<<

OXFORD comes to WASHINGTON PROGRAM IN BRIEF

Registration Lunch 8:00 am – 3:00 pm 12:45 pm – 2:15 pm n Palladian/Diplomat Ballrooms

SPEAKER: The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Continental 8:30 am – 9:30 am n Diplomat Ballroom Break 2:15 pm – 2:45 pm Continental Breakfast featuring Jonathan Black, Director of Careers Service 8:30 am – 9:30 am n Congressional Room Ocean Circulation and Climate: Why the Oceans Matter! 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm n Diplomat Ballroom Welcoming Remarks featuring Professor Nick Rawlins SPEAKER: 9:45 am – 10:00 am n Palladian Ballroom Professor David Marshall

Enigmas of Arrival of the Extremes 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm n Ballroom 10:00 am – 11:15 am n Palladian Ballroom SPEAKERS: MODERATOR: Professor Mr. Elliot Gerson Dr. Faisal Devji SPEAKERS: Dr. Imaobong Umoren The Chancellor, Lord Patten of Barnes Dr. E.J. Dionne Professor Marc Stears Break 3:45 pm – 4:00 pm n Diplomat Foyer

Coffee Break 11:15 am – 11:45 am n Diplomat Foyer and the Education of Leaders 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm n Palladian Ballroom

MODERATOR: A Hidden Revolution that The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Louise Richardson Will Transform Medicine SPEAKERS: 11:45 am – 12:45 pm n Diplomat Ballroom The Honorable Sylvia M. Burwell SPEAKERS: The Honourable Chrystia Freeland Professor Matthew Freeman Professor Professor Dame Carol Robinson

The State of American Politics Drinks Reception 11:45 am – 12:45 pm n Empire Ballroom 5:15 pm – 6:00 pm n Diplomat Ballroom

MODERATOR: Professor Jay Sexton

SPEAKERS: Congressman Jim Himes Professor Lisa L. Miller

#OxNA2016 Use our hashtag and find Twitter handles for our speakers throughout the program to join the conversation on and Instagram! SATURDAYSATURDAY 12 9 APRILAPRIL PROGRAMPROGRAM

Continental Breakfast Politics of the Extremes 8:30 am – 9:30 am 10:00 am – 11:15 am

Informal breakfast with open seating available Many countries are currently seeing the rise of parties with non- to all registered attendees. compromising policies, extreme approaches to social problems, and rhetorical styles that reject specific social groups. Why are these voices from the political edges becoming dominant in Continental Breakfast featuring Jonathan electoral campaigns? Are we entering a new age of extremes? Black, Director of Careers Service ENGAGE IN THE CONVERSATION! 8:30 am - 9:30 am @Politics_Oxford @EJDionne @mds49 Breakfast with a 15 minute talk/workshop on networking and interviewing - brush up your skills and get ready for the day MODERATOR: Mr. Elliot Gerson is Executive Vice ahead. President of Policy and Public Programs, ENGAGE IN THE CONVERSATION International Partners at the Aspen @OxfordCareers @JonathanPBlack Institute, an educational and policy studies organization whose mission is to foster leadership through the creation of forums for the discussion of critical Welcoming Remarks domestic and international policy issues. A 9:45 am – 10:00 am member of the senior management team since 2004, he also holds responsibility for maintaining relations SPEAKER: with the Institute’s international partners, which includes Professor Nick Rawlins is Pro-Vice- organizations in eight countries in and Asia. Mr. Gerson’s Chancellor (Development & External earlier career spans both law and business, including as a US Affairs) at Oxford University, and Watts Supreme Court Clerk, Deputy Attorney General of , Professor of Psychology and Professorial and tenures as Executive Vice President of Travelers, Fellow of Wolfson College. His research Metrahealth, and UnitedHealthcare. He is a graduate of Harvard lies broadly within behavioral College, Yale Law School and the , where he neuroscience and spans areas including was a Rhodes Scholar at Magdalen College. Mr. Gerson serves as the neural basis of memory, brain American Secretary of the Rhodes Trust and has administrated degeneration, and pain and anxiety. He the Rhodes Scholarships in the United States since 1998. He was was elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in recognized as a Distinguished Friend of Oxford in 2014. 2006, and became Associate Head of Oxford’s Medical Sciences Division in 2008. Professor Rawlins was a Fellow of SPEAKERS: University College for more than 20 years, serving as a The Chancellor, Lord Patten of Barnes, Development Fellow from 2001 to 2007, before moving to was educated at St Benedict’s School, Wolfson College as a Professorial Fellow. In 2010, he took up Ealing and Balliol College, Oxford, where post as Pro-Vice-Chancellor, responsible for leading the he read Modern History and was elected development of the University’s external fundraising strategy; a Domus Exhibitioner. In 1974, he was managing the work of the Directors of Development, Alumni appointed the youngest ever Director of Meeting Minds Relations, and Public Affairs; and overseeing civic relations in the Conservative Research Department, liaison with the Registrar. a post which he held until 1979. Lord Patten was Governor of from 1992 to 1997, overseeing the return of Hong Kong to . He also served as Chairman of the Independent Commission on

