will become the President of Earlham celebrating it feels just like business as usual! College, also in Indiana (https:// his success. earlham.edu/news/article/?id=67477).

Mridul Hegde (1985) Mark Kotecha (1987) In 2018, I joined the board of HSBC Nita and I were blessed with a beautiful, Manuel Harlan UK, where I chair the Risk Committee. healthy daughter, Tara. Would love to hear from any old and new friends. Professor Ahuvia Kahane (1985) Has been appointed Regius Professor Joe Carey (1988) of Greek (1761) and A.G. Leventis In 2014 I resumed my childhood hobby Professor of Greek Culture at Trinity of breeding and exhibiting pedigree College Dublin from August 2019. chinchilla rabbits. In December 2018 He remains Senior Associate at our adult buck won the coveted Sir the Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Edward Morgan (1986) William Ingram Gold Cup, which Studies in the University of Oxford. My company Northern Town made a is awarded for best in show at the BBC documentary in 2018 about Hull National Chinchilla Rabbit Club Professor Howard Brown (1986) campaigner Lillian Bilocca, leader (NCRC) adult stock show. In the same Professor of History at Binghamton of the women who fought for safer year we won best chinchilla at both University, SUNY, Howard G. Brown shipping after the triple trawler tragedy Bradford and London 5* Championship has recently published his fourth of 1968. We made Final Say with the shows (Crufts equivalent) and won book, Mass Violence and the Self: From brilliant Diana Athill for Sky in 2019. 18 out of the possible 23 national and the French Wars of Religion to the Paris With Hugo Dixon, I helped to set up regional chinchilla stock shows plus a Commune (Cornell UP, 2018). new pressure group, Common Ground, few open shows (all breeds). In 2020 to work for a fairer Britain where the the NCRC celebrates its centenary year Michelle Cale (1986) underlying problems that fed Brexit are and I am currently writing a book that I am in my third year as the board addressed. 2019 is the 25th anniversary reviews both the history of the club chair – and seventh year as a board of marrying Mog. Our three boys, Will, and the development of the breed since member – at the Women’s Foundation Arthur and Charlie, are young men now its introduction from France in 1919. of California, looking forward to being and making their own way in the world. If any Balliol members are interested part of the leadership for its 40th in a lovely chinchilla rabbit as a pet or anniversary celebrations (and engaging HE Nigel Casey (1987) exhibiting, then please contact me. in major fundraising!). I have also Is enjoying being back in South returned as an Oxford student, enrolled Africa, this time as British High in the Advanced Undergraduate Commissioner, 25 years on from his Diploma in Local History (online), first diplomatic posting there at the which is significantly more nerdy than time of the end of apartheid and anything I studied as an undergrad Nelson Mandela’s election as President. the first time round. Duncan and I are still living in California, but our John Hancock older daughter, Katherine, is also at (1987) Oxford (Jesus College) in the second I’ve been a year of her engineering degree. Our member of the younger daughter, Charlotte, is horse- New Zealand obsessed, which led me to my current Government’s role as the District Commissioner Electricity Price at our local Bay Area pony club. Review Expert Advisory Panel Duncan Greatwood (1986) for the last year February 2018, became the CEO – fascinating James Harris (1988) of Xage Security Inc, based in to be on the I have been elected a Fellow of Palo Alto, CA, which has created a other side of the the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

NEWS AND NOTES 12 Professor Charles Spence (1988) solutions, products, etc. Targeting recently completed my doctorate His Gastrophysics (Viking, 2017) was formal launch at G20 Riyadh, 2020. in developmental and educational awarded the Académie International de psychology. la Gastronomie’s Prix de la Littérature Graeme Garrard (1990) Gastronomique 2019. AIG’s goal is to Published this year my (co-authored) Martin Meenagh (1991)

