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Argentina, Buenos Aires Matriculation, 1971

David Smith

An award-winning foreign correspondent for Reuters, ITN, Channel Four News and The Economist, he witnessed first-hand many of the major events of the final decades of the 20th century, criss-crossing datelines in Africa, the Middle East, the former Soviet Union and the United States. He was in Madrid when the last of Europe's Fascist dictators died. He was based in Zimbabwe when the curtain came down on the British Empire. He witnessed wars in Lebanon and Iraq-Iran, tragic famines in Ethiopia and Uganda. He lived in Moscow when the Soviet Union collapsed. In Washington he worked with every US President from Bush senior to Obama. Along the way, he wrote the first biography of Robert Mugabe and a widely-praised book on the relationship between the Israelis and the Palestinians. He taught at major American universities. In his 50s he became a diplomat and advised the UN Secretary-General, representing the United Nations at the White House and the US Congress. Never one to retire, he has run the Buenos Aires and Paris marathons, still playing Soccer as he once did for Lincoln, and has launched a third career, becoming a winemaker with his Argentine wife, running a small vineyard in Mendoza and making SonVida wines.

Argentina, Buenos Aires Matriculation, 2021

Matías Carpio

Matías has worked in consulting, diplomacy and public policy, helping tackle major strategic reforms in the public and non-for-profit sectors. In a recent stint he worked as an innovation consultant at the International Rescue Committee, helping roll out an innovative EdTech project catering to disadvantaged students in Latin America. Prior to this, Matías served as a policy advisor at the Argentine President´s Office, where he contributed to the establishment of the country´s top-level coordination unit for national security. He also worked at the New Zealand Embassy in Buenos Aires, managing its development assistance fund and leading analysis of political and economic matters.

Having lived in Oxford for two years, Matías holds fond memories of all things Lincoln – from rowing on the Isis and navigating essay crises in the dazzling college library to stimulating talks over formals in Hall. It is nonetheless the many friends made in Oxford that remain the most enduring legacy of his time as a student in the “city of dreaming spires”.

Australia, Sydney Matriculation, 2018

Dr Brendon Neuen

Associate Professor Brendon Neuen is a Nephrologist and Director of the Kidney Trials Unit at Royal North Shore Hospital, and a Senior Research Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health in Sydney. He holds a Masters in Global Health and Epidemiology from the University of Oxford, a PhD from UNSW, and completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the American Society of Nephrology.

Brendon is a global leader in cardio-renal-metabolic medicine and leads several multinational clinical trials aimed at preventing kidney and cardiovascular diseases. His research has shaped over 25 international and national guidelines, defining optimal care for people with type 2 diabetes and kidney disease.

Australia, Adelaide Matriculation, 2012

Dr Emma Lawrance

Emma is the Mental Health Lead at Imperial College London’s Institute of Global Health Innovation. In this role she works closely with Mental Health Innovations, the charity behind the Shout text messaging service, to better understand and respond to mental health needs in the UK. Her graduate studies in neuroscience focussed on representations of uncertainty in the brain and how these affect decision-making, and are affected by anxiety. While working in youth mental health she was struck by the lack of discussion on impacts of grappling with climate change and an uncertain future on today’s youth. This led to founding and leading Climate Cares, a programme across research, policy, education and intervention design working to respond to the wide-ranging and deep interconnections between climate change and mental health. Emma has been published in academic journals such as Lancet Planetary Health, British Medical Journal and Nature Mental Health, and interviewed or cited by global media including the New York Times, Guardian, Die Zeit, BBC, Al Jazeera, and Sky News. She is recognised as a leading expert in the space and regularly gives talks on international stages including COP26 & 27 and has been consulted by the WHO and OECD. She is also the Founder and Chair of Trustees for the mental health charity It Gets Brighter.

Australia, Sydney Matriculation, 2001

Jane McAdam AO

Professor Jane McAdam AO BA (Hons) LLB (Hons) (Sydney) DPhil (Oxford) is Scientia Professor of Law and the Founding Director of the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW Sydney, where she leads the Evacuations Research Hub. She holds a prestigious Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship and is a Fellow of both the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of Law. She is an Honorary Associate of the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford, has held visiting appointments at Oxford and Harvard, and was previously a non-resident Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at The Brookings Institution in Washington DC. Professor McAdam publishes widely in international refugee law and forced migration, with a particular focus on mobility in the context of climate change and disasters. Her legal analysis has been adopted by courts, governments, and UN bodies and her work has been highly influential in the development of international, regional, and national policy frameworks. Professor McAdam is joint Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Refugee Law, the leading journal in the field. In 2021, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) ‘for distinguished service to international refugee law, particularly to climate change and the displacement of people’.

Australia, Melbourne Matriculation, 2016

Matthew Pierri

Matthew is the founder and CEO of Sociability – a disability tech company empowering disabled people to find accessible places. Sociability was born out of the Oxford Accessibility Project – a student project to crowdsource detailed accessibility information for Oxford’s colleges – which Matthew started whilst at Lincoln.

Before Sociability, Matthew was also an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Schmidt Futures – a philanthropic venture by Eric and Wendy Schmidt – and a Visiting Scholar at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, where he taught disability ethics. Matthew completed a Master of Public Policy and MSc in Social Science of the Internet during his time at Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

Australia, Melbourne Matriculation, 1974

Sir Rod Eddington AO

Sir Rod Eddington came to Lincoln College as the 1974 Rhodes Scholar, having completed an Engineering Degree at the University of Western Australia.
On completing his D.Phil, Sir Rod joined the Swire Group to work in Asia. He was seconded to Cathay Pacific Airways and was posted to South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong from 1979 to 1997. He went on to become the Chief Executive Officer of Cathay Pacific, Ansett Airlines and British Airways before returning to Australia.
Sir Rod authored the Eddington Transport Study for the British Government in 2006.
He has served on a number of boards across a wide range of business sectors. He chaired the Lincoln College Fundraising Committee from 2001-2006 and greatly values his continuing links with the College.
In 2005, Sir Rod was awarded a Knighthood by the British Government for service to civil aviation, in 2012 was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for service to business and commerce and in 2015 was honoured by the Japanese Government with the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun for his contribution to strengthening the economic relations between Australia and Japan.

Bangladesh, Dhaka Matriculation, 1995

Adiba Tabassum Osmani

Adiba is the Founder and MD of Inhere, a global wellbeing studio that offers meditation pods and online meditation classes for organisations. She is passionate about creating space and permission for people to look after their minds within the chaos of modern life.

Adiba combines her experience as a successful business executive with her understanding of the science of the mind, to bring Inhere to audiences so that they may develop a healthy relationship with their minds.

She is an accredited meditation teacher and a practicing counsellor. At the core of her practice is the belief that each of us has the capacity to make shifts in ourselves which then reflects back on us through our life experience.

Adiba brings a proven track record in defining and executing strategy and innovative marketing propositions to help grow Inhere, with an early career in management consulting at Deloitte and McKinsey, senior level appointments at Orange SA, and having launched consumer products in Europe and Asia. Adiba holds an M.A (Oxon) in Politics, Philosophy & Economics from Lincoln College, Oxford University.

Bangladesh, Cox’s Bazar Matriculation, 2005

Janis Ridsdel

Janis Ridsdel is the Senior Community-Based Protection Officer at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Cox’s Bazar, home to the world’s largest refugee camp. Janis has worked in humanitarian emergencies across the world for over 15 years, including 8 years with UNHCR. Before being assigned to Bangladesh, Janis served with UNHCR at the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific and at Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, providing policy and practical guidance on international protection, including child protection and gender-based violence.

In total, Janis has served in over 20 emergency and refugee responses across the world with UNHCR and international NGOs such as Save the Children and Plan International, including most recently to Poland for the Ukraine crisis. Her areas of expertise include including in the areas of community empowerment, child protection, gender equality, gender-based violence prevention and response, and disability inclusion. Janis holds degrees in Modern History and Politics (BA) and Forced Migration (MSc) from the University of Oxford (Lincoln College, mat. 2005; St. Hugh’s College, mat. 2002).

Bangladesh, Dhaka Matriculation, 1992

Tanweena Chowdhury

Tanweena is an accomplished Governance Adviser in the UK Government’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), formerly Department for International Development (DFID). In this capacity, Tanweena has worked across Africa and Asia, including in South Africa, Rwanda, Malawi, Tunisia, Ghana, Ethiopia, and Bangladesh. She has deep expertise in accountable and inclusive politics, public sector governance and service delivery, and domestic resource mobilisation. She has advised on public financial management programmes and designed civil service programmes in Bangladesh, advised on public service reform in provincial governments in South Africa, and established the Country Governance Analysis playbook (for which she was awarded an Individual Special Achievement Award by DFID’s Permanent Secretary). She has led a review of UK electoral assistance and led HMG’s relationship with the UN in New York. Tanweena is currently leading research on improving developing country tax systems in Africa and South Asia to support pro-poor economic growth, advance equity for poor people, increase revenue, and improve accountability.

Tanweena started her career at Grameen Trust in Bangladesh, where she designed international adaptations of Grameen Bank methodology in 21 microcredit organisations in 17 countries in Africa, the Americas, and Europe. Other highlights of her career include ActionAid UK and UNDP New York.

Belgium, Hoeilaart Matriculation, 2023

Amaury van Trappen de Buggenoms

Amaury is a dynamic renewable energy entrepreneur from Belgium, making significant strides in the energy sector. With a strong foundation in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bath and a Management degree from Cambridge University, his academic journey set the stage for a promising career. His experience at Rolls-Royce in the Aerospace Defence division deepened his industry expertise before his entrepreneurial ambitions led him to co-found A&B Smart Materials, based at the University of Oxford's Begbroke Science Park.

Under Amaury's leadership, A&B Smart Materials is at the forefront of advancing cooling technologies through innovative hydrogels. These smart materials serve as a retrofit coating for photovoltaic panels, increasing energy generation by up to 5%. By absorbing atmospheric water at night and releasing it during the day, the hydrogel enhances panel efficiency through evaporative cooling—an embodiment of Amaury's vision for sustainable energy solutions.

To date, Amaury has successfully raised $700,000 from renowned accelerators like Entrepreneurs First and prominent angel investors. His pioneering work has received widespread recognition. Over the past two years, he won the CleanTech Challenge at London Business School in 2023, securing a $25,000 prize. His cleantech startup was named the regional winner for the South East in the 2024 (UK StartUp Awards), and he was honored as the Young Energy Professional of the Year 2024 at the Solar & Storage Live Awards.

Belgium, Brussels Matriculation, 2002

Baudouin de Hemptinne

Baudouin is active in economic policy at the Belgian and European level. He graduated in Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government in Oxford in 2024 after having worked as a strategy consultant for network industries and businesses in energy and transportation. Working as an economist in the public sector now, he is specialised in the impacts of climate change on public finances. In his research and policy advice, Baudouin looks at the public investment needs for mitigation and adaptation within climate change policies, at the fiscal balance impacts of climate action and climate hazards, and many more. In his free time, Baudouin enjoys learning languages, listening to music, wandering in the mountains, cooking and reading.

Belgium, Brussels Matriculation, 2003

Dominika Misztela

Dominka Misztela graduated in 2007 from Oxford with a DPhil in Molecular Immunology, following a BSc (Joint Honors) in Biochemistry and Immunology at King’s College, London.

In 2007, Dominika joined Theradex, a contract research organisation, followed by stints at the Imperial College London Clinical Trials Unit and the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford to pursue a career in clinical research management. She moved to Brussels, Belgium in 2011, where she worked as Associate Head of the Regulatory Affairs Unit of the European Organization for the Research and Treatment of Cancer.

Since June 2015, she works at the Plasma Protein Therapeutics Association, a global pharmaceutical industry association representing the collectors of plasma and manufacturers of plasma-derived medicines. Since August 2022, she heads the PPTA’s global regulatory policy activities. In her current role, Dominika leads a global team which works with the European Commission, the European Medicines Agency, European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines, the WHO, the US Food and Drug Administration and EU and other regulatory authorities. Her work focuses on regulatory issues related to the safety, quality and scientific innovation of plasma-derived medicines. She currently holds professional appointments at the German expert committee on blood and blood products (Arbeitskreis Blut) and the WHO Expert Committee of Biological Standardization.

Belgium, Brussels Matriculation, 2014

Felix Klos

Dutch-American historian Felix Klos first arrived at Lincoln College in 2012. He was awarded his master’s degree with distinction in Modern British and European History in 2015. Based on his research at Lincoln, Felix wrote ‘a scintillating short book’ (The Guardian) on Winston Churchill’s contribution to European unity. After publishing Churchill on Europe (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Churchill’s Last Stand: The Struggle to Unite Europe (Bloomsbury, 2019), Felix worked as a field organizer on the US presidential campaign in Iowa. Afterwards, he entered Dutch politics as a speechwriter and adviser to the leader of the Dutch Democratic Party (D66), a centrist progressive party he helped lead to record-breaking election victory in 2021. He currently serves as the party’s chief of staff in the European Parliament in Brussels and Strasbourg.

Belgium, Tervuren Matriculation, 1978

Dr Jamie Shea CMG

Jamie Shea CMG is Professor at the College of Europe Natolin. He is also a Senior Fellow responsible for security and defence programmes at Friends of Europe and a Senior Advisor with the European Policy Centre. Both of these think tanks are based in Brussels. More recently, Jamie Shea has assumed the position of Senior Counsel to the Founder and CEO of Fanack/The Chronicle and Fanack Water.

Between 2018 and 2022 Jamie Shea was the Professor of Strategy and Security at the University of Exeter and prior to that, for 38 years he was an international public servant and a member of the International Staff of NATO. His last NATO post was Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges. Other positions included Director of Policy Planning in the Private Office of the Secretary General, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for External Relations, Public Diplomacy Division, Director of Information and Press and Spokesman of NATO.

Belgium, Brussels Matriculation, 2012

Julie Balériaux

Since her DPhil in Ancient History at Lincoln, Julie has already had quite a diverse career. Starting as a museum curator in Brussels, she then moved to the European civil service to finance excellent research in Social Sciences and Humanities, first with the European Research Council (ERC) as a Scientific Officer, then as a Policy Officer at the European Commission’s Directorate General for Research & Innovation (DG RTD).

But this year, she took the entrepreneurial leap and started her own ethical maternity lingerie company, Kallisto (http://www.kallisto-mama.com), to empower breastfeeding mothers and help them reclaim their bodies (you will notice that the brand name is directly inspired by her DPhil subject). She is also the host of "Kallisto Club", a conversational podcast about entrepreneurship and parenthood (in French).

Julie is the mother of 2 smart and strong-willed daughters and lives in Brussels with her family. In her (rare) spare time, she loves to sew, travel, practice yoga, visit art exhibitions and frantically curate her Notion workspace.

Belgium, Brussels Matriculation, 1958

Malcolm Townsend

Joined the Bank of England in 1962 with early hands-on experience of the gold vaults, and of the foreign exchange markets in the turbulent times of 1964-6. Later analysed the commodity markets in the context of the balance of payments. Then worked on the first application of computers to the banking function. Along the way became B. Sc (Econ).

In 1966 married Diana Harris, a mathematician from St. Hugh’s, having two sons: Neil, born 1969, followed Malcolm to Lincoln, where he became D. Phil in electrical engineering, while Christopher, born 1971, followed his father into the City of London to do quantitative analysis while continuing to publish in the foundations of mathematics.

In 1973 obtained a post at the European Commission in Economic and Financial Affairs just as the first oil crisis challenged the European Community. In the early 1980s worked with Greek officials on the implementation of the Community loan. In 1986 joined the small staff of the Monetary Committee in which senior national officials prepared the work of the Council of finance ministers. This Committee administered the European Monetary System and developed and refined the political agreements which led to monetary union and the introduction of the euro.

Belgium, Brussels Matriculation, 1979

Michael Bishop

After leaving Lincoln with a first class in English, he obtained a diploma in law from the City University and passed the Bar examination the following year. He then trained and practised as a solicitor for several years at the City law firms of Simmons & Simmons and Linklaters. In 1991 he was appointed as an EU official in the Council Legal Service. His principal tasks there were to provide legal advice to the Council on proposals for new EU laws and decisions, as well as to defend the Council in litigation before the EU Courts. His work covered the common agricultural policy, institutional questions, justice and home affairs and then external relations including trade and development cooperation, EU enlargement and security and defence policy. Following his appointment in 2014 as senior legal advisor for external relations, he was responsible for coordinating the Legal Service’s work on restrictive measures and supervising its defence of sanctions cases before the EU Courts. He retired in April 2024.

Belgium, Poucet Matriculation, 1989

Roland Hübner

Roland Hübner came to Lincoln in 1989 with a Berrow Foundation Scholarship. As he was married with two little baby boys, he stayed in University-owned graduate accommodation. He completed his DPhil in mouse genetics (Michaelmas 1991). With Oxford on his CV, he easily secured one of the first EU-wide postdoc grants under the “Human Capital and Mobility” scheme at the University of Liège (Belgium). For the next 15 years he focussed mainly on molecular and cellular biology, and worked in both biochemistry and medical departments. He was a full-time research associate in the Laboratoire de Biochimie, and at the Centre d’Ingénierie des Protéines (Université de Liège, Belgium), later in the Laboratorium voor Moleculaire Biotechnologie, and the Laboratorium voor Anatomopathologie (Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium). For a short period, he was also a full-time scientist in the Laboratoire RND1, ORAFTI, addressing active food ingredients in Oreye (Belgium). Since January 2004 he has been serving as a full-time scientific expert in the Superior Health Council, which advises the country’s health ministry. Holding a Master degree in transfusion medicine, he also lectures on ethical and legal aspects of blood transfusion as well as emerging infectious diseases impacting the blood supply.

Canada, London Matriculation, 2016

Abiodun Awosusi MD

Abiodun Awosusi is a physician and lifelong learner with multi-country experience in health policy reforms and market analyses. He is a Brock Scholar and Doctoral Student at the Ivey Business School - Western University. Previously, he worked at the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Oxford Policy Management, IntraHealth International, ACF USA, Health Systems and Development Enterprise, and Management Sciences for Health. He has worked on projects funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; the United States Agency for International Development; the French Development Agency; the Swedish International Development Cooperation; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; the Rockefeller Foundation; and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He completed the MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine as an Exxon Mobil Global Health Scholar at the Nuffield Department of Medicine. He was a Miles Morland Scholar at Lincoln College. He holds an MBA from the Quantic School of Business and Technology and a master’s degree in international management from the University of Liverpool. He completed his medical education at Obafemi Awolowo University as a Shell National Merit Scholar. Recently, he contributed to the Trust CoLab report which explores the future of health innovations including artificial intelligence.

Canada, Vancouver Matriculation, 2007

Dr Adam Jackson

Adam has had a varied career since completing his DPhil at Lincoln. Starting off his journey in academia at the University of Cambridge, Adam soon moved on to work as an aerodynamicist in Formula One at the then Force India team. There he led a project to develop a new wind tunnel testing method. Adam’s next role took him back to academia, at the University of Birmingham, where he conducted high-speed train aerodynamics research on full-size trains. Adam was then fortunate to land a dream job in aerospace. He led a small (and fun!) team developing a novel heat exchanger at Reaction Engines. This was part of a much larger project aimed at demonstrating the core of a new type of rocket engine. Heat exchanger problems solved, Adam then wanted to play his part trying to solve what is arguably one of the main issues of our time – creating clean, safe power at scale. This, coupled with a desire to live and work in Canada took Adam to Vancouver where, between enjoying all that the great Canadian wilderness has to offer, he now works as a systems engineer at General Fusion. As a side project, Adam acquired a pilot license and is on a mission to make aviation more sustainable.

Canada, Vancouver Island Matriculation, 1990

Dr Alison Van Rooy

Dr Van Rooy, a Canadian Rhodes Scholar from 1990-1994, spent most of her three-decade career focused on Canada’s international assistance policy. As a senior researcher for The North-South Institute in Ottawa, she published on good governance and civil society activism; and at Global Affairs Canada and other departments, she developed policies and experimented with new policy development methods, mostly on development, public engagement, and civil society partnerships. Now living on Vancouver Island on Canada’s west coast, Alison launched Van Rooy Strategies to help nonprofit organizations and university teams develop their strategies - an effort to help good organizations make more good things happen. She returned to Oxford in 2024 for the six-month Oxford Next Horizons Programme, led by the Rhodes Trust and Harris Manchester College, and enjoyed returning to Lincoln.

Canada, Toronto Matriculation, 2002

Andrew Park

Andrew completed his DPhil in Comparative Social Policy at Lincoln College as a Rhodes Scholar and subsequently received a law degree at the Yale Law School. Since then, Andrew has embarked on a varied career spanning law, sustainable finance, management consulting, and philanthropy. After several years in the US federal judiciary as a law clerk in New York, he became the special assistant to the COO of Michael Bloomberg’s then-fledgling private foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, eventually managing a portfolio of philanthropic investment in sustainable finance. In 2015, Andrew relocated to Toronto, Canada, where he joined the global management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company. With several years of strategy consulting under his belt, he returned to his passion for philanthropy by joining the Mastercard Foundation as a senior operations executive. A Toronto-based international philanthropy, the Foundation’s mission is to support the development of sustainable and dignified work for African and indigenous Canadian youth. Recent highlights include working with the Africa CDC to deliver a high-profile COVID-relief program called Saving Lives and Livelihoods, and building the operational backbone of the Foundation’s platform to deliver complex, continent-spanning programs. A recent new dad, he is currently on leave, learning to be a parent to his infant daughter.

Canada, Toronto Matriculation, 1998

Ben Rowswell

Ben Rowswell is a human rights activist who founded and leads the Network for Democratic Solidarity based in Toronto.

As a Canadian diplomat, he engaged in human rights advocacy in Egypt, Iraq, and at the United Nations in New York. He served as Canada‘s Deputy Ambassador to Afghanistan (2008 to 2010), and Ambassador to Venezuela (2014 to 2017).