Policing for Northern , European Commissioner for Oxford comes to Washington

3 4 Meeting Minds Oxford comes to Washington with therest oftheworld. and HomeTruthsQuite theDiplomat: AboutWorld Affairs include, ofOxfordthe University in2003.Hispublications fromUniversity 1999to 2009,andwas electedChancellor of Balliol College, Oxford. asChancellor ofNewcastle Heserved Royal College Edinburgh, ofPhysicians, andHonorary Fellow of Trust from 2011to 2014.HeisanHonorary Fellow ofthe UK- Round Table. Lord Patten was ChairmanoftheBBC Peer in2005.In2006,hewas appointed Co-Chair ofthe in 1989,namedaCompanion ofHonourin1998andaLife Commonwealth Office. Hewas appointed to Council thePrivy and Minister for Overseas Development attheForeign & Education andScience; Secretary ofState for theEnvironment; IrelandNorthern Office; Minister ofState of attheDepartment have included:Parliamentary UnderSecretary ofState, House ofLords. Lord Patten’s other government appointments External Relations, 2005,took andinJanuary hisseat inthe OXFORD UNIVERSITY’S OXFORD UNIVERSITY’S sessions, delivered from one of the most innovative programs. innovative service most the careers of one career from university impartial and delivered free sessions, these of advantage Take n n n n East andWest     lunch andatdrinks career-related aswell topic, asinformally over available for confidential 1:1discussions onany Outside ofthesesessions, JonathanBlackwillbe interviewing skills Afternoon coffee break -witha10minute talk on five top tipsfor yourrésumé Morning coffee break -witha10minute talk on be intheCouncil Room throughout theday Jonathan Black,Director ofCareers will Service, What Next? Surviving the21st Century What Next? Surviving CAREERS SERVICE CAREERS Combining Business EVENTS WITH EVENTS (1998), written anditsrelations aboutAsia with Pleasure Brookings Institution. Heisafrequent Fellow inGovernance Studies at the Georgetown University, andaSenior of Democracy andCulture at ProfessorUniversity intheFoundations columnist for Dr.

E.J. DionneJr.E.J. is asyndicated (2008),

(2005), Not , Rhodes Scholar. College, Oxford, where hereceived asa aDPhilinSociology from in1973before Harvard University matriculatingatBalliol Political Science in2014-15.Hereceived Association aBA asVice Presidentjournal in2008,andserved oftheAmerican 2005, namedChairoftheEditorial Committee for member oftheAmerican andSciences Academy ofArts in a NationalBookAward nominee.Dr. Dionnewas elected asa (1991), whichwon theLos AngelesTimes BookPrize andwas AmericansAge ofDiscontent” Hate (2012),and“Why Politics” TheBattleforDivided Political theAmerican Idea inan Heart: From Goldwater to theTea (2016),“Our PartyandBeyond” the RightWent including“Why books, Wrong: Conservatism- locations Heistheauthorofsix suchasParis, Rome andBeirut. andreportednational politics, from around theworld in New York 1990 asapolitical reporter, Dr. Dionnespent14years at The Washington Post andhasbeenwritingacolumn“This Week” for andMSNBC, commentator for onpolitics NationalPublicRadio(NPR),ABC’s earned a DPhilinPolitics from Oxford. Professor Stears matriculated College atNuffield in1993and TakingDemocracy: theLeft Beyond State andMarket Institute for PublicPolicy Research andpublished British LaborParty. HehasbeenaVisitingFellow ofthe wherepolitics, helargely concentrates ontheevolution ofthe concerned withthenature oftheAmerican state, andinBritish also works inAmerican where politics, heisespecially Michael Freeden andLyman Tower Professor Sergeant. Stears as well asthe MethodsPolitical andApproaches Theory: research methods. Herecently edited avolume for OUP, normative where political theory interests hehasparticular in Freedom Train. Professor Stears alsoworks incontemporary such events astheFestival ofBritain andtheAmerican the immediate aftermath oftheSecond , through celebrate of free thevictory societies over authoritarian onesin which British,West European, andAmerican thinkers soughtto continuing academic research analyzes thevarious ways in American political movements across thetwentieth century. His Radicals inSearch of aNewPolitics Hisbook, political thought. Stears’ majorresearch interest was inBritishandAmerican Oxford Handbookof Political , where hecovered state andlocal government, since 1993.Before joining Leader oftheOpposition, RtHonEd to asChiefSpeechwriter act to thethen Relations (DPIR),Oxford, hetook leave ofPoliticsDepartment andInternational was Professor ofPolitical atthe Theory New Economics Foundation. Whilehe taken uppost asChiefExecutive ofthe Professor Marc Stears Miliband MP. Before hisleave, Professor Demanding Democracy: American Demanding Democracy: (2010),examines radical withDavidLeopold, hasrecently The Post Everyday Everyday Democracy with (2011). in The

