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(Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016). My any rate contain one new piece by me 1940s more recent work is currently presented in response to her introduction to the in ‘Papers of Edward Gelles’ on the collection. Another surprise for me has David Grove (1941) Balliol College Archives & Manuscripts been Routledge’s proposal to republish On a sunny day in September my website. I have just added an essay during the course of 2020 my little A grandson Reuben (Exeter College, entitled ‘Some Gelles and Jaffe family Modern Introduction to Moral Philosophy, 2005) drove us to Oxford for one of migrations in recent centuries’ outlining first published by them in as long my rare visits to College. It was good our journey of the past 400 years from ago as 1958 – and so no longer really to meet Stewart Tiley (Librarian) and Prague to Poland and Lithuania, whence justified in bearing the term ‘modern’ Bethany Hamblen (Archivist and branches moved west to Silesia, Berlin, in its title! Records Manager) and hand over three and further into Germany, and south boxes of my papers for safekeeping in via Galicia to Vienna, with members of Sir Jack Stewart-Clark Bt (1949) the Balliol Archives. both these branches ultimately coming In 1999 I retired from the European to England just before the outbreak of Parliament, having served there Edward Gelles (1944) the Second World War. faithfully for 20 years. In 1996 I had Continuing my study of Jewish inherited my family home of Dundas families and their pan-European Derek Abrahams (1946) Castle near Edinburgh. My wife and I migrations – their history, genealogy, Some months ago I fell and broke a big set about a complete restoration and and genetic admixtures being related thigh bone, so now I hobble around on then turned our home into a wedding to the changing political, social, and crutches. I tripped coming out of the and corporate hospitality venue. We economic background of the countries gym. Otherwise, I’m fit and well and now do 60 weddings a year and have a they lived in and the ethnic groups getting quite good at hobbling. turnover of nearly one million pounds they encountered on their millennial per year. We are immensely proud journey. Beginning with the wider William Haines (1947) because for the second year running ancestral background of my own Angela and I have been paying for a we have won the prestigious VOWS family and its connections with many young Indian girl to train as a nurse. award for the best wedding venue in notable rabbis of the past, my study has She has qualified with firsts in BSc and Scotland. Life was exciting at 70 and expanded to represent in microcosm MSc Nursing and wants to pass the continued to 90 and hasn’t ended an outline history of European Jewry. English language exam, which she finds yet! I have founded a new charity My published books are An Ancient a struggle, so that she can work in the called SOHTIS (Survivors of Human Lineage: European Roots of a Jewish Family UK. Her command of English would Trafficking in Scotland) to try and (Vallentine Mitchell, 2006); four be improved if language courses were mitigate the effects of this evil trade. paperbacks: Family Connections: Gelles- transmitted on the local radio, like the Horowitz-Chajes, Gelles-Shapiro-Friedman, British Council and BBC courses on the Ephemeral & Eternal: Josef Gelles, a brief internet. The 35,000 primary schools life; Meeting My Ancestors: Genealogy, in India would also welcome lessons 1950s Genes and Heritage (Shaker Publishing, delivered by an English voice. Can 2008–2012); and my latest book, A Jewish anyone help, please? Roger Corman (1950) Journey: A Passage through European History On 13 July 2017 Roger was given the Alan Montefiore (1948 and Emeritus Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Fellow) the highest honour the French It is nice, if not a little surprising to Government bestows in the arts. me at my by now undeniably distinctly advanced age, to find myself reporting John Mallet (1950) the appearance of a collection of my Since my marriage to Diana Edwards pieces written over the years, and Murnaghan I spend nearly half the year published (some of them at least) in in Baltimore, Maryland. I celebrated one odd place or another, under the my 89th birthday by flying to Turin title Philosophy and the Human Paradox to deliver a lecture in Italian at a (Routledge, 2019). The collection is conference on the collecting of Italian edited by Danielle Sands, and does at Renaissance maiolica for museums.

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Weland Stone (1950) Professor Ian Macdonald (1952) Gospel until after the chance fishing At 87 and physically considerably ‘My way of life/Is fall’n into the sere, trip, when the disciples engaged in weaker, my main news is of continued the yellow leaf;’ so said Macbeth and so it could think of nothing better to existence. Alumni from my year seem thought I as I passed my 90th birthday. do. Following Richard Bauckham, I mostly to have died before their time. However, I am pleased to report on two am using the Fourth Gospel as first- However, I try to maintain my post- new honours that have come my way in hand witness, although it was written retirement hobbies of Latin classes, recent months. First, after many years by, possibly, John the Elder (as the embroidery and inexpert bridge and to of service, I was named an Honorary witness, who had probably been the maintain our acre of garden through Director of the Toronto branch of preserved fish delivery lad to the the labours of others. Enjoying a the Royal Commonwealth Society. I high priest’s household, was almost medical student and a classicist-cum- highly prize my relationship with the certainly illiterate). musician as two eldest granddaughters Commonwealth, having served for provides continuing interest and ten years as the volunteer chair of the Richard Tilney-Bassett (1955) motivation to keep going. Commonwealth of Learning. Second, After graduating some 50-plus years on 5 December last, I was inducted into ago, I’m still going! Still an avid reader Richard Wheadon (1951) the York University Sport Hall of Fame of Oxford and Balliol news as well as On Tuesday 15 October 2019 our in the Builder category. This recognised, New Scientist weekly. Living quietly now youngest son, Tristan, married Kirsty in particular, my role during ten years as in the south of France near Montauban in the church of St Pierre du Bois, President of York University, Toronto, – any visitors welcome. As some of you Guernsey, before a congregation of in creating the National Tennis Centre will know, my daughter is also a Balliol about 100. The following Sunday at York and in persuading Metro scholar and now lives in France near 20 October at the Chateau de Saint Toronto to establish the Metro Toronto Manosque. My son, who graduated Michel, St Girons, Ariège, in the Track and Field Centre at the university. from Exeter and the Open University, presence of a similar number, albeit On the personal athletic side, I continue lives near us close to Toulouse. The differently constituted, I conducted to play with our York Professors ice next generation after are just getting a service of blessing in which Tristan hockey team after 45 years. started, with one in Durham and and Kirsty reiterated their vows, their another in the University of Science plighting of troths and their exchange Robert Kernohan (1953) and Technology in Hong Kong. of rings. Unaccompanied, we all sang Old age is hard going, but it was together ‘Brother, Sister, let me serve worthwhile to struggle out to the David Benedictus (1956) you, let me be as Christ to you …’ Balliol reception at the Royal Society I have been commissioned to write to the tune ‘Servant Song’. It was a of Edinburgh. I am most grateful. My a new children’s book, subsequent to beautiful occasion. For me this was broadcasting and my writing are now Return to the Hundred Acre Wood (Egmont, not only an honour and a delight, but very limited but I still managed bits 2011), but details are not available as it also happened to complete the full and pieces on BBC Radio Scotland I am subject to an NDA. Watch this spectrum of my 25 years of service as a and some contributions to The space, guys! reader in the Church of England. That Scottish Review, mainly about the latest service has embraced not only leading Balliol Prime Minister’s impact on John Stabler (1956) and preaching at morning and evening the party which I have belonged I am pursuing a second career as a services, but also the conducting to for 70 years and to which (after mole-catcher in my Norfolk garden. I (with dispensation) of services of a little hesitation) I still belong. endeavour unsuccessfully to keep up communion by extension on Christmas with my wife Marjorie on our daily nights and services of baptism (one on John Ford (1954) dog walks on the coast at Holkham, Christmas morning); also, sitting with His book Rudolph Ackermann & the and I try to activate my few remaining the dying and the bereaved, conducting Regency World (Warnham Books, 2018) neurones by doing battle with the funerals and administering home has been widely praised as being a Listener Crossword every week. communion to the housebound. It has definitive work, a review by Mark been a wonderful experience and I Bills, the director of Gainsborough’s Professor Aaron Sloman (1957) thank God for it. House, Sudbury, in Print Quarterly After two years at Hull University, 27 calling it ‘a valuable and absorbingly years at Sussex University (apart from Kenneth Cavander (1952) interesting book, not just for print a one-year fellowship in Edinburgh), I have been commissioned to write and scholars, but for all those interested and 28 years at the University of adapt a new translation of Sophokles’ in the Regency period, an important Birmingham in the school of computer Antigone, for production later in 2020 book which will serve as the standard science, where I am now an Honorary at the Westport Playhouse, a nationally work on the topic for years to come’. Professor of Artificial Intelligence and recognised theatre in Connecticut, USA, Cognitive Science, I am still working performances to be timed with the run- Alexander Hopkinson-Woolley (1955) on a topic close to my DPhil thesis: up to the American general election. I am trying to write a booklet, in which i.e. trying to understand the biological it is suggested that the Temptation of mechanisms that allowed evolution to Noël Ing (1952) Jesus happened before the reported produce great ancient mathematicians I (re) married, on 18 August 2019, baptism and that Simon Peter did whose discoveries are still in regular Sandra Rosemarie Barnes. not start the work of spreading the use, but whose thought processes are

NEWS AND NOTES 2 not yet modelled in AI or explained see my memoir The Waters of Lahore Robert Mash (1958) in psychology or neuroscience. I gave (2013): a copy is in the College Library. CBC in Canada are threatening to make a talk about this at the conference a TV series based on my book How to Keep on models of consciousness at the Geoffrey Cannon (1958) Dinosaurs (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003). Oxford Mathematical Institute in Living in Brazil since 2000, my main

NEWS AND NOTES September 2019: a video recording of work now is with the Centre for Malyn Newitt (1958) my talk happens to be first (because Epidemiological Studies in Nutrition Malyn Newitt published The Braganzas: ‘Aaron’ starts with two As?) in the and Health at the University of São The Rise and Fall of the Ruling Dynasties of collection of videos here: www.youtube. Paulo. We have devised the NOVA food Portugal and Brazil, 1640–1910 Reaction com/channel/UCWgIDgfzRDp- classification system. This identifies (London, 2019). PmQvMsYiNlg ultra-processed food products mostly manufactured by transnational Professor Jarle Simensen (1958) HE Kamal Uddin Azfar (1958) corporations as the driver of what Since my year at Balliol, on the The College treated us recently is now pandemic obesity. NOVA is Anderson Norwegian Scholarship, and emancipated students from the end of the basis of the 2014 official national with John Bryson (Fellow 1940–1963) the Raj – such as the Gandhian Ravi Brazilian food guide (English version and Christopher Ricks (1953 and Dayal (1959) and the Rhodes Scholar at http://bvsms.saude.gov.br/bvs/ Honorary Fellow) as tutors in English from India Manmohan Malhotra publicacoes/dietary guidelines_ literature, I have kept in contact with (1958) – like minor royals. The Fellows brazilian_population.pdf) and it is the College and with friends I made. I thoughtfully placed me in the friendly recognised by UN agencies. My time have, though, neglected reporting for Dicey corridor to protect the South at Balliol I am now recording. The the Balliol records. So, in brief: Back in Asian from homesickness, a corridor story includes recollections of Patrick Norway, and after a Major in Russian, where I made lifelong friends. These Corbett (1945) (who told me that I was I took history degrees in British included Euan Macphail (1958); Sandy a journalist, which became true until colonial and African history (Nigeria Lindsay (1958), grandson of A.D. my mid-40s), Tommy Balogh (Fellow and Ghana), and from 1973 built Lindsay (Master 1924–1949); John Crow 1945–1973) and Paul Streeten (1944, up a programme in African history (1958) of the IMF; and the historian Fellow 1948–1978, Honorary Fellow in Trondheim, at the Norwegian Clive Jordan (1958), in whose rooms 1986–2019); Charles Taylor (1952) and University of Science and Technology, we heard with bated breath de Gaulle Michael Dummett (1947) of All Souls; while teaching international and global declaring Algerian independence. also Edgar Wind and Raghavan Iyer. history as an Adjunct Professor in Oslo. Centrally air-conditioned Holywell My story also includes the success in We moved to Oslo in 1998. In addition Manor housed other expats, including 1960 of Oxford Opinion, co-owned to African and international history, the political historian Alfred Stepan with Stephan Feuchtwang and initially my main research contributions have (1958), who won the head and heart edited by me and art edited by David been in the history of Norwegian of the charismatic Nancy Leys Usborne, which had contributions missions, Norwegian development from nearby Somerville, Alfred and from J.G. Farrell, Ian Hamilton, aid and technological transfer to Nancy both ending up as professors Richard Gott, Kevin Crossley-Holland Africa. I have spent much time on at Columbia as man and wife until and many others, notably Ian Cameron, interdisciplinary cooperation and on Alfred passed away in 2017. Among Mark Shivas, Victor Perkins and their establishing a university exchange other friends in Holywell Manor comrades who transformed thinking programme with Ghana. I have also were the erudite scholar from Canada about cinema and went on to create had stints as Pro-Rector in Trondheim masquerading night and day as a Movie magazine. In late 2018 with my and as head of the Norwegian German playboy in dark glasses Graham Nesbitt then 14-year-old son Gabriel I visited Historians Program. My wife, Aud (1958); Ashok Nehru (1957), belonging Balliol. Gabriel, refreshed as we sat with Marit, is a professor of applied to the high Bahman clan of the first coffee and cake outside the renewed linguistics (English), and with our two and greatest Indian Prime Minister, Buttery, was suitably impressed. I will children we have spent one research Jawaharlal Nehru; Charles DiBona be very glad to hear from ’58ers and year in London and three years at the (1957), married to the beautiful Evelyn, others from surrounding years. I am on University of Wisconsin, Madison. I whose parents and dazzling sister [email protected]. am now much taken up with global Monica had been forced to emigrate to history. Back in my cottage on our Stockholm during the Second World Sir Richard Heygate Bt (1958) family farm in mountainous Norway, War; and Henry Lloyd (1958). The Just signed my third contract with I ask myself: How many worlds, how legend that in response to the opening the China Railway Group (largest many identities in my life? One bit question by Marcus Dick (1939, Fellow construction company in the world). of that puzzle is Balliol. More can 1947–1963, war hero and philosophy Working mainly in Africa, where the be found at www.hf.uio.no/iakh/ tutor, ‘Azfar, what’d you think government of Zimbabwe has awarded english/people/aca/history/emeriti/ Philosophy is about? I responded, ‘The me the title of Friend of the Country. I jarlesi/simensen-publications.html. search for the Absolute, I suppose,’ work closely with the diaspora, the new whereupon Marcus Dick said, ‘Good generation of Africans, highly educated, The Revd Dafydd Miles Board (1959) God,’ and offered me a glass of gin is who move to the West, but still love Hopefully, our family is just about to partly apocryphal. It was sherry. For their country and one day will return join the ranks of the many families more recollections and rites of passage, and make it into a giant. which have three generations of Balliol