After leaving the Government of Canada, Ben founded a software company to equip democracy activists with software to crowdsource civic action. In 2023, with the discovery of thousands of graves at residential schools established to eradicate indigenous peoples, he applied his experiences from diplomacy and technology to launch the Network for Democratic Solidarity to address human right abuses at home.

Canada, Toronto Matriculation, 2022

Brandon Yih

Born in Canada, but raised in Norway, Malaysia, China, Taiwan, France, and Italy, Brandon identifies strongly as a third-culture individual and speaks six languages. His multicultural upbringing drew him towards academic pursuits in international affairs, and he hopes to pursue a career in human rights, public policy, and sustainability. Prior to Oxford, Brandon worked as a consultant at Ulula (assisting migrant workers in Southeast Asia navigate labour rights and healthcare access), and served as the editor of the G7 Research Group. Brandon was one of the youngest press-briefing hosts at the 2022 G7 Summit in Schloss Elmau, Germany.

At Oxford, Brandon is reading an MPhil in Development Studies with his thesis investigating the socio-cultural integration of refugees into Spanish society in the Canary Islands and Ceuta. During his time at Lincoln, he served as the MCR Welfare Officer and worked as a research assistant at the Oxford Global Security Programme at Blavatnik School of Government.

Brandon also holds an Honours B.A. in Peace, Conflict & Justice Studies, Criminology & Sociolegal Studies and Political Science from the University of Toronto. Brandon has also studied at National University of Singapore, UCL, King’s College London, Sciences Po Paris, and the Geneva Graduate Institute.

Canada, Toronto Matriculation, 2014

Carolyn Hicks

Carolyn is an engineer turned entrepreneur focused on making sustainability the easier choice. She is the co-founder, CFO/COO, and member of the Board of Directors of Brill Power, a battery intelligence company that uses electronics to improve battery performance and reduce battery waste. Carolyn has helped lead Brill Power's innovation from concept to product, growing her team from 4 founders to over 40 employees, working in both the hardware and software spaces.

Carolyn is a licenced engineer, having completed Bachelor and Masters degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Toronto before an MBA at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School. Prior to Brill Power, Carolyn worked in engineering and infrastructure finance in both Canada and the UK. When not working, Carolyn is a mentor at the University of Toronto Hatchery, volunteers for Oxford Mutual Aid, and is a 2x Ironman finisher.

Canada, Vancouver Matriculation, 2007

Claire England

After studying English at Lincoln, Claire followed her passion for advocacy to pursue law in London. At Tuckers Solicitors Claire worked on criminal, civil liberties and actions against the police cases, including deaths in custody and false imprisonment. Claire later joined the Public Law and Human Rights team at Irwin Mitchell, fighting for clients with life-changing injuries.

Claire’s pro-bono work includes analysing USA death row data to uncover trends in miscarriages of justice with Amicus and advising protestors on their legal rights with Green and Black Cross.

Claire is dedicated to destigmatising mental health in the workplace and co-founded a mental health programme at Irwin Mitchell, winning the Legal & General “Not a Red Card” Inspiration Award for this work in 2018.

In 2021 Claire moved to Vancouver with her husband Oliver, initially for a “two-year adventure” … and counting! After a fascinating year working in the Supreme Court of British Columbia Claire moved to the Indigenous Legal Relations team within the Ministry of Attorney General, focusing on modern treaty negotiations with First Nations, alignment of BC laws with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Indigenous-Provincial consultation.

When not in the office, Claire can be found hiking, climbing and backpacking through the beautiful Pacific Northwest.

Canada, Montréal Matriculation, 1978

Claudio Cuello

Claudio Cuello is a Highly Cited Scientist (ISI, USA) who made pioneering discoveries in Neurosciences and Neuropharmacology, such as the discovery of neurotransmitters release by dendrites, the identification of novel neuroactive peptides in the central nervous system in experimental animals and in the human brain. He has discovered new aspects of the preclinical Alzheimer’s disease pathology, including a trophic factor deficiency by the deregulation of an NGF metabolic brain pathway discovered by his lab. He introduced the application of monoclonal antibodies in the Neurosciences and co-developed “bi-specific” monoclonal antibodies. He was inducted as Fellow of the Canadian Royal Society and received Honoris Causa Doctorates, major Awards and distinctions from USA, Germany, Finland, Argentina, Brazil, China, Hong Kong, Israel, Spain, Singapore, and Canada. For his contributions as “nation builder” he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and received the Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. He held Academic and Research positions in Buenos Aires, Cambridge and Oxford Universities and presently holds a named-endowed Chair at McGill University. He remains Invited Professor at the Oxford Department of Pharmacology and he led the endowment for the creation of the “Cesar Milstein Chair” held at Lincoln College and the Dunn School.

Canada, Vancouver Matriculation, 1965

Derek G. Human MA, BM, BCh, MRCP(UK), FRCPC, FACC

Dr Derek Human was born and raised in Southern Africa, and came up to Lincoln in 1965, studying Physiology and Medicine, graduating in December 1971. After completing postgraduate training in England and South Africa, Dr Human moved to Canada in 1987 to continue his career in Pediatric Cardiology, initially at Dalhousie University, Halifax. He moved to Vancouver in 1993 to be the Head of the Division of Cardiology at the British Columbia Children’s Hospital and Clinical Professor in Pediatrics, University of British Columbia. He served as the head of Cardiology for 20 years, and remained active in clinical and academic Cardiology until December 2022. He is currently the Executive Medical Director (Quality & Safety) at the Children’s and Women’s Hospital in Vancouver.

He pioneered the development of the Pediatric Cardiology Partnership Program, providing integrated care to 10 regional centers across the province. He has been involved in medical education with the Canadian Cardiovascular Society and the University of British Columbia, is a past Chairman of the Examination Board in Pediatric Cardiology for the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, and served on the Board for 7 years.

Canada, Ottawa Matriculation, 1958

Mr. Francis Miles (Chips) Filleul

Francis Miles (Chips) Filleul was born in Tangier, Morocco on April 3, 1938, and became a Canadian citizen in 1954. He matriculated at Lincoln College in 1958 after graduating from Victoria College and the University of British Columbia. He has been married since 1962, with two children and three grandchildren.
Chips joined the Canadian Department of External Affairs in 1962. After assignments in Ankara, Dakar, and New York City he was, in 1982, appointed Ambassador to Costa Rica with concurrent accreditation to Panama, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. Four years later, he was appointed Ambassador to Ethiopia and the Sudan - his most interesting foreign assignments. He returned to Ottawa in 1991 with retirement looming, but that did not happen as he was sent to Haiti as Ambassador for four years on an emergency basis due to that nation’s political upheaval.
He retired with some relief in 1996, and continues to pursue his love of tennis, art collecting, owning Afghan Hounds and Poodles, and traveling between home base in Ottawa, Ontario, the summer home in Brownsville, Vermont, and a winter retreat on Sanibel Island, Florida - until the house was destroyed by hurricane Ian in 2022.

Canada, Montreal Matriculation, 2012

Gabrielle Thiboutot

Gabrielle Thiboutot is the Chief of the Culture Unit in UNESCO’s Phnom Penh Office, where she leads the Organization’s initiatives to protect Cambodian World Heritage Sites, including Angkor and Preah Vihear, and coordinates projects that aim to safeguard the country’s intangible cultural heritage and promote its creative industries.

After leaving Lincoln, Gabrielle completed the coursework for a PhD in Classics at Stanford University, where she was awarded a doctoral fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Samuel H. Kress Fellowship at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art in Paris.

While participating in archaeological excavations in Türkiye, Tunisia, Egypt, Italy, and Spain, she witnessed firsthand the positive impact of heritage on communities, which spurred her to pursue a career in the field of international cooperation with the ambition of leveraging culture as a driver of sustainable development.

Gabrielle still applies the rigorous research and analytical skills acquired at Lincoln under the supervision of Professor R.R.R. Smith to her work at UNESCO, where she served on the editorial teams of several important publications, including “Culture in Times of Covid: Resilience, Recovery, and Revival” and “The African Fashion Sector: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities for Growth.”

Canada, Toronto Matriculation, 1984

Greig Dymond

Since 2013, Greig has served as Network Executive on a variety of CBC Comedy series that have won acclaim in Canada and around the world: Schitt's Creek (which set an Emmy record by sweeping the comedy categories in 2020), Workin' Moms, Baroness von Sketch Show, Son of a Critch, and the political-satire show This Hour Has 22 Minutes. As Head of Festivals for CBC he also oversees stand-up comedy programming produced in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Montreal and Halifax. Greig wrote and directed the 2005 series Jimmy MacDonald's Canada, named "Best Comedy of the Year" by the Toronto Star. He has also worked as a radio producer, arts editor and writer. Greig's writing on sports and culture has appeared in Toronto Life, The Globe and Mail, and the National Post. His forthcoming book, The Toronto Toros: Adventures in Unconventional Hockey, will be published by ECW Press.

Canada, Toronto Matriculation, 2000

Prof. Katherine Larson

Katherine Larson (she/her) is Professor of English at the University of Toronto. Her research and teaching are rooted in feminist practices and focus on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century women’s writing; gender, language, and embodiment; and music and song. Her most recent book, The Matter of Song in Early Modern England: Texts in and of the Air, integrates her training as a singer through an open access online companion recording.

Professor Larson is currently serving as Vice-Dean Teaching, Learning, and Undergraduate Programs at the University of Toronto Scarborough. She has been actively involved in equity-related work and responses to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action. Prior to her current appointment as Vice-Dean, she served as Chair of the Department of English.

Professor Larson’s work has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Connaught Foundation, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Bodleian Library, and the Renaissance Society of America. She is a Member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.

While studying at Lincoln as a Rhodes Scholar (Minnesota 2000), Professor Larson completed her MPhil in English Literature, 1500-1660, and a MSt in Women’s Studies before moving to the University of Toronto in 2003 to pursue her PhD. She also sang in the Lincoln Choir.

Canada, Toronto Matriculation, 2002

Lesley Myers

Since graduating from Lincoln, Lesley has been committed to strengthening socioeconomic and political systems at home and abroad. She started her career as a policy advisor to elected officials in Canada, tackling issues including small business development and equitable pensions systems. She then shifted her focus to global development, working with a non-profit promoting more stable and sustainable economic growth by building the capacity of civil servants in developing countries and emerging markets. Lesley then joined United Nations Peacekeeping, serving as a strategic planner and political advisor to the mission in the Central African Republic. There, she helped develop and coordinate multi-disciplinary approaches to peace and development, including peace negotiations. She was then recruited to UN headquarters in NY to help build a data-based system to assess the impact of UN peacekeeping missions around the globe and strengthen how operations are designed and conducted. The tool was nominated for a Secretary General’s award for innovation, and was showcased as a top 100 solution for peace at the 2020 Paris Peace Forum. Lesley is now serving as a strategic consultant to impact-oriented start-ups that are solving challenges in governance, peace, development, and global inequality.

Canada, Fredericton Matriculation, 2010

Natalie Weigum

Natalie Weigum’s professional journey has been marked by a commitment to addressing the global climate change challenge. Graduating from Lincoln College with a DPhil in Atmospheric Physics in 2015, Natalie’s initial academic career focused on climate physics, but she soon found a passion for policy and development work.

This shift in interests led Natalie to become a policy advisor on shale gas with the UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change, where she had to consider the political, economic, and security implications of energy development.

Seeking to make a global impact, Natalie relocated to Washington, DC, where she joined the World Bank’s Climate Change Group. At the World Bank, Natalie played a leading role in developing the institution's strategy to align its financing flows with the Paris Climate Agreement, contributing to global efforts to enable developing countries to meet their development goals whilst ensuring a low-carbon, climate resilient future.

Currently, Natalie continues to work at the World Bank as a Senior Climate Change Specialist to advance climate change solutions, bridging the gap between climate and development, and playing a part in the collective effort to build a more sustainable future. In her free time, Natalie enjoys pursuing her passion for photography and travel, and likes to run in DC’s green spaces.

Canada, Ontario Matriculation, 2003

Ms. Nicole Chrolavicius

Nicole Chrolavicius is a human rights lawyer with PooranLaw Professional Corporation and a lecturer in Canadian Constitutional Law and Professional Responsibility at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Canada. She acts for clients across various contexts, including high-profile litigation against the Government of Canada post 9-11. Ms. Chrolavicius completed her LL.B. at the University of Western Ontario where she was named Valedictorian and graduated with distinction in 2000. She was the recipient of numerous academic awards including an award for the highest standing in the first year of the LL.B. program. From 2000 to 2001, Ms. Chrolavicius was a law clerk for the Honourable Mr. Justice Major of the Supreme Court of Canada. In 2006, she co-authored a book on privacy law in the U.K. entitled Blackstone’s Guide to the Identity Cards Act, published by Oxford University Press. In 2020 she was nominated for and received the Osgoode Hall Law School Faculty Teaching Award for teaching Constitutional Law in the Professional Development LL.M. program. Ms. Chrolavicius lives in Burlington, Ontario with her husband and three sons. She won the New Yorker magazine cartoon caption contest three times after being chosen nine times as a finalist.

Canada, Toronto Matriculation, 1983

Randolph Hahn

Randolph was awarded a D.Phil. in Politics after studying at Lincoln. Prior to attending Oxford, he had previously been awarded an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a bachelor’s degree (Honours) from the University of British Columbia.

After attending Oxford, Randolph returned to Canada and ultimately found his way to McGill Law School in Montreal where he graduated with an LL.B. in Common Law.

Randolph practises exclusively in immigration law. He is a frequent speaker at professional conferences and is interviewed by media about polices and developments in Canadian immigration law. He is the author of many papers, the Associate Editor of the legal publication, The Immigration Law Reporter, and an editor of a book on provincial immigration programs in Canadian immigration law.

Randolph has served as the Chair of the Immigration Section of the Ontario Bar Association and is currently a Vice President and Board Member of the Canadian Immigration Lawyers Association where he is actively involved in advising the Canadian government on possible changes to Canadian immigration law.

Randolph has rowed with the Oxford/ Cambridge alumni group in Toronto. He currently lives in Toronto with his wife Sheryl where they raised their two sons.

Canada, Montréal Matriculation, 1978

Simon Ellis

Dr Simon Ellis directed archaeological excavations at Carthage 1976 to 1988, and then worked in UK local government 1991 to 2001. He has worked directly and as a consultant for UNESCO since 2001. He has represented UNESCO at global meetings on; the World Summit on the Information Society, Education for All, and the Millenium Development Goals. He has led development of global statistical standards for education, culture, science and media. He has led worldwide data collection on education, literacy, R&D, and innovation. In recent years his work has concentrated on UNESCO programmes for Culture and for Internet development. He has worked since 2017 on support for traditional pina (pineapple) textiles in the Philippines. He has been a lead expert in the development of the UNESCO Culture 2030 programme that sets out the role of culture in delivering the global Sustainable Development Goals. He is currently coordinating Internet assessment for five countries in the South Pacific, and has contributed to the international debate on the regulation of social media. He has published some 20 books on Mediterranean archaeology, labour markets, and the use of ICTs. He has lived in Montreal since 2001 with his wife Mylene Francescon.

Canada, Canada Matriculation, 2012

Steven Wang

Steven Wang is an attorney at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in the Toronto office and serves as an adjunct lecturer at Harvard Law School (on US-China relations) and University of Toronto (on AI and corporate governance). Steven began his legal career at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions and capital markets. He has also served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard International Law Journal. Prior to legal practice, Steven founded a social enterprise in Asia supported by the Gates Foundation cultivating the next generation of social innovation leaders, which was recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30. Steven sits on the board of Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers (Ontario) and Canadian International Council Young Professionals Network. He has served as an ambassador for the Rhodes Scholarship, a mentor to the Schwarzman Scholars and a World Economic Forum Global Shaper. Steven graduated with a B.A. from University of Toronto at Trinity College, J.D. from Harvard Law School and a Master of Public Policy from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Canada, Montréal Matriculation, 2022

Sébastien Hally

A proud French-Canadian, Sébastien did his undergraduate studies in Industrial
Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal specializing in international relationships.
Following his studies, he worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company,
being involved in a vast array of projects and industries.

After two years at McKinsey & Company, Sébastien began a Master of Business
Administration (MBA) at Saïd Business School as a member of Lincoln College. During
his time in Oxford, Sébastien was involved in the Oxford Africa Business Alliance and was
a player on the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club (OUIHC). He represented the club in
various international locations such as St-Moritz (Switzerland), Vienna (Austria), Trencin
(Slovakia) and Prague (Czech Republic). To acknowledge his performance on the ice and
his impact on the club, Sébastien was awarded a Full-Blue at the end of the 2022-2023
academic year.

Upon completing his Master, Sébastien came back to McKinsey & Company but
transferred to Nairobi (Kenya). In this new East African location, he is enabling local
companies and governments to leverage the future growth prospects of Africa.
He is still in touch with the Lincoln and OUIHC alumni networks and is open to discussing
more about his experience with whoever is interested!

Canada, Toronto Matriculation, 1997

The Honourable Bradley Miller

The Honourable Bradley Miller is currently a justice of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. Leaving Lincoln with a DPhil in law, Justice Miller returned to Canada to practice commercial and constitutional litigation in Toronto. He subsequently joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario where he taught constitutional law for 10 years and co-founded the Public Law and Legal Philosophy research group. He held positions as visiting fellow in the Department of Law at the European University Institute, visiting fellow in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, and visiting professor in the Department of Philosophy at Princeton. His scholarly contributions were primarily in the areas of constitutional interpretation, methodology in adjudication under a Charter of Rights, and the place of moral reasoning in legal reasoning. In 2015 he was appointed to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and subsequently elevated to the Court of Appeal for Ontario. He continues to write and lecture sporadically on the same themes he first explored at Lincoln. He is grateful to remain involved with the scholarly community at Oxford and returns to Lincoln whenever possible. He still schemes about gaining exterior access to the Lincoln College library spire.

Canada, Toronto Matriculation, 2001

Trilby Kent

Having trained as a rare maps specialist at Bonhams and pursued journalistic work that took her from Belgium to the Philippines, Trilby has spent most of the last twenty years writing. Her first children's book, the critically acclaimed Medina Hill, was followed by Stones for My Father, which won the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award and was included in CBC Writes' 100 YA Books That Make You Proud To Be Canadian. Her third book for young people, Once, In a Town Called Moth, was nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award.

Trilby’s first non-fiction title, The Vanishing Past, was published in 2022. Addressing the problem of historical literacy – why it matters, what has led to its neglect, and what this means for us as individuals and a wider society – the book features the voices of internationally acclaimed historians, elementary and high school teachers, parents, politicians, and educational theorists to make the case for a subject we malign at our peril and to argue for its restoration to the centre of education.

Trilby continues to write, edit and teach in Toronto, where she recently took up a new position creating written content for the Canadian Opera Company.

Chile, Santiago Matriculation, 1996

Dr Maisa Rojas Corradi

Environment Minister of Chile, Maisa Rojas Corradi is a physicist and holds a doctorate degree in atmospheric physics from the Lincoln College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. She further completed her studies as a postdoctoral fellow at the international Research Institute for Climate and Society, IRI, at the University of Columbia, USA. Until March 2022 she was a full professor in the Department of Geophysics at the Universidad de Chile and director of the Center of Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2. Her research areas are paleoclimate and regional climate change, and she has also worked on impact assessment in different sectors such as agriculture and water resources, using numerical climate models as analysis tools.

Maisa Rojas was coordinator of the Scientific Advisory Council on Climate Change, member of the COP25 Presidential Advisory Council. She was a Lead Author of the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Coordinating Lead Author of IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report (AR6).

Chile, Santiago Matriculation, 1987

Dr. Rodrigo Jordan FRGS

Rodrigo Jordan is Founder and President of Vertical in Chile.

He is one of Latin America’s most accomplished mountaineers, having led several expeditions including Everest in 1992 and 2004, K2 in 1996 and Lhotse in 2006. In 2008, he participated in a kayaking expedition to Antarctica with National Geographic to document the impact of climate change.

He climbed Everest again in 2016 becoming one of only three mountaineers in the world to have climbed the mountain by its three faces. He has authored a number of books and documentaries based on these expeditions.

He is the author of Leadership: from Theory to Practice (Spanish, Prentice-Hall)

Dr. Jordan serves as Professor of Leadership in the MBA program at the Business School of the P. Universidad Católica de Chile and as Senior Fellow at the Center for Leadership and Change Management at Wharton.

Fundación Vertical, which he directs, is the non-for-profit arm of Vertical, and serves underprivileged students from the poorest schools in Chile.

Dr. Jordan was knighted by Chile’s Ministry of Education with the Gabriela Mistral Educational and Cultural Merit Order and was distinguished with the Gilbert M. Grosvenor Medal by the University of Texas Center for Geographical Education.

He holds a D.Phil in Poverty and Innovation from Oxford University and a Civil Industrial Engineering degree from the P. Universidad Católica de Chile.

China, Beijing Matriculation, 2017

Beisi Li

Beisi is a health communications professional experienced in advancing health priorities through partnership. She currently leads efforts at a top multinational pharma to promote innovative solutions for health product access via collaboration.

Her career started at a prestige think-tank for global governance in New York. With her first exposure to the global health space, she learned how collaborations can be strong vehicles to deliver impacts. With this newfound interest, Beisi moved to work in a US-based consultancy specializing in global development. Beisi honed her skills by working with global development leaders on issues including immunization and medicine accessibility.

The growing passion for public health took Beisi to Oxford for an MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine in 2017. The year at Oxford offered more than academic knowledge but also a vibrant space for discussions and debates with people from diverse backgrounds and perspectives. The Lincoln Community was instrumental in this intellectually stimulating experience, enhancing her abilities as a communicator.