A Hidden Revolution that The State of American Politics Will Transform Medicine 11:45 am – 12:45 pm 11:45 am – 12:45 pm This discussion will be a broad conversation on the current Tired of endless stories about medical breakthroughs? Cynical election cycle, the legislative challenges of the current era of about yet another one? Don’t be: this is different. We are polarization, and foreign affairs. on the brink of understanding the inner workings of the cell, ENGAGE IN THE CONVERSATION! the fundamental unit of all life. This discussion will explore @RaiOxford @jahimes breakthroughs that underlie this medical revolution and explain why most people haven’t noticed it yet. MODERATOR: ENGAGE IN THE CONVERSATION! Professor Jay Sexton came to @OxfordChemistry @dunn_school @mjafreeman Worcester College, Oxford, on a Marshall Scholarship in 2000. Since 2004, he has

SPEAKERS: been University Lecturer and Tutorial Professor Matthew Freeman has been Fellow in American History at Corpus Head of the Dunn School of Pathology Christi College, Oxford. His research at the University of Oxford since January focuses on nineteenth century America 2013. He was previously Head of the and its connections with the wider Cell Biology Division at the Medical world. His first book, Debtor Diplomacy: Research Council Laboratory of Finance and American Foreign Relations in the Civil War Era, Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK. His 1837-1873 (2005; 2nd ed. 2014), examined the nexus group discovered the rhomboid family of between capital flows and diplomacy in the pivotal period of US intramembrane proteases as the national consolidation. His second book, The Monroe Doctrine: principal regulators of EGF receptor signalling in Drosophila. Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America (2011), More recently, the group has focused on the mechanism and emphasized how British power conditioned US diplomacy and function of rhomboids and rhomboid-like proteins in a wide expansion. Currently, he is researching the steamship lines that range of species. Professor Freeman matriculated at Pembroke brought together the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, as well as College in 1979, received his PhD in Genetics from Imperial connected the United States to the wider world. Professor College in 1987, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Sexton has co-edited two major collaborative projects that University of , Berkeley from 1987-1992. originated as events at the Rothermere American Institute, where he currently serves as Director. Professor Dame Carol Robinson is a Royal Society Research Professor, SPEAKERS: Lee’s Professor Elect at the Congressman Jim Himes represents University of Oxford and a Dame Connecticut’s 4th District in the United Commander of the Order of the British States House of Representatives where Empire. Her graduate education was he is serving his fourth term. He is a completed while working full-time in her member of the House Committee on post at Pfizer. She was subsequently Financial Services, serves as the ranking admitted to the member of the NSA and Cybersecurity where she completed her PhD in two years. Following an Subcommittee of the House Permanent eight-year career break to begin raising her three children, she Select Committee on Intelligence, and is returned to research, becoming the first female professor of Vice-Chair of the New Democrat Coalition. Prior to his service at the University of Cambridge and subsequently at in , he ran the New York branch of The Enterprise Oxford. She is renowned for pioneering the use of mass Community Partners, a nonprofit dedicated to addressing the spectrometry as an analytical tool and for her ground-breaking unique challenges of urban . Putting his expertise in research into the 3D structure of proteins. In 2001, Professor affordable housing to work, Congressman Himes served as a

Robinson returned to Cambridge to continue her research into Commissioner of the Greenwich Housing Authority, ultimately Meeting Minds mass spectrometry and was elected a Professorial Fellow at chairing the board and leading it through a much-needed Churchill College, a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2004, and a program of reforms. He went on to become an elected member Royal Society Research Professor in 2006. Her most recent of his town’s finance board, setting tax and budget policy for work is concerned with the structure and function of receptors. Greenwich. He has also served as Chair of his local Democratic Town Committee, organizing others in the community to

become more active in the political process. After completing Oxford comes to Washington

5 6 Meeting Minds Oxford comes to Washington Dean of theRadcliffe Institute for Advanced Study atHarvard was alsoHead Tutor for several asExecutive years. Sheserved Professor where she intheHarvard Government Department, 1989-2001, Professor Richardson was Assistant andAssociate an MAandPhDinGovernment from Harvard University. From @OxfordNA #OxNA2016 ENGAGE INTHECONVERSATION! representatives, fellow alumniandguests atlunch. Attendees to sitwiththeirCollege willhave theopportunity 12:45 pm-2:15 doctorate from ofWashington theUniversity in1999. beforeUniversity coming to Rutgers in2004.Shereceived her Professor Millerwas anAssistant Professor atPenn State andpunishmentacrossvictimization racial groups intheUS. group andthesubstantial activity, inequalitiesincriminal between ofAmerican thepeculiarstyle federalism, interest Control previous book, All SoulsCollege ofOxford attheUniversity (2011-2012).Her Princeton (2012-2013)andasaVisitingFellow University at Affairs intheWoodrow WilsonSchoolofGovernment at asaVisitingScholarattheProgramserved inLawandPublic issue intheUnitedmajor policy States. Professor Millerhas focusissue, withaparticular onexplaining theriseofcrimeasa with whatconsequences, crimebecomes apolitically salient Politics and earned aMaster ofPhilosophy. matriculated in1988asaRhodesScholar atSt Edmund Hall studies ofLatinAmerica, includingresearch inElSalvador. He Himes attended Oxford where University hecontinued his his undergraduate work atHarvard University, Congressman Lunch (Oxford Press, University 2016)explores when,and (Oxford, 2008), examined therelationship The Perils of Race, Federalism: Poverty and the University ofStthe University Andrews, . years as Principal andVice-Chancellor of previouslyShe hadserved for seven ofOxfordUniversity 2016. on1January her post asVice-Chancellor atthe Professor Louise Richardson, ViolentCrimeandDemocratic Rule: forthcoming book, Her inequality, crimeandpunishment. law andconstitutions, socialpolicy, University. Herresearch interests are in Professor ofPolitical Science atRutgers Government atOxford andAssociate Winant VisitingProfessor ofAmerican Professor Miller LisaL. MA inPolitical and Science from UCLA, History from Trinity College, ,an A native ofIreland, shereceived aBAin