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was astounded to see that one of his John Hole (1959) favourite photographs was a ‘Schools I passed my eightieth birthday and had Eight’ I put together, composed of my fourth novel published in August men in their last term or who did not this year! The novel is Will Shakespeare’s want to row full time. The idea was to Secret, published by Austin Macauley. It take some competent rowers and race tells of the rumbustious life of theatre against less experienced crews in a low in Elizabethan London and it comes up division, making bumps so that we with some interesting and mysterious did not have to row too far and ideally facts about how it was that William pick up some blades. The plan was one Shakespeare’s success depended or two outings to get some cohesion, very much on his relationship with on race days down to the river around Christopher Marlowe; and also how lunchtime, practise on the way to it is thanks to the dedicated work of members. All our three will have the start, make a quick bump, back his fellow actors John Heminges and entered from different places and to College for tea and hit the books. Henry Condell that his many plays schools. Here’s an image from the Unfortunately we failed on the third have survived and seen such success. wonderful, and effortlessly impressive day, but the pain made us try harder Balliol Open Day, autumn 2019. At 80 and succeed on the Saturday. By the The Rt Hon Sir David Keene (1959) plus, I’m sitting with my grandson in time the crew photographs were taken I published a short memoir entitled my first study room on Staircase IV: Fred Ziegler (1960) had left. It does Leaving the Arena (Bloomsbury, 2019), both of us, Dafydd and Efan Meilir not look good to be one short. This dealing mainly with my time as a Owen, physically spanning three Balliol was the era of the Satire Revival and barrister and then as a judge. generations. Efan was later offered a General Irreverence, with the Oxford place, provisionally on A-levels of magazine Mesopotamia morphing Colin Wyman (1959) course, for Michaelmas 2020. Plus: into Private Eye. So it was ideal to fill I have been reading a law with politics behold the sort of coincident dates the empty seat with Russell Meiggs, degree at Buckingham University for journalists love. On that memorable who had an appropriate somewhat the past three years and have been Balliol Open Day 2019, it was almost to eccentric image. At first glance, it is awarded and upper 2.1 LLB. the day 60 years before that I had first a standard crew picture, but in fact entered that room, IV.3, when coming was an attempt at a send-up. Meiggs up as a Fresher. Our family joy in was concerned about my hedonistic January following the third-generation lifestyle. So, after Finals results were 1960s offer letter from the College was well published, I was greatly pleased to expressed by Efan’s mother, Lowri, my receive his note congratulating me David Gordon (1960) daughter, who said truly that we were on my second ‘as it seemed there President of the Sierra Madre Playhouse, ‘hapus dros ben’ which translates as was a real possibility of a fourth’. In a 99-seat live theatre in the town in ‘summit happy’ or ‘happy right over the fact I was really not that wild. This Los Angeles, where we live; French top’. The entire family rejoiced, was a time when the worst sin at on Tuesdays; pilates on Wednesdays; including Balliol man number two, Dr Oxford was to be a ‘Grey Man’. Image hiking on Thursdays; massage on Steffan Miles Board (1986), my second was all. I am now nearing the end Fridays; grandpa in San Diego every son, who at present is in Nairobi, as of my 44th year in Paris, working other weekend, summers in London. Minister Counsellor at Canada’s High on obtaining French nationality, Typical routine of the new young old. Commission in Kenya. to be able to retain my status as a Citizen of Nowhere. I continue to Ian Watson (1960) Malcolm Brahams (1959) cultivate my irreverential credo. As regards academia, being a science After nearly 40 years I have retired fiction writer I gave the keynote from the Council of the Medico-Legal address for the University of Porto Society, although I continue to take (Portugal) in April 2019 at More Meals an active interest in its activities. The to Come: An International Conference, rest of my time is taken up with my a three-day event with the rubric of grandchildren (eight so far and one ‘Utopia: Alimentação e Futuro’. My on the way) and my U3A activities. address, appearing in 2020 along with These include leading a current affairs the other proceedings, was entitled discussion group which was founded ‘Better than Being Fossilised!’ just before the 2017 election and, thanks to recent political turmoil, Professor Richard Hyman (1961) has been hyperactive ever since. After 25 years running the European Journal of Industrial Relations I have just Malcolm Forrest (1959) handed over to a new editor, though In the article in the November e-News Dermot Glynn (1959) I will retain a role as founding editor. about Russell Meiggs (Fellow 1939– My oldest grandchild, Matilda, came up Rebecca and I plan to spend more time 1970, Honorary Fellow 1970–1989), I to Balliol this year to read physics. on our canal boat in France, unless we

NEWS AND NOTES 4 become collateral damage in the Brexit Publications: ‘Interconnectedness: team ensures we are a multinational madness. mapping the shadow banking system’, and multifaith outfit. Next term sees in Banque de France Financial Stability us enrolled in a Liverpool University Knobby Clarke (1962) Review, April 2018; revised version extramural course on the Architecture Last Easter, while attending the annual forthcoming as ‘Interconnectedness: of Liverpool – more listed buildings

NEWS AND NOTES Viol School in Canberra, I met a woman shadow banking and Capital Markets here than in Bath and outstanding whose PhD thesis concerned the Union’, in F. Allen et al., eds, Capital Victorian commercial buildings still in extensions to music Braille needed to Markets Union, MIT Press, 2019; Global use. It’s still a rewarding life! support the accurate representation of Dimensions of Macroprudential Policy early music. Since then, I have written (with Tuomas Peltonen and Antonio Professor Russell Bryant (1963) the specification of a computing system Sanchez Serrano), European Systemic As an active 79-year-old I visit the gym, to implement the automation of those Risk Board Report, forthcoming; jog and swim daily at a nearby state ideas on cheap commodity computing ‘Shadow Banking’, London Business School park. (I am always amazed at how much hardware and software. The Faculty of Review, October 2018; ‘Can We Escape faster I can swim when being chased Engineering at Melbourne University Boom and Bust?’, London Business School by an alligator.) This year I hope to has accepted this specification as Review, October 2019; ‘Carry Trade finish the first draft of my biography of the subject for a year-long capstone with Chinese Characteristics’ (with Yi the British financier-turned-diplomat development project to be undertaken Huang and Ugo Panizza), Vox China, 13 Lord D’Abernon. I have just gotten by a team of students for the degree of June 2018 http://voxchina.org/show- him through the French occupation Master of Software Engineering. I am 3-85.html; ‘Putting the Greek Debt of the Ruhr in 1923. As someone who presently supervising that team. Problem to Rest’, with B. Eichengreen, taught British history for 30 years at an E. Avgouleas, M. Maduro, U. Panizza, American university, I remain mystified John Cookson (1962) B. Weder di Mauro, C. Wyplosz, VoxEU, that Balliol, which educated the two I am maintaining a role in the NHS 20 March 2018, at https://voxeu.org/ prime ministers who put the UK into as a psychiatrist in a male intensive article/putting-greek-debt-problem- the European Union, also produced care unit in east London, and teaching rest; ‘Restoring Trust in Iceland: the one taking her out. Was there psychopharmacology. Iceland’s IMF programme’ (with Fridrik something earlier in the water that was Mar Baldursson), in Sigurjonsson, subsequently removed? Professor Sir Andrew Likierman T.O., Bryant, M., & Schwarzkopf, D. (1962) (2018). The Return of Trust? Institutions David Willington (1964) Since stepping down as Dean of the and the Public after the Icelandic Financial My third novel, A Palestine Affair, London Business School, I’ve been back Crisis, Emerald Publishing Limited, should be published commercially in on the faculty and researching human Bingley, UK; ‘Corporate Foreign Bond the summer. It is set in the British judgement. What is it? How do you Issuance and Interfirm Loans in China’ Mandate in Palestine, which ended in know you’ve got it? How do you know (with Yi Huang and Ugo Panizza), 1948. Unputdownable, I would say! other people have got it (such as before NBER Working Paper 24513, CEPR you hire them)? How can you improve Discussion Paper 12865, April 2018. Sir Michael Burton (1965) it? My focus is on management, but I The year 2019 for me was crowned have also extended it to professions, Brian Westcott (1962) with the announcement in the the relationship to artificial intelligence I have been invited to Bologna in Queen’s Birthday Honours List of my and its use in the difficult personal May 2020 to participate in a licensed appointment ‘for services to the Rule decisions we make during our lives. advanced hypnotic practitioner of Law’ as Knight Grand Cross of the This is a fascinating topic, if alarmingly seminar run by Dr Richard Bandler. British Empire (GBE), a great honour broad in academic terms, since it marked by going to the Palace with my spans many different disciplines and Philip Bishop (1963) four daughters in November, and the literatures, as well as raising questions After 46 years of life in Nottinghamshire grant of a solid gold chain or collar, of how it crosses geographic and we moved to Liverpool in 2017 to be which I can only wear on Collar Days (I cultural boundaries. I have produced a near family. We are enjoying life in am working on an occasion!) and has to framework (published in the January/ this battered but big-hearted city. be given back by the girls on my death! February 2020 Harvard Business Review) A lively six-year-old granddaughter That apart, I have been still judging in and would be interested to hear from keeps us active, along with gym for the Commercial Court and elsewhere, anyone in the Balliol community about me and Nordic walking for Pam, my disciplining Chartered Surveyors, and ideas and applications. wife. The Royal Liverpool Phil is on doing a smidgen of arbitrating and a roll at present – seven of Mahler’s mediating; some acting and singing Professor Richard Portes (1962) symphonies to come in the next seven too. Also I was blessed with my 10th Appointed Chair of Advisory Scientific months as well as much Schubert and grandchild. Committee of European Systemic Risk some outstanding chamber concerts. Board (ESRB). Re-appointed co-chair of We are increasingly involved in a food Martin Cree (1965) ESRB Joint Expert Group on Non-bank bank for asylum seekers run by the I have sold my business and have fully Financial Intermediation. Supervised two cathedrals as well as in support retired. My wife Anne was diagnosed publication of ESRB Non-bank Financial for new residents. The presence of with Alzheimer’s three years ago and I Intermediation Risk Monitor 4, July 2019. former asylum seekers in our support now have more time to care for her.

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Peter Hacker (1965) 18th book – the most difficult yet. It is Stuart Baldock (1966) I was appointed to an Honorary UCL about our broken world – particularly After over 50 years living and working Professorship at the Department with respect to the impending in the property industry in France, of Neurology at University College extinction brought about by climate during which time I acquired French London. I published Intellectual emergency. The difficulty for me citizenship, I have now realised a long- Entertainments: Eight Dialogues on Mind, has been the darkness of extinction term ambition and moved with my Consciousness and Thought (Anthem despite the pacifying alternative of wife and youngest child to Athens. I Press, 2020) (it was in fact published impermanence. My books are not commute to France whenever business in October 2019). I also published candidates for intellectual sophistry requires. a second edition of Wittgenstein: or for theological nicety. As a set of Meaning and Mind, Volume 3 of an signposts they may be valuable if the Christopher Currie (1966) Analytic Commentary on the Philosophical signposts are not held on to after My Senior Research Fellowship of Investigations, Part I – Essays, Part II their usefulness is exhausted. It is the the Institute of Historical Research – Exegesis, sections 243–427 (Wiley- reader’s inner experience, as a result (University of London) was renewed Blackwell, 2019). of the words, that is truly worthwhile. in November 2019. I continued to This kind of knowledge lies beyond be research active, with an article in Hubert Murray (1965) the formulas found in books and the Vernacular Architecture appearing in My wife, Nancy Uhlar (LMH, 1967), intellectual constructions of clever November and a chapter in Fifty Years of and I celebrated our 50th wedding talk. If you cling to a formula in the Medieval Technology and Social Change, ed. anniversary this year. We were mistaken belief that it holds the truth, Steven A. Walton, in September. I am introduced to each other by Ron then be prepared for disappointment. currently listing all known examples in Berenbeim (1966) in the Balliol Formulas for truth expand into rigidly England, Wales, and Ireland of tenants’ JCR in the heady days of 1968. Our held beliefs, which deny reality as copies of court roll before 1400, and children, based in Tunis and Barcelona it is. This leads to an escape that is would be interested to hear from any respectively, and under instructions not particular and strategic. The escape is Old Member who has come across one. to wantonly increase carbon emissions, from knowing and experiencing the More important, my granddaughter orchestrated from afar an anniversary energy of inner consciousness. When Niamh Adiesua Tallon was born on 1 treasure hunt involving a book reading, these dependencies are abandoned March 2019. a spectacular meal and a memorable through trust in your inner journey, play – in that order. PPE taught me to your own experience of inner truth, of Professor Benjamin Fine (1966) interpret the world. My architectural your true nature, then celebrate what I published: Material Cultures of degree has allowed me to change it, has always resided within. That is what Financialisation, co-edited with K. Bayliss if only incrementally. Having spent a I hope readers will reconcile with as and M. Robertson (Routledge, 2018); and career planning, designing and building a viable strategy for our times, so that Race, Class and the Post-Apartheid Democratic schools and universities as well as they, citizens and leaders are equipped State, co-edited with John Reynolds highways and train stations, I am now with the tools that can generate and Robert van Niekerk (University of in my retirement working with a team understanding, compassion and non- KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2019). of Palestinian teachers designing and violent reconciliation. developing a kindergarten in Aida Martin Kaufman (1966) Refugee Camp in Bethlehem. This Lord Angus Stewart (1965) Having set up the Institute of little school for 100 children will be On 16 November 2019 I retired as Fundraising (IoF) Cultural Sector bound to make a huge and positive Senator of the College of Justice in Network in 2014, which has organised difference for families living in very Scotland for the Presidency of the the largest cultural sector fundraising difficult conditions. To be working Stair Society, Scotland’s premier legal conferences in Europe, I handed over together on this project is a wonderful history society, with effect from 31 to my successor in November 2019. antidote to the vortex of despair one March 2020. I am to be succeeded in However, in July 2019 I became Chair can so often feel on listening to the the office by Hon. Lady Wolffe (1984), of the IoF RAISE Steering Committee, morning news. If anyone is curious as Senator of the College of Justice funded by Arts Council England to to what we are doing architecturally in Scotland. I will deliver the Stair enhance and support cultural sector and pedagogically, I can be contacted Society Annual Lecture 2020 with fundraisers throughout England at [email protected]. the title ‘Sir Walter Scott: Law and (outside London). I have a great Imagination’. nationwide committee, but would be Michael Paling (1965) keen to speak to Balliol alumni involved Packing real cheese, as I write this, to Benjamin White in arts and heritage fundraising who take to Guatemala, to see me through (1965) would like to know more. what will be be my twelfth overseas I published trip as a medical volunteer. Queso does Agriculture and Philip Kendall (1966) not work for me!!! the Generation Appointed a trustee of the Oxford Problem: Agrarian School of Drama (OSD). Established in Professor James Prattis (1965) Change & Peasant 1986, based in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, Shattered Earth: Approaching Extinction Studies (Fernwood the OSD is one of the UK’s leading (Manor House Publishing, 2019) is my Publishing, 2020). drama schools, with distinguished