Returning to Beijing, Beisi joined the UN’s public health agency, promoting policy interventions for NCD control in China and playing a vital role in COVID-19 risk communications.

Beisi also holds an MSW from Columbia University and dual Bachelor’s degrees in English literature and International Relations from Beijing Foreign Studies University.

China, Beijing Matriculation, 2003

Miranda Claremont

Miranda took up her role as Minister-Counsellor Political at the British Embassy Beijing in June 2023 after a year of Chinese language training. She is on loan to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office from His Majesty’s Treasury where her most recent role was leading the department’s work on China, India and Brazil as Head of Prosperity Strategy and Economic and Financial Dialogues. Miranda joined the Civil Service in 2009 and has held a range of domestic and international-facing roles at the Treasury covering tax, welfare and financial services policy as well as serving as Private Secretary to the Economic and Financial Secretaries to the Treasury. She has a long-standing interest in China and in 2017 took an eighteen-month career break to improve her Chinese language. She twice attended Middlebury College’s summer language schools in Vermont, using Chinese as her only means of communication for each eight week session. She also holds a Post-Graduate Certificate in Chinese Art from the School of Oriental and African Studies. Miranda currently lives in Beijing with her husband Adam.

China, Shanghai Matriculation, 2008

Thomas Hale

Thomas Hale is the Shanghai Correspondent for the Financial Times, where he focuses on China’s economy, financial system and consumer industries, as well as wider society. He has been with the newspaper for over a decade, covering topics from capital markets to education. Before arriving in Shanghai in 2022 he was based in Hong Kong for two years and has also worked as a reporter in Madrid. In 2018, he was a journalist in residence at the Booth School at the University of Chicago. Before joining the FT in 2013 he lived and worked in China for two years.

Czechia, Prague Matriculation, 2002

Jan Strasky

Jan is an experienced macroeconomist with more than 15 years of experience in banking, applied economic research and policy advice. He currently heads the European Union/Slovenia desk in the Economics Department of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Previously, he worked in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund, in the European Central Bank and the Czech National Bank. He also spent one memorable year at the Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, putting his experience from banking supervision and central banking to use in the private sector.

Jan was born and raised in the Czech Republic, obtained his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the Charles University in Prague, and moved to the UK when he started his DPhil degree at Lincoln. He has two sons and a daughter and lives with his family in the western suburbs of Paris.

Czechia, Prague Matriculation, 2022

Veronika Bakulová

Veronika is originally from Prague, Czech Republic, and completed her integrated master's degree in Biochemistry at the University of St Andrews. During her studies, she undertook an industrial placement year at GlaxoSmithKline in Stevenage, working within the Protein and Cellular Sciences group. Her master's thesis focused on bacteriology, leading her to join Professor Christoph Tang’s lab at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology for her DPhil in Molecular Cell Biology in Health and Disease. Her DPhil project focuses on characterising the type VI secretion system nucleases of Neisseria cinerea, a non-pathogenic species which can antagonise the human adapted pathogen Neisseria meningitidis. By exploring these mechanisms, her work aims to understand the interactions between bacteria in our microbiome and potentially contribute to innovative strategies in addressing the global challenge of antibiotic resistance.

United Kingdom, Cambridge Matriculation, 2002

Dr Adam Camilletti

Since obtaining his D.Phil in Physics, Adam has pursued a career in the space industry, working on missions for the UK Space Agency (UKSA), European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA. Starting out as cryogenic systems engineer, he led the team that developed the cryogenic cooling system used on ESA’s Sentinel 3 satellites, before moving onto other roles - including that of Engineering Manager on an exoplanet detection mission (PLATO), and two Mars rover missions (ExoMars and Sample Fetch Rover) .

As well as working in industry, Adam spent two years as the Space Systems Lead at the UKSA advising policy makers, acting as the technical lead of the UK’s national mission to actively retrieve space debris, and representing the UK at the Inter-Agency Space Debris Co-ordination Committee (IADC) and in other fora.

Currently, Adam is the UK Bid Manager for the LISA mission at Airbus Defence and Space. LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) is a forthcoming ESA mission that aims to explore the universe by detecting gravitational waves.

Adam has spoken at numerous scientific and engineering workshops, events and conferences, as well as publishing on topics ranging from spacecraft cryogenic systems, planetary protection, and space debris.

United Kingdom, Oxford Matriculation, 2022

Adam Wilkinson

Adam read Biochemistry at St Anne’s College Oxford before pursuing a PhD in Haematology at the University of Cambridge. There he developed a deep interest in blood stem cells, a specialised stem cell population that can regenerate the entire blood system following transplantation and is used clinically in stem cell transplantation therapies. Following his PhD, he went on to postdoctoral training at the University of Tokyo and Stanford University, where he focused on developing new technologies. In particular, Adam developed the first method to stably grow blood stem cells outside the body. In 2021, Adam returned to Oxford as a Kay Kendall Leukaemia Fellow at the MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, where he is continuing his research into the biology and translational applications of blood stem cells. He joined Lincoln College in 2022 as a George and Susan Brownlee Junior Research Fellow in Biomedical Sciences.

United Kingdom, Oxford Matriculation, 2021

Addi Haran

Addi Haran completed a DPhil in Politics at Lincoln from 2021 to 2024.

Before coming to Lincoln she has been an activist for peace and democracy in Israel/Palestine, and her DPhil research is focused on using an empirical quantitative approach to study violence against civilians in the conflict. She has published extensively on the topic and has received over a dozen awards for academic performance and excellence in research.

During her time at Lincoln, she was elected community officer at Oxford Pride, as well as grad rep, then social secretary and finally president of the OULGBTQ+ Society, the university’s biggest student society and the country’s biggest and oldest LGBTQ+ student society, with 3,000 members and 50 years of history. In these roles she was the founder of Oxford Trans+ Pride in 2023, a 500-person celebration of trans joy, power, and visibility.

In February 2024 Addi won the elections to be the next president of the Oxford Student Union, a role she will take on during the 2024/2025 academic year. She has committed to pass structural reforms into the SU to make it work better for students, as well as advocating for better university-level student support.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 2001

Aditi Thorat

Aditi Thorat is the Director of Fundraising for the Global Commons Alliance, a coalition of scientists, philanthropists, civil society groups and businesses driving collective action to safeguard the global commons. She is also a Non-Executive Director of the Good Law Project, a not-for-profit campaign organisation that uses the law for a better world.

Aditi launched her career in Mumbai in social and environmental justice with a pioneering movement of slum communities. She went on to work with the elected leader of Rajasthan to deliver state-wide anti-poverty initiatives spanning education, social security and water conservation. Aditi then ran the grantmaking foundation of financial services company Edelweiss, leveraging private capital to support Indian nonprofits.

The last decade of Aditi’s career has been in London, where she has built multi-million dollar partnerships for respected international human rights and climate justice organisations, including the Thomson Reuters Foundation and Global Witness.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1991

Alex Conway

Born and raised in North London, Alex’s working life started during his summers at Lincoln, running the Mitre’s student accommodation as a B&B and minding the library. In Deep Hall one morning, a friend suggested his daily crossword habit might serve him well in the civil service exams, and this proved to be the case.

After an unpromising start regulating the privatisation of railways, he worked in John Prescott’s mega-department of Environment, Transport and the Regions; eventually managing London’s £1bn regional EU-funded jobs and growth programmes– a role which saw him leave central government to work for the then-Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone. Eight further years working for Boris Johnson found him travelling on the inaugural EU-funded London Cable Car, while the PM-to-be regaled the European Commissioner for Regional Policy with a chorus of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. Under Sadiq Khan, Alex’s remit expanded to cover Brexit and the covid pandemic response. It now encompasses London-centric economic development and fairness policy and programmes; and City Hall’s engagement with business.

As Deputy Greater London Returning Officer, he also organises elections for the Mayor and London Assembly, and volunteers as a magistrate on the North London Bench.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 2001

Alex Stephany

Alex Stephany is an award-winning social entrepreneur and the founder of Beam, an innovative tech platform reinventing welfare services with tech and AI for underserved people including homeless people, refugees and prison leavers. Since launching in 2017, Beam has changed the lives of more than 4,000 people on the brink by supporting them into stable jobs and homes. An advocate of social business, Alex is passionate about the role technology can play in solving huge social problems. Before Beam, Alex was CEO of JustPark where he led the largest ever crowdfunding round for a tech startup at the time. An expert on the sharing economy, Alex is the author of The Business of Sharing, which was published by Macmillan in 2015. He has also advised the Mayor of Seoul on collaborative technology. Follow him on X @AlexStephany.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 2001

Amelia Walker

Amelia Walker is a Director of Christie’s and Specialist Head of the Private & Iconic Collections department, with over 17 years of experience in the organisation and sale of multi-category private, iconic and country house collections. Amelia specialises primarily in English and European furniture and objects, but is interested in all aspects of collecting, both ‘fine’ and decorative art, from antiquities to contemporary art. Since joining Christie's in 2006, she has been involved in the sales of many landmark royal, aristocratic, celebrity and connoisseur collections, including those of Princess Margaret, the Earl Spencer, Sting, Audrey Hepburn, Roger Federer, Charlie Watts, the Rothschilds, and many more. Amelia has privileged access to some of the world's most wonderful works of art and loves nothing more than meeting collectors, researching and valuing their collections and unearthing the long-forgotten provenance and history behind each object, painting, piece of jewellery or memorabilia. Working at Christie's is like working in an ever-changing museum of masterpieces - where one can see the most fantastic works of art up close before they move on to their new homes – and every day there is the opportunity to learn something new. Her most recent project has been a deep dive into the world of vintage guitars and 80s rock stars.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 2012

Anastasia Solopova

Anastasia is an immigration solicitor at Asylum Aid. She specialises in assisting refugees to come to the UK via the “safe and legal” route of applying for a family reunion visa (to reunite with a family member already in the UK). In reality this route is anything but safe, or effective. Refugees, many of whom are unaccompanied children, are routinely left in dangerous situations by inflexible Home Office requirements and a policy of routinely issuing badly reasoned refusals, which must then be appealed. Contrary to the Home Office’s public statements the result is to incentivise human trafficking and crime, as people turn to irregular border crossings in the absence of functioning safe and legal routes.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1991

Anna Coombs

Anna started her professional theatre career before arriving at Lincoln, as an Assistant Director at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre. She was the first undergraduate to write on both Seamus Heaney and Iris Murdoch for Prelims. Anna subsequently took an MA at RADA and has worked across London’s West End with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group, Stephen Sondheim, National Theatre, Soho Theatre, Thelma Holt Limited and with Jonathan Miller at ENO. She was the first female associate director to be appointed to The New Vic Theatre, Stoke on Trent. She worked regionally at The Marlowe, Canterbury, The Oxford Playhouse and at Hall for Cornwall, where she helped turn the venue into an international success story. She has commissioned numerous writers and composers and authored 5 adaptations. Directing credits include Ranjit Bolt’s CYRANO DE BERGERAC, Marlowe’s JEW OF MALTA, Nick Darke’s NEVER SAY RABBIT IN A BOAT, and Shiona Morton’s BACKSLIDER starring Richard Madden. In 2009 she founded Tangle, a touring theatre company championing the excellence of African and Caribbean artists. Anna has directed all of Tangle’s multi-lingual productions, including the English premiere of Cont Mhlanga’s WORKSHOP NEGATIVE and most recently, a multiple award nominated adaptation of Shakespeare’s RICHARD THE SECOND. www.tangletheatre.co.uk.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1998

Arabella Neville-Rolfe

Arabella Neville-Rolfe is a PR professional with over 20 years’ experience in theatre, arts, and live entertainment.

Her career began under the guidance of legendary theatre publicist Peter Thompson at PTA, before moving to lead campaigns at Target Live for some of the biggest names in theatre, and then establishing her own successful agency, ANRPR, in 2019.

Over two remarkable decades, she has publicised everything from West End and touring blockbuster musicals and plays, West End and fringe theatre, dance, comedy, immersive productions, venues, exhibitions, orchestras, innovative digital arts projects and awards ceremonies.

Arabella lives in South-West London with her husband and son.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 2005

Beckis Cooper

Beckis is an actress, writer and teacher, currently commissioned by Keats’ House to create and perform a one-woman Shakespeare show, Eliza, in association with The Guildhall and The Barbican next year. In 2020, she formed an all-female Shakespeare troupe, Players, which performed throughout the pandemic at the newly-created Thorington Theatre, culminating with a residency at The Chiswick Playhouse, Beckis playing the title role in Macbeth and Malvolio in Twelfth Night.

Beckis trained with The Globe, following an MA at The Royal Central School of Speech & Drama and is producing a short film from an original script, as well as two other screenplays.

Beckis has performed as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing (The Cambridge Shakespeare Festival), as Miss Julie and in two original plays at The Edinburgh Fringe, following work at The Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, The Old Red Lion and The Kings Head.

Beckis has extensively taught and directed including City of London School for Girls and King’s College School in Wimbledon, where she was Theatre Director-in-Residence, adapting and directing a successful run of Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and led the community production, bringing together local schools and choirs.

United Kingdom, Oxford Matriculation, 1995

Benjamin Nicholas

Benjamin Nicholas held the organ scholarship at Lincoln before becoming organ scholar of St Paul’s Cathedral in 1998. Following a period as Director of Music of St Luke’s Church, Chelsea, he was Director of Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum for twelve years. He is now Director of Music of Merton College, Oxford where he holds a College Lectureship in Music and is a Bodley Fellow. During Benjamin’s time at Merton, the annual Passiontide at Merton festival has been established, the Dobson organ has been installed and the College Girls’ Choir has been founded. In 2017 he directed Merton College Choir in the first Anglican service to take place in St Peter’s Basilica, Rome, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 3, and in 2020 he won the Choral Award at the 2020 BBC Music Magazine Awards. A former Director of the Edington Festival, in 2018 Benjamin became Music Director of the Oxford Bach Choir. As a conductor he has worked with the BBC Singers and the Holst Singers, and recent performances include Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Philharmonia and Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

United Kingdom, Olney Matriculation, 1963

Sir Brian Keith

Brian graduated from Lincoln with a mediocre law degree in 1966, and spent a year at Harvard Law School. He then practised as a barrister, eventually becoming a QC. Since 1991, he has been a judge - first in Hong Kong where he ended up in the Court of Appeal, and then as a High Court Judge in London. He retired in 2014 when he reached what was then the mandatory retiring age of 70. He now spends two months a year sitting as a part-time judge back in Hong Kong, and another two months a year as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Fiji. Brian moved out of London in 2019 following the death of his wife a couple of years earlier at the tragically young age of 59, and now lives with his new partner in leafy Buckinghamshire.

United Kingdom, Cambridge Matriculation, 2000

Catherine Boyce

After graduating from Lincoln College in 2001 with a MSc in Economic and Social History; Catherine interned with the European Commission – investigating the gender pay gap – and subsequently became a strategy consultant specialising in entrepreneurship promotion. In 2008 she followed her passion and joined CAMFED – the Campaign for Female Education – which is a pan-African movement supporting girls to go to school, thrive and become influential leaders and changemakers in their communities.

During her 15 years with CAMFED, Catherine has undertaken a number of roles centred on supporting young women’s enterprise and embedding climate resilience across all of CAMFED’s work. In her current role as Chief Impact Officer she combines those responsibilities with a focus on rigorously evaluating the impact of CAMFED’s programmes and disseminating learning. The most exciting, inspirational and humbling parts of Catherine’s work are those which give her opportunities to collaborate directly with young women leaders in Africa – members of the 250,000 strong CAMFED Association. CAMFED Association members lead CAMFED’s work, support millions of children from disadvantaged backgrounds to attend and thrive in school, build prosperous enterprises and step-up as climate champions.

United Kingdom, Exmoor Matriculation, 1961

Charles Sands

Charles' first 3 1/2 years in Malaya were disrupted by the Japanese invasion, during which his mother escaped with him to Australia while his father was interned at Changi. After the war, Charles spent his school years boarding and staying with various relatives, mostly apart from his parents in Malaya. After Marlborough, National Service (commissioned 2RTR), a PPE degree and a Modern Pentathlon blue, Charles joined Herbert Smith in London. As a partner, he practiced mostly in international corporate work and banking, which included a spell in Hong Kong leading a major project, heading the firm’s International Banking Section before leaving for a partnership in Allison & Humphreys and thereafter a Consultancy with Eversheds and Directorships of companies carrying on businesses in China. His extensive work in China and deep interest in Chinese affairs led to his engagement with Chinese lawyers under the Lord Chancellor’s Scheme and with SOAS, where he is on the Advisory Board of the SOAS China Institute. 35 years ago, he bought and developed a beautiful estate within the Exmoor National Park. Passionate about the countryside, his interests include reading, riding, skiing, stag hunting, forestry and golf. The common themes of his life have been curiosity, enthusiasm, and an abiding interest in new frontiers.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1998

Chris Smyth

Chris Smyth is Whitehall Editor of The Times, covering all aspects of British government and particularly the uneasy friction between politics and policy. After studying modern history at Lincoln, he taught English in France before moving to Cambridge for an MPhil in political thought and a PhD on “Perceptions of extraordinary natural events in England, 1692-1783”.

He moved into journalism by winning a Nico Colchester fellowship at the Financial Times, which he spent in Brussels reporting on the EU and European business. Back in London he moved to The Times, where he has been an obituaries writer, a letters editor, news reporter and health editor.

In 2019, he took up his current role, just in time to oversee coverage of Covid policy, which turned out to be a bigger job than initially expected. He retains a close interest in health policy, as well as the political debates around areas such as welfare, tax and planning, all fields where short-term demographic trends loom uncomfortably over short-term Westminster debates.

Occasionally he finds time for writing and have published two books, including a novel, Dinner at Mine.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 2015

Christopher John Ozga

Christopher John (CJ) Ozga studied in Lincoln College from 2015/17 and was awarded a Masters degree (MSt Diplomatic Studies) earning a dissertation distinction for research on ‘UNRCCA’s Preventive Diplomacy in Central Asia’ and was awarded a departmental prize for best dissertation for research on ‘UNAMA’s Approach to Preventive Diplomacy in Afghanistan’.

He has 6 academic degrees including 5 Masters degrees from the University of Oxford and other top tier universities in the UK, Poland, Spain and Malaysia at Merit and Distinction level.

CJ has international experience in 24 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America, including extensive United Nations (UN) experience as a civilian peacekeeper, humanitarian and international development professional serving in 11 countries in West Africa, Central Africa, East Africa, East Europe, Southeast Europe and Southeast Asia.

He has served the UN in senior advisory, strategic planning, mission planning and UN inter-agency coordination roles with 7 UN agencies/entities (UNDP, UNICEF, UNICEF EAPRO, FAO, MONUSCO, UNSOM, MINUSMA) in some of the most dangerous conflict countries in the world including peacekeeping and special political missions in Mali, Somalia and DR Congo.

CJ is committed to lifelong volunteering. In recognition of his contribution to the NHS during the Covid-19 pandemic, as an NHS Volunteer Responder, CJ was invited to attend a Royal Garden Party at Buckingham Palace in May 2022.

United Kingdom, Norfolk Matriculation, 1975

Clifford De Spenser

When I first left Oxford, I could not have imagined the path my career would take. What began as an English teaching role soon became an immersion into performance and storytelling, leading me into film, television and theatre in ways I could never have foreseen. Today, I am recognised as a leading voice, language and dialect coach, sought after by directors, actors and screenwriters worldwide. My work ensures linguistic and creative authenticity in high-profile productions, and I am frequently invited to share my expertise through industry workshops and masterclasses.
In 1987, I was hired as an English teacher and dialogue coach to work with Peter Brook’s international theatre troupe on The Mahabharata at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris. Having spent years teaching English as a Second Language, this rare opportunity led me to pursue formal training, earning an Advanced Diploma in Voice Studies from the Central School of Speech and Drama in 1988.
From there, I became a trusted coach on Hollywood blockbusters, independent films and acclaimed TV series. My credits include Saving Private Ryan, The Devil’s Double, 47 Ronin, The Constant Gardener and The Borgias. I have collaborated with esteemed filmmakers such as Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, Peter Webber and Werner Herzog, offering expertise in accent and language training, dramaturgy and creative consultancy.
Now reflecting on a lifetime shaped by language, performance and storytelling, I am writing a philosophical memoir—a journey towards finding oneself again and again in the present moment, still breathing, still curious. I remain deeply grateful to Lincoln College for its unique and flexible tutoring, which provided a passport to the larger world.

United Kingdom, Oxford Matriculation, 1959

Sir Colin Lucas

Colin was born in Cairo in 1940. He was educated at Sherborne School, then matriculated at Oxford in 1959, with a BA in 1962 and DPhil in 1969. He was a lecturer at Sheffield and Manchester Universities and was elected History Fellow at Balliol in 1973. He has been Professor and subsequently Dean of Social Sciences at Chicago University 1989-93; Master of Balliol 1973-2001; Vice-Chancellor of Oxford 1997-2004; Fellow of All Souls, Honorary Fellow of Lincoln and Balliol; honorary doctor of Lyon, Sheffield, Western Australia, Glasgow, Princeton, Peking, St Francis Xavier Oxford, Oxford Brookes, Warwick and Heidelberg universities; Kt; Officier Legion d’honneur; Chairman of the British Library; Warden of Rhodes House.