NEWS AND NOTES nurture and promote national and book How to Think Politically: Sages, I was called to the Bar in 2008, after regional cooking cultures and culinary Scholars and Statesmen Whose Ideas Have lecturing in universities, and then went heritages all around the world, while Changed the World (Bloomsbury, 2019). into the independent teaching sector. encouraging creativity in contemporary Since 2016, I have been Principal of cuisine. Each year, AIG awards Professor Andrew Hone (1990) Chelsea Independent College, but have prizes to individuals or institutions I have spent just over a year as a kept my hand in academically by editing who distinguished themselves in a Visiting Professorial Fellow in the dictionaries, writing articles, teaching specific country at a national level. School of Mathematics and Statistics on university alumni courses, and at the University of New South Wales, doing the odd bit of online teaching. I Lai Yahaya (1988) Sydney, since September 2017, as part of am married, and live in west London. I was appointed Senior Special my five-year EPSRC Fellowship project Assistant to President Muhammadu ‘Cluster Algebras with Periodicity Professor Saam Trivedi (1991) Buhari of Nigeria, in charge of policy and Discrete Dynamics Over Finite I was recently promoted at work and and strategy. I have since resigned, Fields’. Jemma came with me, as well am now a Professor of Philosophy and have relocated to Kenya. as Laura, Merlin and Shantih, and at Brooklyn College, New York. we’ve all had a wonderful time with My book Imagination, Music, and the Professor Neil Ghani, 1989 beaches, bushwalks, and a road trip Emotions: A Philosophical Study (State I’ve become Head of Department along the Great Ocean Road. I’ve been University of New York Press, 2017) of Computer and Information back in the UK for a few months doing was issued in paperback in July 2018. Sciences, University of Strathclyde. some lecturing in Kent and London, but am spending a bit more time in Binnie Goh (1992) Gareth Johnston (1989) Sydney this year as the younger two Together with Ross Breckenridge In September I moved to the Executive children continue to benefit from their (1991), I moved the family to the San Office at Stormont, to be Director for Australian experience a little longer. Francisco Bay Area, taking a two-year Human Rights, Victims, and Equality. Laura is now working in London and career break from the Civil Service. Needless to say, the absence of an is taking up a place to read human, We had a marvellous time exploring Executive and Assembly since early social, and political sciences at Clare Anglo-American cultural differences 2017 represents an unprecedented College, Cambridge, this September. and discovering some unfortunate challenge for civil servants here. political similarities. We returned Outside work I chair the board of Alan Taylor (1990) in August 2018 to find that Brexit the Rainbow Project, Northern From Berlin to Marrakech, and aiming hasn’t really moved along since we Ireland’s largest LGBT charity. for the home ground of Ireland. left. I am back in the Civil Service Meanwhile: again, I will be co-editor and am in charge of data protection Shed Simove (1989) of and contributor to the 21st Century legal policy at the Department for As a professional speaker on creativity, Film, TV, and Media School Project. Our Culture Media and Sport. I’ve only sales and guerilla marketing, I continue Volume 2 will focus on the teaching and experienced a few months of the to present to blue chip companies and learning of directing, which was not Brexit maelstrom and am in awe of organisations around the world. I’ve also included in Volume 1. It will ‘serve as colleagues who have had years of it. just released my latest app, Deets (short an axis from which to reflect on every Despite all this, I am happy to be back. for ‘Details’), which allows you to create aspect of screen art, craft and business, a digital business card on your phone such as new platforms, modalities Radu Ispasoiu (1992) and swap your contact information of expression, narratives, and After many years, I visited Balliol by simply moving it next to someone digitization, along with the evolving with my wife Jenny and daughters else’s mobile. I’m currently seeking relationships between directing Jasmine and Daisy, shown in the genius coders, partners and investors and other screen crafts’ (CILECT: photo below in the College grounds. to help launch this idea worldwide. Centre International de Liaison des Ecoles de Cinéma et de Télévision).

Professor Ruth Chang (1991) 1990s Has been appointed to the chair in jurisprudence at Oxford Richard Cayzer (1990) and a Professorial Fellowship I have founded www.G20Cyber.ai: at University College. fractionalised cyber marketplace, targeting military, communications Mark Harrison (1991) and finance sectors, independent I have worked in schools in Hong brokerage of #1 or #2 named advisors, Kong for the last 18 years and have

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etc.) For more information, please Books, 2017) was translated and see www.joshharlan.com. published in China and I look forward to buying a few while I’m there! Becky Ashton (1995) While my work as Head of Strategy In September 2018 we adopted a at Harman International lets me brother and sister aged four and three. get into interesting new spaces like Smart Cities, I also see new worlds Carsten Flohr (1995) through my 15-year-old twins: my I was recently promoted to a chair in son’s blog critiquing recipes and my dermatology at St John’s Institute of daughter’s work as the NY ED of Dermatology, King’s College London. Coalition Z, which facilitates political advocacy among the youth both make me an extremely proud mom. I’ve spoken about innovation and transformation this year in Trinidad and Tobago, DC and NYC – you can find me at TheCareerCatapult.com and on Twitter @roopaonline.