NEWS AND NOTES 6 alumni in film, television, and theatre. and friends. Their two daughters, Lucy Following the appointment of a new and Rosie, with their husbands and principal from RADA, the school has six grandchildren were all present to ambitious plans for expansion. celebrate the joyful occasion at Rhodes House. Best man Htun Aye (1966) and

NEWS AND NOTES Michael Venning (1966) his wife were also present, as were After a career in medicine – teacher, members of the Canadian family. After researcher and university hospital receiving his DPhil in 1970 and working specialist clinician – I am switching as a management consultant, in 1973 career to spend the next decade or Tony joined the Canadian government so using my maths PhD, teaching in Ottawa, where he worked on secondary school maths. So far so streamlining various government good: my UCAS application to train to programmes and procedures. In 1981 he Alan Wilkie (1967), former High Court teach is in. It will keep me in funds to was seconded to the World Intellectual judge, and Sir John Holmes (1969), watch Manchester United at home and Property Organisation, a United chairman of the Electoral Commission, overseas, and I should get a grant for Nations Specialized Agency in Geneva, that makes three members of the the training! where he worked until 2004. Later Tony 1971 Balliol College football team (see lectured at the University of Geneva for photo) with Ks. This is one more than Martin Walker (1966) the International Organisations MBA the England 1966 World Cup winners The year 2019 saw the publication programme. After retirement the family who have been knighted. I hadn’t of The Body in the Castle Well, the 12th continues to reside in Switzerland. To realised we were so good. I regard novel in the Bruno series of Perigord have been married for 50 years seems myself as the Balliol Gordon Banks, i.e. mysteries, which have now sold more to be almost unimaginable in the the goalkeeper who didn’t get knighted. than 4 million copies in 18 languages. modern, technological age and Tony It also saw the launch of Bruno’s Garden and Deborah are very happy to have The Very Reverend Michael Cookbook, written with my wife Julia, beaten the statistics! Sadgrove (1968) at the Frankfurt Book Fair. I was Three score years and ten this year. honoured to be elected a member of Anthony Sheppard (1967) Enjoying retirement near Hadrian’s the Jurade of the wines of Montravel Now starting my seventh year as Hon. Wall. Pleasures include grandchildren, and a magistrat of the wines of Duras, Treasurer of the British Institute at writing and blogging, European travels, and we produced 7,000 bottles of my Ankara and seeking a successor, as I am the landscapes and history of North own Cuvée Bruno wine. approaching my ‘use by date’! Anybody East England (Balliol’s homeland), interested is welcome to get in touch photography, music and volunteering. Dennis Childs (1967) via [email protected]. Beyond baffled by Brexit, which goes Caro and I have lived in France for 14 against everything I learned at the years now, but only after the Brexit Professor Jonathan Slack (1967) diverse, internationalist, outward- referendum did we apply for French I am still writing scientific books. In looking Balliol of 50 years ago. http:// nationality. In December 2019 we 2018 The Science of Stem Cells came out, northernwoolgatherer.blogspot.com. were officially naturalised. It makes published by Wiley. This is intended to surprisingly little difference to our provide ‘all the basic science you need David Satter (1968) status here, but as we were in line to to know’ to be a stem cell biologist, Never Speak to Strangers lose our right to vote in UK elections including developmental biology, tissue and Other Writing from from 2020, at least we will be able to culture technology, transplantation Russia and the Soviet vote in the French ones. biology and so on. I have just Union was published finished the fourth edition ofEssential in April 2020 by Tony Keefer (1967) Developmental Biology, also published by Iibidem Press/ Tony Keefer (Rhodes Scholar from Wiley. This is my basic textbook. This Columbia University Ontario) and Deborah were married in edition is a joint project with my old Press. It is a Balliol College Chapel on 12 July 1969. colleague Les Dale, from UCL. It should collection of my writing and reporting In 2019 they celebrated their Golden be out by the end of 2020. on Russia over more than four decades. Wedding anniversary there with family Professor Terrell Carver (1968) Sir John Holmes (1969) I published this ‘accessible’ book Currently Chair of the UK Electoral in 2018: www.wiley.com/en-us/ Commission. Interesting and at times Marx-p-9781509518173. And I am challenging. Dividing my time between continuing full-time at the University London and Oxfordshire. of Bristol. Robin Poulton (1969) Eric Hanslip (1968) I Dance Therefore I Am: A Memoir of Scotland, Following the report in last year’s News America and Dancing (independently and Notes that Sir Ian Davis (1969) had published, 2019) is available from been knighted, I observe that with Sir Amazon in print or as e-book. This

7 FLOREAT DOMUS MAY 2020 NEWS AND NOTESNEWS amusing memoir about Scotland to trial, where he was convicted of of the coastal trade to create an online and dancing promotes Scottish 13 counts of perverting the course of ‘virtual archive’ and research platform Enlightenment ideas (Hume) against justice and fraud. He was sentenced to for an in-depth analysis of the origins the French (Descartes). Poulton 18 years. The others falsely accused by and operation of the trade in plants includes limericks, great stories of Beech (Lord Bramall, Lord Brittan and and people as well as gold, ivory and drinking and dancing, travels along the Harvey Proctor) all received substantial firearms. The ethno-botany and culinary Silv’ry River Tay honouring haggis and compensation from the Metropolitan history of the Atlantic slave trade have, bagpipes, the revered Robert Burns and Police, reflecting the serious errors of to date, been understudied. Yet the the unforgettable William McGonagall, the police in this wholly misguided trade and subsistence patterns emerging and J.S. Mill’s ‘the greatest happiness and reckless investigation costing from this period continue to shape of the greatest number’. This poem will millions of pounds. Many of the senior and constrain current food systems make you laugh: police officers involved left the force in throughout Africa. Current public disgrace. A parliamentary committee policy concerning African food systems Catriona, a wonderful lass, has been convened to look into the could benefit from the pursuit of these Had a truly remarkable ass: conduct of the police at all levels. studies (see https://bit.ly/2TTTsq7). We Not rounded and pink Edward Heath is of course not alive need help in interpreting these early As you probably think: to see his reputation restored. But maps, and we hope that the digital It was grey, had long ears, for posterity, and for Balliol, I would platforms for sharing this primary and ate grass. like to take the opportunity to record material online will stimulate extended in these notes the damage done to a discussions among anthropologists and Dr Poulton danced his first Highland distinguished Balliol man and former historians concerning the early-modern Fling at the age of five. Passionate about prime minister. We never doubted his European maritime empires and their Scotland’s dancing heritage, Robin tells innocence and the record should show impact upon Africa and around the his grandchildren how important dance that we and all those who knew him world. Balliol has a strong tradition of and music are for their culture, at a were right. historical studies, and it has created time when entertainment is consumed its own impressive archive to preserve through screens. He is passionate about Peter Taylor (1969) valuable papers and manuscripts for intelligent women and promoting equal Nine PPE and History men gathered scholarly consultation. It is hoped opportunities. Each chapter celebrates in College for a private dinner in that this virtual archive of slave trade at least one brilliant woman and her September 2019 to celebrate the documents can be made accessible to gifts to dancing. The book visits many alarming fact that it was 50 years since Balliol Fellows, MCR and JCR members types of dance (contra, English, African, their matriculation. Pictured left to alike in the future. Irish, German, French, Scandinavian, right: Tony Cothey, Michael Stewart, flamenco, salsa, ballet, waltzing) but Michael Donithorn, Richard House, focuses especially on the Celts and the Peter Gavan, Peter Taylor, Nicholas benefits of Scottish dance for mental, Mansergh, Kenneth Grimshaw, 1970s physical and spiritual health. Jokes, Nicholas Kenyon (all 1969). dance and ghost stories enliven the Professor Dennis Goldford (1970) memoir … and a whodunit: who really Still teaching undergraduates, doing was Robin’s Scottish grandfather? some writing, and serving as a political Read the book to find out. The perfect analyst for print and broadcast media Christmas or birthday present. organisations covering American elections generally and the Iowa Lincoln Seligman (1969) precinct caucuses in particular, yet Some five years ago the Metropolitan beginning to contemplate retirement. Police embarked on Operation Midland, an investigation into paedophile Philip Mansel (1970) offences allegedly committed by My book King of the World: The Life of various senior politicians including Louis XIV was published by Allen Lane Sir Edward Heath (1935, Honorary in July 2019. Fellow 1969–2005). Operation Midland Professor Timothy Weiskel (1969) was followed by Wiltshire police’s Following on the DPhil work started Professor Anand Pillay (1970) Operation Conifer, which concentrated at Balliol in social anthropology and I was the Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw on Edward Heath. The trustees of his African history more than 50 years ago, Visiting Professor in the School charitable foundation, and I as his I am currently learning more about of Mathematics, University of godson, had to work non-stop for newly available digital technology Manchester, in June and July 2019. four years to defend his reputation. in order to expand an international That he was eventually exonerated is community of scholars in Europe, Professor Ian Williamson (1970) due in large part to the diligence of Africa and the Americas and to focus Currently editing Bruckner’s Symphony Northumbria Police, who investigated upon Atlantic slave trade documents. No. 6 for a new Complete Edition the source of the allegations, a fantasist We are starting by ‘digitising’ some of published by Musikwissenschaftlicher called Carl Beech. They brought him the 16th-, 17th- and 18th-century maps Verlag of Vienna.

NEWS AND NOTES 8 Professor Jon Berrick (1971) thoroughly revised it. (Needless to say, Highlands and Islands – my sixth Jon Berrick has retired from National the references needed a bit of updating degree since leaving Oxford. I can University of Singapore and Yale-NUS after four decades!) Plunging into that now claim to have been a student College, though remaining as Emeritus material brought back memories of my at the oldest and one of the newest Professor there (www.yale-nus.edu.sg/ original struggles with it as a Balliol universities in the country.

NEWS AND NOTES about/faculty/a-j-jon-berrick/). He’s graduate student, lo these many years. returned to his hometown, Sydney, Simon Bishop (1972) where two small grandsons keep him Ravi Sekhar (1971) Still working on cultural history and busy. He is also Honorary Professor Taking retirement at 45 from a vintage photography. You can find me at the University of Sydney, Adjunct comfortable corporate job with an on LinkedIn. Will soon be looking at Professor at Western Sydney University, international bank for nearly 25 unusual photographs taken while at and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the years was the best decision, opening Balliol in the 1970s. And a painting Australian Mathematical Society. myriad vistas for self-awareness of Maurice Keen (Fellow and Tutor and enrichment. The next 25 years in Modern History 1961–2000 and Professor Richard Bronaugh (1971) have passed in delivering leadership Emeritus Fellow 2000–2012) in Balliol After 34 years as founding and lead coaching to C-suite executives in India Hall, as I was lucky enough to sit next editor of The Canadian Journal of Law and and abroad under the aegis of a global to my inspiring old medieval tutor Jurisprudence (CJLJ) I am leaving that training organisation; travel to near and on Gaudy night. He was a great and editorial responsibility. The journal flew far off lands; writing over 800 travel conscientious tutor. on its own wings until we partnered reviews for a leading travel advisory with Cambridge University Press company; attending personal and Martin Fisher (1972) (CUP) six years ago. This formation has professional events across the country; One year in I got a bit bored with resulted in much wider distribution; and catching up with contemporaries retirement and trying to be the house indeed, CUP counted worldwide from Oxford and old friends, putting ‘domestic goddess’ while my wife 145,606 single-article downloads from social media avenues to good effect. continues to earn money, so I have CJLJ during the year 2018. I will soon I have held the position of President started work as a Citizens Advice count myself as fully retired from the of the Camford Society – so named volunteer adviser in Liskeard two days University of Western Ontario, which because the former outnumbered a week. Very challenging, and opening I joined in 1962, teaching in both the the latter – and now offer advice as up vast areas of law and social need Department of Philosophy and finally a committee member. I continue to that had previously passed me by. Still in the Faculty of Law. offer mentoring and other coaching helping run Truro 3 Arts, a chamber services on a pro bono basis. Now I am music winter series of six concerts, and Sir David Gilmour working alongside my wife Jyotsna in now writing all their programme notes. (1971) her social enterprise, Totum, which Another challenge but a more purely In 2019 Penguin aims to empower underprivileged enjoyable one! published new women from the slums in Pune by revised editions of teaching them bag weaving, thus Neil Record (1972) three of my books, providing them an opportunity to Neil Record is still chairman of the Curzon: Imperial make a steady income. We celebrated firm (Record plc) he founded in 1983. Statesman, The our 68th birthday recently (we were He spends more of his time now at the British in India: Three born on the same day) and the large Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), of Centuries of Ambition turnout of family, friends, and well- which he is chairman, and several other and Experience and The Long Recessional: wishers was wonderful and made our free-market or right-of-centre think The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling. day. Our girls, Devika and Namita, are tanks. He has had a long association doing well, the elder pursuing a career with Nuffield College, Oxford, and is Thomas Sancton (1971) in business development with a hotel now chairman of the Remuneration After a long career at Time magazine, chain in Mumbai and the younger a Committee there. He has just retired I am now living in France with my product strategist in New York. I would after 12 years as a governor of Magdalen wife Sylvaine. Sylvaine is an artist; I welcome hearing from others who have College School, Oxford – presiding, write books. My current project deals made such mid-career or life changes inter alia, over the arrival of sixth-form with the notorious 1978 kidnapping and been richer for it. girls at the formerly all-boys school. He of Baron Empain, a leading French sees quite a few Balliol alumni in the industrialist. Title: The Last Baron. Simon Walker (1971) course of his activities, including Mark Publication is expected in 2022. I have been appointed Chairman of Littlewood (1990) and Shanker Singham Before that, however, an American the UK Trade Remedies Authority, a (1986) at the IEA and Charlotte Leslie university press is publishing a revised statutory body which will in future deal (1997) of the Conservative Middle East and updated version of my Oxford with anti-dumping and trade disputes. Council. His eldest son, Chris (2006), DPhil thesis: Sweet Land of Liberty: The is now a Registrar in Neurology at St French Left Looks at America, 1848–1871. I John Armstrong-Gregson (1972) George’s Hospital, Tooting (see page submitted the thesis in 1979, and never After retiring in 2018, I enrolled on 23). His daughter Helen kicked the thought much about it until last year, an MLitt course in Viking Studies at family Balliol habit by going next when I took it out of the drawer and Orkney College, University of the door to Trinity College, Oxford. Neil’s