United Kingdom, Colchester Matriculation, 1959

David Beattie CMG

DAVID BEATTIE CMG (1959). HM Diplomatic Service 1963-1997. Moscow 1964-1966 (Assistant Cultural Attaché). Nicosia 1970-1974 (First Secretary, Political.) London, FCO 1974-1978 (Assistant Head, Western European Department, then of United Nations Department). Vienna 1978-1982 (Counsellor, Negotiations on Mutual and Balanced Reduction of Forces and Armaments and Associated Measures in Central Europe). Moscow 1982-1985 (Commercial Counsellor). London, FCO 1985-1987 (Head of Energy, Science and Space Department). Brussels 1987-1992 (Minister and Deputy Head, UK Delegation to NATO). Berne 1992-1997 (HM Ambassador, accredited concurrently to Switzerland and Liechtenstein). Master of the Worshipful Company of Masons of the City of London 2006-2007. In 2009, as a Trustee of the Chiswick House Friends, was chiefly responsible for the commissioning of a newly carved statue of the Medici Venus and its installation on the Doric Column in the Gardens of Chiswick House. His published works include “Liechtenstein – A Modern History” (two editions, 2004 and 2012) and a biography of HSH Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein (2020). Appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George 1989. In an international career, his focus has always been on protecting and promoting the interests of the United Kingdom.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1967

Sir David Clementi

Sir David Clementi has been Chairman of a number of organisations in both the commercial and not-for-profit sector.

David was Chairman of the BBC from 2017-2021, Chairman of Virgin Money from 2011-2015, Chairman of Prudential plc. from 2002-2008, and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England from 1997-2002. Prior to this, he worked at Kleinwort Benson for 22 years, including as Chief Executive.

From 2003-2004, David carried out a review for the Ministry of Justice of the regulatory framework for legal services in England and Wales – the main recommendations of which formed the basis of the Legal Services Act 2007. In 2015 he was asked by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport to review the governance and regulatory arrangements for the BBC, reporting in March 2016.

David graduated from Lincoln College, Oxford with a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant and then spent two years at Harvard Business School obtaining an MBA. He is an Honorary Fellow of Lincoln College.

David is currently Chairman of the King’s Cross Central Partnership, responsible for the regeneration of a large part of the King’s Cross area, a role he has held since 2008.

He was appointed Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours’ List in 2004.

United Kingdom, Hertford Matriculation, 1972

David Vaughan

David was a rare Lincoln Zoologist with a desire to help protect the natural environment. He was also not especially academic so, after training with an IT consultancy, he started my real work as database manager with the British Antarctic Survey, working on an international krill data project with scientists from other Antarctic Treaty countries. After a few years with an international environmental consultancy, he became head of the Natural History Museum’s Biodiversity Information Unit in London, providing outreach from the museum to partners around the globe. This post finished with a ministerial meeting on “Business and Biodiversity”, with him providing a keynote paper on “Global Tourism and Biodiversity”. After being ill for two years, he wanted to return to marine conservation before he retired. He joined Joint Nature Conservation Committee in 2011, then became lead of the European Topic Centre (Marine) leading to producing a key report in 2019 on “Biodiversity of European Seas”. He is now managing a new project on marine assessment with the UK Overseas Territories, which include territories in the Caribbean, Atlantic and Southern Ocean, so back full circle. He just forgot about retirement …

United Kingdom, King's Lynn Matriculation, 1964

Dr Dimitrius Edward Anthony (Tony) Luxton

Tony Luxton chose Lincoln because the College and his school (Rotherham Grammar) shared the same benefactor Archbishop Thomas Rotherham. Tony matriculated in 1964, gained his BA in 1967 and undertook his clinical studies at the Oxford Clinical School qualifying in 1970.

After qualification he worked in a succession of hospital posts in the National Health Service to gain experience and gained his first consultant post in 1977 in King’s Lynn, Norfolk. Alongside his clinical duties he undertook duties as district clinical tutor and administrative roles locally and nationally with the NHS Health Advisory Service. As East Anglian regional advisor in geriatrics he helped devise a new community geriatrician post in Cambridge and then successfully applied for it in 1998 becoming amongst the first community geriatricians in the country. This brought further opportunities as he developed the new role, participated in clinical research and undertook educational activities.

He retired from his post in 2006 and returned for part-time duties and other advisory work for the strategic health authority till 2015 when a fall and broken leg on an icy Cumbrian track prompted full retirement. He continued with voluntary work for the Alzheimer’s Society and enjoying his hobby of (careful) landscape photography.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1986

Dominic Dodd

Dominic has worked on five continents in the private, public and voluntary sectors.

He started his career working in strategy consulting at US firm Marakon Associates. He was elected partner in 1997 and managing partner in 2000 and advised chief executives in a range of industries, in the UK, Europe, the US and Asia-Pacific.

He then became an executive director of The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, one of Europe’s largest grant-giving charities, which is dedicated to helping children living in poverty in the developing world.

He went on to chair two NHS trusts: from 2010–2021 he was chair of The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, one of the UK’s largest acute trusts; and from 2019-2023 he was chair of The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust which specialises in tertiary neuro-muscular-skeletal services, education and research.

Dominic is currently working in health innovation. He is chair of the health innovation partnership UCL Partners and of Skin Analytics, a health tech start-up. He is also vice chair of health and care think tank The King’s Fund and a trustee of UK Biobank, the global biomedical research resource.

He lives in London, UK and West Cork, Ireland.

United Kingdom, Hampton Matriculation, 2000

Dominique Bouchard

Dr Dominique Bouchard is Head of Learning and Interpretation at English Heritage Trust. She is a museum professional with twenty years’ experience in museums and heritage in the UK, Ireland and Hong Kong. She holds a doctorate in Classical Archaeology from the University of Oxford and degrees in Mathematics and Physics from Columbia University. She is a co-founder of the Queer Heritage and Collections Network, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, an Honorary Fellow of the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries, University of Leicester, and a 2021 Clore Fellow. She has worked as an expert consultant on Northern Ireland for the European Commission, Council of Europe and UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in the area of museums, heritage and divided societies. Dominique sits on the UNESCO Working Group on Heritage Interpretation, is co-editor of the Group for Education in Museums Journal of Education in Museums and sits on the UK Museums Association’s Ethics Committee. During her time at Lincoln College, Dominique was captain of the Lincoln Women’s Football team and her Women’s 2nd VIII crew won blades in Summer VIIIs 2003.

United Kingdom, Manchester Matriculation, 1997

Emily Howard

Born in Liverpool and now based in Manchester, composer Emily Howard graduated in mathematics and computation from Oxford University before studying composition at the RNCM and the University of Manchester. Her works - spanning large-scale word settings, orchestral and chamber music, opera and multimedia installations – are commissioned, performed and broadcast all over the world. Three portrait albums have been released to date: The Anvil (Delphian, 2023), an oratorio to mark the Peterloo Massacre, recorded by the BBC Philharmonic, BBC Singers and Hallé Choirs ('Howard’s musical style, jangly and adversarial, entirely suits her subject,' The Times); Torus (NMC, 2023), featuring BBC Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and BBC Symphony Orchestra ('There’s a sense of confidence that the means are always precisely suited to the expressive end,' Gramophone) and Magnetite (NMC, 2016), with the latter’s title track a ‘sumptuous, powerful piece’, The Observer.

Howard holds a Personal Chair in Composition at the Royal Northern College of Music and is founding director of PRiSM, the RNCM Centre for Practice & Research in Science & Music. In 2019, she was elected Honorary Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. Howard has received two BASCA British Composer Awards and recognition from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Her works are published by Edition Peters, part of Wise Music Group.

(photo credits: Chris McAndrew)

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1998

Emma Stirrup

After completing a doctorate in 2002, 'The Altar Sculptures of Virgin Martyrs: The Ideal of Chastity and the Decorous Treatment of Relics in Tridentine Rome', Emma was awarded a two-year Henry Moore Foundation Fellowship to continue her research in Rome and Lima. From 2005 she lectured at Birkbeck, before joining Sotheby’s as a senior writer. Emma was promoted to Senior Director, edited and co-authored over 50 collection books, including 'Body, Mind & Soul: The Antique Sculpture Collection at Newby Hall'. In 2019 she co-authored 'The Art of Cooking: A Contemporary Twist on Georgian Fare', inspired by Hannah Glasse’s seminal 1747 cookbook. Emma became Head of Content & Creative Services in 2020, leading the team on Webby award-winning livestream auctions, with guest-hosted pre-show films, presenters included Andrew Graham-Dixon, Samira Ahmed and Will Gompertz. She also oversaw branding of major collection sales, the delivery of new venture luxury shops and galleries worldwide, and collaborated with brand partners in sponsorship and takeover events – Bella Freud, Loewe, Celine, amongst others. Emma also worked as an art history/market advisor for the films 'Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason' and Steve Martin’s 'An Object of Beauty'. In 2022, Emma left Sotheby’s to work as a branding and content consultant whilst she sets up her own publishing project, Phoebus Press Limited.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1990

Eve Best

Eve Best is an award winning British actress whose work spans television, theatre and film.

Last year, Best starred in HBO's award winning Game of Thrones prequel series, HOUSE OF THE DRAGON, in which she played the role of Princess Rhaenys Targaryen. Most recently, Best can be seen starring in the original ITV drama MARYLAND, in which she plays the role of Rosaline. Her other television credits include: Farah Dowling in FATE: THE WINX SAGA, Dr. Eleanor O’Hara in The Showtime series, NURSE JACKIE, Monica Chatwin in the BBC miniseries, THE HONORABLE WOMAN.

On stage, Best has been honored with the Evening Standard Award for Outstanding Newcomer in TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE, and the Olivier Award for Best Actress playing the title role in HEDDA GABLER. On Broadway she also drew recognition in the revivals OF A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN and THE HOMECOMING, receiving Best Actress Tony Award nominations for both.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1978

Prof Gideon Lack

Gideon Lack is Professor of Paediatric Allergy at King’s College London and Head of the Children's Allergy Clinical Academic Group at Evelina Hospital. He trained as a Paediatrician in New York and specialised in Allergy at National Jewish Center in Colorado. He was Professor of Paediatric Allergy and Immunology at Imperial College London.

During his early professional years, the prevailing wisdom to prevent food allergies was to avoid foods like peanuts during infancy. He questioned this strategy and subsequently proved early consumption of food allergens such as peanut in the first year of life would prevent the development of food allergies. His work has led to changes in infant weaning guidelines, affecting a population of more than one billion. Amongst many awards, Gideon was awarded the prestigious David Sackett Clinical Trial of the Year Award 2015 for a trial "that best… improves the lot of humankind”.

He has published over 190 original articles and is senior author on four New England Journal of Medicine articles. His peanut allergy research was nominated by the New England Journal of Medicine's Editor as first of the top 12 publications (out of 4000) in the past 19 years described as amongst the “most important biomedical research of our time”. He was elected Fellow to the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2019.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1982

Gillian Lacey-Solymar

Since Oxford, Gillian has worn many hats: consultant, correspondent, lecturer, entrepreneur and now Parkinson’s podcaster and potential playwright. Oh–and wife and mother to three amazing kids!
For the first eight years post-Lincoln, Gillian worked as a management consultant at McKinsey, completing an MBA at INSEAD within that period. 1994 marked Gillian’s first career pivot: to BBC TV Correspondent, covering business, consumer affairs, and the economy, and UCL innovation lecturer (hat number three!).
By 2010, Gillian’s career had morphed again-this time, divided between teaching entrepreneurship on UCL’s Masters in Management and running the London segment of Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Small Businesses programme. Teaching entrepreneurship without running a business seemed somehow illegitimate. The solution? Setting up two wedding venues in Scotland, after mammoth restoration projects.
In 2012 Gillian was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease, which marked a huge turning point. Alas, the illness progressed rapidly, but Deep Brain Stimulation in 2019 enabled Gillian to start taking on new projects. This year, she banded together with five public figures who also have the illness to form a podcast. Movers and Shakers is, to their surprise, rapidly becoming the voice of Parkinson’s. Another unexpected side effect of the disease has been a burst of creativity, leading Gillian to write a musical, IrrePRESSible, that recently completed a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe.

United Kingdom, Stockbridge Matriculation, 1952

Graham Kelly

Graham Kelly came to Lincoln from Charterhouse in 1952 to read Law. He enjoyed all aspects of life at Oxford, playing Soccer and Squash for the college. After he graduated he joined the P & 0 group as a management trainee. From 1959 to 1962 he ran the shipping office of Harrisons and Crosfield in Djakarta and, from 1963 to 1968, Bookers Shipping’s office in Trinidad and their agency in Antigua.

In 1969 he joined the Diplomatic Service as Regional Commercial and Economic Attache in Barbados and was then posted, in 1974, to Trinidad as Commercial Secretary. In 1976 he was seconded to the European Commission, to set up the European Commission Delegation in Barbados, and from 1981 to 1982 he served at the Commission in Brussels, re-drafting development aid procedures. He was European Community Ambassador to Algeria from 1982 to 1985, then Deputy Head of the Inspectorate from 1986 to 1991. From 1992 to 1995 he was Head of Chancery in Washington and returned to Brussels as Head of the Inspectorate until he retired in 1999. During his 25 years with the European Union he pioneered for osmosis between the Commission and the diplomatic services of the EU member states, which finally resulted in the introduction of the EU External Service.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1989

Hannah Betts

Hannah Betts is an award-winning journalist for an array of British newspapers and magazines, principally The Times and The Telegraph. Betts’s interests cover all aspects of the zeitgeist: not least, culture, feminism, social and sexual mores, mental health, fashion, royalty, literature and history.

She completed her degree in English in 1992, spending several more years at Lincoln researching and teaching Renaissance literature and literary theory. Betts joined The Times in 1998, writing and editing in a number of guises, including long-standing positions as op-ed columnist and Deputy Chief Leader Writer. She took over from Nigella Lawson as The Saturday Times Magazine’s beauty columnist. A subsequent column, “Things You Only Know If You’re Single,” acquired cult status.

Betts went freelance in 2007, writing for most British newspapers and countless magazines. She is a contributing editor for Harper’s Bazaar, and often to be heard on the radio. In 2019, she was awarded a President’s Medal by the Royal College of Psychiatrists for improving the lives of people with mental illness through her journalism. Her interview subjects have included Margaret Atwood, Taylor Swift and Mona Hatoum.

Betts is a Londoner with a penchant for blue whippets. Her favourite periods are the 1590s and the 1180s BC.

United Kingdom, Oxford Matriculation, 2007

Hannah Mann, nee Sims

Hannah has pursued her passion for the environment, working for sustainability charities delivering travel and behaviour change projects, before coordinating a hugely successful peer to peer network for the National Trust, 'Fit for the Future', involving over 100 of the UK's largest heritage and charitable organisations and formerly chaired by Sir Ed Davey. Hannah is currently the Environment Programme Manager for the Diocese of Oxford, supporting its 800 churches, 427 clergy properties and 230 schools to address the climate and ecological crisis and progress towards net zero carbon by 2035. She works closely with the Bishop of Oxford, supporting him advocate for climate issues in his role as a peer in the House of Lords.

United Kingdom, Oxford Matriculation, 2006

Dr Hao Zhang

Hao earned his DPhil in immunology and graduated from Lincoln College in 2010. Following this, he completed his postdoctoral training at Harvard University, where he deepened his expertise in immunology research. After his academic career, he transitioned into the pharmaceutical industry, starting with Roche, where he led global marketing in launching the cancer immunotherapy medicines. He then joined AstraZeneca, working in clinical development with a focus on precision medicine approaches to disease treatment. Later, Hao entered the biotech sector, serving as a senior executive in two Oxford-based biotech companies. In 2022, he founded his own biotech startup focused on cell and gene therapy, aiming to develop groundbreaking treatments to cure late-stage solid tumours and difficult-to-treat autoimmune diseases.

United Kingdom, West Sussex Matriculation, 1955

Harvey Griffiths

Harvey Griffiths matriculated at Lincoln in 1955.
Married Jean Cole, Secretary to Vice Chancellor of Sheffield University 1962.
Ordained in Lincoln Cathedral 1962.
Curate at St Lawrence’s Church, Scunthorpe.
Priest in Charge of All Saint’s, Blackwell, Darlington.
Daughter, Janet, born 1967.
Married to Lord Justice Dingemans Kt, Court of Appeal.
Son, Michael, born 1968, ex Grenadier Guards.
Now Chief Executive of Company in Spain.
Harvey joined Royal Navy as Chaplain 1970.
Served in Bahrain, then at sea in the Dartmouth Squadron.
Chaplain to Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth 1973 to 1976.
Successive appointments to the School of Maritime Operations, some sea time in HMS Norfolk, to the Naval School of Marine Engineering in Gosport, and to Gibraltar where the Royal Navy shared the Cathedral with the local Gibraltarian community.
On returning to England, became chaplain to the Naval Hospital, Stonehouse, Plymouth, and finally to School of Naval Communications, Petersfield.
Left the Royal Navy in 1992 and became vicar of Southwick and Boarhunt, villages just north of Portsmouth.
1995 Became Honorary Chaplain to the Portsmouth area hospice,
Jean and Harvey celebrated their Diamond Wedding April 2022.
Jean died October 2022.
Harvey lives next door to Richard Hirst (Lincoln College 1974) in West Sussex.

United Kingdom, Retford Matriculation, 2015

Heather Mann

Heather Mann joined Lincoln College after qualifying and working as a teacher in schools in England and Germany. Her Master’s and DPhil research attempted to answer questions about the purpose and efficacy of Holocaust and genocide education in England and France, a question that germinated during an educational trip to Rwanda as a teenager with the genocide-prevention NGO, the Aegis Trust. Heather is now employed in the Education Sector of UNESCO where she works on issues relating to antisemitism, Holocaust denial and distortion and developing policies and pedagogies to address violent pasts through education in the context of UNESCO’s programme on Global Citizenship Education. As the Lincoln MCR Academic Representative in 2016-17, Heather established the Lincoln Leads seminar series which has since become an established feature of the MCR term card at Lincoln College. The series has historically consisted of panels of Lincoln graduate students, fellows, and alumni addressing a range of topical questions, and has been intended to provide valuable opportunities for discussion, debate, and learning for college affiliates and the wider public alike.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1996

Helen O'Hara

After leaving Lincoln, Helen O'Hara qualified as a barrister and immediately quit to become a film journalist. Following a decade on staff at Empire magazine she went freelance, becoming Empire's Editor-at-Large but also covering film, TV and pop culture for The Guardian, The Telegraph, Grazia and more. She's visited film sets from Harry Potter to Dune, and interviewed most of Hollywood's A-list and several Muppets. Her five books as author include Women Vs Hollywood: The Fall And Rise Of Women In Hollywood, which was a Radio 4 Book of the Week and Sunday Times Film Book of the year. Alongside podcasting and broadcasting, she runs marathons and half-marathons very slowly, but thinks her greatest achievement was convincing the world that writing about Barbie constitutes a real job.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 2000

Helen Steer

Helen joined HMRC’s graduate tax inspector training programme in 2004 and never left due to the range of interesting opportunities she found. She has a particular interest in complex (often contentious) international tax and is now head of the UK’s trail-blazing Diverted Profits Tax, leading a comprehensive programme of reform and simplification following public consultation.

Helen was previously Secretariat for HMRC’s Dispute Resolution Boards, contributing to Litigation and Settlement Strategy guidance for HMRC’s civil dispute resolution framework. She was integral in introducing Alternative Dispute Resolution to HMRC, and remains passionate about ensuring that HMRC has robust, effective, transparent governance.

Previously, Helen has worked in Private Office and led a team on HMRC’s Real Time Information Programme (HMRC’s largest delivery project in over 60 years). Enabling taxpayers to safely and successfully transition to a new PAYE system.

Helen has found her English degree more useful than you might think, both in technical debates and producing a broad range of communications. Including advice for ministers, guidance for all types of audiences, and even a few responses for Prime Minister’s Questions.

Helen is also mother to two lovely girls so enjoys the local parks around Hampstead where she lives with her partner

United Kingdom, Oxford Matriculation, 1983

Prof Helena Hamerow

Helena Hamerow is Professor of Early Medieval Archaeology at the University of Oxford. Her research focusses on the rural communities, farming practices and economy of northwest Europe during the Early Middle Ages. Her first degree in Anthropology (at the University of Wisconsin-Madison) was followed by a DPhil at Lincoln College, where she was the first Keith Murray Scholar. She then spent two years as Mary Somerville Research Fellow at Somerville College, followed by several years as a lecturer at the University of Durham. She returned to Oxford to take up her current post in 1996, and is a Fellow of St Cross College. She has been an Honorary Fellow of Lincoln College since 2021 and recently led a major research project investigating the bioarchaeological evidence for the Medieval ‘Agricultural Revolution’.

Helena has served on the Board of Visitors of the Ashmolean Museum and the Board of Curators of the Bodleian Libraries and was an elected member of the Council of the University of Oxford. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and currently serves on the Board of Visitors of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. She is also a Commissioner of Historic England and chairs the Historic England Advisory Committee.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 2003

Ian Brownhill

Ian Brownhill read law at Lincoln before working at the Office of Capital Defense Counsel in Mississippi and the Prisoners’ Advice Service in London. Ian is now a barrister at 39 Essex Chambers and is His Majesty’s Assistant Coroner for Kent. He is best known for his work in the Court of Protection where he is identified as a “band 1” junior by Chambers and Partners in respect of health and welfare cases. He appeared in the Supreme Court for the Official Solicitor in the JB case which established the test for mental capacity to engage in sexual relations. He appeared in the Court of Appeal in Re G which clarifies the power of the Court of Protection to impose injunctions to protect incapacitated persons. He is a Trustee of the Sentencing Academy and is a respected authority in respect of mentally disordered prisoners having appeared in EG v the Parole Board and Goldsworthy v the Secretary of State for Justice. Ian’s publications include chapters in Humans Rights in Criminal Law (Bloomsbury 2023) and Neuropsychological Aspects of Brain Injury Litigation (Routledge 2022).