Sam Carr (1996) Got divorced, moved house (not unrelated), very much back on my Professor Alex Jadad (1992) feet with my two kids. Working I contributed to creating and describing at Tesco HQ in Welwyn, building the best integrated healthcare software to make shopping better. It network in the world, featured in was fantastic to catch up with people my book Trusted Networks: The Key to I hadn’t seen for 20 years at last year’s Achieve World-class Health Outcomes on Gaudy. You’ve all not changed a bit. a Shoestring (Beati Inc., 2018). This could be of great potential value to the Ben Lynch (1996) NHS at this time of crisis. I received Published the 14th edition of the 2018 ASMEDAS Global Award for MacGillivray on Insurance Law last year, Contributions to Human Well-Being, with the First Supplement coming and was selected (by an international out later this year. If you don’t like panel) as a member of the Council of insurance law, I would advise against the Wise for Colombia, a group charged reading this from cover to cover. with generating recommendations Eleanor Richardson (1995) to help guide the country’s future As well as working as a property Michael Rans (1996) in the following 25 years. solicitor through Keystone Law, in My transformation from atheist to my ‘spare time’ I run a branch of Christian several years ago continues Josh Harlan (1994) the Family Network in East Surrey to have repercussions in my life. I am Facebook, Inc. recently installed to support mums and dads and glad that I pursued my calling to work Spectrum Fragments, an installation anyone else who runs their business in the humanitarian sector, leaving the commissioned from Josh Harlan, in around other family commitments, world of investment banking behind. one of their headquarters’ buildings in whether that is looking after children My spare time is spent on writing Menlo Park, CA. Josh makes geometric or looking after parents or other articles for a subreddit that I started abstractions derived from data sets relatives. I provide child-friendly about cruciform theology – that Jesus’ and visualisations that he encounters business networking opportunities life reveals the character and nature of in the course of his work in New and affordable workshops, and also God: www.reddit.com/r/cruciformity/. York as an investment fund manager. run a Twitter hour on a Monday Spectrum Fragments is comprised of evening. I have grown the East Surrey Geoff Cowling (1997) eight dye-sublimation metal prints, branch from 350 when I took over Tara and I had a great trip back to the each of which is a fragment derived nearly two and a half years ago to 1,500 UK in March with our family, catching from of a chart of US spectrum business owners in the East Surrey up with the English clan and celebrating allocations. (Spectrum allocation, or region and have been recognised for our fortieth birthdays with friends, frequency allocation, is the allocation the work I received by winning the many of whom are also Balliol 1997. and regulation of the electromagnetic Outstanding Contribution to the spectrum into radio frequency bands Family Network in March this year. Rose Grimond (1997) by the government, enabling uses I started the business Nettlebed such as broadcast television, AM Roopa Unnikrishnan (1995) Creamery, which is an award-winning, and FM radio, cellular telephony, This has been an exciting year. My artisan, organic cheese-making business aircraft and satellite communications, book The Career Catapult (New Page about 20 miles south-east of Oxford.

NEWS AND NOTES 14 Chris Nattrass (1997) Freddie. I’ve been working as an Professor Paul Williams (1999) I have lived in New York City for 15 advisor to entrepreneurial founders Professor of Atmospheric Science years and teach English and creative for the last five years, most recently as at the University of Reading, Paul writing at Columbia Grammar and Chief of Staff for a medicinal cannabis Williams was a key on-screen Preparatory School. I spent several start-up in London and Jamaica. contributor to two recent Channel

NEWS AND NOTES happy summers at the Bread Loaf 4 documentaries (The World’s Wildest School of English in Middlebury, Weather, Britain’s Wildest Weather) Vermont, working towards my MA which were watched by 1.5 million degree. In July 2018 I got married viewers. Two of his scientific studies to Anne Lind at an apple orchard appeared in Carbon Brief’s list of the in Altamont, New York. I’d like to top 25 climate papers with the most thank Balliol alumni Phil Jockelson media coverage. Paul recently spent (1997), Gabrielle Lynch (1997), Chris a period in residence at the Max Davenport (1999) and Emma Lindsay Planck Institute for the Physics of (1998) for joining the celebrations. I Complex Systems in Dresden, and he play the double bass in various groups, has given seminars internationally in including the Dirty Waltz Band, and Honolulu, Montreal, New Orleans, can be heard on Rebecca Hart’s most Virginia, Nanjing, Paris, Munich, recent album The Magician’s Daughter. Barcelona, Amsterdam, Dublin, and Toulouse. He recently won a £5,000 prize for his work in forecasting aviation turbulence; see Floreat Domus Jonathan Baggs (1999) 2019 page 14 for more information! Working hard as regional director at the Institution of Civil Engineers, responsible for member activities across London and south-east England. 2000s Also learning lots as a parent governor at my sons’ primary school. I will be Ella Kaye (2001) marking 20 years since matriculation Ella and her wife Natasha were thrilled by picking up my Oxford MA. to welcome their daughter, Esther Alexcia Kaye, born on 29 January 2019. Andrew Copson (1999) Published Secularism: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2019).