9 FLOREAT DOMUS MAY 2020 NEWS AND NOTESNEWS firm Record Currency Management Christopher Catherwood (1973) that annually distributes about three (the main subsidiary of Record plc) is I am getting used to being a widower – quarters of a million Bibles and New a beneficiary of an unusual Record– thank you to Balliol members such as Testaments in the UK, facing the Balliol intern arrangement, in which Stuart Jamieson (1975) who reached out challenges of being the safety director Record encourages applications from in sympathy, and ongoing profound for a heritage steam railway at a time Balliol undergraduates for (well gratitude to Andrew Whittaker (1974) when the regulator is taking greater paid!) internships, leading for the and his wife Clare and daughters interest in the sector, and enjoying six right applicants to permanent full- Charlotte and Rosie, who have all been wonderful grandchildren. time posts. Record currently has five kindness personified. I am enjoying permanent staff arising from this life in the junior university (Churchill Lawrence Hutter (1973) intern scheme, ranging in Balliol College is a wonderful academic home) Having started Alvarez & Marsal’s now dates from 2009 to 2015. In return, and teaching clever American study- thriving Corporate Transformation Record sponsors bursaries for Balliol abroad students for the Wake Forest Practice in Europe seven years ago, I undergraduates who are planning to INSTEP programme in Cambridge have stepped down from being a full- go into public or charitable service. (I am now Academic Director). I am time partner to a pleasantly flexible This very happy relationship is now in still writing history books, enjoying Senior Advisor role doing the work I its 11th year, and shows every sign of attendance at All Saints, Little enjoy most. This was partly prompted continuing. Shelford, and slowly catching up on by being diagnosed with relatively the rest of life. aggressive prostate cancer, which is Sam Schulman (1972) under control, though I had left it I am relieved to announce that the The Hon Dr Paul Flather (1973) a bit late before having a thorough Two Thousand-Teens just past is the Here is an image of Dr Paul Flather medical. If you are in your late 50s first decade, including the one in (right), currently a Fellow of Mansfield or early 60s, get checked regularly! I which I matriculated, in which I have College, receiving the Honorary Jan do not plan to retire because I love not conceived even one child. The Masaryk Silver Medal (named after what I do. I have just accepted the daughters of the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s are the first democratic Prime Minister of role of chairman of an innovative and on their own, or well launched; the son Czechoslovakia) from His Excellency, disruptive marketing research and of the Aughts, now aged 10, demands the Czech Ambassador Libor Sečka, analytics business called the Brand the usual attentions of an energetic at a special ceremony in London Experience Group. We are working young father in his spare moments – marking the 30-year anniversary of the on an Investment Memorandum for fortunately I have many of those. We 1989 Velvet Revolution. He received those who want to join us on what is live on a small ex-tobacco farm near the award for ‘special contributions’ likely to be an exciting and rewarding Charlottesville, Virginia, and when supporting the development of the journey over the next few years as we not fetching/delivering or playing Czech and Slovak nations. expand globally. The family is thriving. basketball with a young man, I am Fae works for Google doing clever stuff engaged on a couple of book projects I don’t completely understand; Ben and polemical articles in defending is leading his first clinical research the Jews in spite of our many faults, programme; Joe is pursuing a career and carping about and criticising the in the business of sport and works for well-meant suggestions of other Jews. Arsenal FC; Clara has graduated in law I also help my wife in her university and is applying for a training contract admissions marketing consultancy with (hard); Luc is doing his A levels, is very more carping and criticism, for which talented, and I am trying to persuade she is unable to find words to express him to apply to Balliol. Philippa holds her gratitude. We have lived here for 15 it all together, as she has done for the years now, and our Pathfinder traffic has last 30+ years. understandably fallen off to an every- few-years visit from the flood of Balliol Matilda Simon (1973) men and women we loved to host I am now retired from lecturing in when we lived in Manhattan. But it is a design but I use my engineering skills fascinating place, full of the kindest and and research background in sustainable most diverse supporters of the current design to make furniture and useful president, and near a college town items from local hardwood. I also full of the kindest and most diverse founded and help run a 3-hectare despisers of the same chap. Do call. community woodland, work as a simulated patient in the medical Graham Beamson (1973) Iain Gray (1973) school, volunteer in secondary schools After nine years of studying courses in I retired in 2017 after 40 plus years for Diversity Role Models and am part earth sciences, astronomy, evolution in the nuclear industry. As with most of an art collective who run a gallery in and statistics with the Open University Balliol Old Members, life is just as New Mills. I am oddly proud of having I have been awarded a BSc (Open, 1st busy. This includes serving as a regional been one of the first women at Balliol, class Honours). director for a national Christian charity even though nobody was aware of it.

NEWS AND NOTES 10 Professor Sir David Skegg (1973) ready to resume retirement. Plenty of My book, The Health of the People, was unfinished research projects are ‘oven published in 2019. A description, with ready’ – as another Balliol alumnus some of the responses to the book, can would say … i.e. most of the hard be found via the publisher’s web page: work is ahead. Six months in Perth

NEWS AND NOTES www.bwb.co.nz/books/health-people. (Australia) and six in Oxford allowed us to walk (again) long stretches of Neil Stuart (1973) the Thames Path (westwards this I am still able to keep active on the crags time) and have a supported walk in and visited several new international the Langhe Hills south of Turin. Lots venues this year, with Monaco being the of Roman archaeology there and in most accessible and exciting. The night Rome and Naples later in the summer. December 2019 I organised a very life there is pretty good too. Had good A first grandchild was born in April enjoyable Christmas lunch in Covent meetings with Steve Soden, who looks 2018 and another is due in April 2019. Garden attended by Mark Short (1975), more like Elton John than ever, and Kevin Alban (1976), John O’Reilly Dennis ‘Paddy’ Payne (both 1971), who Stephen Saint-Leger (1974) (1974), Ewan Ferlie (1974), Philip Brace visits from NZ every year – this time to I have contributed a lot of the research (1974), Simon McGuire (1975), and cycle from Land’s End to John O’Groats. for a new book being published by Mike Williams (1975). We were very Profile Books:The Failure of the Free pleased to receive a fleeting visit from Paul Bailey (1975) Market and Democracy and What To Do Alicia Collinson (St Hugh’s, 1974), who I retired in August 2018 and continue About It, by Daniel Ritter. took this photo. to live in Alsace. I have been granted French citizenship and I want to go Professor Sinclair Stockman (1974) Carl Worker (1974) on living in a European Community I’m privileged to be the New Zealand To the delight of my Argentine-born country. Consul in Northern Ireland. With wife, I have been appointed as New colleagues, we have launched the Zealand Ambassador in Buenos Aires, Howard Cook (1974) Commonwealth Centre for Digital on cross-posting from Consul-General, Gradually extracting myself from the Health, with the goal of accelerating Hong Kong – my second time in both occasional consulting jobs for Oil & access to digital health for all of the roles. March 2020 marked 40 years Gas and spending more time on leisure nations of the Commonwealth. I am with the NZ foreign service, with a activities of scuba diving, mountain making time to spend time with my strong focus on China including as walks, skiing and concert-going with daughters and grandchildren, who Ambassador from 2009 to 2015. Post- family and friends. Met various Balliol are in three continents, and still foreign service base in due course will engineers over the past 12 months, involved with colleagues in mapping be Waiheke Island, Auckland. I was including very nice rendezvous with pathways for Northern Ireland to grow also delighted to have met up with my our tutors from the 1970s, Professor and transform beyond the politics of former tutor at Balliol, and, of course, John Bridgwater (Lubbock Fellow and division. I still treasure the global vision later Master of Balliol (1994–2001) and Tutor in Engineering 1973–1980) and that Balliol gave us as students, and the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, Alastair Howatson (Emeritus Fellow) – obligation to fulfil our potential. Sir Colin Lucas (right in photo), on 4 both of whom were on fine form. October 2019 in Hong Kong. Giles Vardey (1974) Professor John Helliwell (1974) I am still rowing regularly and managing My new book is published; details are to get in and out of a sculling boat here: www.crcpress.com/The-Whats- unaided. I am developing my senior of-a-Scientific-Life/Helliwell/p/ executive coaching practice with a good book/9780367233020. This completes selection of interesting clients and my trilogy of Scientific Life books, as trying to finish my Masters degree at described on that webpage. I was also Henley Business School. My father said admitted as an Honorary Member of it was better to wear out than rust out so the British Crystallographic Association. I am trying to follow his advice …

Professor David Kennedy (1974) Paddy Walsh (1974) Stephen Moss (1975) My two-year contract to run a Still living in Eastbourne, where I I am still at the Guardian, having programme of aerial archaeology in write a strictly non-commercial review clocked up 30 years there in September Saudi Arabia is coming to an end, but blog called ‘Man about Eastbourne 2019. Probably I should retire, and no the programme will continue in the (and around)’, which features reviews doubt the Guardian feels the same way, capable hands of the seven members of events attended by the eponymous but what would I do? I am completely of my team. After four field seasons Man, including a wide range of sporting institutionalised. I blame Balliol. Once in two years and almost 200 hours of events, operas, concerts, wine tastings, you have enjoyed the warm embrace of flying over some stunning landscapes and holidays both in Sussex and much that institution, you spend the rest of (including two ‘white’ volcanoes) and further afield. It can be found at your life craving similar comfort and remarkable archaeological sites, I am www.manabouteastbourne.com. In certainty elsewhere.

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Charles Randall (1975) widely travelled, successful and with in Free Trade Agreement land will For the last ten years my company, ‘suitable boys’. I continue to be bemused take a touch more than 11 months to Randall Concepts Ltd, has been at how many contemporaries still seem get fixed with the EU. Trump did not building small radio studios built into to think it was a good idea for Britain to get removed from office (although suitcases; these are part of a highly be in the EU. The follies of wokedom! he should have!) which in itself is a portable radio stations which can be tragedy for US democracy. However, set up and broadcasting in a disaster Professor Tom Schwartz (1976) with some luck he will not stand area within an hour of arrival. They are My book Henry Kissinger and American again for election in 2020. Meanwhile, used by relief agencies to communicate Power will be published in August the Swiss are still chewing over with disaster-affected communities 2020 by Hill and Wang, a subsidiary their relationship with the EU, but and it has been shown that good of Farrar Strauss & Giroux. In the last the recent elections brought more communications in the early phase of few years I have reconnected with women and greens into parliament, relief saves lives. We normally work Balliol alumni, including Koro Bessho so perhaps we will finally get started with an NGO, First Response Radio, to (1976), recently retired Ambassador on taking global warming seriously. train and equip teams in disaster-prone of Japan to the United Nations, and On the family front, my son Áedán is areas prior to a disaster; however in Vasant Kaiwar, Professor of History completing his Bachelor at the ETH March last year we given three days’ at Duke University (1975). My three in Zurich (electrical engineering and notice to provide a system for use in daughters have all graduated, with IT) and apart from running his own Mozambique following the cyclone and one in medical school, one working start-up he has landed a plum job floods. This system, with two trainers, for an environmental group, and a in an engineering firm, responsible was helicoptered into Buzia by the UN, third studying public policy at the LBJ for consulting and IT. Not bad for a in the worst of the flooded areas, and School in Austin, Texas. No marriages 23-year old! His older brother Seán was used there for four months. Prior or grandchildren yet. I was recently started studying environmental to that I spent 25 years with a Christian promoted to Distinguished Professor, sciences at the ZHAW in Wädenswil, radio organisation which worked in which sounds funny but is an actual near Zurich, last September. My wife Africa and Asia, where I originated the title. Nashville has become something is still happily Chief of Staff for the portable studio concept. I remain active of an ‘It city,’ which in American Design Department of the Zurich in my local church. parlance means there is lots to do for University of the Arts. I am still visitors. I encourage everyone to visit studying. I have three Certificates of Richard Taylor (1975) and see what the fuss is about. Advanced Studies in Design Thinking, I am currently helping to look after Design Technologies and Design two young grandsons. I left the BBC in Jim Berkman (1977) Cultures under my belt. This year, I October after nearly 30 years, aiming to I retired five years ago from Head will complete my Master of Advanced freelance. My last film as a producer/ of School (headmaster) at Boston Studies in Strategic Design. Having director there was for BBC4: Hidden University Academy, after 31 years escaped early retirement, I have found History: The Lost Portraits of Bradford. in secondary education. Boston a new full-time job at Bank Julius Baer. University Academy is the high school Not bad for a 62-year old! I’m also still The Very Revd Dr Kevin Alban (1976) embedded in Boston University, where active musically, mostly singing and I published ‘The Idea of Mary as students graduate with a year and a conducting singers. “Sister” in Carmelite Mariology’ in C. half of university credits. I reported to Maunder (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of the university Provost, and loved my Professor Francis Fincham (1977) Mary (Oxford University Press, 2019). nine years there. Since retiring, I’ve Francis D. Fincham married Frances J. published one novel – a sequel to The Homme on 11 November 2019 at Holy Ian Fletcher (1976) Ambassadors by Henry James, called The Comforter Episcopal Church. I seem to have become a Conradian Product of Woollett (CreateSpace, 2015) character, having lived on the Far – and currently I have an historical The Hon. Jonathan Hamberger (1977) Eastern island of Taiwan for the past 23 fiction manuscript about Samuel Taylor In August 2019 I retired after 15 years as years. I am currently head teacher in Coleridge and his son Hartley under a Senior Deputy President of the Fair the language department of a private consideration at Simon & Schuster. I Work Commission (Australia’s national school in Taichung. I also write English also tutor adults preparing for their industrial tribunal). I have subsequently textbooks for senior high schools here. high-school equivalency tests. All that, been appointed as an Honorary I started writing poetry a few years ago plus visiting our four adult children Professor at the Sydney Business and have had over 200 poems published (three married, fourth engaged – to a School (University of Wollongong) as in various obscure parts of the web. Brit!) and two grandchildren, as well well as an Honorary Associate at the as sculling from May through October University of Sydney Business School. Adam Lloyd (1976) in Vermont, keep me active, fit and I’ll be doing some teaching as well I am living largely off-grid in Golden gratefully blessed. pursuing further research in the area of Bay/Nelson, New Zealand, growing workplace conflict management. I have avocadoes. Happily married for 30 years, David Christie (1977) also just been elected as President of we have learned a lot about the parallel A year ago, I wrote about Brexit and the Industrial Relations Society of New universe of autism from our son. Our Trump. Brexit is now happening, but South Wales. So I am going to be quite three beautiful daughters are grown up, one suspects that the wonderful future busy in my retirement!