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1991

Indira Rao MBE

After reading Jurisprudence, Indira spent a year in Japan teaching English and learning Japanese on the Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme. She began her legal career at a ‘Magic Circle’ law firm, working in London and Tokyo. After five years, she joined the Civil Service as a legal adviser specialising in EU law, public international law and constitutional and administrative law. She held positions in HM Treasury and the Department for Education and as the UK’s Agent to the Court of Justice of the European Union handling government litigation. She then joined the Diplomatic Service and was posted to Brussels as First Secretary (Legal) at the UK Permanent Representation to the EU. She was the lead lawyer at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office advising on legal issues arising from the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. She also advised on EU and international law at the Attorney General’s Office. In 2020, she was awarded an MBE for services to British foreign policy. She is the co-author of “Retained EU Law – a practical guide”. Indira is currently Counsel for Select Committees in the House of Commons. In her free time, she sings in a community choir and enjoys baking.

(photo ©️UK Parliament/Maria Unger)

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 2018

Jacob Kelly

Whilst studying at Lincoln during the Covid-19 Pandemic, Jacob founded and led the Coronavirus Tutoring Initiative (CTI). CTI supported disadvantaged students with free, online tutoring during school closures. The initiative recruited thousands of university students as volunteers, including many Lincolnites, and eventually delivered over 50,000 lessons.

Jacob received a Points of Light Award from the Prime Minister and met with him and the Secretary of State for Education to discuss CTI's work. After graduating, he went on to lead the team at Tutor The Nation, CTI's successor, for two years.

Jacob has also previously served as a Trustee of the Nightline Association, following his time as Coordinator of Oxford Nightline.

Jacob is now an Associate Consultant at Bain & Company in their London office.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1992

Dr James Mountford

James read Medicine, and his career has spanned healthcare management, policy and education. He is married to Jennifer Rusby (St John’s), a breast cancer surgeon. They have two children and live in London.

After an early stint as an NHS doctor, James turned to management consulting – sparking an ongoing fascination with how to organise for learning across large systems, and best motivate people. As a Commonwealth Fund/Health Foundation Harkness Fellow, James studied the operations and organisation of American group practices, which provided excellent experience for subsequent Quality Director roles at UCLPartners and the Royal Free Hospital, London. Learning from all James’ previous roles came together in 2020 when he was Chief of Quality and Learning at London’s NHS Nightingale Hospital, a COVID-19 field intensive care unit.

James is now Health Strategy Officer for Galileo Global Education. Galileo manages 60 universities and colleges in and beyond Europe, with the goal of equipping its over 200,000 students to pursue rewarding careers. James is also Editor-in-Chief of BMJLeader, a journal exploring leadership in health systems.

James’ advice for younger people is: take every chance to explore life’s highways and byways. In any role, he says, you’ll perform better and be happier if you bring with you a rich catalogue of experiences and build and maintain relationships and community from every phase of life and work. They carry forward and bring joy.

United Kingdom, Winchester Matriculation, 1973

Lord James Roger Crompton Lupton CBE

James read jurisprudence at Lincoln where he was JCR President and rowed for College.

James qualified as a solicitor in 1979, and joined Baring Brothers in 1980, becoming a Director of the bank in 1985, specialising in International M&A. After the Barings collapse in 1995, he became Deputy Chairman and left in 1998 to set up the London office of Greenhill & Co., listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2003, expanding to over 300 colleagues. James stepped down from full-time service with Greenhill in 2017, becoming Chairman of the £90 billion non ring-fenced banking subsidiary of Lloyds Banking, LBCM, and a Non-Executive Director of Lloyds itself.

In the Arts world, James was Trustee of the Dulwich Picture Gallery for 13 years, chairing the Board until 2012. He then became a Trustee of the British Museum until 2018, and in early 2020 was appointed Chairman of the Board of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

James was awarded the CBE for his work in Philanthropy and the Arts in 2012. James also became National Treasurer of the Conservative Party in 2012, working closely with Prime Minister David Cameron until 2016. James was appointed a Life Peer in 2015. He has been married to Béatrice for 40 years and they have four children, three of whom studied at Oxford.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1995

Jane Barrett

Jane Barrett has spent the years since leaving Lincoln at the forefront of journalism as the industry battles through waves of digital disruption and transformation. Her passion is to lead people positively through change. Starting her career as a foreign correspondent for Reuters, she moved into the world of innovation based on her knowledge of and love for good and useful journalism. This included starting up services in financial video; fact-checking and digital verification; audio and podcasts; live events and more.

She is now focused on the opportunities and risks of generative AI for journalism. These new technologies can open up powerful possibilities for journalism to reach new audiences, to free up resources to serve different communities, to enhance the work newsrooms do and potentially to change the way we interact with users. But we also need to know what we are playing with and report on these tools, how they work, what happens when they go wrong, all for the good of society as well as the industry.

If and when AI is cracked, another innovation will be along and Jane will likely be on it.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1987

Dr Janice Williams (nee Heinekey)

Having incurred the wrath of Peter Atkins by switching from Chemistry, Janice graduated with a degree in PPE (and Lincoln sport, a proud Nairac Cup recipient). She then enjoyed a successful career in consumer brand public relations. Highlights included persuading a client to sponsor Take That’s comeback tour so she could meet the band, and bonding with Dame Julie Andrews over a mutual appreciation of Christopher Plummer.

Fifteen years later, Janice decided to retrain as a clinical psychologist. Re-entering higher education with two small children may not have been her wisest decision, but, a psychology degree and clinical doctorate from UCL later, she achieved her goal. Specialising in working with people with psychosis, Janice currently works in an NHS psychosis rehabilitation ward in North London. She is also a lecturer and Senior Admissions Tutor on the UCL doctorate programme, training the next generation of clinical psychologists on the largest course in the country. Janice has a research interest in how to rehumanise mental healthcare and is currently supervising a number of doctoral thesis projects in this area.

Janice is incredibly grateful for the support she has received on her journey, including from her Lincoln found family, and hopes she has been able to return at least some of it.

United Kingdom, Oxford Matriculation, 1986

Dr Janine Aron

Janine Aron is a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, based in the Department of Economics, Oxford University. She is also an Associate Member of Nuffield College, and a Member of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford. She came to England from South Africa as the second Keith Murray Senior Scholar at Lincoln College, moving from a research background in Chemistry at the University of the Witwatersrand to studying economics. Following her doctorate, she spent a year at the World Bank, and thereafter worked in the Department of Economics. She has held lectureships at Oxford Colleges, and taught on the M.Phil and MSc. programmes, and on the Masters degree in Economics at the University of Cape Town. Her research focus has been on monetary and exchange rate policy and macroeconomics, mainly but not only in the African context (including the economics of mobile money). She recently held Research Fellowships at the South African Reserve Bank, helping to develop tools and communication strategies for their new financial stability mandate and producing papers on financial stability. She has published widely on the South African economy. She has a parallel career as a company director in South Africa.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1998

Jennifer Babington (nee Black)

Since leaving Lincoln in 2001, Jenn worked in the City at Norton Rose Fullbright, specialising in corporate law, then at renewable energy company Element Power overseeing legal strategy for Northern Europe. Jenn then joined the UK Green Investment Bank, the UK’s £3.8bn green investment fund, established to commercialise green investment into renewable energy projects as Chief of Staff and was responsible, amongst other things, for advising the Chief Executive on key business and strategic priorities.

In 2019, she joined Envision Racing Formula E Team and now travels the world as the Team’s Operations Director and General Counsel. In 2023, Envision Racing won the Team’s Championship and Jenn is now a World Champion.

With over 12 years working in renewables, Jenn is passionate about using Formula E as a platform to accelerate our transition to a zero-carbon future so that she can look herself in the mirror every day and know that she is doing what she can to make a difference.

In addition to her work with the racing team, Jenn is also Chairman of AIM listed, Fulcrum Group – a leading provider of utility infrastructure and services in the UK.

Born in Middlesbrough, but spending a large part of her early childhood in Kwangyang, South Korea, Jenn now lives between London and Silverstone with her three kids.

United Kingdom, Cornwall Matriculation, 1958

Jeremy Varcoe

After National Service as a tank officer in Germany, Jeremy learnt two invaluable lessons at Lincoln; to treat everyone with equal respect and to promote justice and tolerance.

As District Officer he helped prepare the Swazis for self-government. Having gained honours in 1966 Bar Finals he worked briefly in industry, followed by a Lectureship in Law at Birmingham University.

He gained late entry to FCO. His early jobs involved the transfer of power to Africans in Rhodesia, Namibia and South Africa.

He has had several unusual assignments: Deputy Secretary 1972 Pearce Commission on Rhodesian Opinion; sole UK Go-between with all Rhodesian groups in Salisbury 1974; Coordinator of 1991 G7 Summit in London; senior UK Peace Monitor, 1991 Croatia-Serbia conflict; seconded to help first British Bank establish in Istanbul. Postings in Turkey, Zambia, Malaysia, Nigeria, and Ambassador to Somalia, with London spells. Rather than stay in Colombo as High Commissioner, he retired early after tragic death of his first wife in 1991.

He spent four years as Director-General of United World Colleges, providing life-changing experiences for international sixth form pupils based on service and tolerance studying the International Baccalaureate.

Finally using his degree as an Immigration Judge he felt fulfilled. Retired at 70 he is still involved locally in Cornwall, including 11 years as Chair of Cornwall branch of Oxford Society.

United Kingdom, Winchester Matriculation, 1993

Joanna Brownhill

Joanna Brownhill was first called to the Bar in 1997, and practised in civil law (mainly in property and housing) initially from One Essex Court and then later from Five Paper Buildings in Temple, London. In 2011 she became a part time Tribunal Judge of the Residential Property Tribunal. She was later the same year also appointed as a part time Judge of the Social Entitlement Chamber.

In 2018 she was appointed as a full time Judge of the Social Entitlement Chamber.

In 2022 she was appointed as a civil Circuit Judge. Her Honour Judge Brownhill is based at Winchester Combined Court.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 2003

Joe Mathewson

Before founding, growing and selling edtech business Firefly Learning, Joe DJed at many Lincoln bops, the Lincoln Ball and many of Oxford’s finest nights including ‘Filth’. Joe went on to spend a couple of years trading equities at UBS.

In 2009, Joe quit his job in the city to focus on Firefly, the edtech SaaS platform he co-founded with fellow Lincolnite Simon Hay. The two school friends had built the first prototype of the system whilst still at school to solve their own problems as students, and had found some early customers through school and university.

Joe led the business as it grew to serve over 1m users across 900 schools in 50 countries, including 75% of the top 100 schools in the UK. After raising the largest Series A in UK edtech, Firefly grew to over 90 people. Following the acquisition and integration of two other edtech businesses which helped further expand Firefly’s product and customer base, Joe sold Firefly to US PE backed edtech Veracross in early 2023.

Joe lives in London with husband Jim and border terrier Tilly.

United Kingdom, Blackburn Matriculation, 1953

Dr John Bertalot

John Bertalot's local Grammar school during WW2 was barely basic so when he won the Lincoln organ scholarship during Coronation year he had to pass Latin Responsions – he failed them twice.

But he gained two priceless gifts during his two Lincoln terms: (i) mixing with fellow students who were strong leaders; he’d not experienced such challenging fellowship before. He remembers especially James Greaves ‘the General’s son’, and Donald Limon, who became Chief Clerk to the House of Commons - earning him a knighthood.

And (ii) to be challenged by the difference Evangelical Christianity made to the lives of some of his friends. This has been a guiding light for the rest of his life.

Life after Lincoln began with an organ scholarship to Cambridge (for his third Latin attempt was successful) and then appointments to major churches on both sides of the Atlantic and to an English Cathedral: conducting choral concerts in Westminster Abbey, King's Chapel Cambridge, Harvard, Princeton & NYC, and leading residential choral workshops around the world. A couple of honorary Doctorates of Music added cream to his life, plus the active friendship of fellow musicians throughout the world. Thank you, Lincoln.

United Kingdom, Oxford Matriculation, 1970

John Dew

After reading English at Lincoln and (with a surer touch) learning etching at the Ruskin School of Art, John joined HM Diplomatic Service in 1973. The hope to discover wider horizons was more than fulfilled over the next 40 years.

Between spells in the Foreign Office he worked in Venezuela (oil rich and culturally challenging) in the 1970s, at the OECD in Paris (where policy wonkery was invented) in the 1980s, in Ireland (during the difficult first stages of the peace process in the 1990s) and Spain (an all-absorbing culture).

After several years in London as Head of the Latin America and Caribbean Department and a secondment to Lehman Brothers (then in rude health; hubris more visible in hindsight) he became Ambassador to Cuba and then Colombia. Each was difficult, out of the ordinary and professionally demanding. In both he was able to work in leading printmaking studios, and exhibit at a professional level, enabling him to continue in Oxford after leaving the Service in 2013 (www.johndew.uk).

United Kingdom, Richmond Matriculation, 1985

Julia Black CBE FBA

Julia completed her BA in Jurisprudence and her DPhil at Lincoln and joined the Law Department of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 1994. Her research focuses on the design, dynamics and legitimacy of regulatory governance systems, both state and non-state. In 2014 Julia became Pro Director (Vice President) for Research at LSE and served as interim Director (President) from 2016-7. In 2019 she became Strategic Director for Innovation at LSE, and she leads Aspect, a network of over 40 universities supporting research-based innovation in the social sciences, humanities and the arts.

Julia also has several other roles. She is an External Member of the Prudential Regulation Committee and the Financial Markets Infrastructure Committee at the Bank of England. She is President of the British Academy. She is a member of the Prime Minister’s Council of Science and Technology and of the Board of the Courtauld Institute of Art. From 2017-2023 she was on the Board of the UK Research and Innovation Council. Julia is also a director of Zinc, a social sciences, mission based incubator. She was awarded a CBE in 2020 for services to the study of law and regulation.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1993

Julia Bueno

Julia left Lincoln with a first in Jurisprudence. After a Masters in Law at Kings College, London University, she combined teaching law to undergraduates with her training as a solicitor. She qualified at (then called) Norton Rose and after a year of practice at (then called) Charles Russell she left the law behind to re-train as a psychotherapist. She has since combined her working life as a psychotherapist with writing, including regular book reviews for the Times Literary Supplement. Her first book, The Brink of Being: Talking about Miscarriage won the British Medical Association Popular Medicine Book Award 2021 and was the runner-up for the British Psychological Society Book Award 2021. Her second book, Everyone’s A Critic, was published in 2002 and explores the universal habit of self-criticism. She is now working on a third book about the cultural phenomenon of ’Therapy Speak’.

United Kingdom, Durham Matriculation, 2024

Katie Kennedy

In her final year of undergraduate studies at Durham University, Katie decided to start posting educational videos on social media. Focusing on various periods in history, Katie's incorporation of dry humour and a tongue-in-cheek demeanour has helped her to take her TikTok platform by storm since January 2024. She is now nominated as TikTok's Educational Creator of the Year 2024, amassed over half a million followers, and after handing in her dissertation she wrote a book titled "The History Gossip: Was Anne of Cleves a Minger? And 365 other Historical Curiosities", finishing it during Week 0 at Oxford. Incorporating British slang and pop-culture references into her content, Katie aims to make history accessible to a wide audience and to educate without making it feel like a lesson.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1998

Dr Kavitha Kishen OBE

Kavitha Kishen is a Senior Civil Servant based in London. She studied Physics at Lincoln and after completing a PhD in Semiconductor Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, she joined the Civil Service as a scientist.

She has worked in a range of roles focused on both National Security & Resilience and science advice across the Home Office, Department for Transport and, most recently, the Government Office for Science. She has provided operational and science advice leadership during a range of security and resilience crises.

Her most recent role was as Deputy Director for Security, Resilience and Strategy in the Government Office for Science. Her main responsibilities were oversight of operations for GO-Science’s two key science functions: the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) and the Prime Minister’s Council for Science & Technology.

Kavitha was made an OBE in the King’s Birthday Honours List 2023 for services to National Resilience and Diversity in Government Science & Engineering. She lives in Hertfordshire with her husband and cat.

United Kingdom, Norwich Matriculation, 2020

Kishan Maher

After completing his MPhil in International Relations, Kishan joined the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) as Desk Officer (US Political) in mid-2023. Since then, he has worked on the full breadth and depth of the UK-US "special relationship", including: leading the government's planning for the 2024 US presidential election; supporting UK-US justice and home affairs, including high-profile extradition and consular cases; managing US interest in the Northern Ireland peace process; attending the National Governors Association in Washington DC in 2024; work on the Marshall Scholarship; and delivering visits for senior members of Congress, including then-Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy.

United Kingdom, Bushey Matriculation, 1996

Lindsay Wagstaff

Lindsay is a widely recognised and highly respected second-generation Alexander Technique teacher.

She read French and Music at Royal Holloway College, London University before spending a post-graduate year at Lincoln College, University of Oxford. She qualified from the Oxford Alexander Teacher Training School in 1990 and she has been a visiting tutor on several Alexander teacher training courses, as well as Professor of Alexander Technique at the Royal College of Music.

She developed a busy teaching practice alongside a successful and varied singing career. Whilst at Oxford she was a founder member of the vocal groups I Fagiolini and the Finzi Singers and went on to sing as a soloist and member of many groups including the Monteverdi Choir, The English Concert, BBC Singers, Opéra de Lyon, London Voices, and Metro Voices, amongst others.

She is a regular teacher for the National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Eton Choral Courses and Abingdon Summer School for Solo Singers. She has been a guest tutor for the Clerks and choral scholars of New College, and Lincoln College, Oxford University, and for a variety of courses at the Britten-Pears School and Aldeburgh Voices.

United Kingdom, Murcott Matriculation, 1994

Lucy Mackillop BM BCh MA (Oxon.) FRCP, FRCOG ad Eundem

Dr Mackillop is a Consultant Obstetric Physician, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford; Fellow of both the Royal College of Physicians and Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists; President of the UK’s MacDonald Obstetric Medicine Society and Chief Medical Officer – Data & Research at EMIS plc.

Dr Mackillop has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles, national and international guidelines, book chapters and e-learning resources on a wide variety of medical conditions in pregnancy. She is Chair for the Joint Committee for Obstetric Medicine with The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and co-wrote the RCP’s curriculum for the diploma in Obstetric Medicine.

Her research interests include the role of remote monitoring solutions in women with medical problems in pregnancy and construction of evidence-based algorithms to predict acutely unwell women in pregnancy and the immediate puerperium.

She led the development and evaluation of a patient app-to-clinician digital system for the management of women with diabetes in pregnancy through to commercialisation and scale; now used in over half of maternity units in England.

She leads to Data and Research strategy for EMIS plc, the largest UK provider of clinical systems in primary care.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 2015

Luis D'Souza

Dr Luis D’Souza is a Policy Analyst at the United Nations. As an expert in non-communicable diseases, Luis has worked globally across 25 countries in four years to advise governments on national strategies for health. In his role at the World Health Organization, Luis specialises in conducting health system assessments and working with governments to strengthen capacity-building efforts for human resources in health. With the United Nations Development Programme, Luis has led the development of advocacy tools including investment cases for health – in mental health, road safety, tobacco and alcohol control.

Luis moved into the global health sphere first with Médecins Sans Frontières following completion of his DPhil in Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics in 2019, where he worked with a local team in the township of Khayelitsha, South Africa on the COVID-19 response. From there, he joined the Clinton Health Access Initiative as a behavioural scientist leading a team in Eswatini to roll out a mass drug administration campaign for deworming school children in the capital. Luis is a guest university lecturer in Public Health and Medicine – most recently in Saudi Arabia where he explored topics including climate change and health and behavioural insights for health.

United Kingdom, Oxford Matriculation, 1982

Lynn Shepherd

Lynn Shepherd read English from 1982-85 and was part of the 1984 University Challenge team. She returned to Lincoln in 2003 to do a DPhil, which was subsequently published by OUP. In the intervening twenty years she had a career in the City and PR, and as part of the latter devised a humanitarian sponsorship scheme for Guinness PLC which is still running today, and has brought clean water to more than five million people in Africa alone.

She turned to writing in her 40s and now writes crime fiction under the pen-name Cara Hunter. Her Oxford-based detective series has sold more than a million books in 30 countries worldwide, and is set for a TV adaptation. One of the books in the series was included in the Sunday Times list of the best 100 crime novels published since 1945. Her most recent novel was a Sunday Times, New York Times, USA Today and Canadian Globe & Mail bestseller.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1992

Lynne McCafferty KC

Lynne McCafferty KC is a leading commercial silk at the English Bar. Lynne read English at Lincoln College (1992-1995), graduating with a First Class Honours. After the Graduate Diploma in Law at City University, which she passed with Distinction, Lynne completed the Bar Exams and was called to the Bar in 1997. Lynne practices at 4 Pump Court, a leading commercial barristers’ chambers in London. She specialises in construction and engineering, energy, international arbitration, professional negligence, and technology law. She has extensive advocacy experience in the High Court, and much of her work involves international arbitrations in the Middle East and Asia. She also acts as an arbitrator and adjudicator. Lynne was appointed Queen’s Counsel (now King’s Counsel) in 2018 and is recommended as a leading silk in her fields of practice in the legal directories. She was shortlisted for Technology Silk of the Year by the Legal 500 Bar Awards in 2023.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 2012

Marco Alessi

Marco Alessi (they/them) is a BAFTA-nominated film director and screenwriter. Their work has had international success at numerous festivals such as the London Film Festival, the Berlinale and San Francisco’s Frameline LGBT Film Festival, and has been tipped by award bodies including the British Independent Film Awards, the Grierson Awards and the London Film Critics' Circle. In 2021, Vimeo named them one of their Best New Creators for their Guardian documentary SAINTMAKING. That same year they were honoured as one of Film London’s Lodestars for their fiction short THE BOWER. They are currently developing their first feature film with Film4.