The ofThe Myth Mob isJohnG. assumed

carbon astheatmosphere. Thistalk willexplore thechallenges roughly 1000timesasmuchheatand50 The oceans are akey component of theclimate system, storing 2:15 pm-3:15 Differ Threat Terrorists Want: Understanding theEnemy, Containing the and Counterterrorism: Lessons from thePast Booker Prize Foundation. Herpublications include profit groups, includingtheCarnegie andthe Professor Richardson ontheboards serves ofseveral non- and became anHonorary Member oftheRoyal IrishAcademy. from ofAberdeen theUniversity andQueen’s University of universal peace. In2015,shereceived honorary doctorates for work towards theprevention ofwar andtheestablishment Her work haswon numerous awards includingtheSumnerPrize defense institutions, andinternational policy, security relations. written widelyoninternational terrorism, Britishforeign and withanemphasisonterroristsecurity movements. Shehas training, Professor Richardson hasspecialized ininternational academic fieldsandthecreative Apolitical scientist arts. by into aninterdisciplinary center promoting scholarshipacross from 2001-2008,andwas instrumental initstransformation Institute ofPhysics. was awarded the2014Appleton Medal andPrize bythe OceanCentury Institute withintheOxford School.He Martin – 2012,Professor Marshall was Co-Director ofthe21st before movingto ofOxford theUniversity in2007.From 2008 Physical Oceanography Group ofReading, attheUniversity Institute ofTechnology. Hereturned to theUKto establish the three years asapost-doctoral researcher atMassachusetts Marshall studied atImperialCollege London andthenspent asanOxfordadditionally serves SeniorFellow. Martin Professor ofOxford, attheUniversity and Planetary Physics where he of Physical Oceanography andHead Oceanic ofAtmospheric, @OxfordPhysics ENGAGE INTHECONVERSATION! scientists to better understand andmodelclimate patterns. of predicting theglobalocean circulation, whichallows Why theOceans Matter! Ocean Circulation andClimate: (1996). (2006); The Roots of Terrorism global ocean circulation. HeisProfessor elucidate of the thefluiddynamics theoretical andcomputational modelsto has mainlyinvolved the development of role oftheoceans inclimate. Hiswork of theglobalocean circulation andthe lie inunderstanding thefluiddynamics oceanographer whoseresearch interests Professor DavidMarshall

(2006); and (2007); isaphysical Democracy

When Allies What Dr. Imaobong Umoren is the joint Enigmas of Arrival Pembroke-TORCH Career Development 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm Fellow in Women in the Humanities. She is interested in the history of women, Three versatile Oxford historians, all with connections to The gender, and race across the nineteenth Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), discuss the and twentieth century global African fascinating transcontinental and cross-cultural pathways taken . She has previously taught at by colonial travelers to Britain, and especially Oxford, in the late the University of Oxford and Royal 19th and early 20th century. Holloway, , and is a member of the Race and Resistance Network at TORCH. Dr. ENGAGE IN THE CONVERSATION! Umoren co-teaches the history course, XXI: Special Subject @TORCHOxford @ellekeboehmer Race, Religion and Resistance in the United States from Jim Crow to Civil Rights and advises undergraduate and graduate SPEAKERS: students in modern US and Caribbean history. Dr. Umoren also Professor Elleke Boehmer is the lectures on the UNIQ summer school course Race and Protest in Director of TORCH, Professor of World Modern America and Britain. She is currently writing her first Literature in English, and a Governing book about the world travels of a group of Caribbean and Body Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. African American women intellectuals in the twentieth century. She is the author of five monographs She is a graduate of King’s College London, St Cross College, and five highly praised , including Oxford, and is a former Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University. The Shouting in the Dark (2016), Screens Against the Sky (short-listed David Hyam Prize, 1990), Baby (2008), and the short-story collection Sharmilla and Other Oxford and the Education of Leaders Portraits (2010). Professor Boehmer’s monographs include 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm Colonial and Postcolonial Literature (1995, 2005), the biography Nelson Mandela (2008), Stories of Women (2005), Are the qualities necessary for leadership intrinsic in the genetic and Indian Arrivals (2015). She edited the British best-seller makeup of a fortunate few, or can they be revealed and Robert Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys (2004), and the nurtured through education and experience? anthology Empire Writing (1998), and has co-edited several books, including J.M. Coetzee in Writing and Theory (2009). ENGAGE IN THE CONVERSATION! Professor Boehmer is the General Editor of the Oxford Studies @OxfordNA #OxNA2016 @cafreeland in Postcolonial Literatures Series, and she served as a Man Booker International judge from 2013-15. She matriculated at MODERATOR: St John’s College, Oxford in 1985 and received her BA, MPhil, Professor Louise Richardson and DPhil in and Literature.