NEWS AND NOTES 12 George Levy (1977) Murray Hancock (1978) interest in education as a trustee of Trinity College I was elected as a South I’m coming out of retirement London, which provides performing arts and English Oxfordshire District Councillor to start a citizen project to language testing, and chair of governors at Ark in May 2019, and both my stimulate ‘across the aisle’ Charter, a secondary academy in Portsmouth. daughters achieved first-class discussion and debate between

NEWS AND NOTES honours degrees in engineering. the ideological tribes in my Mark Joseph (1978) home city of Brisbane, Australia, At the time of writing I am in Houston, in the Christopher Lord (1977) which has not polarised to the Jewish Community Centre, language-editing a Still doing my best to move in extent many other societies client’s PhD about employment legislation in the US. mysterious ways: pleased to have have, retaining a base of I live in Jerusalem, Israel, and translate from Hebrew expounded my thesis that the common sense and tolerance to as well as editing in English. I am learning piano, and Chinese word for democracy is build on. A deep concern about using Garageband and Logic ProX to record short a mistranslation in Chinese at polarisation and the toxification compositions, and longer soundscapes, based on the Beijing University School of public discourse is shared by voices, instruments, ambient sound, collages really, of Government, a publication everyone here, on all sides. The sometimes on a theme where I asked others to read to this effect being in press first planned event in March a text and talk about it, or embedding interviews thanks to the Chinese Academy was a mini debate between a in a sound environment. I recently completed an of Social Sciences. Anyone who visiting American libertarian MA in religious studies at CU Boulder, where I also is curious can find an English philosopher and a local left- did a music technology course and encountered version at the Hong Kong Free wing economist. The initial Cuban Santeria. I spent time on Freud and the Press website. My daughter faces operating model is to recycle a psychoanalytic tradition, in relation to trauma and a dilemma: military service in modest amount of donor capital the communicability of traditions. the Finnish Defence Forces or to underwrite events staged losing her Brexit-proof Finnish by think tanks, universities, passport and falling victim to speaker event companies and Penny Phillips (1979) Brexit’s ill-effects. Timeo Danaos et community organisations, on dona ferentes. the condition that they are At Balliol, when I was young, civilised discussions or debates I saw how the pendulum swung Bijoy Mathur (1977) between people of opposing or From wisdom to youth The year 2019 was a good strongly contrasting perspectives In quest of some truth one. My students from the – not just lectures or one-sided That always elusively hung Kiit International School, discussions. The organisation Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, itself will remain as minimal, Perplexingly just out of reach – worked on innovative devices virtual and voluntary as it can A ripe but unpickable peach, that could dispense water for possibly be. I’d love to make A dreamlike ideal, differentially abled persons. A contact with others interested in Parading as real, foot-operated green device, a or doing anything similar. It is Blue ice on a tropical beach first of its kind in India, was easy to envisage a global network picked up by the government of likeminded local projects What truth, though? What manner? What sort? of India and patented by the making quite a difference The quest might be lengthy or short; National Innovation Foundation. (and projecting the Balliol The bright river beckoned Three eighth-graders and their spirit far and wide!). See www. And some people reckoned teacher won the Innovation brisbanedialogues.org. Familiarly, The answer, for them, lay in sport. Challenge at the IIT Kharagpur. my son Sam finished law at Meeting the Master, Dame Queen’s College, Oxford, in 2017 But though we have no way of knowing Helen Ghosh, and distinguished and is now at Freshfields, and Which way fortune’s winds might be blowing, alumni at the Imperial in Delhi daughter Georgie started PPE at In ’79 for drinks was a good way to bid Exeter College, Oxford, this year. I think I knew mine 2019 farewell and look forward Given a time machine, she and I Would probably not lead to rowing … to the New Year. We exchanged could literally wave to each other news about the Pathfinders. from our respective rooms. My grasp of the subject was mouldy: I scarcely knew Isis from Goldie, Chris Torrible (1977) Charles Hindson (1978) Nor yet stern from bow – Still annoying. After 12 years with two FTSE- No matter! I’m now quoted engineering companies, The sub on the wonderful Oldie. Professor Peter Barker (1978) I’m now a non-executive My first grandson, Robbie, director with AIM-listed Our features are varied and many, born July 2019. I continue as Diaceutics, which is improving By writers more splendid than any; Professor of Radiology at the testing for cancer treatment, I urge you to try it – Johns Hopkins University and Soter Analytics, which Just go out and buy it! School of Medicine, 31 is reducing manual lifting Good luck and best wishes from Penny years after I started here. injuries. I’m also pursuing my

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The Revd Michael Wilcockson (1978) continuing to plan that Chloe and I John Colenutt (1981) I was ordained priest in Eton College should both be retired from full-time I recently left Genomics plc, the Chapel on 22 June 2019 and then work by the end of 2021. Our intention genetic analysis company led by after 23 years at Eton College moved is to do all the travelling we didn’t Professor Sir Peter Donnelly (1980 permanently to our house in Linton, have time or funds for when we were and Honorary Fellow), after five Cambridge, where shortly afterwards younger. Meantime, I am permanently exciting years. Currently enjoying a I was licensed as curate. I have a banned from using ladders of any break – including some skiing – before part-time teaching position at The description. deciding on the next challenge. Perse School, Cambridge, and I still continue my work as an A-Level Ian Gambles (1980) Professor Daniel religious examiner and writer of Proud to be CEO of the Forestry Esty (1981) school textbooks. Having served the Commission in our centenary year, and I continue to Eton College CCF as Commanding to celebrate by editing British Forests: The teach at Yale Officer for ten years, I transferred Forestry Commission 1919–2019 (Profile on a range of my commission to Army Chaplains’ Books, 2019). environment, Department and now serve as a energy, and chaplain to the Essex Army Cadet Force. Martin Humphrey (1980) sustainability My partner Saje Shah and I had a topics – and I have Paul Shotton (1979) daughter, Isobel Sophia, born at home a new (edited) In 2019 I set up a new company, in Norbury on 24 July 2018. book that has just White Diamond Risk Advisory LLC, to been published: provide bespoke financial risk advisory Kym Bills (1981) A Better Planet: services to boards of directors and Since officially retiring from full-time 40 Big Ideas for a executive management in the financial work in Perth, Australia, in September Sustainable Future (Yale, 2019). services sector. I am now planning a 2018, I have moved back to Adelaide series of lectures on risk management, where all my family resides. Main pro Wayne Henderson (1981) bank regulation and systemic risk, to bono roles are chair of the College of I am moving back to the UK after be presented to graduates at the Yale Fellows of the Australian Institute of spending three lovely years in University School of Management Health & Safety and chair of the AIHS Sydney, Australia. The move is for during the spring semester. SA Branch. I recently commenced a work, which is with an Oxford-based part-time PhD through Edith Cowan start-up that has developed a secure University, exploring the theory/ communications protocol for the practice gap in major accident safety internet of things: www.iothic.io. Our 1980s investigation. The NSW government young’uns remain at university in has contracted me to independently Australia for the next 18 months, so we Christopher Gallop (1980) review its mine and petroleum safety will be a ‘virtual family’ for a while – 2019 wasn’t the best year. Although laws during 2020. It was great to attend very 21st century! Having been ill last there were certainly good times spent the Gaudy in 2019. year, I have taken up drawing and tried in the company of Balliol friends to push forward my writing, which has such as Martin Yates (1979) and Ian led to a growing list of rejection letters Gambles (1980), at the end of June, but no published material so far. I managed to fall off a stepladder whilst pruning a climbing rose in the Mark Hume (1981) garden at home. I sustained a burst After nearly 29 years at Ketchum, fracture of my L1 vertebra, resulting in an Omnicom-owned, global reconstructive surgery at St George’s communications consultancy, I was Hospital in Tooting, three months promoted to the role of President, off work, the need to relearn how to Europe, while retaining the role of walk and a long further programme COO, International. of rehabilitation and recovery which is progressing well but still has some Laura Irvine (1981) months to go. The sudden, untimely With the help and support of Wayne and saddening death of my sister Henderson (1981) and advice in Felicity in Dorset towards the end a conversation at last summer’s of November has tested the whole Gaudy with Robert Twigger (1982), family’s resilience even further. I published The Biodynamic Field: Four These things notwithstanding, I have Papers and a Manifesto on Amazon (2019). returned to full-time work in Essex This aims to put the biodynamic as a board director of Cloudfm, the therapeutic work I do in the widest facilities management innovator, with possible scientific context, as well as a new set of responsibilities and as articulating the underlying biological clear an idea as ever of the benefits of refinement of healing.

NEWS AND NOTES 14 Professor Jane Stapleton (1981) consultancy, and also some cooking, Pleasant news: I’ve been appointed an which is less well paid, harder work Honorary Queen’s Counsel. but usually more fun. I’m on the board of the wonderful OperaUpClose, I Jonathan Vernon (1981) volunteer at Southwark Playhouse

NEWS AND NOTES Elected as a Green Party councillor in theatre and I am a trustee of Guide May 2019, I was quickly brought in to Dogs. I’m trying to live more support social media at a district and sustainably and now avoid flying, so then a constituency level – to no avail. my journey to spend last summer in Town council work is a pleasure to be Greece was by train, boat and bus: involved with. My fellow councillors an adventure in itself and highly are Green, Lib Dem or Independent: recommended. Oh, and I’ve just started we discuss everything, never argue and writing what I hope will become my find we come to quick agreement. After first book. decades of pointing cameras at people, as some Balliol alumni will recall, the Martyn Bowen (1982) difference today is that what I do is in I have just retired after 25 very happy 360˚: I’ve taken well over 1,200 360˚ years at the sportswear company images and created some 24 or more PUMA, based in Salzburg, Austria. VR interactive tours, using them on I have been lucky enough to have leaves me more time to spend with the ThingLink platform. Currently I regional responsibility in the last 25 Chris and our daughters Anna and Jess. am working with Special Educational years for places as exciting as Eastern I’ve managed to keep up my enthusiasm Needs & Disability Students (SEND) to Europe, India and Africa, as these for the higher education sector and support Independent Travel Training. emerging nations take their place am on the board of governors for the I have been the digital editor at the in the world, and more recently the University of the West of England in Western Front Association (WFA) for submerging nations of Europe. My Bristol; and I finally completed my the last five years. I even gained an MA passion for athletics has continued, Open University degree in 2019. in British History and the First World and the existence of the Masters War. The association’s latest ‘win’ is to competition has meant that I can Professor Ian Nabney (1982) see some 6 million Pension Record match myself against equally old and In October 2017, I left Aston University Cards from the period first saved, slow athletes at European level – a and moved to the University of digitised and made available to WFA few years ago managing to take fifth Bristol to become head of the School members on Ancestry. A swimmer place in the 400 metres M50 in the of Computer Science, Electrical who became a teacher and coach over European championships. The next 25 & Electronic Engineering, and the last 20 years, I continue to teach years are full of challenges, particularly Engineering Mathematics within the swimmers from the age six and coach environmental ones. I am now working Faculty of Engineering. It is a very them to the age of 82, with national with several organisations in Africa different sort of university, but I am performance and Masters world record preserving indigenous landscapes, enjoying the new challenges (such holders in the mix. Once a month I can conserving the biodiversity while all as the development of a new campus be found life drawing at Charleston and the time generating an income from at Temple Quarter) and successes when I can sailing with Newhaven & those for the local community: www. (winning more Centres of Doctoral Seaford Sailing Club. wildlifeworks.org for any who may be Training than any other university in interested in how the carbon economy the country). Claire has also moved Meurig Williams (1981) can be a force for good. My former down and has a new job teaching I am now working in London for a employers PUMA and their parent classics in Bath. We are both enjoying Japan-based pension consulting firm company the luxury group Kering new places for our walking.

and enjoying a wide brief across private offset all their CO2 footprint with and public market investing. Coming them, thus generating a steady income Mary-Anne Newman (1982) across Balliol alumni from time to time stream for the project. The irony is that Another year of doing my best to is always a pleasure, even including when I met Lucy King (2005) (featured backseat-drive the country from a those not sharing my family name! on the cover of News and Notes 2019) position of obscurity. I’ve published on my latest trip to Rukinga in Kenya nothing, led nothing, and received no Amanda Ariss (1982) neither of us realised that we had a link awards. Instead I’ve continued work I left conventional full-time work through Balliol – it is indeed a very on an investigation of deficiencies in in 2016 and since then have been small world. the design and delivery of NHS care; having a much more interesting life. helped a charity manage a PR crisis; After travelling around Indonesia I’ve Robert Fraser (1982) and mended a patio door. The last been studying history at Birkbeck, Since finishing full-time roles in 2014, was the most major challenge, and I researching attitudes to gender I’ve been indulging myself working as definitely need another holiday. On amongst pro- and anti-suffrage an advisor to some UK technology start- a positive note, I went with Matthew campaigners in the UK. Professionally, ups and as a non-executive director Taylor (1982) to a recital of Gilgamesh in I do some diversity and inclusion with a few companies. All of which Sumerian, and fell asleep.