United Kingdom, Oxford Matriculation, 1995

Marian Knight MBE

Marian Knight is Professor of Maternal and Child Population Health at the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, UK and NIHR Strategic Director for Research Infrastructure. She is a public health physician and applied health researcher whose research focuses on the care and prevention of severe complications of pregnancy and early life and addressing disparities in outcomes for women and babies from different population groups. She established the UK Obstetric Surveillance System (UKOSS) in 2005 to conduct national studies of severe morbidities in pregnancy and leads the MBRRACE-UK national Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths and Morbidity. She leads a parallel stream of work to improve the care of babies who undergo surgery in early life. She was elected to fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2021 in recognition of her exceptional contribution to the advancement of medical science, and awarded an MBE in the 2023 King’s New Year Honours for services to maternal and Public Health.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1989

Mary White

Mary’s early career included six years teaching young children, working for a small Christian charity as their Administrator, and a year in Mozambique volunteering with a church-planting team compiling bible story materials. Since 2004 she has been working at Latymer Community Church developing their community activities and providing support to some of the most vulnerable people in the area. The church was actively involved in the early response to the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, and as a local resident and faith leader Mary has continued to live with the on-going impact of the fire. In 2020 she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand to study their response to the earthquakes and mosque shootings in order to bring back inspiring stories to the Grenfell community. Her career goal is to do “small things with great love” (Mother Theresa) and her greatest joy is to see isolated people with multiple mental and physical health challenges become part of a loving and accepting community.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1993

Matt Hervey

Matt Hervey is an internationally recognised expert on artificial intelligence and the law. He is General Editor of The Law of Artificial Intelligence (Sweet & Maxwell; second edition 2024) and regularly collaborates with the United Nation’s World Intellectual Property Organisation on its work advising the international community on the impact of artificial intelligence on intellectual property law. He is Head of Legal and Policy at Human Native AI, which is building an AI data marketplace to benefit both rights holders and AI developers fairly.

Matt studied Modern History at Lincoln College from 1993 to 1996, followed by an MA in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute. He worked as an art director in publishing before training as a lawyer. Matt quickly gravitated towards intellectual property law, working on many litigation "firsts" across life sciences and technology. He became interested in artificial intelligence in 2012, sparked by developments in autonomous vehicles and machine learning.

Matt lives in London with his wife and children.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 2018

Matthew Emmerson

Matthew is a final year medical student at Lincoln who has enjoyed contributing to student life both within and outside college.

As Treasurer and Trustee of The Tingewick Trust, he contributed to raising £33,000 in a year for a children’s hospice and the University hospital, helping the charity win the Supporter of the Year Award at the Oxford University NHS Staff Recognition Event. He was also President of the Oxford University Mixed Heritage Society, helping attain unprecedented representation for this community.

Academically, he has a first author publication in BMC Infectious Diseases and presented at the World Congress on Infectious Diseases in Rome along with several other national conferences.

One of his proudest achievements was working with other Lincoln medical students to reenergise ‘The Florey Society’- a group aimed at bringing the Lincoln medical community together through social events and peer-to-peer teaching.

Another fond memory comes from his time as Sports Rep when he created the Lincoln-Brasenose Sports Day and the first Lincoln-Downing Sports Day with our Cambridge sister college. Both were great successes until Lincoln was beaten in both competitions!

Matthew is grateful for Lincoln’s support throughout the years is honoured to be included in the 600th anniversary celebrations.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 2000

Matthew Haley

Matthew Haley studied English at Lincoln before working in the Taylorian for a year. He joined the auction house Bonhams in 2004, starting in London in the Book Department where his baptism of fire was one of the finest libraries of angling books ever to have been offered at auction. Soon Matthew branched out into 19th Century photography - particularly of India. Between 2008 and 2013, Matthew worked in Bonhams New York office, and created a series of Space History auctions, initially commemorating the 40th Anniversary of man's first steps on the Moon. He has also spent periods working in the company's Los Angeles office.

He is now Managing Director of the Knightsbridge saleroom, and has been head of the UK Book & Manuscript Department since 2013. In his time as an auctioneer, Matthew has sold the 1494 edition of Columbus' letter on the discovery of America, the Library of Wassenaar Zoo, the sledge from Ernest Shackleton's 1909 Antarctic expedition and Henri Matisse's Jazz portfolio. He appears periodically on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow.

United Kingdom, Cambridge Matriculation, 1992

Matthew Hurles

Matt Hurles is currently the Director of the Wellcome Sanger Institute, a world-leading genomics research institute near Cambridge, which led the UK’s contribution to the Human Genome Project. Matt’s own research group focuses on rare genetic diseases, applying the latest genomic technologies to benefit patients and their families. Matt’s PhD at the University of Leicester focused on using genetic variation to trace prehistoric human migrations. When the Human Genome sequence came out in 2001, Matt pivoted to studying genetic variation in human disease, often drawing upon his evolutionary training. Matt has co-led collaborative studies with international colleagues that have revealed that all of us have subtly different complements of genes. This is due to a surprising prevalence of gains and losses of large segments of DNA. Matt is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Academy of Medical Societies. Matt is a non-executive director of the spin-out company, Congenica, that he co-founded in 2013, which provides software to support clinical interpretation of genetic data in the NHS and beyond. Matt is also the proud father of three children with fellow Lincoln alumnus Liz Hurles (neé Aust).

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1968

Sir Michael Supperstone

Sir Michael Supperstone read law at Lincoln College (MA, BCL) (1968-1972).

He was called to the Bar (Middle Temple) in 1973, took Silk in 1991 and was elected a Bencher in 1999.

He was appointed an Assistant Recorder in 1992, a Recorder of the Crown Court in 1996, a Deputy High Court Judge in 1998, a Judge of the High Court (Queen's Bench Division) in 2010 and a Judge of the Employment Appeal Tribunal in 2011.

He was the Queen's Bench Division Liaison Judge (North and North-Eastern Circuits) from 2013-2014, and Judge in Charge of the Administrative Court from 2017 until his retirement.

He retired from the High Court with effect from 31 March 2020.

Since 2021 he has been a Judicial Commissioner at the Investigatory Powers Commissioner's Office.

He has written extensively on Administrative Law. His publications include Halsbury's Laws of England, Judicial Review title (5th Ed. 2010) (General Editor), and Halsbury's Laws of England, Administrative Law title ((4th Ed. Reissue, 2001) (General Editor) and (4th Ed. Reissue, 1989)).

United Kingdom, Chorley Matriculation, 1960

Michael Welsh MBE

Michael Welsh is now retired and lives in Lancashire.

A strong supporter of Britain’s EU membership, he was elected to the European Parliament in 1979 following spells in the transport industry and then with Levi Strauss, as Director of Market Development, based in Brussels. In the EP, he served as Chairman of the Social Affairs and Employment Committee and, at different times, as Conservative Group spokesman on trade, economic affairs, foreign affairs and agriculture. He was a leading member of the EP Delegation to the US Congress

After losing his seat in 1994, he-co founded Action Centre for Europe with Geoffrey Howe, Michael Heseltine and Kenneth Clarke to provide support for pro-European Conservative MPs, in 1996 they published The Kingsdown Report making the case for the UK to join the euro. He was a founder member of Conservative Mainstream.

In 1997 he was elected to Lancashire County Council leading the opposition from 2003 – 2008. In parallel, he pursued an interest in the Health Service as Chairman of Chorley District Hospital and latterly on the Board of Lancashire Teaching Hospitals.

In 2017 he was appointed MBE for services to the community in Lancashire.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1985

Moira Thompson Oliver

Moira is Head of Business and Human Rights at international law firm Slaughter and May. Moira spent over 12 years in senior in-house roles focusing on corporate responsibility, environment, and human and digital rights.

Moira trained and qualified at Slaughter and May, practising in the Corporate and Banking team until she left to join BT, where she created and led the global environmental law and corporate responsibility team and established their human rights programme. More recently, she led Vodafone’s approach to human rights throughout the EU and Africa, with a focus on digital rights, including privacy and free expression, artificial intelligence ethics, children's rights and supply chain standards and management. She represented Vodafone on the Board of the Global Network Initiative and in work with the UN B-Tech collaboration.

Her work has been recognised by the Financial Times Innovative Lawyer Awards and she was the winner of the Legal 500 Corporate Social Responsibility Award. In addition, BT’s Modern Slavery Act Statement, for which she was responsible, was regularly ranked in the top 10 of FTSE 100 statements.

Moira was appointed as trustee and director of the inaugural Board of the Centre for Sport and Human Rights, which she now co-chairs. She has a Master’s degree in Environmental Law and Policy.

United Kingdom, Oxford Matriculation, 2023

Dr Monty Lyman

Dr Monty Lyman is a Doctor of Medicine candidate at Lincoln, exploring the relationship between diet, the gut microbiome and mental illness at the Department of Psychiatry. He is a medical doctor and his work in research and science communication has earned him the Royal College of Psychiatrist’s 2024 Innovator Award.

Lyman is the author writing three critically acclaimed non-fiction science books with Penguin. The first, The Remarkable Life of the Skin, was a Sunday Times ‘Must Read’, one of their ‘Best Books of 2019’ and a BBC Radio 4 ‘Book of the Week’. It was shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Science Book Prize, and he remains the youngest shortlisted author in the prize’s 36-year history. His second, The Painful Truth, won the Royal College of Medicine’s Pain Medicine Prize. His latest, The Immune Mind, was a BBC Radio ‘Book of the Week’ in May 2024.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1993

Naomi Alderman

Naomi Alderman is the bestselling author of The Power, which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and was chosen as a book of the year by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and was recommended as a book of the year by both Barack Obama and Bill Gates. As a novelist, Alderman has been mentored by Margaret Atwood via the Rolex Arts Initiative, she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and her work has been translated into more than thirty-five languages. As a video games designer, she was lead writer on the groundbreaking alternate reality game Perplex City, and is co-creator of the award-winning smartphone exercise adventure game Zombies, Run!, which has more than 10 million players. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. She lives in London.

United Kingdom, Croydon, London Matriculation, 2008

Naomi Kellman

On graduating from Oxford in 2011, Naomi joined diversity specialist Rare. In this role she founded Target Oxbridge, a programme that has helped over 400 Black African and Caribbean students secure Oxbridge offers, and currently supports hundreds of students a year. Naomi spent 2012 to 2015 working on education policy at the Department for Education and the Treasury, where she co-founded the BAME Fast Stream Network.

Naomi has appeared on BBC Radio, BBC News, ITV News, Channel 5 News and Sky News to discuss diversity in education and recruitment. She has authored research reports for Rare, as well as articles for The Guardian and The Evening Standard. Naomi is a Co-Founder of the Oxford Black Alumni Network, and presents the Target Oxbridge Podcast and the Hemisphere Education Podcast.

Naomi is currently Rare’s Head of Research, and was named 2021's Manager of the Year by Management Today's Inspiring Women in Business Awards. Naomi is a Trustee for The Prime Commitment, and a member of the External Advisory Panel and Race Equality Action Group for the History Faculty at the University of Oxford. In her spare time she likes to trampoline and hopes to one day perfect her straight back somersault.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1965

Neil A. C. Hirst

On leaving Lincoln Neil Hirst was awarded the Telluride exchange scholarship to study at Cornell, where he took an MBA. He enjoyed a varied international career as a specialist in energy policy, living and working in London, Washington, New York, and Paris. Amongst many other roles as a senior British civil servant he was Assistant Private Secretary to Energy Ministers, he negotiated the pipe-line treaty for Norwegian gas imports, he chaired the G20 Nuclear Safety Working Group on Chernobyl, and he was the Energy Counsellor at the British Embassy in Washington. He was seconded to Goldman Sachs before working on the privatisation of energy industries. Leaving the Civil Service he became a Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), leading their technology team and then their work with developing countries including China and India as well as Russia. He was subsequently a Senior Policy Fellow at the Grantham Institute Imperial College where he worked with the Chinese government on their international energy policy, especially to promote closer relations with the West through the IEA. Neil Hirst’s new book Six Energy Policies to Save the Planet is due to be published by World Scientific Publishing in March 2024.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1977

Sir Nicholas Hilliard

Nicholas Hilliard is married to Jane. After leaving Lincoln (in 1980) where he read law, he was called to the Bar by Middle Temple in 1981. He was Treasury Counsel at the Central Criminal Court from 1995-2008. He took Silk in 2008. He was appointed as the Common Serjeant of London in 2013 and Recorder of London at the Old Bailey in 2015. He became a High Court Judge and was knighted in 2019. He is a Presiding Judge of the North Eastern Circuit. He has been a trustee of Crisis, the Ben Kinsella Trust and the Kiyan Prince Foundation. He is a member of the Court of Assistants of the Vintners Company. He was elected to an Honorary Fellowship at Lincoln in 2019.

United Kingdom, Oxford Matriculation, 1965

Nick Jelley

Nick was an undergraduate at Balliol College, and after a post-doc at LBL, joined Lincoln College as a JRF in 1974, becoming a Tutorial Fellow in 1976. He lectured on Nuclear Physics and Energy Studies, and was Chair of the University Environmental panel and Head of the Physics Teaching Faculty. His research was initially on nuclear physics, mainly nuclei far from stability, and he wrote a textbook, Fundamentals of Nuclear Physics (CUP, 1990).

He joined the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) experiment in 1990 and became the UK group leader in 1998 and a professor in 2000. SNO was a Nobel Prize winning (2015) experiment for discovering that solar neutrinos change flavor, while undergoing neutrino oscillations during their passage to Earth. He was the recipient of two Institute of Physics prizes for his work on SNO, and during his career, an author on over 70 publications.

More recently, Nick has carried out research on solar energy for use in the developing world. He has written an Online Dictionary of Energy Science (OUP, 2017), Renewable Energy, A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2020, 2nd ed. due 2025), and with John Andrews, a textbook, Energy Science, now in its 4th edition (OUP, 2022, updates 2023).

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1987

Ms Nicola Shaw CBE

Nicola Shaw is Chief Executive Officer of Yorkshire Water and a Non Executive Director of the International Airlines Group. She has previously held Executive roles at National Grid, High Speed 1 and FirstGroup.

She attended Croydon High School and The King’s School in Canterbury. Her first degree was in Modern History and Economics at Lincoln and her second in Transportation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After that she spent about five years living and working internationally. Her focus is on services and infrastructure which support lives and the economy — which means that she isn’t always in the most popular professions. She is interested in the built and unbuilt environment and in the arts (demonstrated professionally for example in her work in the 90s to ensure the redevelopment of the Stratford bus station in East London and in the 2010s at St Pancras to develop the Terrace Wires sculpture competition).

In 2015 Nicola was tasked to write a report on the future shape and financing of Network Rail.

In 2016 she received a CBE for services to transport in the Queen’s New Year Honours and was made an Honorary Fellow of Lincoln in 2018.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1997

Oliver Mears

Oliver Mears became The Royal Opera’s Director of Opera in March 2017. He joined The Royal Opera from Northern Ireland Opera, where he was its founding Artistic Director, 2010–17. He studied English and History at Lincoln College, Oxford where he also assisted playwright Howard Barker, before co-founding London-based opera company Second Movement for whom he directed numerous site-specific productions. His NIO productions included Tosca, L’elisir d’amore, Der fliegende Holländer, Macbeth, Salome, Agrippina, Hansel and Gretel, The Turn of the Screw and Noye’s Fludde, also for Beijing and Shanghai Music Festivals. For The Royal Opera he has directed Rigoletto, Jephtha and Trouble in Tahiti / A Quiet Place. He has directed for other companies including Norwegian National Opera (L’elisir d’amore), the Young Vic (My Dad’s a Birdman), Bergen National Opera (Don Giovanni), Aldeburgh Music (Albert Herring, The Rape of Lucretia), Theater Magdeburg (Aida), Opera North (Hansel and Gretel), Scottish Opera (Eugene Onegin, Orpheus in the Underworld), Welsh National Opera (Macbeth), Salzburg Easter Festival (La Gioconda) Novaya Opera Moscow, Pimlico Opera, Nevill Holt Opera, Early Opera Company, Nederlandse Reisopera and the National Opera Studio.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 2004

Oliver Munn

Oliver Munn is a senior civil servant who leads the response to infectious disease outbreaks in England. As Director General Health Protection Operations at the UK Health Security Agency, the teams he oversees respond to over 10,000 outbreaks every year, seeking to stop the spread of infectious diseases and thereby protect lives and livelihoods. He’d previously served in the UK government’s COVID-19 Task Force, steering government policy on testing, tracing and isolation for much of the pandemic, from April 2020 to March 2022. Prior to that, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a management consulting firm, for almost a decade.

At Lincoln, he read modern history and politics, alongside serving as president of the JCR. He now lives in London and Somerset with his husband Thomas.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 2005

Dr Oliver Zeldin

Oliver Zeldin is a Director of Engineering at Meta, leading engineering organisations in the US, UK, and Tel Aviv applying machine learning and AI to real world business problems, primarily in the Ads and e-commerce space. Beyond this, he has been involved in defining industry practices and norms for best practices in translating machine learning advances into the real world, and is an advocate for recruiting and developing diverse talent.
He started his academic career at Lincoln, reading Physics, before doing his DPhil at St Cross college developing new methods for structural biology. He then spent 2 years at Stanford developing computation methods for the Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre. During this time, he published in major Journals including Science, Nature, and PNAS, before moving into industry in Silicon Valley.
Deeply grateful for the rigorous scientific training he received at Oxford, Oliver continues to be a champion for the value that scientists bring to solving the hardest problems in the tech industry.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1995

Olivia Dickinson

Olivia has over 20 years’ experience in children’s media and education, across CBeebies, Sky Kids, Discovery Education, Nickelodeon and Outright Games, with particular expertise in user research for pre-school products and games.

She is joint CEO of Playtest Games Ltd, running playtest sessions of kids’ games for leading game developers and game publishers. She also freelances as a digital consultant and offers consultancy for children’s TV and digital on how to ensure programmes and products for children are inclusive.

Through her volunteer work for Let Toys Be Toys, she has built up extensive expertise in how to challenge gender stereotypes in childhood, and as their media spokesperson has appeared on BBC News, Channel 5 News, Radio 5 Live and BBC Breakfast, as well as being interviewed on various podcasts and for the TES. The Let Toys Be Toys campaign challenges gender stereotypes in childhood, especially in toys, education and the media. She also writes articles and runs workshops on how to challenge gender stereotypes in childhood and education.

She is on the Advisory Committee for the Children's Media Conference and on the executive group at The Children’s Media Foundation; she was Deputy Chair for the DfE advisory panel on apps for home learning in 2019 and has an MA in Early Childhood Studies.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 2014

Patrick Alexander Keefe

Acclaimed for his ''dark, savoury voice and megawatt stage presence'' (The Spectator) Patrick is a professional operatic baritone. He is a current Harewood Artist of the English National Opera, with whom he has appeared as Figaro (The Barber of Seville), Schaunard (La bohème), Marullo (Rigoletto), and the Marchese D'Obigny (La Traviata). He has received awards including Glyndebourne's prestigious John Christie Award, the Musician's Company Prudi Hoggarth Prize, and First and Second Prize at the Royal Academy of Music's Richard Lewis and Pavarotti Prizes, respectively. For Glyndebourne he has performed Il Conte d'Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro) and Carlotto/Malatesta (Don Pasquale), and other recent role highlights include Figaro for Waterperry Opera, Robert Dedo in Penderecki's 'Die Schwarze Maske' (Polish National Radio Symphony, Marin Alsop, medici.tv), and standing in for Sir Bryn Terfel in the title role of Puccini's 'Gianni Schicchi' for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. Acclaimed for his ''dark, savoury voice and megawatt stage presence'' (The Spectator) Patrick is a professional operatic baritone. He is a current Harewood Artist of the English National Opera, with whom he has appeared as Figaro (The Barber of Seville), Schaunard (La bohème), Marullo (Rigoletto), and the Marchese D'Obigny (La Traviata). He has received awards including Glyndebourne's prestigious John Christie Award, the Musician's Company Prudi Hoggarth Prize, and First and Second Prize at the Royal Academy of Music's Richard Lewis and Pavarotti Prizes, respectively. For Glyndebourne he has performed Il Conte d'Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro) and Carlotto/Malatesta (Don Pasquale), and other recent role highlights include Figaro for Waterperry Opera, Robert Dedo in Penderecki's 'Die Schwarze Maske' (Polish National Radio Symphony, Marin Alsop, medici.tv), and standing in for Sir Bryn Terfel in the title role of Puccini's 'Gianni Schicchi' for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.

After leaving Lincoln, Patrick completed an MSt with Distinction in Music Composition at Keble, and began a DPhil at New College, where he was Junior Dean. After receiving a scholarship from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, he decided to switch to singing full-time. Following his studies at the Guildhall he progressed to specialist opera training at the Royal Academy of Music, and then made his professional debut as a Jerwood Young Artist at the Glyndebourne Festival.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1965

Paul Crichton

Paul was born in 1946 in Dundee, and went to school at Hutchesons’ Boys’ Grammar School in Glasgow and King Edward VI Grammar School in Chelmsford. He got an open scholarship in classics at Lincoln College, Oxford.

He then taught English and Latin at various schools and universities in London and Germany, until he studied medicine in Munich. He worked as a doctor for two years in neurology, in Munich and then at Queen Square, in London, before training as a psychiatrist at Charing Cross and the Maudsley Hospital in London.

He became a Consultant/Senior Lecturer in General Adult Psychiatry at Guy’s Hospital in London. His second post was head of the Department of Psychological Medicine at the Royal Marsden Hospital in Chelsea and Sutton. After the Marsden he worked for the Ministry of Justice, sitting on Mental Health Review Tribunals, until he retired in 2020.

He also did a PhD in philosophy at the University of London. He rewrote his PhD dissertation on self-realization as a book for general readers, called Inner Necessity and Self-Realization – Thinking About How to Live. He subsequently wrote another five books, three on the borderline areas between psychiatry, psychology and philosophy, and two collections of poetry.

In 2002 he married Christl Kiener, a publisher.