Dr. Faisal Devji is University Reader in SPEAKERS: Modern South Asian History and Fellow The Honorable Sylvia Mathews of St Antony’s College. He has held Burwell was sworn in as the 22nd faculty positions at the New School in Secretary of the US Department of New York, and the Health & Services (HHS) in June , where he also 2014, and is committed to ensuring that received his PhD in Intellectual History. every American has access to the building Dr. Devji was Junior Fellow at the blocks of healthy and productive lives. Society of Fellows, Harvard University, Prior to joining HHS, she served as and Head of Graduate Studies at the Institute of Ismaili Studies Director of the Office of Management in London, where he directed post-graduate courses in the Near and Budget (OMB), where she worked closely with Congress to East and Central Asia. He is a Fellow at ’s help return stability to the economy and middle-class families. Institute of Public Knowledge and Yves Otramane Chair at the Before serving in the Obama Administration, Secretary Burwell

Graduate Institute in . Dr. Devji is interested in Indian had been President of the Walmart Foundation since 2012 and Meeting Minds political thought as well as that of modern , and his broader led their efforts to fight hunger in America, empower women concerns deal with and violence in a globalized world. He around the world, and leverage the company’s presence in local is the author of four books, including Muslim : Pakistan as a communities. She had previously served as President of the Political Idea (2013), and The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Global Development Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Temptation of Violence (2012). Foundation and spent 10 years working on some of the world’s

most pressing challenges, from vaccinations to children’s health Oxford comes to Washington

7 8 Meeting Minds Oxford comes to Washington Bureau Chief, Eastern Europe Correspondent, Editor of posts atthe which shejoinedin2010.Ms.Freeland hasheldseveral senior Consumer NewsandManaging Director ofThomsonReuters, Worcester College, Oxford, where shewas aRhodesScholar. receivedBurwell anABfrom andaBAfrom Harvard University Washington Medical Center, amongother organizations. Secretary Council onForeign Relations, MetLife, of andtheUniversity National Economic ontheboards Council. Shehasserved ofthe Staff to theSecretary oftheTreasury, andStaff Director ofthe Director ChiefofStaff ofOMB, Deputy to thePresident, Chiefof senior posts withintheClinton Administration, includingDeputy Chief Operating Officer. Additionally, Secretary hasheld Burwell to Shewas agricultural alsotheFoundation’s development. first the admissions presentation onSunday10April. sessions across or to theUSandCanada, register for Oxford undergraduate atoneofherinformation to volunteer to speak aboutyourexperience asan Please stop bythePalladian Foyer for information, foron opportunities graduate study atOxford. programs. There willalsobeinformation available about applyingto Oxford for full-timeundergraduate available throughout thedayto answer questions Admissions &Outreach Office, willbe America) intheUndergraduate(UK &North n UNDERGRADUATE Dr. Eleanor Parker, Student Recruitment Officer Financial Times ADMISSIONS 2013. Previously, shewas Editor of as aMember ofParliament inNovember Freeland entered uponherelection politics distinguished career injournalism,Ms. Rosedale inOctober2015.After a Member ofParliament for University- International Trade, andwas elected MP The Honourable Chrystia Freeland, PC, ,

, includingUKNewsEditor, is ’s 18 th Minister of

Program for BBCRadio4,andin1998,presented herownBBC Programme. Shewas aregular presenter oftheAnalysis Keohane) oftheOxford-Princeton GlobalLeaders Fellowship Governance Programme, andisCo-Founder O. (withRobert Woods isFounder andDirector oftheGlobalEconomic asitsAcademic Director.Dean, served Additionally, Professor creation oftheBlavatnik Schooland,before herappointmentas earned anMSt asaRhodesScholar. before matriculatingatSt Antony’s College, Oxford, where she (2012). Ms.Freeland received anABfrom Harvard University of theNewGlobalSuper-RichandFall Else” ofEveryone the Second Russian Revolution” (2000)and“Plutocrats: TheRise TheInsideStoryher publications include“SaleoftheCentury: of Economist stringer for EditorDeputy andthenUSManaging Editor ofthe of FTWeekend Global Order Networks of Influence? Developing CountriesinaNetworked Politics of GlobalRegulation College, Oxford. Professor Woods’ recent include books beforeHarvard University taking upherfellowship atUniversity subsequently taught ofGovernment at attheDepartment Fellowship atNewCollege, Oxford (1990-1992)and DPhil inInternational Relations. Shewon aJuniorResearch as aNewZealand RhodesScholar, completing anMPhiland University. In1987,shematriculated atBalliolCollege, Oxford, earned anundergraduate degree andLLB(Hons)from Auckland the Commonwealth Professor Heads ofGovernment. Woods Development Programme’s and HumanDevelopment Report, International Monetary Fund Board, theUnited Nations the Europeaum. Additionally, shehasbeenanAdvisorto the Center for International Governance , andTrustee of Group oftheCenter Director for atthe Global Development, non-executive Director ofArup, memberoftheAdvisory non-profit andcurrently affiliations asaRhodesTrustee, serves seriesonpublicpolicy. ProfessorTV Woods maintains several The GlobeandMail . Ms.Freeland entered journalismasaUkraine-based . Aspeaker ofUkrainian, Russian, Italian, andFrench, , andEditor ofFT.com. Editor asDeputy Sheserved (withLeonardo 2009). Martinez-Diaz, Financial Times from 1999-2001,before becoming international institutions. Sheledthe and therole of development, challenges ofglobalization, global global economic governance, the Governance. Herresearch focuses on she isProfessor ofGlobalEconomic Government atOxford University, where Dean oftheBlavatnik Schoolof Professor Ngaire Woods (withWalter Mattli, 2009),and , The Washington Post istheinaugural Financial