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Bankim Thanki (1982) Scottish Economy’ report found that American Development Bank, located Belatedly I am letting you know that I Burns brings over £200m of direct in Washington, DC. Given that my became Head of Chambers at Fountain economic impact to Scotland. The Oxford doctorate was on the subject of Court Chambers, Middle Temple, in recommendations were debated at the development assistance, my new job October 2018. Scottish Parliament on 21 January 2020: provides a great opportunity to renew www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/ contact with this important topic. Paul Fox (1983) members-business-robert-burns-in- In April 2017 I completed Major the-scottish-economy-january-21-2020. Claire Foster-Gilbert (1984) Projects Leadership Academy (MPLA) In the midst of treatment for myeloma, at Saïd Business School. I was senior Professor Christine Sypnowich (1983) I am proud to have published two responsible owner of RRS Sir David Christine Sypnowich is looking more books for Westminster Abbey Attenborough (UK’s new polar research forward to her gig as a Visiting Institute, of which I am founding ship) project 2014–2019 and attended Fellow at All Souls in Trinity 2020 director: Integrity in Public Life and The the royal naming ceremony September – coming to Oxford with spouse Responsibilities of Democracy (both Haus 2019. I have been Pro-Vice Chancellor David Bakhurst (1983), who will be Publishing, 2019). I’m also quite proud (Finance & Infrastructure) at Bath Spa a Visiting Fellow at Exeter – and the that the Institute, which is six years University from September 2017. My chance to reconnect with many Balliol old, is surviving my absence, and hope wedding to Amanda Callow is planned friends and colleagues. Whilst in not to die any time soon myself. for 7 April 2020. the UK Christine will be giving talks at other universities, including an Kenneth Lapatin (1984) Andrew Gilmour (1983) invited lecture at the Ralph Miliband Kenneth Shapiro Lapatin curated the I have left the UN after 30 years, since Programme at the London School of award-winning exhibition Buried by 2016 as Assistant Secretary-General for Economics – directed by Robin Archer Vesuvius: Treasures from the Villa dei Papiri Human Rights based in New York. I (1985) – as part of their 2019/2020 at the Getty Villa in Malibu, California, am thrilled to be returning to Oxford series entitled ‘Politics in Crisis’, and edited the accompanying in 2020, as a Visiting Fellow of All where she will address the themes catalogue. The exhibition included Souls, which will give me a wonderful of her recent book, Equality Renewed: the unprecedented loan of ancient opportunity to reflect on and write Justice, Flourishing and the Egalitarian Ideal Greek and Roman artefacts buried by about the past and future of human (Routledge, 2018). the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in rights and the UN in general. AD 79 from the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Biblioteca Barney Mayhew (1983) Nazionale di Napoli, and Parco Based in the Weald of Kent I am Archeologico di Ercolano, as well continuing to work on war and conflict: as autograph manuscripts from the how to prevent it, how to calm it down Bodleian Libraries. once it’s begun, and how to recover from it. I would be happy to hear from Professor Cheryl Misak (1984) anyone interested in that field, and My biography of Frank Ramsey was indeed Balliol connections old and new. published by OUP in February 2020: Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers. Professor Murray Pittock (1983) Murray Pittock was elected to the National Trust for Scotland Board and is President of the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club in 2019–2020 in David Witty (1983) succession to Sir Maxwell MacLeod. Fiona and I are still running our own In May 2019, he organised a Glasgow consultancy, WITNET Ltd; however, and Dublin Creative Cities summit in January I was appointed head of at the Scottish Government hub Chemistry Research, Development and in Dublin, hosted by the British Manufacturing at Eliem Therapeutics. Ambassador, and as the founder of the I was also awarded the Royal Society of International Association he is looking Chemistry BMCS Lectureship for the forward to the Third World Congress academic year 2019/2020, so I am now of Scottish Literatures in Prague in enjoying a lecture tour, speaking about June 2020. He continues to serve as the delights of medicinal chemistry! Pro Vice-Principal of the University of Glasgow, running the Early Career Donald Bobiash (1984) Development Programme for over After completing an assignment as 500 staff, and as a member of the Assistant Deputy Minister for Asia Research Excellence Framework (REF) Pacific at Global Affairs Canada, in Institutional Environment pilot panel. September 2019 I became Canada’s In January, his ‘Robert Burns and the Executive Director at the Inter-

NEWS AND NOTES 16 Helen O’Malley (1984) life to the full, enjoy good health, and Richard Sutcliffe (1986) To prove that a degree in modern exceed all medical expectations. Our I am still working at the Financial history can lead to paths far from the story would be of interest to those Conduct Authority, heading up musings of historians, Helen O’Malley’s involved in the ‘caring’ professions, Retail Lending and Redress Policy. I Thai restaurant, Bo Tree Kitchen in parents of children whether able bodied have also started blogging about our

NEWS AND NOTES Belfast was included in the Financial or disabled, and indeed anyone prepared experiences of bringing up an adopted Times list of the 11 best restaurants to be inspired and to revisit notions eight-year-old. Please read, share and of 2019 across the world – only the of disability. Copies are available at subscribe if you enjoy it. You can find opinion of the reviewer, of course! £15 plus p&p (distance no object) by it at www.findingmac.co.uk. emailing [email protected]. Professor Riccardo Viale (1984) John Hancock (1987) In 2019 I was appointed as Commisioner Charlotte Jones (1986) John Hancock led a discussion at the NZ for Assessment of Performance of I had a lovely time seeing the old (and government’s Just Transitions summit Public Managers by the Minister of young) girls at the ‘40 Years On’ event in New Plymouth in May 2019. The Civil Service (Ministro della Funzione last September. It has been a lovely discussion covered how NZ electricity Pubblica) of the Italian government. year for reconnecting with old Balliol generators’ partnership with Māori chums. My son has just got a place may show a path for other industries Professor Daniel Terkla (1985) to read physics (where did that come to decarbonise in a way that benefits Nick Millea, Bodleian Library Maps from?!), so I predict I will be spending communities. John was delighted to Librarian, and I have published A more time in Oxford over the next four meet Kate ‘Doughnut Economics’ Raworth Critical Companion to English Mappae Mundi years. I have just written a new play (1990) who was invited as keynote of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries with for the National Theatre, which should speaker. Her observations that New Boydell Press (2019). be on in 2021, and I have various film Zealand is particularly lucky to be scripts on the go. All is well. guided by Māori values in its transition Ned Mersey (1985) to a low-carbon economy, with Released four dance tracks under the Theresa Heskins (1986) emphasis on fairness across generations, artist name Raflo. Position in the UK In a career that continues to be decades struck a particular chord only weeks club charts in brackets: ‘Be Free’ (13), behind anyone else’s, I finally found before the NZ government published ‘Keep Me Up’ (10), ‘Never Before’ (12), myself with a West End show. To prove its Wellbeing Budget. ‘Give It Up’ (12). that all buses come along at the same time, I had another in New York. Andrew Lavender (1987) Tracey Wolffe (1985) This year I’ll be realising a long-held I’m excited to be picking up a technical I’m delighted to announce the ambition to direct Angela Carter’s The role in my career again after a few years publication of my second book, That’s Company of Wolves, and talking a lot managing vendors. Still in Switzerland My Boy!: a positive account of raising about being working class. with UBS, but now risking the robot our disabled son. Alain Wolffe (1985) overlords by leading our work in IT and I met at Balliol in 1985 when we security automation. were respectively studying history and French, and jurisprudence. Sadly our John Mackenzie (1987) first son was born with brain damage In December 2019 I was appointed as in 2006. That’s My Boy! is an important Professor and head of the Department record of all that we’ve achieved and of Mathematics and Statistics at overcome to enable Nathan to live Strathclyde University.

Zia Haider Rahman (1987) A 2019 Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard, while writing, I’ve also been developing a Karen Harrison (1986) tech project. I was recently awarded a I am now in Lagos, Nigeria, as Group Franke Fellowship at Yale, and a lifelong CFO for a solar/solar-hybrid energy Montgomery Fellowship at Dartmouth business operating in West Africa College, NH, and am a Fellow of New (Daystar Power Solutions). My gap year America, Washington, DC, and the was a real treat and included a walking Kreisky Forum, Vienna. I still spend pilgrimage to Santiago (1,000km most of my time in the UK, never far and five amazing weeks), exploring from my darling three-year-old godson, Andalucia’s World Heritage Sites and Benjamin. A chapter of a book I’m driving the ring road around Iceland, working on, Among the Liberals (a critique all with a few detours – and all long- of elites by a working class progressive), held bucket list items. I was baptised takes up Dr Fiona Hill’s remarks in shortly before taking up my new role congressional testimony and explores here in July 2019. the stark asymmetry between my

17 FLOREAT DOMUS MAY 2020 NEWS AND NOTESNEWS employment success in the US and the and India, to be published by OUP. If UK, after my novel, In the Light of What any alumni have relevant connections/ We Know, was published to international information regarding sources or critical acclaim, winning the James Tait people, I would be delighted to hear Black Memorial Prize. Occasionally, I from them on [email protected]. write in papers and journals (invitations welcome), and contribute to UK Radio Professor Diane Watt (1988) 4’s A Point of View. My most recent book, Women, Writing and Religion in England and Beyond, 650–1100, Anna Rimington (1987) was published by Bloomsbury in 2019. We lost our lovely son Joseph William Rimington McCallum on 2 Lai Yahaya (1988) Professor Mark Israel (1989) December 2019. His funeral was held I relocated from Abuja to Nairobi and I was appointed Professor and Dean at St Marylebone Crematorium on 16 now I am working with Rt Hon. Raila of Learning and Teaching at Murdoch December, which would have been Joe’s Odinga, in his capacity as African University in Australia in 2019. I 17th birthday. Joe had a hugely difficult Union High Representative for continue my work as a consultant on life since birth and will be missed Infrastructure Development. I am soon social research ethics and research beyond compare by both his parents to be re-married, with my third child, integrity. and his younger brothers Nate and Fran. Mohammed Kazeem Amayi Oluwatayo Donations in his name to Haven House Yahaya, now taking pretty much all of Children’s Hospice in Woodford Green. my serious attention. 1990s Harriet Goodwin (1988) Alistair Fernie (1989) In April I published (under my married I stood in last year’s general election Alan Taylor (1990) name, Powell) a collection of women’s as the Liberal Democrat candidate The decade ended with the publication real-life experiences of the menopause, for Oxford East (the constituency in November 2019 of The 21st Century The Menopause Monologues, available at which includes Balliol and most other Film, TV & Media School: Directing the https://amzn.to/347emEB. The book colleges), on a platform to stop Brexit, Future (CILECT), ed. Professor Dr is aimed at getting people to open up tackle climate change and restore Stanislav Semerdjiev, Professor Maria about something half of us will go public faith in politics. Oxford East Dora Mourão, Dr Cecilia Mello and Dr through and many of the other half has been a Labour seat since 1987 and Alan Taylor – volume two of a project will experience second-hand. It has remains so, but my team managed to that began in 2012. The initial task of attracted a lot of support from famous increase the Lib Dem vote share by 53 encouraging and gathering written names, and Dame Emma Thompson per cent compared to our 2017 share. I reflections on teaching practice from and Lorraine Kelly have both been kind particularly enjoyed talking to a group CILECT (Centre International de enough to endorse the second volume, of Balliol undergrads about how I came Liaison des Ecoles de Cinéma et de which I am working on now. to be standing for Parliament aged 49 Télévision) practitioners for a book was after a career in the Civil Service and envisioned as a single project – the first James Harris (1988) international development. I think such book publication from the CILECT I was elected a Fellow of the Royal I am the first Balliol alum to run for since its inception in 1955. The core aim Society of Edinburgh in 2019. Parliament in Oxford – does anyone of that publication was ‘to encourage know otherwise? Apparently there were and share best practice in film and Chandrika Kaul (1988) other Balliol people running elsewhere. media education’. The resulting book – I have been awarded a Leverhulme It was a privilege getting to know the The 21st Century, Film, TV & Media School: Major Research Fellowship for my city better, including how people in, for Challenges, Clashes, Changes, overseen by forthcoming monograph on the BBC example, Blackbird Leys and Northfield the same team of co-editors as Volume Brook view the two universities. Two – was published in 2016. Volume In 2020 I am back to freelance Two has a more specific focus: the consultancy (mostly on economic teaching and learning of the art and development in Africa), while working technique of film directing itself. In on the design of a charity to campaign keeping with established practice, it on social mobility and equality of also comprises chapters from serving opportunity for young people in the lecturers from CILECT member schools UK – and being a hands-on dad to Ella across the six continents. and Jack (aged 11), while my wife Lucy works hard for Cressida Dick (1979 and Kitty Ussher (1990) Honorary Fellow) transforming HR at I have returned from a two-year stint the Met Police. of frontline duty teaching maths in inner-city secondary schools through Jane-Frances Kelly (1989) the excellent Now Teach programme I’m back living in Melbourne after four to take up a post as associate chief very interesting years in Scotland. economist at the think tank Demos.