United Kingdom, Oxford Matriculation, 1971

Paul Harris SC

Paul Harris read Law at Lincoln (1971 to 1974) and then qualified as a barrister. He then worked in the Home Office, dealing with crime, police and immigration, and in the FCO Overseas Development Administration as desk officer for Ethiopia, Somalia and Yemen. He practised at the Bar from 1988 and in 1992-94 was the first chairman of the Bar Human Rights Committee, taking part in missions to Guatemala, El Salvador, Malawi, Colombia and Hong Kong. From 1994 he practised as a barrister in Hong Kong while setting up the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor, an independent NGO to defend human rights there. He took silk in 2006, and in 2021/2 was chairman of the Hong Kong Bar. As chairman he continued to speak up for human rights in the face of the security crackdown imposed by China. On his return to the UK in 2022 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of Lincoln. Paul has been an international observer for the East Timor Independence Referendum in 1999 ;a war crimes investigator in Liberia; an Oxford City councillor and a Lib Dem Parliamentary candidate. His book “Freedom’s Banner: how peaceful demonstrations have changed the world”, is the only world-wide history of peaceful demonstrations.

United Kingdom, Reading Matriculation, 1995

Paul Williams

Paul Williams is Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Reading, where he leads a division of 30 weather scientists with an annual research income of £3 million. Following his physics undergraduate degree at Lincoln College, he remained at Oxford to take a DPhil in geophysical fluid dynamics and later held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. He specialises in atmospheric turbulence and jet streams, with a focus on weather-sensitive applications including aviation. He co-developed an award-winning turbulence forecasting algorithm that has made billions of air passenger journeys smoother and safer, and he led the now-famous discovery that climate change is increasing severe turbulence on flights. He has published two books and over 70 scientific papers in leading journals, including Nature. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and the Royal Meteorological Society. He is a consultant to Guinness World Records on extreme atmospheric events. He is also an award-winning science communicator, regularly giving public lectures and appearing in the media. He is a frequent expert commentator for major broadcasting networks including the BBC, CNN, The Discovery Channel, and The Weather Channel, and he has been quoted on the front page of the New York Times.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 2001

Peter Babudu

Peter is Executive Director of Impact on Urban Health, a foundation that collaborates with businesses, governments and communities to pioneer new ways of addressing urban health inequalities.

Peter has held a variety of roles since his time at Lincoln, including at the Bank of England as a junior economist, at Clifford Chance as a solicitor, and across a range of social sector organisations. Peter also served as a Local Councillor in Southwark Council representing his home patch, of Rye Lane, Peckham (2018-22) and as Chair of Blagrave Trust (2019-22), a foundation that works with young people to bring lasting change to their lives.

United Kingdom, Beckenham Matriculation, 1981

Peter Dawson

Peter Dawson followed a well-worn path for those wondering what to do with a history degree, joining the fast stream of the home civil service in 1984. But a posting to the prison department of the Home Office sparked a lifelong interest in how, and whom, we choose to punish. After a decade advising ministers on criminal justice policy, he left a role on the executive board of the prison service to train as a prison governor, starting with three months as an officer on the landings of Her Majesty’s prison Brixton. He came to govern two prisons, spending over 6 years in charge of HMP High Down, with the care of nearly 1200 prisoners. At High Down he oversaw the opening of the Clink, a cordon bleu restaurant within the prison walls, but open to the public and in which all the food was prepared and served by prisoners.

After two years working in the private sector, Peter joined the Prison Reform Trust, an advocacy charity championing the human rights of prisoners, becoming its director in 2016. Following retirement in 2023, he is now the Sir Leon Radzinowicz visiting fellow at the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1977

Prof Peter V. Coveney

Peter Coveney is a Professor of Physical Chemistry, Honorary Professor of Computer Science, and Director of the Centre for Computational Science (CCS) and Associate Director of the Advanced Research Computing Centre at University College London (UCL). He is also Professor of Applied High Performance Computing at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Professor Adjunct at the Yale School of Medicine, Yale University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Member of Academia Europaea. Dr Coveney has made outstanding contributions across a wide range of scientific and engineering fields, including physics, chemistry, chemical engineering, materials, computer science, high performance computing and biomedicine, much of it harnessing the power of supercomputing to conduct original research at unprecedented space and time scales. He has shown influential leadership across these fields, manifested through running multiple initiatives and multi-partner interdisciplinary grants, in the UK, Europe and the US.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 2013

Petros Bozatsis

Petros Bozatzis is a seasoned technology and investment professional, boasting over two decades of expertise in pivotal leadership roles across consulting, technology, and financial services sectors. His unwavering commitment lies in empowering clients to maximize their investments, particularly through the exploration of groundbreaking technologies that offer unique advantages. Petros is an avid explorer of new frontiers, including the Metaverse, where he delves into its transformative potential.

Beyond his corporate pursuits, Petros actively engages in various social impact initiatives and charitable organizations, tirelessly working to make a positive impact both in the United Kingdom and abroad. During his leisure time, Petros channels his passion for sustainability by spearheading real estate development projects across the globe. Additionally, he indulges in the meticulous art of restoring classic cars and motorbikes.

Petros holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Anglia Polytechnic University complemented by a Master of Business Administration from the University of Oxford. His extensive experience and unwavering commitment to innovation and social impact make him a prominent figure in the realms of technology, investments, and philanthropy.

United Kingdom, Leatherhead Matriculation, 1972

Sir Philip Hampton

After leaving Lincoln in 1975 Philip joined PWC, working in London and then West Africa, qualifying as a chartered accountant in 1978 and completing an MBA at INSEAD in France in 1981. Over the next 4 decades he held a number of senior financial roles at Lazards, the investment bank, and then as finance director of British Steel, British Gas, British Telecom and Lloyds Bank.

In 2004 Philip became chairman of Sainsburys, a major supermarket chain. In 2009, in the wake of the banking crisis, he was appointed chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland, which had avoided failure by a government rescue. In 2016 he became chairman of GSK, the global pharmaceuticals company. Most of the businesses in which he worked were undergoing significant structural and strategic change.

Philip was knighted in 2005 for services to business. He carried out two formal Reviews for the UK government. The first was in 2004/5 on behalf of the Treasury, into making business regulation and enforcement more effective. The second, from 2015-2020 was on behalf of the Business Department into improving the representation of women at the top levels of business, on boards and in senior management.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 2012

Rachel Jeal

Rachel joined the Civil Service on the Fast Stream Graduate Scheme directly after leaving Lincoln. During this time she undertook roles working on social care policy in the Department of Health and Social Care, worked on Legal Aid, and carried out a secondment at Homerton University Hospital. In her final year of the scheme she worked as Private Secretary to the Minister of State for Prisons and Probation in the Ministry of Justice leading on prison and probation safety and security. After a short time in a policy role in the Ministry of Justice she moved to the Cabinet Office where she led on technology policy, working with industry both at home and overseas to develop the UK's policy on online harms. Most recently Rachel has moved to the Foreign, Development and Commonwealth Office where she has taken up a position as a team leader.

United Kingdom, Oxford Matriculation, 1964

Prof Raymond Dwek CBE, FRS, FRSC

Raymond is the founder and Director of the Oxford Glycobiology Institute (1991). He established the Oxford GlycoSciences Ltd (OGS), the first spin-out company from Oxford University. He defined the principles for exploiting the properties of paramagnetic ions in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) of biological systems, founded the field of glycobiology and delivered an FDA/EMEA approved iminosugar drug for Gaucher’s and other glycolipid storage diseases.

In 2013 Raymond received the CBE for services to UK/Israel scientific collaboration. Raymond helped build and direct the flagship National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, which is a force for the development of the Negev. Together with Oxford University, he initiated collaborative work on water development and biotechnology with both Israelis and Palestinians.

He received the Order of Merit (O.M.) from the President of Romania for services to UK/Romania collaborations.

He is a Director of United Therapeutics, USA, a pioneering biotechnology company with five FDA approved drugs for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension and a leader in organ manufacturing and xenotransplantation.

Raymond is a promoter of diversity and equality both in science and society. He was part of the revolution to admit outstanding students, especially girls, from local schools in Oxford.

United Kingdom, Southampton Matriculation, 2005

Rebecca Gould

Following graduation, Rebecca remained in Oxford for her Foundation Programme training. She went on to complete specialty training in General Practice, and undertook a Postgraduate Diploma in Sport and Exercise Medicine at the University of Bath.

After two years working as a GP in rural Devon, Rebecca returned to Oxford in 2018 to undertake specialty training in Sport and Exercise Medicine, gaining Fellowship to the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine in 2023. A former Fellow at Cochrane UK, she has been involved in outreach and educational work around evidenced based practice. Rebecca has an interest in physical activity and health. She has contributed to several Moving Medicine projects, which aim to promote participation in physical activity, and has presented on this topic at national and international conferences.

Rebecca has been Team Doctor for Oxford University Rugby Football Club and was a Sports Doctor at the 2022 Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham, working in the athlete’s village and on the field of play for athletics and cricket.

Currently, Rebecca works as Women’s and Girls Team Doctor at Southampton Football Club, and is a locum Sport and Exercise Medicine Consultant for the Ministry of Defence.

United Kingdom, Oxford Matriculation, 2008

Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler

Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler is an Associate Professor in International Refugee Law and co-Chair of LGBTQIA+ staff network at the University of Reading, which he joined in 2012. He is Associate Academic Fellow of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple; Research Associate of the Refugee Studies Centre (Oxford); Editor, the Reporter, Society of Legal Scholars, and former section convenor of the Migration & Asylum and of the Human Rights subject sections; Senior Research Associate, Refugee Law Initiative (IALS) and editor of its Working Paper Series; Co-Convenor of the ‘Migration and Exclusion Under Constitutions’ Research Group, International Association of Constitutional Law; Visiting Professor, University of Johannesburg Faculty of Law. He chairs New Europeans UK, a charity. His research interests lie in international refugee law and access to asylum; international humanitarian law; international human rights; citizenship and its contents (including electoral participation). He holds DPhil, MPhil, BCL degrees from the University of Oxford, an LLM (public law) from the Hebrew University, and LLB & BA (economics) from the University of Haifa. He lives in Oxford and is happily married to his South African husband :)

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 2009

Rhea Newman

Rhea started her career in local government, undertaking a two-year graduate scheme at Surrey County Council. Following the graduate scheme, Rhea continued working at the council in several policy and partnerships roles, before moving on to work at Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity. At Shelter, Rhea worked on policy issues focused on improving the rights of private renters, including banning letting agent fees and campaigning for an end to no-fault evictions.

At the start of 2019, Rhea began working at Mind, the mental health charity, where her role focused on influencing parliament to support changes to improve the lives of people struggling with their mental health.

In late 2020, Rhea joined the Wellcome Trust where she is currently working as a Senior Policy Adviser. Wellcome are a funder of global health research and Rhea’s current work is focused on supporting Wellcome’s mental health research programme, which is looking to find ways to intervene earlier to support people with anxiety, depression and psychosis.

Outside of work, Rhea has for many years been volunteering as a listening volunteer for a suicide prevention helpline. Building on her interest in suicide prevention, in 2020 Rhea was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to undertake a research project in Japan, learning about different approaches to suicide prevention.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1972

Richard Eyre CBE

Richard Eyre’s first job was in advertising where, over 16 years he became Media director of BBH. Following this he was hired as CEO of Capital Radio plc and after 6 years, as CEO of the ITV Network. His executive career rounded out as CEO of TV producer, Pearson TV (now Fremantle), and Director of Content and Strategy at RTL plc in 2001.

Since then, he has held a wide range of non-executive and advisory roads across start-ups, quoted, PE-backed and not-for-profit organisations, including The UK Internet Advertising Bureau, The Eden Project, Next 15 plc and the Guardian Media Group.

He was awarded the advertising’s highest prize, The Mackintosh Medal in 2013 and awarded a CBE in Queen Elizabeth’s New Year Honours in 2014.

He has trekked to the North and South Poles and runs an online radio station from his garden shed.

He is married with two kids and five grand-children (the real achievements).

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1966

Richard Hardie

Richard Hardie won an Old Members Scholarship to Lincoln in 1966 and read French and History.

Richard qualified as an accountant. In 1977 he joined SG Warburg & Co, an investment bank. He was involved in managing its expansion and with the development of European equities markets. In 1995 Warburgs was bought by Swiss Bank Corporation which itself merged with UBS. His last executive role was as the bank’s COO in EMEA.

Richard became non-executive in 2006 to complete UBS’s establishment of a state-funded secondary school in Hackney, a deprived London borough. He is still Vice-Chair of Trustees. In 2003 he became a Director (subsequently Chair) of the Hackney Education Authority, a non-profit mandated to turn round the borough’s 80 educational settings. This was achieved by 2012.

From 2010-2016 Richard was non-executive chairman of UBS Investment Bank in London. He now chairs its Pension Scheme.

Richard chaired Lincoln’s Development Committee from 2011-22, a period in which the endowment grew from xx to xx. He was alumnus representative on the Governing Body for six years.

Richard was a founder Director of the Fair Education Alliance. He is Honorary President of the Chartered Institute of Linguists and Chair of the Finance Committee of the London Symphony Orchestra. He has eight grandchildren and step-grandchildren.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1971

Richard Kornicki CBE DL

Richard Kornicki read English and then worked with antiquarian books, first cataloguing early printed books in Durham Cathedral library, then as a bookseller in London. He later joined the Home Office where he found that a weekly essay and a probing tutorial proved the ideal preparation for briefing Secretaries of State. He was variously responsible for civil emergencies, police reform, counter-terrorism, and setting up the Serious Organised Crime Agency. He also served on secondment in the Cabinet Office and the Department of Health. His final post in the Home Office was as Director of Serious Crime.

In retirement, he has become Chairman of the Polish Air Force Memorial Committee, a Trustee of the Friends of No. 11 Group Operations Rooms (the Battle of Britain Bunker), and Chairman of the Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Whitby,

He was made a CBE in 2000, and in 2011 he was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Polish Republic. In 2014 he was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London and in 2016 became the Representative Deputy Lieutenant for the London Borough of Ealing where his time is divided between ceremonial representation of the Crown and encouragement of the voluntary sector.

United Kingdom, Winchester Matriculation, 1992

Richard Osgood

Following graduation with an MLitt in archaeology, Richard worked for the Professor of European Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology in Beaumont Street as his Research Assistant. Subsequent moves saw him joining the Ministry of Defence and he has now worked there for 20 years as their senior archaeologist, running a team of heritage professionals within the MOD. He has published widely on the north European Bronze Age and on archaeologies of the infantry, Anglo-Saxon sites on Salisbury Plain and most recently on the archaeology of Operation Nightingale; a programme utilising archaeology to aid the recovery of service personnel post conflict. This fieldwork has examined sites from the Neolithic through to those of the Second World War. His fieldwork features regularly on television - from BBC 'Digging for Britain' to C4 'Time Team' and he was also fortunate enough to advise Philip Pulman on archaeology for 'His Dark Materials' trilogy. In 2019 he was voted 'Archaeologist of the Year' by Current Archaeology and in 2021 awarded the MBE for services to Defence and Heritage. He now lives in Winchester, Hampshire.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1998

Rishi Sunak MP

The Rt Hon. Rishi Sunak MP is a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, following his election as Leader of the Conservative Party. He is the first Lincoln graduate to hold the office. Rishi matriculated at Lincoln in 1998 to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics, graduating in 2001 with a first-class degree. He later studied for his MBA at Stanford University. He has worked in the financial sector, and was Head of the Black and Minority Ethnic Research Unit at Policy Exchange. In 2015, he was elected as MP for Richmond, Yorkshire.

As an MP, Mr Sunak served as Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. In 2019, Mr Sunak was appointed Chief Secretary to HM Treasury and made a member of the Privy Council. He was Chancellor of the Exchequer, 2020–22.

United Kingdom, Hereford Matriculation, 1968

Sir Robert Rogers Lord Lisvane

Lord Lisvane (Sir Robert Rogers) came up to Lincoln in 1968 as a scholar to read Old English, Mediaeval Welsh and Old Norse. He played cricket, real tennis and hockey for the College, and for University second teams, and captained the College’s University Challenge team to the semi-finals. He joined the House of Commons Service as an Assistant Clerk in 1972. In a career spanning 42 years, he served in every office in the House, culminating in appointment as Clerk Assistant in 2009 and Clerk of the House and Chief Executive in 2011. He was knighted in 2012 and received a life peerage as a Cross-Bencher (only the third Clerk of the House to do so) in 2014.

Lisvane is an Honorary Fellow of the College, a Deputy Lieutenant for Herefordshire, an Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple, a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, and High Steward of the City of Hereford. He was Master of the Skinners’ Company 2018/19. He is joint author of How Parliament Works (5th-8th editions) and author of two Parliamentary miscellanies: Order! Order! and Who Goes Home? His governance reviews include Tynwald and the Isle of Man, and the Corporation of the City of London.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1975

Robert Seatter

Robert Seatter is a poet, actor, historian and broadcaster.

Following spells in teaching and journalism, he joined the BBC in 1989 and stayed with the Corporation for 30 years becoming its Head of History, and publishing its centenary history in 2022. The latter explored the key role of the BBC in the life of the nation, reflecting the story of all our lives across the changing decades.

In parallel, he is also an award-winning poet, with six collections to his name, and a passionate interest in taking poetry out into the wider world, engaging with people and spaces in new and vibrant ways. A unique residency with the Sir John Soane’s Museum resulted in the acclaimed collection, The House of Everything.

A skilled arts professional, Robert is also Chair of The Poetry Trust and The Poetry Archive

United Kingdom, Bedford Matriculation, 1964

Rupert Britton

Rupert John Britton studied jurisprudence at Lincoln, matriculating in 1964. He qualified as a Solicitor in 1970 and began his career working for the Greater London Council. In 1980 he joined the Legal Department of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). From 1994 to 2010 he was Secretary and Legal Adviser at the CAA. During his time at the CAA he was Secretary to Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (1986 - 1995) and to Air Safety Support International Limited (2000 - 2010) which involved aviation safety in the British Overseas Territories. He was also a Trustee of the Air Travel Trust (1994 - 2010) which helps provide financial back up for air package holidays. Upon retirement in 2010 from CAA he returned to farming in Bedfordshire.

United Kingdom, Guildford Matriculation, 1982

Rev Sally Jane Davies

Sally came to her faith partly through membership of Lincoln's Chapel Choir and experience of worship in the Chapel. After graduation she worked for two years as a full-time voluntary worker in a parish in Manchester followed by a year working in her home city of Birmingham on an interdenominational Christian celebration led by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. She then studied for a theology degree at Trinity College, Bristol, was ordained deacon in 1992 in Guildford Cathedral and served her curacy in that diocese. In 1994, she was among the first women in the Church of England to be ordained priest. After ten months living and working alongside the Roman Catholic community of The Grail in Middlesex, assisting with retreats and workshops, she served in parish ministry in the diocese of Oxford and as the first civilian chaplain of the Chapel of The Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, where she was also chaplain of Trinity College of Music and the University of Greenwich, as well as to the Greenwich (Deptford & Rotherhithe) Sea Cadets. In 2006 she married Kevin Garvey, then a member of Her Majesty’s Diplomatic Service, and they now live in the beautiful village of Shamley Green, back in the diocese of Guildford, where Sally is vicar of Christ Church, the parish church.

United Kingdom, Cheltenham Matriculation, 2017

Samuel Mendis

After graduating from the University of Oxford in 2021 with an MEng in Engineering Science, Sam started a role with the Mercedes F1 Esports team as the Performance Engineer. As the lead engineer on the project Sam’s role was wide ranging, including race strategy, performance software and driver coaching. During 2021, the Esports team won both the Drivers and Constructors Championship.

After spending 2 years with the Esports team, Sam was as offered a role working in the F1 project with Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant F1 Team as a race strategist. In this role, Sam has been working closely with the performance group and conducts race support during every race weekend. Since joining, Sam has enjoyed Aston Martins’s recent successes, including a podium after a chaotic race at the Dutch Grand Prix.

United Kingdom, Oxford Matriculation, 1999

Sandy Arbuthnott

Sandy graduated from Lincoln with a degree in Engineering Science in 2003, before joining the Royal Navy as a pilot. After 8 years spent flying various fixed-wing aircraft on the road to becoming a Harrier jump jet pilot, including 2 years as a fast jet instructor, he left the navy in 2012 after the Harrier was discontinued.

He completed an MBA at London Business School, before spending 4 years at global management consultancy firm Bain & Company.

Looking to move back to aviation, he joined FTSE100 aerospace engineering company Meggitt, where he led a major transformation programme to build a 500k ft2 factory – merging 5 separate business units into 1, and creating a modern and inclusive workplace for 1000 people.

Increasingly aware of the risks (and opportunities) associated with climate change, he jumped at the chance to become Meggitt’s first Chief Sustainability Officer in 2021, committing to science based targets, and developing a comprehensive global sustainability transformation programme.

Since 2023, Sandy has been Director, Ventures of decarbonisation and hydrogen start-up HiiROC – commercialising transformational technology to economically convert waste streams, biomethane and natural gas into low emissions hydrogen and solid carbon black.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1992

Dr Sara Ghorashian

Sara Ghorashian is Consultant Paediatric Haematologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at UCL-GOS-Institute of Child Health, London, UK. After receiving her medical degree from the University of Oxford, Dr Ghorashian undertook a PhD in T-cell receptor gene engineering of therapeutic T-cells at University College London. For her post-doctoral studies at the UCL Institute of Child Health, she led the bench to bedside development of CATCAR/ AUTO1, a new chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell product for therapy of paediatric acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). This novel CAR T cell product showed equivalent efficacy to the licensed product, with favourable toxicity and persistence profiles. AUTO1 is now licensed to Autolus Ltd and is the subject of a pivotal study in adults. Dr Ghorashian’s research group focuses on CAR T cell fitness and the optimisation / development of novel CAR immunotherapies for acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) and ALL. She chairs the Advanced Cellular Therapy Sub-Committee of British Society of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy and the UK National CAR T Advisory Panel for paediatric ALL. She lives in Muswell Hill London with her sons Kian and Aram, husband Steve and their monster dog, Halla. She enjoys cooking, cycling on her brompton and campervan trips.