Niall Kennedy (1999) After a few left turns in my career, James Orr (1997) academic and otherwise, including I have been appointed University some years spent abroad, I finally Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion completed a PhD, in Modern French at the Faculty of Divinity in the Philosophy, at the Centre for Research University of Cambridge. in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University London, in 2017. Mark Bell (1998) Since September 2018 I have been Was recently named Head of working in the French department of Family Office and Private Capital at Trinity College Dublin and planning Daniel-Konrad Cooper (2002) Balentine, a boutique asset manager a book on the question of authorship Works as an independent film producer in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr Bell is also in the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. through his company Rather Good in his 12th year as a Senior Research For my first-year literature classes I Films Ltd and this year released his Fellow and Lecturer in Finance at have been greatly enjoying using, as enigmatically titled hitman comedy Emory University, Atlanta, and has a teaching resource, French Literature: Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back). enjoyed continuing to serve on the A Beginner’s Guide, the last book The film stars Tom Wilkinson and Bodleian board under the leadership published by my old tutor at Balliol, Christopher Eccleston and has of a solid Balliol man in the person of the late Carol Clark (Fellow and Tutor been released internationally from Bodley’s 25th Librarian [Professorial in Modern Languages 1973–2004), Hollywood to Taiwan. In the UK the Fellow Richard Ovenden]. Emeritus Fellow 2004–2015). film was in Odeon cinemas and will soon come to Netflix to join his other Rosie Foster-Carter (née Bennett- Thomas Maloney (1999) titles Burn Burn Burn and Another Mother’s Rees, 1998) The paperback edition of my Son. He has also just completed filming In January my husband, Tom, and I second novel, Learning to Die, is on a new musically rooted comedy The had a baby girl, Lily, to join our son published by Scribe in July 2019. Man in the Hat, which sees Ciarán Hinds

15 FLOREAT DOMUS JUNE 2019 NEWS AND NOTESNEWS on a caper across France in a small Harriet Bailiss (née Jones, 2003) idea of using interlinked beehive car with supporting cast including Robin Olive Ray Bailiss, our first fences to protect rural African farms Stephen Dillane and Maïwenn. daughter, was born on 6 August from crop-raiding elephants to new 2018 to Harriet and John Bailiss. communities across Africa. With on- site and online support we now have Valerie Kenyon (2003) beehive fences in 17 countries in Africa I recently became a partner at the and Asia in 56 sites. With funding law firm Hogan Lovells International help from Disney, we also collared 30 LLP, focusing on product liability and elephants in the Tsavo Ecosystem in product regulatory law. I welcomed order to understand their movements my second little boy, Harvey Oscar, in and out of the community lands into the world on 9 April 2019. better and to help focus our efforts to reduce human-elephant conflict. Kristina Hakansson (2004) For more information check out Kristina Hakansson and Dmitry www.elephantsandbees.com. Kuvshinov (2004)) have a new baby. His name is Victor and he Dan Nicolau (2005) was born on 11 October 2018. I can report that I am busy as a PI in an EU research consortium – we are Tim Soutphommasane (2004) working on building massively parallel I concluded my five-year term as Race ‘living’ computers using biological Discrimination Commissioner at the components like proteins and cells. Australian Human Rights Commission The idea is that Life does everything all in August 2018. I am now Professor at the same time, so if we could make of Practice (Sociology and Political computers that work like that, we may Theory) at the University of Sydney. be able to do exciting new things. I was My latest book is On Hate (Melbourne elected to the Future Fellowship, one Christian Hansen (2002) University Publishing, 2009). of Australia’s flagship research awards. On 6 October 2018 I married Joanna O’Brien. Aneurin Ellis-Evans (2005) Jodie Ewin (2005) The book of my Oxford DPhil was Jodie (née Rabin) married Nathan Tom Lane (2002) published at the end of April with Ewin (2005) on 16 December 2017. I continue to work full-time as a OUP: The Kingdom of Priam: Lesbos and professional composer in Ireland, the Troad between Anatolia and the Aegean. Dominic Weinberg (2005) Germany and the United Kingdom. I got married to Sarah Oxley in July In June of this year my fourth Lucy King (2005) 2018. Tessa Roberts and Liz Gunstone chamber opera will be performed Our Save the Elephants’ Elephants and (both also 2005) were two of my in Cork Opera House. I am looking Bees Project in Kenya has gone mobile! ‘crew’ (the chosen gender-neutral forward to marrying my fiancée We are now taking our innovative term for grooms/brides-people) and Maeve Casserly in Dublin this July! Balliol was strongly represented. Lucinda Woods (2002) William Davies (2006) James Arthur Wellesley O’Sullivan Will Davies was recently appointed was born on 12 April 2019 – a to an Associate Professorship and little brother for Robbie. Tutorial Fellowship in the Philosophy of Mind at St Anne’s College, Oxford.