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NEWS AND NOTES Swinson (1993) and I all got CBs. Busy working full time, travelling too much and trying to juggle all this with Professor Ruth Chang (1991) family life with two small boys. I have become the Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford. David Steadman (1991) Appointed Chief Executive of the aged eight and under (the organisers Mark Harrison (1991) Harpur Trust, a charity focused on have found my maturity level!). In After 23 years, mostly spent working promoting education and tackling 2019 I was part of a team accosting in Hong Kong, I’ve decided to leave social issues within the Bedford area. bemused shoppers in Templars school teaching and try something Anyone with a Bedford connection is Square Shopping Centre (Cowley) and new. I’m not quite sure where I’ll end invited to get in touch. cajoling them into trying some maths up but I’m ready for a new adventure. tricks. I also collaborated in 2019 on I recently completed my doctorate, so Nikki Alderson (1992) Pearson Education’s new primary I’m hoping to put this to good use. On 21 October 2019, Raising the Bar: maths homework app School Jam. Empowering Female Lawyers through Coaching Kathrin Luddecke (1991) (independently published) went Michael Miller (1992) Until 24 February 2020 I had a (screen) straight in at Number 1 on the Amazon Following the premature death of print showcased in the ‘Diversity of Life’ bestseller charts in the Business devoted mother Jacqueline Anne, I display case in the Oxford University Consulting and Practical Guides to Law am proud to have been a key part of Museum of Natural History, as part of categories, sitting alongside The Secret an executive board that made a family the Oxford Printmakers’ Co-operative’s Barrister: Stories of the Law and How it is business over 100 years old the fastest- collaboration with the museum on Broken. It has been described as ‘A great growing company in the North East their ‘First Animals’ exhibition. More guide for female lawyers (and women during turbulent economic times, on https://kathrinluddecke.wordpress. more generally in any career), trying while simultaneously ensuring best com/2019/11/04/dont-you-just-love- to balance the pressures of work and care for father Mick in the advanced diversity/. personal lives in a society where “having stages of ‘popcorn lung’. The latter has it all” isn’t straightforward. A wonderful only been possible in partnership with mix of personal experience and insights the outstanding dedicated care team with practical coaching skills.’ The at St Oswald’s Hospice in Gosforth, book highlights some of the challenges Newcastle, who have helped enable around retaining female talent in the Mick to become one of the longest legal profession and more importantly survivors of the condition in the UK. offers workable solutions for women in Popcorn lung is a crippling disease first law to have long and happy legal careers. identified as arising from exposure to agents involved in the production of popcorn in Jasper, Missouri – hence its adopted name. It is debilitating: sufferers can live for years with zero ability to move a matter of feet or even at all, rendering home living virtually impossible. It can strike any age group. In 2020 I will be turning a negative Lucy Mouland (1991) into a positive by using my first- I have been living in Wellington, New hand experience to raise awareness Zealand, for five and a half years with of popcorn lung. I will be looking for Andrew Williams (Wadham, 1987) and ways in which warnings could appear our daughter, Meredith. I am currently on identified risk products, such as a senior historian at Te Arawhiti – The e-cigarettes and the condition might Office for Crown Māori Relations, be recognised as an industrial disease where I work in Te Kāhui Takutai Barnaby Maunder Taylor (1992) in the UK (as it is in the US), as well as Moana (The Marine and Coastal Area I was thrilled to be invited back to how to secure the provision of properly Team). I am delighted that, after more appear again at this year’s Oxford equipped facilities in which sufferers than 25 years of working, I finally have Maths Fest in February (https:// can be cared for outside a hospice the word ‘historian’ in my job title. mathsfest.web.ox.ac.uk/), lecturing environment, before a foreseeable Andrew is a medical physicist at Capital in the Andrew Wiles Building (new floodgate of cases materialises. Any and Coast District Health Board and Oxford Mathematical Institute) alumni support for this not-for-profit Meredith is about to start year six at to an audience of mathematicians initiative would be warmly embraced.

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Paul Stevenson (1992) fortunately, is paid. The book is a posting as Ambassador to Tunisia I am pleased to announce the birth of a guidebook for young people confused (2015–2019). I have two daughters boy, Kit, on 21 November 2019. about what to do and who can’t aged 12 and 7. I remain so thankful understand why everyone tells them for my time at Oxford University David Walker (1992) that university is the ‘must do’ option, and at Balliol College, which I’m now chief executive of Team Up, an when it clearly isn’t. One of my children helped me develop the diplomatic education charity that works to address is now a teenager – I’m not sure how skills I put to the test every day! the attainment gap, working with that has happened. Hic opus, hic labor est, underperforming and disadvantaged as Jasper Griffin (1956, Dyson Junior Michael Follett (1996) pupils to improve their maths and Research Fellow 1961–1963, Tutorial A good night for Balliol historians English using volunteer tutors. Fellow in Classics 1963–2004, Emeritus at the 2019 Market Research Society Fellow 2004–2019) would have said. awards (www.mrs.org.uk/awards/mrs- Charles Wiles (1992) awards). Professor Gabrielle ‘Tigger’ Charles Wiles founded his education Michael d’Arcy (1994) Lynch (1997) won the President’s technology company Zzish in 2014 My wife, Laura, and I were blessed with Medal for her research into election with a mission to create software that a baby girl, Mary Elizabeth, on 1 August rigging in newly formed democracies; radically improves student learning in 2019. She was born in University College and Lumen Research, founded by Mike schools across the world. Today they Hospital, London, weighing 7lbs 1oz, Follett (1996), won two awards: the help primary and secondary school and we are filled with love and gratitude. Jeremy Bullmore Award for Creative teachers personalise their teaching Development Research and the Award through their classroom quiz game Professor Gregory Challis (1994) for Best Innovation. Quizalize. So far they have helped more I was to deliver the Andy Derome than 200,000 teachers and 2 million Lectures in Oxford’s Department of Charles Goldsmith (1996) students in 170 countries. In 2019 Chemistry in April, sadly postponed. In October 2019 the international they reached the landmark of having development consultancy friends 100 million questions answered by Professor Lauren Stewart (1994) and I established in 2011, Charlie students and they are working with I have been leading an interdisciplinary Goldsmith Associates Ltd, was acquired the Philippines government in Bataan project in West Africa, exploring by Lutheran World Relief-IMA World to help raise the level of attainment whether existing embedded musical Health, an American NGO. I and the for 150,000 students there. Charles is practices can be leveraged to support team carry on, working in and for raising a new angel investment round mental health during pregnancy (short South Sudan, Somalia, Sierra Leone, and would be delighted to hear from summary of the work here: https:// Malawi, but now with this extra good alumni who would like to invest and vimeo.com/357832228/d65c0c06a0) support behind us. support the mission. We hope to extend this to a full-scale clinical trial, funding permitting. Michael Rebecca Armstrong (1993) O’Sullivan (1996) Published Vergil’s Green Thoughts. Plants, Sarah Keogh (1995) My book The Humans, and the Divine (OUP, 2019). I was awarded Pro Bono Junior Levelling (partly Barrister of the Year 2018. inspired by the Martin O’Neill (1993) work of Christopher Joe Guinan and Martin O’Neill (both Carol McQueen (1995) Hill, Master 1965– 1993) published a co-authored book I am currently Canada’s Ambassador 1978) was published The Case for Community Wealth Building to Burkina Faso and Benin (since by PublicAffairs with Polity Press in December 2019. September 2019), following a in the US, UK and Ed Miliband MP said this of the book: Europe in 2019. The ‘Joe Guinan and Martin O’Neill present book sets out a road map for the post- a compelling vision of a more just, globalisation world and examines the democratic economy in which wealth challenges ahead in economics, finance, and power are more fairly shared. This politics and international relations. book should be read by anyone who believes that a different economic Sam Sandiford (1997) order is possible and wants to know I married Lynn Huang at a wine farm how we start to make it happen.’ in Stellenbosch on 26 February 2019 – Richard Bretton, Iain Leverett and Ben Rowland (1993) David Rose (all 1997) acted as ushers. After eight years setting up and Lynn and I have moved to Hong Kong, growing Arch Apprentices, now a top where I now work in fintech. 20 apprenticeship provider in the UK, I have entered my midlife (crisis) with Dominik Zaum (1997) gusto, my activities including writing I have been appointed Pro-Vice a book and undertaking various bits Chancellor for Research and Innovation of advisory work, some of which, at the University of Reading.

NEWS AND NOTES 20 Giovanna Arenare (1998) each summer. I’m always pleased to After over 15 years of school teaching catch up with old friends, particularly (and a daughter who is now a those I’ve lost contact with over the teenager), I have decided to resume years, and if any Balliolite happens to academic research. My family and I be passing through St Louis, do look me

NEWS AND NOTES have recently moved to Barcelona, up (on LinkedIn or via the College) and where I am in my first year of a PhD I’d love to show you around. at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, working on plurilingualism in education, Marzena Brzezniak (2000) and more specifically on romance On 27 July 2018, I had a son, James intercomprehension and its possible notwithstanding some early distractions Daniel Sellamuttu (little brother to impact on the teaching of English as a related to Ben Stokes’ heroics at Juliette). foreign language. Headingley … Katy Islip (2000) Justin Brierley (1998) Katrina Manson (1999) Katy Islip and husband Thomas I’ve recently been hosting a new I am based in Washington, DC Wiltshire have become proud parents video dialogue show called The Big as US foreign policy and defence to a beautiful daughter, Dorothea Conversation, bringing high-profile correspondent for the Financial Times. Elizabeth, born 19 January 2020. thinkers together to debate science, faith, philosophy and what it means Lina Nerlander (1999) Lauren McAughtry (2000) to be human, in partnership with the I moved back to Sweden in late 2017 In May this year we welcomed our Templeton Foundation. Recent guests and started a new job, after living in son, Maximilian Alexander Tiberius have included cosmologist Sir Roger the US for six years. McAughtry-Hilliard. His older sister Penrose and philosopher William Annabella (b. Jan 2017) is utterly Lane Craig discussing ‘God and the Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco (1999) besotted, as are we all. Universe’, and historian Tom Holland From October 2020, I will be Von and philosopher A.C. Grayling debating Humboldt Fellow, in collaboration Christianity and humanism. with the Von Siemens Foundation, at the University of Munich, Centre for Ethics, Philosophy Department. I will work on a monograph whose provisional title is ‘The Grammar of Responsibility: Rethinking Negligence in Law and Morality’.

Jonah Wilberg (1999) My second computer game, Xenomarine, was released in various online stores in early 2019: https:// store.steampowered.com/app/676830/ Xenomarine/.

Lucy Neville 2000s (2000) I welcomed Justin Alexander (2000) two babies last After almost a decade in the Middle year: my ‘meat’ East, I settled in my wife Jenny’s baby Baxter home town of St Louis, Missouri, in Victor Nelson 2017 with Carolyn (seven) and Theo Weaver, born Paul Durban (1998) (five). I will be American in time for in October I married Rachel Serene at the Victoria the 2020 election and am following and weighing Warehouse in Manchester on a very the campaign of a certain Pembroke 6lbs 8ozs, hot and sunny bank holiday weekend PPE alum with particular interest. and my in August 2019. It was terrific that a Professionally, I write about Middle ‘mind’ baby number of Balliol alumni and their Eastern politics and economics. In 2019 published other halves were there to make it I launched a service on the region for by Palgrave such a memorable day – Richard Emerging Market investors, provided in March and weighing approx. Collins, Justin Reid, Tim Williams, through GlobalSource Partners. That 1lb 5ozs. One labour was longer Andrew Harvie, George Wigley, Mayte brings me back through London and harder than the other. Here Barton (all 1998), Lucas Green (1996) – periodically and I visit family in Oxford they are hanging out together.

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Gemma Dunbar (2001) managed to fit in the composition and Dermot Green (2004) Tom Dunbar and Gemma Dunbar (née première of a new opera at Cork Opera In December 2018 I was appointed as Turner) were delighted to welcome House, and music and sound design Reader in Theoretical Physics at Queen’s Amelia Elizabeth to the family, born on for numerous theatre productions in University Belfast. I was awarded 1 May 2019, sister to proud big brothers Ireland and Germany. My work in 2019 the Institute of Physics David Bates Jamie and Ollie. Life as a ‘fivesome’ is was recently nominated for Best Opera Prize. Most importantly, Aislinn and I proving entertaining! and Best Soundscape by the Irish Times welcomed our second child, Oisin, to Irish Theatre Awards. the world on 24 September 2019. Melissa Holloway (2001) Caroline Florence Rosa Holloway was Oliver Nash (2002) Rebecca Hodes (2004) born on 26 September 2019. James (age A mere 14 years after finishing at I continue to lead the AIDS and Society four and a half) is very proud to be her Balliol, and I finally have news worthy Research Unit at the University of Cape big brother. My husband Richard and of that august publication Floreat Domus. Town, and to co-host (with Oxford I bought a flat in Pimlico in June 2019 In February 2018 I married the love of University) the ‘Mzantsi Wakho’ and we are adjusting to life as a family my life, Ewa Zając. We met at work in study on the medicines-taking and of four. 2015 while having a ball of a time in an sexual health practices of young South internet start-up. She is a wonderful Africans. Working together with a Alastair Wilson (2001) partner and even now, she finds me far number of United Nations agencies, Firstly, and most importantly: a less annoying than you might expect. and the South African government, daughter, Sylvia Lilian Pi-font We really are very happy and have plans I am currently part of an academic Quilter Rose, was born to me and my to visit Balliol this summer. Very best collaboration to assess the new partner Miranda on 6 September 2019 wishes to all and get in touch if you’re comprehensive sexualities education (please note her surname is Rose, not ever passing through Dublin, Ireland. curriculum, which hopes, longer term, Wilson). Secondly, the publication to reduce high HIV incidence and of my book on the metaphysics of Toby Ord (2003) sexual violence. I recently began a new quantum physics entitled The Nature My book The Precipice: Existential Risk and project on pharmaceutical waste and of Contingency: Quantum Physics as Modal the Future of Humanity was published in I have acquired a copious archive. I Realism (OUP, 2020) (https://tinyurl. March 2020. It covers a main theme of spend my free time at the beach. com/natureofcontingency) marks the my academic research in a way that is completion of a project begun as an accessible to the non-specialist: how undergraduate at Balliol in 2002. humanity has entered an age where we pose risks to our continued existence, what this means for us, and how we must respond.