, and The The COLLEGE GATHERINGS

Balliol College Saturday 9 April: Balliol alumni and their Green Templeton College Saturday 9 April: The GTC guests are invited to attend the Balliol North American Reunion Alumni Drinks and Canapés Reception will be held from 6:30 and Pathfinders Anniversary Dinner at the Library of Congress pm – 8:30 pm in the Governors’ Room at the University Club in the Montpelier Room, courtesy of Matthew Westerman of Washington DC (1135 Sixteenth Street NW, Washington, (1983) and hosted by The Rt Hon the Lord Patten of DC 20005) and will be hosted by Green Templeton Principal Barnes (1962), Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Professor Denise Lievesley CBE. Our guest speaker Humera 5:45 pm for drinks and 7:00 pm for dinner. Khan will discuss her work as Executive Director of Muflehun, www.alumniweb.ox.ac.uk/balliol/events/balliol-reunion a think tank specializing in preventing radicalization and countering violent extremism (CVE). For further information, Brasenose College Saturday 9 April: BNC Principal, John please email: [email protected] Bowers QC, is looking forward to meeting Brasenose alumni and their guests at dinner, kindly hosted by alumnus, C. Allen Hertford College Saturday 9 April: Hertfordians and Foster (1963) and his wife, Susan, at their home in Alexandria, their guests are invited to join the Principal, Will Hutton, for a VA. Dinner is 6:30 pm for 7:00 pm and pre-registration is reunion dinner from 7:30 pm. We have reserved a table at necessary. The Capital Grille and there is more information at www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/washington – we hope to see you Campion Hall Revd Dr James Hanvey, SJ, of there! Campion Hall, would be delighted to meet any Jesuit and Oxford alumni to talk about the future development of the Jesus College Saturday 9 April: Ms. Philippa Roberts, Hall and its research programs, and the unique nature of the Director of Development, will host a dinner in Washington, DC. community and its international network throughout Oxford Please contact [email protected] for details. University and the Society of Jesus. Keble College Saturday 9 April: The Warden, Sir Jonathan Phillips, Lady Amanda Phillips and the Director of Development, Church Saturday 9 April: The Dean, Dr. David Jenny Tudge (Keble, 1986) look forward to seeing Keble Alumni Hine, Marek Kwiatkowski and Simon Offen look forward to and friends who have booked a place at the College Drinks seeing Members and Friends of the House at the Christ Church Reception from 6:30 pm at Brasserie Beck (1101 K Street, NW, table for lunch during the Saturday program. On the Saturday Washington, DC 20005). Pre-registration is necessary. Tuesday evening, with grateful thanks to The Hon. Anthony Quainton 12 April : Join The Warden and Director of Development at (1955), The Metropolitan Club has been made available for a drinks reception in the Gordon Reading Room, The Harvard an American Friends of Christ Church Dinner, to which all Club, 27 W 44th St, from 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm. Members, Friends and their spouses/partners are cordially This event is kindly hosted by OM’s Rick Petree (1978), Carl invited. Please contact The American Friends of Christ Church Johnson (1978), Alex Mottershead (1992) and Miro Vassilev for further details: [email protected]. (2002). Book your place by contacting Corpus Christi College Saturday 9 April: Evening Drinks [email protected]. and Canapés Reception on the Roof Terrace of Pricewaterhouse Kellogg College Saturday 9 April: Alumni, students Cooper, 1730 Pennsylvania Ave, from 6:00 pm –7:30 pm. and friends are warmly invited to join the President, Please contact Nick Thorn at +44 (0) 7876 276475. Professor Jonathan Michie, at Les Petits Plats Restaurant, 7:00 pm for dinner and drinks. Price per head is $60 Exeter College Saturday 9 April: Alumni event with a wine and guests are welcome. Contact Monica Popa at tasting hosted by Nicholas Ulanov (1979, ) and [email protected]. Cynthia Hostetler at their home in Georgetown from 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm. The wine tasting will be led by John Saturday 9 April: Reception and Lady Margaret Hall Meeting Minds Shute (2014, MBA). Spouses/partners/guests welcome. Dinner with Marty Baron (Executive Editor of The Washington Due to space constraints, places will be reserved on a first- Post) for alumni and guests, hosted by the Principal, Alan come, first-served basis. There is no charge to attend, Rusbridger, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel (2500 Calvert St but all guests are required to complete online registration: NW, Washington, DC 20008). Reception from 6:00 pm, https://exeterdc.eventbrite.co.uk Dinner from 7:00 pm. The Principal will be ‘in conversation’ with Marty Baron after dinner and guests will be invited to join Oxford the discussion. Pre-registration required, please contact Mrs. comes to Washington