Timothy Trudgian (2006) Roaringly splendid times here in Canberra. In April 2017 I took up a permanent position at UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy. Loving life there: the students are up every morning doing push-ups, laps of the oval, and heaven knows what else, before turning up fresh as daisies for my calculus lectures. My wife, Di, Robert Apsimon (2003) continues to take our garden to the next My son, William John Apsimon, level in a sustainable, food-rich, native- was born on 30 June 2017 (slightly garden paradise. My sons Archie (eight) old news now) to myself and and Monty (five) are enjoying tennis, my wife, Öznur Apsimon. cricket, hockey, rugby, soccer (yes,

NEWS AND NOTES 16 yes, football, sure, but we’ve got four attending formal graduation on 14 nice mention in the most important types of football in Australia: what’s December 2018. His doctoral research national Italian press agency, ANSA. a man to do?) and card games. Every was supervised by Professor Jeremy Sunday arvo we take in an hour or so Black and Dr Michael Duffy, and his Ronan Lyons (2009) of an opera, and have worked through thesis was entitled ‘A Re-Assessment Our second son, Cullen Adrian

NEWS AND NOTES nearly twenty classics. Such was the of the Strategic Role of the Channel Timothy Lyons, was born in May 2018. boys’ keenness that Archie suggested Islands during the Great French War Big brother Morgan (b. December Monty invite some of his favourite (1792–1815)’. Following the award of 2015) is as excited as anyone! On operatic sopranos to his birthday. I his PhD, Dr Villalard accepted an the professional front, I am the first declared that, since I had had a crush offer of employment with the States academic ever to have been shortlisted on Dame Kiri Te Kanawa when I was of Jersey. He holds the position three years in a row (2017, 2018 and 16, it seemed meet and right so to do. of Assistant Legal Adviser within 2019) for a Provost’s Teaching Award the Criminal Division of the Law at Trinity College Dublin, where I’m Kate Kettle (2007) Officers’ Department, being assigned an Assistant Professor of Economics. This year, I set up to the Mutual Legal Assistance Team. my own business, Seeking to further his legal career, Christopher Miller (2009) Varsity Scholars, to Dr Villalard intends to take up part- In the last year my book Planning ensure all young time study for an LLB. Tuition will be and Profits: British Naval Armaments people get the provided through the Jersey Institute Manufacture and the Military Industrial support they need of Law, with the degree being awarded Complex was published by Liverpool to secure a top by the University of London. University Press (in the UK) and university place. I’ll be drawing on all OUP (in the USA). I was also the expertise I developed at Balliol Eleanor Watkins (2007) appointed to a Lectureship in as the David Freeman Outreach and My husband (Nicholas Phillips, 2006) Global Economy at the University of Student Support Officer between 2012 and I met at Balliol in 2007 and had Glasgow, and I was elected a Fellow and 2017, and I am currently working a baby girl in August last year (28 of the Royal Historical Society. on a digital education masterclass to August, Lily Rose Watkins-Phillips). support UCAS personal statement Lucy Tucker (2009) writing. Please get in touch via my Edward Grefenstette (2008) Lucy Brooks (now Tucker) married website if you’d like to hear more: Edward and Renie Grefenstette are Ben (St Edmund Hall, 2007) on a varsityscholars.co.uk. On a personal delighted to announce the birth of sunny day in Warwickshire. Plenty of note, Henry Moore (2005) proposed to their daughter, Marceline Constance Balliolites in attendance, including me on Christmas Eve. We are getting Grefenstette, born 3 December 2018. Balliol bridesmaids Nathalie Hoon, married in the College Chapel in Tonya Semyachkova, Caitlin McMillan October – 12 years since we first met at Harssh Poddar (2008) and Rowan Roberts (all 2009). Balliol. We’re delighted that so many Read for the BCL at Balliol in friends from our time at Balliol will 2008–2009. Thereafter he worked be with us on the day to celebrate. briefly with a Magic Circle law firm in London, before moving back to India James Villalard (2007) to write the Indian Civil Services Was awarded his Doctorate of Examination (arguably one of the Philosophy in History from the toughest competitive examinations University of Exeter on 16 April 2018, in the world). This was a decision he was able to make because of the informed support and guidance of his mentor at Balliol, Professor Jeff King (Fellow and Tutor in Law 2008–2011). Having cleared the examination, he is now an officer of the Indian Police Service (IPS) and has been 2010s serving in the state of Maharashtra. He is presently posted as the Deputy Claire Parry (2010) Commissioner of Police of Nagpur. I’m going to be performing my debut one-woman absurd clown Paolo Gandini (2009) show, Intolerable Side Effects, about I married Dr Diana Di Paolo (St contraception this summer at Brighton Catherine’s College, 2011) in Città and Edinburgh Fringe festivals. Sant’ Angelo Italy in June 2018. In January 2019 I published a paper Samuel Roberts (2010) in Physical Review Letters (journals. I have received my PhD in Organic aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/ Chemistry from UCL. I was under PhysRevLett.122.012001), which got a the supervision of Dr Matt Powner