Nabeel Bhanji (2004) Nabeel and Sahar welcomed their first child, a daughter, Shehrazade, born 13 August 2019.

Markus Bihler (2004) I moved back to London in 2017 to start Tom Lane (2002) a global consumer-focused hedge fund On 19 July 2019 Maeve Casserly and I called Builders Union. We are based in got married at a beautiful ceremony in Soho and we are always happy to host Dublin, surrounded by our friends and those interested in consumer research, family. As well as wedding plans I also fundamental investing or business Jack Shenker building for a coffee on Golden Square. (2004) Hello. My latest Anupriya Dwivedi (2004) book, Now We Anupriya Dwivedi has been awarded the Have Your Attention: prestigious Sloan Fellowship at Stanford The New Politics University to pursue a full-time, one- of the People, was year Master’s programme in business published by the for accomplished leaders at Stanford’s Bodley Head Graduate School of Business. Here, she and Vintage in hopes to enhance her training in the September 2019. behavioural sciences and experience in An exploration of the UK’s fast- business/management with the training changing political landscape from the and opportunities offered by the rapidly ground up, it has so far failed to ignite a evolving tech scene in Silicon Valley. revolution. Still, we live in hope. More details at www.jackshenker.net.

NEWS AND NOTES 22 Distributed Open Research and Joshua Glancy (2006) Education. I am now based at the I was recently appointed as Washington University of York, where I completed Bureau Chief for The Sunday Times. I my most recent degree (research in was previously the paper’s New York linguistics: sites.google.com/alumni. correspondent. I’m now living in

NEWS AND NOTES york.ac.uk/kkt503) and where I shall Washington, DC if anyone is ever undertake a major research project on passing through. nominalisation and event structure. In the past year, I also earned several Christopher Record (2006) certificates in statistics and data science, Martha Elizabeth Sophie Record was and am in the process of launching a born on 7 January 2020, to Chris and parallel career in data science industry Michaela Record – a sister to George. alongside my academic one. Timothy Trudgian (2006) Daniel Carden (2006) Another chockers year for the Daniel Carden has moved from Trudgians! Archie (eight) and Monty Michael Blyth (2005) London to Madrid, following the (five) are well into the swing of Michael Blyth and his wife Alison birth of his daughter Sara Carden activities, with hockey in the winter, celebrated the birth of their first child, Llorente in October. He is getting cricket in the summer, and tennis and Astrid Rose Blyth, on 20 August 2019. married in Marbella in July. He is swimming all year round. Both are currently working for his friend Jorge passionate fellows, wearing hearts on Adam Creighton (2005) Ribeiro, reviewing a follow-up book sleeves so much so that during our After six years at The Australian I became to Business Survival Analysis Using SAS®: weekend opera sessions (we’ve worked the newspaper’s economics editor in An Introduction to Lifetime Probabilities our way through around 20 over the mid-2018. I was fortunate to spend (www.sas.com/store/books/categories/ past three years) they are laughing or three months at the University of usage-and-reference/business-survival- crying as the music and drama dictates. Chicago’s Booth School of Business in analysis-using-sas-an-introduction-to- My wife, Di, is eternally patient with 2019 as Journalist in Residence. lifetime-probabilities/prodBK_69298_ the eccentric ways of us three boys. en.html). This book explains, step by Cards, classical music, chess, and Lucy King (2005) step, how to apply survival analysis to cricket banter all day long –somehow This year our work at the Elephants various business cases. Survival analysis she survives! Di is volunteering one and Bees Project, in collaboration with is a modelling method traditionally day a week at Lifeline (an Australian Save the Elephants, has focused on used in pharmaceutical clinical trials. version of the Samaritans), two days a supporting women farmers who live The book demonstrates how it can be week at the local toy library, and also daily with the challenge of elephant applied in other commercial contexts, helping out at the school and the local crop-raiders to generate alternative offering a number of advantages over allotment. We get a cup of tea together income-generating activities, in order existing analysis. each evening and a couple o’ pots’ worth to reduce conflict with elephants by on the weekends in the mornings: I love diversifying away from 100 per cent her more and more as each year passes. farm-based activities. We were grateful I keep solving problems and such, or to receive both a grant from Jodi Allen’s whatever it is that mathematicians Wild Lives Foundation to build a new do. I am very happy here at UNSW Women’s Enterprise Center, and a Canberra at the Australian Defence Helen-Gurley Brown Genius Grant, Force Academy. I was promoted to which will allow us to expand our associate professor earlier in the year, capacity and outreach of the beehive largely because of the output and energy fence concept significantly in Kenya. of the students and post-docs who are I was also invited to give a TED talk at working so diligently. the TEDWomen conference in Palm Springs in December 2019 on how Barr Even (2007) the beehive fence idea evolved (www. Barr Even and Steven Kryger (Yale, elephantsandbees.com). 2006, but winner of the Oxford IV, 2009) were married on 21 September Evgeniya Rubinina (2005) 2019 in Lakeville, Connecticut, I have recently become a partner at USA, in the presence of family and Enyo LLP, a London law firm, focusing friends including Balliolites Siobhan on international arbitration. Jennifer Charles (2006) McGinle, Michael Marks, James Jennifer Etherington married Alexander Balfour, Ettie Lewis (all 2007) and Keith Tse (2005) Charles on 8 June 2019 in the Lake Tiffany Woods-Shepherd (2006). The After joining the Ronin Institute in District. Aside from a little characteristic outdoor ceremony under a traditional 2018, I also gained membership of rain it was a fantastic day, attended by Jewish chuppah was blessed with and access to the Institute of Globally no fewer than 20 Balliol Old Members! beautifully warm autumn weather.

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Research Grant from the Canadian Tri- Agency for a proposal entitled ‘Topology and the Next Generation of Quantum Materials’. The national success rate for the grant, which is valued at a quarter of a million dollars (CAD) over two years, was less than 10 per cent. Following on from this, I am now the Founding Director of the Centre for Quantum Topology and Its Applications (quanTA) at the University of Saskatchewan, an interdisciplinary institute devoted to the mathematics and physics of novel Vera Frances Leontine Jackson-Hollis, quantum materials with the aim of on 17 June 2019. She definitely has the enabling innovations such as quantum tranquil consciousness of an effortless The happy couple honeymooned in computing. quanTA brings together 15 superiority. All three continue to live Newfoundland, Canada. And later faculties (including five external ones) as in rural Scotland surrounded by books, Vietnam. And then India. They have well as ten students and junior fellows. cats, boats, and printing presses. now returned to domestic life in less In December, quanTA was awarded a exotic Norwalk, Connecticut. further 200,000 CAD from the Pacific Ronan Lyons (2009) Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Together with two co-authors, I Valentina Gosetti (2007) to form a Collaborative Research received over $600,000 in funding I’d like to announce the publication Group (with myself as principal from the National Science Foundation of a volume of essays, which I co- investigator). This will pave the way for in the US, to examine the performance edited with Alistair Rolls: Still Loitering. exciting new science coming out of the of the housing market there since the Australian Essays in Honour of Ross Canadian Prairies. In 2018 and 2019, 19th century. At Trinity College Dublin, Chambers (Peter Lang, 2020). This book respectively, I was recognised with the where I am an Assistant Professor of is a tribute to Chambers’ life and work New Teacher Award (Science) and the Economics, I have been appointed and to his legacy among scholars in New Researcher (Science) awards from Director of Trinity Research in Social the global French studies, comparative the College of Arts & Science at the Sciences, a hub for over 300 research- literature and cultural studies university. active faculty, postdocs and PhD communities. I was also fortunate students across a dozen disciplines. to be recently awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Paolo Gandini (2009) Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA I am happy to share with the Balliol 2020) for a project entitled ‘Provincial community that I received a prize Poets and the Making of a Nation’. from the Italian Physical Society This award will be administered via the this September, the Ettore Pancini University of New England, Australia, Prize. This prize is awarded to a where I am Senior Lecturer in French. young researcher (below 35) who has obtained significant results in Beverley Pannell (2007) the field of experimental particle or Dan Paget (2006) and I got married in Katy Theobald (2007) nuclear physics: ‘Award to Dott Paolo July 2019. In December I published my research Gandini, PhD University of Oxford, into the Leadership of Future-focused currently researcher at INFN Milan, Aleksandar Petrovic (2007) Schools (www.wcmt.org.uk/fellows/ for his determinant contribution to On 11 October 2019 I was awarded a reports/developing-leaders-21st- the activities of the LHCb experiment golden medal for civil merit for my century-schools-and-evaluating-their- at CERN, in particular for his contribution to the local community of impact). This was the product of a measurements on spectroscopy and Leskovac, Serbia. Winston Churchill Memorial Trust CP violation’ (www.sif.it/attivita/ Fellowship I was awarded to visit congresso/105/premiati). Steven Rayan (2007) schools and system leaders in Australia, At Balliol I read for the DPhil in New Zealand and Singapore. Inspired Mathematics. I am currently a by my travels, I moved back to Australia faculty member in the Department and I am now a Principal Policy of Mathematics & Statistics at the Advisor with the Victorian Department University of Saskatchewan in Canada. of Education and Training. In June 2018 I was named an Ethel Raybould Fellow in the School of Kelsey Jackson Williams (2008) Mathematics & Physics at the University Dawn Hollis (2009) and Kelsey Jackson of Queensland in Australia. In March Williams (2008) are delighted to 2019 I was awarded a New Frontiers in announce the birth of their daughter,

NEWS AND NOTES 24 Frederick Wilmot-Smith (2009) By chance, a student from another Melville’s birth. I also did a special I published Equal Justice: Fair Legal Systems college was nearby, practising his ‘Balliol’ edition of seven of the same in an Unfair World (Harvard University photography skills, and he captured the print, two of which I have given to Press, 2019). moment for us. Our wedding will take the College Library; the other five are place in Scotland in September 2020. available to buy directly from me. NEWS AND NOTES Mireia Crispin Ortuzar (2011) Laia Josa-Culleré (2013) 2010s On 6 April 2019, Dr Bartomeu This year I obtained a Marie Curie Monserrat and I got married in a small Individual Fellowship, with which I Romilo Knezevic ceremony with friends and family in returned to Barcelona, my city of origin, (2010) the mountains of Mallorca, Spain. to work at the Institute of Advanced The revised Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC-CSIC). I version of his Anna Jenkin (2011) am working on a project that involves doctoral thesis Anna Jenkin and Matthew Wright are applying photopharmacology to target ‘Homo Theurgos: pleased to announce the birth of their cancer cells. Freedom second son, Alastair Kevern Wright, According to John younger brother to Michael (born 2017). Nina Pflugfelder (2013) Zizioulas and Nina started a PhD on knowledge Nikolai Berdyaev’ Phoebe Grant-Smith (2012) management in the healthcare sector will be published Phoebe Lowry (née Grant-Smith) is in 2019. this year by the French publishing delighted to announce her marriage house L’Edition du Cerf. to Dr Andrew Lowry on 14 September Aniek van den 2019, at Holy Cross Church, Morton, Eersten (2013) Jacqueline Pinta (2010) Derbyshire. In November My husband Nicholas and I welcomed 2019 I received a daughter, Ember Elizabeth Reese Rebecca Venis (2012) my doctorate Casaletto, on 5 January 2020 in San I got married on 3 August 2019 at the in classics from Diego, California. Little Dower House, Old Windsor to the University Mr James Allen. of Amsterdam. Claire Parry (2010) My PhD I’m going to be directing the Three Inch Emily Carrington Freeman (2013) thesis, entitled Fools’ summer Shakespeare UK tour In November 2019 a book of poems ‘Metaphor in of The Merry Wives of Windsor and Romeo I illustrated was published: Tabac Herodotus’ and Juliet. Old Members should check it Blond by Christopher Moncrieff Histories’, out if it’s touring anywhere near them (Caparison Books). The link for it was written under the supervision and they fancy a lovely Shakespeare on the publisher’s website is here: of Professor Irene de Jong and Dr summer show and picnic experience! www.therecusant.org.uk/caparison- Mathieu de Bakker. See www.threeinchfools.com for books/4538998565. I also designed more details as they’re released later and printed a relief print for the Laurence Warner (2013) in the year. I’m also taking my one- Bodleian Library, which is now in their I’m back in the UK after my time woman show Intolerable Side Effects about collection(!) as part of their celebration as a Fulbright ‘exchange student’, contraception, the side effects and the for the 200th anniversary of Herman running First Week Flip Phone, for responsibility for taking it to Prague which we’re now seeking a UK mental Fringe – trying to get a contraception health charity partner. Hope to see revolution going … If there are any Old some of y’all in Oxford at summer Members who have anything to do with schools, where I’m bringing back the contraception, let me know!

Britt Smith (2010) My partner, Chris Skinner, proposed to me in February 2019 in the most magical place: Balliol covered by snow!

25 FLOREAT DOMUS MAY 2020 NEWS AND NOTESNEWS agileEducation approach to helping but rewarding course that I believe will young people become tech makers. further my professional ambitions to Otherwise, mainly working on music become a journalist. as Cerulean, including debuting this year an exciting new musical called Tania Shew (2016) ‘Snowflakes in SoCal!’ set in Los I am spending this academic year Angeles, where I’m looking to move in as a visiting fellow at Harvard on the next couple of years! a Fulbright Award, as part of the second year of my PhD in history at Caryn Davies (2014) Manchester University. My project I have some exciting news to share: is on consideration of sex-strikes I’ve come out of rowing retirement to to be married and I started my own as tactics within the transatlantic train for the Tokyo Olympics! Things law practice, www.caryndavieslaw.com. women’s suffrage movement. are going well so far. I competed for Floreat domus de Balliolo! Team USA in the coxless four at the 2019 World Rowing Championships Bethany Kirkbride (2015) last summer in Austria, where we I have just received news that I have qualified the boat for the Games by passed my NCTJ Journalism diploma earning sixth place (see photo – I’m in with News Associates in Twickenham, stroke seat). I continue to train with London, which I undertook part time the US team, and I will find out in June whilst working in marketing. This whether I’ve been selected to compete meant commuting from Oxford to in Tokyo. Two other newsworthy London twice a week for 40 weeks events from 2019 are that I got engaged from February 2019. It was an intensive

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