9 10 Meeting Minds Oxford comes to Washington Alumni Relations, Ms.JulieReynolds, lookforward to meeting College, Dr. Ellis,andtheDirector Robert ofDevelopment and Regent’s Park College at TheHay-AdamsonSaturday 9April,7:00pmfor 7:30pm. welcome OldMembers andtheirguests to jointhemfor dinner Mrs. Madden andDirector ofDevelopment AnnaThorne The Queen’s College http://alumni.oriel.ox.ac.uk/events. book andfor more information oneitherevent please visit: Washington, DC20008).Pre-registration required. To at TheCosmos Club(2121 Massachusetts Ave NW, (6:30 pmfor pre-dinner and7:00pm for drinks dinner) Oriel College speak duringtheevent. their homeinPotomac. TheWarden, SirAndrew will Dilnot, hosted byRuth andPhilipSuttle(MPhilEconomics, 1981)at Nuffield College www.alumniweb.ox.ac.uk/new/events/north-american-reunion-2016 Friends area oftheNewCollege website at: or visittheOldMembers & [email protected] and information Contact onhowto bookhave beensent. A dinnerfor NewCollege OldMembers inChicago. Details College OldMembers inWashington, Monday 11April: DC. New College [email protected]. Helen Kingsley at [email protected] oron800-449-5322 Georgetown McKelvey/Susan home.Contact Robert Stukane Club. OnSunday, brunchhasbeenarranged attheAllards’ Saturday evening: Reception andDinneratTheCosmos by aguidedtour ofGeorge Washington’s Mount Vernon. Saturday AMannualmeeting intheDupontHotel followed CollegeMerton required. on-going projects andfuture plansfor theCollege. Pre-booking for reception adrinks for alumni.Helenawillbespeaking about forward looks Helena Kennedy QC, to seeingyou at6:00pm Mansfield College tie. Pre-booking required. with speaker Will(1962).7:00pmfor 7:30pm,black Chase, MD20815),kindlyhosted byMarsh Marshall (1978) Ave, ChaseClub(6100Connecticut dinner attheChevy Chevy Magdalen College Contact [email protected] withquestions. who have registered for thedinneratNationalPress Club. Lincoln College NW. ThePrincipal, Dr. NickBrown, willpreside. Dinner inTheCabinet Room, OldEbbittGrill,67515thStreet Linacre College Carrie Scott [email protected]

Saturday 9April:Areception for New Saturday 9April:Dinnerfor Orielenses

The Rector forward looks to seeingalumni Saturday 9April(6:30pmfor 7:00pm): Saturday 9–Sunday10April:

Sunday 10April,11:00am:Brunch Saturday 9April:Magdalen alumni Saturday 9April:ThePrincipal, Baroness

The Provost Paul Madden, The Principal ofRegent’s Park .

be hosting tables atlunchintheOmniShoreham. TheMaster andDirector willalso Office ([email protected]). Alumni House.Tickets are $75,please RSVPto theAlumni reception andbuffet dinnerfrom 6:00pmattheGeorgetown forward to welcoming alumniandtheirguests to adrinks Jones andDirector ofDevelopment SusanBerrington look St Cross College for information. further [email protected] St Catherine’s College [email protected]. per person. For information please contact and booking, Washington, DC20006).Suggested donationis$25 from 7:00pmatTaberna delAlabardero (1776IStreet NW G Jeanrond, ishosting adinnerfor St Benet’s alumni&friends St Benet’s Hall [email protected] places maystill beavailable: please contact Washington, DC20004.Tickets $40each. Bookingrequired - guests for anddinneratBistro drinks 51810thSt NW, D’oc, Principal Tim Gardam forward looks to welcoming alumnaeand St Anne’s College Pre-booking required. the Principal after theacademic program onSaturday 9April. reception and/or dinnerfor Regent’s OldMembers hosted by alumni attheAlumniWeekend. There will be anevening hosting a dinnerfor Contact theDevelopment Somervillians. Alice Prochaska, willbeattending theAlumniWeekend andis College Somerville [email protected]. Tour at2:30pm.Spaces maystill beavailable, contact Street NW, Washington, DC20007).Tea at1:30pm;House Tea atTudor Place Historic HouseandGarden (164431st 7:30 pm.Sunday10April:ThePrincipal willhost anafternoon NW, Washington, at6:30pm;dinner DC20006).Drinks reception anddinneratDACOR Bacon House(1801FStreet Principal ofSt Hugh’sAngiolini DBEQC, College, ishosting a St Hugh’s College 7:00 pm-Reception inBoston, MA. Dinner ataprivate homeinAlexandria, VA. Sunday10April: St Hilda’s College attending. ifyouareplease emailsally.@seh.ox.ac.uk interested in Studies) at11:00am.We maystill have places available, Capitol withThe Honorable JimHimes(1988,LatinAmerican Studies). Dress code: loungesuits.Sunday10April:Tour ofThe Gull, andTheHonorable JimHimes(1988,LatinAmerican event iskindlybeinghosted byPrincipal, Professor Keith Council Room attheOmniShoreham Hotel at6:30pm.This booked for ourWashington, DCDinner, please joinusinthe St EdmundHall