17 FLOREAT DOMUS JUNE 2019 NEWS AND NOTESNEWS and produced a thesis entitled Vikramaditya Malik (2012) James Letten (2014) ‘Towards the Prebiotic Synthesis I was able to crack the Indian Civil Having commissioned into the of Furanosyl-Nucleosides’. Services Examination with an All India Royal Navy this time last year, I Rank of 48. I am now a member of the was promoted to the rank of Sub Nauman Asghar (2011) Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Lieutenant last September. I’ve I worked in the Civil Service of 2018 batch, borne on the Uttar Pradesh been working in the Mediterranean Pakistan for five years. Last year I won (UP) Cadre. I’m currently undergoing in HMS Duncan in support of the an HEC Paris Foundation Award for training at the Lal Bahadur Shastri French Carrier Strike Group ‘GAN my PhD in Strategy & Business Policy. National Academy of Administration 19’ since the start of this year. I am close to finishing my first year of (LBSNAA), Mussoorie. As a part of the my PhD at HEC Paris. The focus of my foundation course in the training, I Ele Saltmarsh (2015) research lies in behavioural strategy. I was awarded the Director’s Gold Medal Ele Saltmarsh and Steven Rose are am attempting to incorporate insights for excellence in ‘Political Science and pleased to announce the arrival of a from behavioural economics to the the Constitution’, in December 2018. new member of their family, Wren. science of organisational design. It is a very novel and emerging field. Previous Laurence Warner (2013) studies on organisational design Tushar Kelkar (2013) and I crafted treated members of an organisation a challenge called First Week Flip as unitary actors and focused Phone, to live a more mindful seven mostly on the issue of incentives. days without a smartphone. We did it ourselves every month for a year and are grateful to the dozens of young people who joined us along the way. See FirstWeekFlipPhone.com for stories, including our podcast ‘Flip Phone Diaries’. Keith Barnes Keith

Anselm Oelze (2011) On 7 August 2018, our daughter Aava was born, and on 5 February 2019, my first novel Wallace about the forgotten co-discoverer of the mechanism of natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace, was published in Germany by Schöffling. There’s already a second edition in the bookshops and if things continue as well as they’ve started there will also be an English translation in the (near) future. Keeping in touch Thank you very much to everyone who sent in News and Notes. We have been delighted by the response this year. We are always pleased to hear what Old Members of Balliol are doing. You can send us any news, at any time during the year, by email ([email protected]) or by post (Development Office, Balliol College, Oxford OX1 3BJ). If you have news you would like to share in the next issue of News and Notes please email it to [email protected] or send it by post to the Development Office as above. If you would like to change how Balliol communicates with you or how you receive any of our publications, please contact the Development Office as above or manage your preferences online at www.alumniweb.ox.ac.uk/balliol.

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