Saturday 9April:TheMaster, Prof Werner Saturday 9April:Ifyouhave already

Saturday 9April:TheMaster SirMark

Saturday 9April:6:30pmfor 7:30pm– Saturday 9April,from 6:30pm:The Saturday 9April:TheRtHonDameElish Saturday 9April:ThePrincipal, Dr. Contact

Office for details at [email protected] or (1995, Maths) at his home - 11:30 am. For more information, 011-44-1865-280626. please contact [email protected].

Trinity College The President and Lady Roberts look Wolfson College Saturday 9 April: Dinner with the forward to seeing Old Members during the weekend and, for President, Professor Dame Hermione Lee, at The Blue Duck those who have booked, the reception and dinner on Saturday Tavern, 7:00 pm for 7:30 pm. $50 per person. Contact 9 April is from 7:00 pm in The Zenger Room, National Press [email protected] to register. Club, 529 14th Street NW, Washington, DC 20045. Worcester College Saturday 9 April: Join the Provost, University College Univ’s Master, Sir , warmly Sir , for a conversation with Andrew Cockburn invites Univ alumnae and guests to join him at the following (1966, History), Washington Editor for Harper’s Magazine, events: Saturday 9 April - Dinner at the University Club, about American politics and journalism. The talk will begin at Washington, DC 20036 – 7:00 pm. Sunday 10 April - Brunch 6:00 pm at the Omni Shoreham and will be followed by drinks at Cava Mezze, 707 H St NW, Washington, DC 20001 – 11:00 and canapés. Email [email protected] for details. am. Monday 11 April - Drinks at the Foley Gallery, 59 Orchard St, New York, NY 10002 – 7:00 pm. Saturday 16 April – Drinks and light lunch kindly hosted by Edward Hieatt

ADDITIONAL EVENTS

SATURDAY 9 APRIL Saïd Business School Brunch Rhodes Scholars After-Dinner Drinks Dean Peter Tufano warmly welcomes graduates of Saïd Business School and fellow Oxford alumni interested in 9:30 pm to 11:00 pm n The Willard Intercontinental, business to join him at Washington’s oldest restaurant, Old Peacock Room, 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue Ebbitt Grill, for the Oxford Business Alumni Brunch. Partners welcome, tickets required. For more information please After the College dinners, please join fellow Scholars for contact [email protected]. informal drinks, hosted in conjunction by the Association of American Rhodes Scholars (AARS) and the Canadian Association of Rhodes Scholars (CARS). For more information Applying to the University of Oxford: please contact [email protected]. An Introduction to Undergraduate Admissions & Studying in the UK SUNDAY 10 APRIL 10:00 am – 12:00 pm n Omni Shoreham Hotel, Hampton Ballroom, 2500 Calvert Street NW Rhodes Scholars Breakfast This session for alumni, their children (the undergraduate 9:00 am to 12:00 pm n The Willard Intercontinental, studies element of the session is most relevant for high school Ballroom, 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue sophomores and juniors), and other guests will be hosted by Dr. Eleanor Parker, Student Recruitment Officer (UK & North Please join fellow Scholars for a breakfast to connect and get America) in the Undergraduate Admissions & Outreach Office an update from the Warden, Charles Conn, and from AARS and at Oxford. She will cover applying to Oxford for full-time

CARS. Additionally, experience the new Service and Leadership undergraduate programs, including entrance requirements Meeting Minds Programme for Scholars in Residence in Oxford. The discussion and how to make a competitive application. The session will will be led by Rhodes Scholars who have served as moderators also focus on the differences between the UK and North for recent retreats in Oxford. American university systems and will include information on graduate study and related funding opportunities at the University of Oxford. For more information please

contact [email protected]. Oxford comes to Washington

DOM JES IN US US

11 12 Meeting Minds Oxford comes to Washington www.oxfordna.org #OxNA2016 FAX PHONE EMAIL WEB New York, NY10110 Avenue,500 Fifth 32 University of Oxford American Office North www.twitter.com/OxfordNA www.instagram.com/oxford_na www.facebook.com/OxfordNA 212-889-4052 www.oxfordna.org [email protected] 212-377-4900 nd Floor