United Kingdom, Cheltenham Matriculation, 1994

Sarah Goddard (Bolton)

After leaving Lincoln, Sarah Goddard experimented with several career paths, working in an art gallery, as a researcher for an MP, and for a book publishing company, before settling into a career in publishing, first as a journalist and magazine editor, and then as an online non-fiction writer and editor. During this time, she also supplemented her PPE degree by studying for a MA in philosophy at the University of London.

Having moved to Cheltenham, Sarah now combines voluntary work—as a trustee for Inclusion Gloucestershire, a user-led pan-disability charity, and Unlimited, an arts commissioning body that supports, funds and promotes new work by disabled artists for UK and international audiences—with working as an artist, writer and editor. The colours, shapes, textures and patterns of the natural world can calm or enliven us, and Sarah draws inspiration from them when creating her mixed-media artworks. Being sight-impaired, Sarah’s art is often based on local landscapes that she can reach on foot, in a style that represents something of the way in which she perceives the world.

Sarah has exhibited locally, and was a 2022-2023 artist-in-residence at The Wilson, Cheltenham’s art gallery and museum, where she is now a member of the creative community panel. She is determined to work through her various roles to influence organisations to improve the lives of people who face disabling barriers.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 2000

Sheraz Arif

Sheraz has a unique background in design, finance and business start-ups. He has a MEng Engineering, Economics & Management (Oxford) and an MA/MSc Industrial Design Engineering (RCA & Imperial College). He also has 7 years’ finance experience (JP Morgan & ING Investment Bank), fundraised for multiple start-ups and co-founded two creative businesses. The first was cofounded with fellow Lincoln Alumni Richard Antwi, in their final year at Oxford, specialising in diversity recruitment and student-focused product design. As the CEO and co-founder of Squease (his second company and an RCA spin out) he alongside other designers designed a non-pharmaceutical aid for people struggling with anxiety. Squease were able to develop the initial idea into an award winning, globally distributed, indispensable product for the medical industry. The company was sold in 2023 and Sheraz currently teaches Innovation and Entrepreneurship on the degree courses at Imperial and the RCA.

United Kingdom, Cheltenham Matriculation, 2011

Shirley Halse

Having studied English Language and Literature (2011), Shirley Halse did not want all of the 4am essay writing to go to waste. Shocked that upon leaving university she wasn't offered a role at Downing Street as an Emergency Poetry Analyst (surely they must need them?), in 2018 she set up The Alternative Book Club in order to recycle rusting odd knowledge about Old English and Renaissance sonnet sequences into stand up comedy about books.

Since then she has toured to at least four locations, including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, to share all the hot content the world has never asked about pre-20th century Literature, including: did Jonathan Swift predict Instagram? And what icks could John Milton have given Satan to make him more dislikable?

This year, she will be hosting a comedy show as part of the Cheltenham Science Festival and returning to the Edinburgh Fringe with The Alternative Book Club, a stand-up sketch show - and an increasingly chaotic toddler.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1976

Simon Acland

Simon Acland has spent most of his career as a venture capital investor in early stage technology companies. From 1988-2007 he was at Quester, where he built the ICT investment practice and was lucky enough to be backing software companies during the first glorious phase of the internet, including Surfcontrol and Orchestream, both public company “unicorns” in current jargon. After Quester was sold, he has been an angel investor, chair and non-executive director of and adviser to many companies and investment funds. In 2017 he co-founded Green Angel Ventures, the reference early stage investor for UK climate innovation, which he chairs.

So far he has four books to his name: two historical novels, The Waste Land and The Flowers of Evil, set during the First Crusade and inspired by studying 12th and 13th Century French Grail Romances under Donald Whitton at Lincoln; and two business books, including a guide for entrepreneurs to the world of venture capital called Angels, Dragons and Vultures: how to tame your investors…and not lose your company.

Earlier, in the 1980s, he was active in politics, serving two terms on Lambeth Council and fighting Vauxhall in the 1987 General Election in the SDP/Liberal Alliance interest.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 2004

Simon Hay

Simon cofounded an edtech software business with a fellow Lincoln student to solve their own frustrations with learning online, and built it as a sideline throughout his time at Oxford, a PhD at Cambridge and a stint on the trading floor at Goldman Sachs before quitting the City to work on it full-time. He led it through two rounds of venture capital and the acquisition of two other startups to a successful exit to a US-based strategic investor, where he now helps lead the combined European business. He’s also volunteered as a flying instructor with the Air Cadets and a governor and Chair at several schools and trusts across London.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1986

Sonali Naik KC

After leaving Lincoln in 1989 having studied Jurisprudence, Sonali Naik qualified as a barrister in 1991. She worked in various law centres for five years before returning to independent practice. She took silk (appointed then as Queen’s Counsel) in 2018, and remains one of the few women of colour at the Bar to do so (approximately 1% - or in real terms - one of about 25 !). Whilst her clients originate from around the globe and the focus of her work is human rights and migration, Sonali has practised from Garden Court chambers in London since 1998. She has appeared in a number of high-profile cases including the ‘Rwanda’ litigation, and has acted for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Sonali was Chair of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, Chair of Liberty and a trustee of Freedom from Torture. She is a member of the JUSTICE Council, the Liberty Council and has been elected as a Bencher of Middle Temple. She is also a patron of Clean Break. In 2020 Sonali was invited to Chair Lincoln’s Anti-Racism Commission which reported back in 2021, making a series of recommendations to the college which are being actively implemented.

United Kingdom, Bristol Matriculation, 1990

Sophie Tucker

Sophie graduated from Lincoln College in 1994, with an Honours Chemistry degree, and joined the graduate scheme of AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals. As a Process Development Chemist, Sophie was immersed in the development of synthetic methods to manufacture potential medicines, enabling successful scale-up from the development lab to pilot plant production. With this experience, Sophie was chosen to lead the design, establishment and management of a new large scale laboratory in Bristol, which was a challenging but very fulfilling role.

Following the birth of her two children, Sophie took the opportunity to train to be an accredited Lean 6 Sigma Black Belt, responsible for the introduction and leadership of continuous improvement across two UK sites. Networking led Sophie to use these transferable skills to make the move into the Aviation industry, joining a continuous improvement team at Airbus, a global aircraft manufacturer. Sophie has held several positions throughout her career at Airbus, successfully leading the implementation of Lean and continuous improvement techniques across the Wing Design Department in several European locations. During the last 5 years, Sophie has expanded her leadership and responsibilities to include the governance of resource and workload management, strategy development and implementation, digital enablement and change management. Her current role is Head of Business Operations.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1995

Stephen Muers

Stephen joined the UK Civil Service after leaving Lincoln, working in a range of strategy and policy roles including the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit, the Cabinet Secretariat and the Ministry of Justice. In 2016 he left government and is now CEO of Big Society Capital, the UK's leading social impact investor which has a mission to increase the amount of capital invested in tackling social problems in the UK. He is also chair of the Friends Provident Foundation, an independent grant-maker focused on building a fairer economy. In 2020 he published "Culture and Values at the Heart of Policy-Making" with Policy Press, which made the Grattan Institute's 2020 list of top 10 books for policy-makers.

United Kingdom, Oxford Matriculation, 1999

Steve Smith

When Steve studied Physics at Lincoln as an undergraduate, climate change wasn’t on the syllabus; not even in the option on atmospheres and oceans. Yet the subject was growing rapidly as a field of scientific research and as a societal dilemma.

A PhD in Atmospheric Physics at Imperial College London followed, alongside time spent writing science for wider audiences. Steve had the good fortune to finish his studies in 2008, just as the Government was passing the UK’s first major climate legislation. This created a new Climate Change Committee, which Steve joined as scientist. His first job was to help formulate the target of an 80% reduction in UK greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

Steve then co-led the climate science programme within Government. By this time, both the global ambition to tackle climate change and the economics of action had moved on. He was thus involved in the analysis and advice to ministers that upgraded the 2050 target to a 100% reduction, or “net zero” emissions.

Steve returned to academia and Oxford in 2020. He now leads Oxford Net Zero, a multi-disciplinary project bringing together researchers from across the University.

In addition to advising policymakers he has helped Ladybird and Usborne write books on climate change for all ages.

United Kingdom, Northampton Matriculation, 2021

Tanya Nyadzayo

Ms. Nyadzayo holds an MSc in Migration Studies from Oxford's Department of International Development and was honored as an inaugural fellow at the Oxford SDG Lab. During her tenure at Lincoln College, she was a recipient of the Lord Crewe Graduate Scholarship and the Sloane Robinson Master’s Award. Throughout her undergraduate studies Ms. Nyadzayo pursued a major in Economics, where she exhibited a passion for driving change. It was during this time that she embarked on a mission to enhance healthcare accessibility for school-aged girls in sub-Saharan Africa through a startup initiative. Presently, Ms. Nyadzayo serves as a Trading Analyst at the American investment firm PIMCO, in portfolio management. Prior to her role at PIMCO, she gained experience at the London-based private equity firm, Vitruvian Partners.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1997

Dr Tara Swart Bieber (nee Banerji)

Tara Swart Bieber BM BCh, PhD, is a former medical doctor, neuroscientist, faculty at MIT Sloan, executive advisor, brand ambassador, author of best seller ‘The Source’ which is published in 38 languages, and host of the podcast ‘Reinvent Yourself with Dr Tara’ which charted to No. 1 in life sciences on Apple Podcasts in the U.K. and USA, No 1 in science on Spotify in the U.K. and No 1 in science on Apple Podcasts in the U.K.

Tara has over 200,000 followers on Instagram and is also a song writer, and a trustee of the Lady Garden foundation for gynaecological cancers.

United Kingdom, St Leonards-on-Sea Matriculation, 1987

Tessa Boase

Journalist and social historian Tessa Boase spent three years uncovering the women’s story behind the early RSPB for her book, Etta Lemon: The Woman Who Saved the Birds (2018). Her first book investigated life below stairs in the English country house: The Housekeeper’s Tale (2014). Her latest book, London’s Lost Department Stores (2022), brings to life the human stories behind the once-familiar names of fifty great emporia, from Gamages to Gorringes, Bearmans to Bodgers. She relishes the detective work involved in resurrecting the lives of ordinary women, from shop girls to shop lifters, feather workers to fashionistas.

Tessa read English at Lincoln, where she devoted much of her time to student drama and journalism. She edited Isis in 1990, graduating in that year of acute recession to find work on a film industry magazine. Her first interview was with an unknown film director, Anthony Minghella, who offered her a job. She turned it down! Tessa went on to work at the Daily and Sunday Telegraph as a commissioning editor, before turning to freelance feature writing for the national press.

She now combines writing with teaching for the Royal Literary Fund and lecturing for the Arts Society, among others. Tessa lives on the Sussex coast with her family.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1962

The Rt Hon Sir Andrew Longmore

Sir Andrew Longmore matriculated as an Oldfield Scholar in Rector Oakeshott’s time and read Law under Brian Simpson and Michael Furmston. He graduated with a First in Jurisprudence in 1965 and then became a Teaching Associate at Northwestern University, Chicago for 6 months. He passed the Bar Exams in 1966 and became a pupil to Robert Goff( later Lord Goff of Chieveley and Senior Law Lord) who had himself been a Fellow of Lincoln in the 1950s. While briefs were slow in coming during his early days at the Bar, he taught law at Lincoln as a weekend tutor, giving 2 tutorials after dinner on Fridays and 3 on Saturday mornings. That ended in 1972 and he remained at the Bar in commercial chambers at 7 King’s Bench Walk. He became a QC in 1983 and a judge of the Commercial Court in 1993, when he was knighted. He was appointed to the Court of Appeal in 2001 where he remained for 18 years ending up as the senior member. In 2002 Lincoln made him an Honorary Fellow and he much enjoyed returning to judge moots and taking part in other college activities.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1987

Tom Butler

In the 1990s there were few direct routes into journalism - and Tom's editor roles on the 'Lincoln Imp' and 'Imperative' were not quite enough to win a place on prestigious media training schemes. So it was trial, error - and volunteer. The economy was also tanking, so Tom eventually decamped to Hong Kong where he spent four years in local media - three of them at the TV station, ATV (Asia Television). It was the perfect training ground for presenting, producing, reporting and editing - with guidance from colleagues who had graduated from top American and Australian journalism schools. Tom returned to London as a producer for the BBC international service BBC World (later BBC World News). This led to stints on the newly created BBC news website as well as editor of the World Debates - a series of panel discussions with international dignitaries in different global cities. He was a launch producer for BBC Persian and has also trained journalists in Africa, Asia and Europe for the World Service and the BBC's Media Action development project . He is currently a senior producer and assistant editor on the relaunched BBC news channel (covering international and UK rolling news) - and a rep for the NUJ (National Union of Journalists).

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 2008

Tom Daggett

Tom Daggett has had a noted career as an innovative educator, conductor and organist, priotisitng children at risk of exlcusion, and working in diverse and often under-resourced communities. His work with Citizens UK, the national home of community organising, has galvanised musical forces from across different faith traditions and cultural backgrounds for Prime Ministerial and Mayoral election debates. In 2021, Tom established the Choir Church Foundation, which is resourcing congregations and children’s choirs in schools across the UK. Tom spent nine years as a musician at St Paul’s Cathedral in London, where he catalysed an effective music education scheme, with the support of the Order of the British Empire. Tom founded the Hackney Children’s Choir, a Senior Choir with support from the Mayor of London, and now holds the position of Director of Music & Schools Singing Programme at Sheffield Cathedral. In this role, cathedral music is being pioneered and broadened by placing education across the Diocese at its centre. Tom held the Hollingsworth Organ Scholarship at Lincoln College, from which he obtained a First Class degree in Music, having studied the organ at Blackburn Cathedral prior to his Oxford studies.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1985

Tony Curzon Price

Tony left Lincoln in June 1990, 2 years later than anticipated, and 7 months after the fall of the Berlin wall. He spent the early 90s as a loyal servant for the "Washington consensus", trying to spread market liberalisation beyond the UK, to Russia & China. He earned a PhD in economics at UCL and was caught up in the dot com boom during his post-doc. He founded and raised funds for a silicon chip design business which took him & his young family to Silicon Valley. 9/11, the Iraq War and, generally, the return of history brought him out of the tech bubble and he took the reins at openDemocracy, then a pioneering online news & comment publication. After 7 years of largely oppositional journalism, he became a public servant, returning to economics, first at the Competition Commission, then in ministerial private office. He now does advisory work in the public and voluntary sectors, and has just been appointed to become a non-executive director of Ofgem, the UK's energy regulator.

United Kingdom, London Matriculation, 1998

Will Pavia

Will Pavia became a journalist for the Southwark News and then for The Times. He covered the Beijing Olympics, the earthquake in Haiti, several bloody crimes in the Caribbean and Central America and the 2010 election campaign of Nick Clegg. He was appointed the paper's New York Correspondent in 2010, writing about the Big Apple and interviewing big cheeses, from Henry Kissinger to Susan Sarandon to the late lamented internet celebrity Grumpy Cat. He was at Donald Trump's victory party in Manhattan in 2016, at his criminal trial and conviction in 2024 and at his reelection celebration in Palm Beach five months later. He was married at City Hall in New York and lives in Manhattan with his wife and three small New Yorkers.

United Kingdom, Oxford Matriculation, 2022

Zorawer Singh

Zorawer completed the Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford in 2023. At Oxford, he co-founded the Fintech Club and was an Investment Director at the Oxford Seed Fund.

Prior to pursuing the MBA, Zorawer spent 8 years building products and leading multiple growth initiatives at venture backed technology startups across fintech, hyperlocal logistics, and social media industries. As an energetic, collaborative, and results-driven intrapreneur, he enjoys taking new products, services, and ideas from 0 to 1 and scaling them further into fully fledged business verticals. Zorawer's last role before starting the MBA was leading the buildout of innovative banking products at Stashfin, one of the largest neobanks in India. As the Associate Vice President of Product, he led large cross-functional teams from Product, Technology, Data Science, and Design across New Delhi, Singapore, and New York.

Outside of work, Zorawer enjoys mountaineering, skiing, traveling, and being outdoors.

France, Clermont-Ferrand Matriculation, 1986

Alison Culliford

Alison Culliford read English at Lincoln from 1986-1989 and worked as a journalist in London for the next decade, including writing for British Airways High Life and becoming the deputy editor of Business Life. Travel writing gave her the desire to stay longer in one place and “really get under the skin of a foreign country and culture” so she moved to Paris in 2001 to work for Time Out, where she also studied for a diploma in haute couture and became a translator for French luxury brands. Since 2011, she has worked for the France-based English-language pan-African publication The Africa Report, becoming chief sub-editor in 2023. From an old farmhouse in rural Auvergne, she manages a team of sub-editors in Nairobi and Cape Town and joins editorial meetings with correspondents in the major capitals of the African continent. “The combination of smartphones, encrypted messaging and subscription-based online journalism enables us to do things I couldn’t imagine when I started out with a typewriter and a pica ruler in 1990,” she says. “We are able to put out breaking news almost instantaneously, reaching an audience all over the globe with African stories told by African journalists.”

France, Marseille Matriculation, 1958

Sir Christopher MacRae KCMG

British diplomat. Rugby School. Then two years in the RN (midshipman on HMS Ark Royal IV), followed by 9 months travel in Africa, driving from Ghana to Uganda and hitch-hiking from Nairobi to Cape Town. At Lincoln graduated in Eng. Lit (2/1); President of JCR and of the Lincoln Players, and co-edited the Lincoln Imp. Won a Henry Fellowship for a year of post-grad study in African history and politics at Harvard 1961-2. Entered the Commonwealth Relations Office 1962 (merged with Foreign Office in 1965), and was almost at once posted to Dar es Salaam. Learned Arabic for 18 months at MECAS, in Lebanon; then posted to Beirut. Subsequent postings abroad included Baghdad, Brussels, the European Commission, Libreville (Ambassador), Paris, Tehran (Head of Mission), Lagos (High Commissioner), and Islamabad (High Commissioner). After retiring from the DS in 1997, he became Secretary-General of the Order of Saint John 1997 - 2001; and later taught “Diplomacy” as assistant professor at the American Graduate School in Paris. Married Mette Willert in 1963: they have lived full-time in Provençe since 2008; and have two daughters, Christina and Pia. Leisure activities include mountaineering and running marathons.

France, Paris Matriculation, 1998

Samuel Taieb

Samuel is a law graduate of Paris Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas and a Lincoln College alumnus where he studied English and Comparative Law.

He has specialized in intellectual property and heritage law. He started his career at the Musée du Louvre legal department. He then became Chief Legal Officer for Paris Musées, the city of Paris' museum network, which he helped set up in 2012. He has worked with museums all over the world to organize and produce international exhibitions and cultural events and has led the initiative to implement the first Open Content museum policy in France which made all pictures of artworks from the city of Paris’ collections freely available to all.

In 2019, Samuel became general counsel of France Muséums, the company which coordinated the efforts leading to creation of Louvre Abu Dhabi, the first universal museum in the Arab world. He now occupies the position of general secretary and is currently completing an MBA program in Paris.

Samuel lives in Paris with his wife and 11-year-old daughter whose voice bears hints of a British accent when she speaks English. He reckons this reflects the wonderful time he spent at Lincoln College and in Oxford which he often prattles about.

France, Paris Matriculation, 1988

Simon Kuper

Simon Kuper (born in Kampala, Uganda in 1969) was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford and Harvard. He has been working for the Financial Times since 1994, and now writes a general column for the newspaper.

He is a British-French dual citizen who lives with his wife and three children in Paris. He is the author of several books including Football Against the Enemy (winner of the William Hill prize for Sports Book of the Year 1994), Ajax, The Dutch, The War: Football in Europe During the Second World War (2003), and – as co-author with Stefan Szymanski - Soccernomics (2009).

His recent books include The Happy Traitor, his biography of the double agent George Blake (2021) and Barça: The Rise and Fall of the Club that Invented Modern Football (2021), which won the Sunday Times award for Football Book of the Year. His Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK, appeared in 2022 and became a Sunday Times bestseller. His Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century is due out in April 2024.

Awards for his journalism range from the Manuel Vázquez Montalbán prize for sportswriting in 2008 to the British Society of Magazine Editors’ prize for Columnist of the Year in 2016 and 2020.

France, Paris Matriculation, 1979

Dr Susan Carson

Dr. Susan Carson is a scientist, experimentalist and something of a nomad who, during a 40 year career working in academic, industry and government sectors across Europe, UK, USA and Asia, always found the right laboratory, workspace and cultural context in which to ask interesting questions about 'how things worked'.

Research labs: Biochemistry of Cholinergic Neurotransmitter Receptors: Eldefrawi Lab (BA, Cornell University, USA); Laboratoire de Neurobiologie at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris, working with Jean Massoulié and Gabor Kato (Troisième Cycle, Paris VI); Cuello Lab (D.Phil., Pharmacology, Lincoln College, Oxford).

Followed by an independent career in Molecular Biology of Immunological Receptors and chromatin analysis (now 'epigenetics') of MHC Class II genes during B Cell Development at the Basel Institute of Immunology, Switzerland and NIMR, Mill Hill, London.

Then new directions into innovative organisations/Business of Science: virtual Drug Development (Protodigm, UK, Roche-funded); Research Commercialisation; 'GAP' funding (RCT, USA); licensing both high-volume, biomedical (NIH, USA) and more nascent bioresearch portfolios (ETPL, ASTAR, Singapore).

Paris-Oxford: Susan's career owed much to the collegial, intellectually rigorous, world-class environment at the ENS ('76-'79) in Paris (archetypal 'moveable feast'). Now settled in Oxford, using the Bodleian resources to both ask new questions into the Future of Research and continue long-term interests in the early Middle Ages, empires, and French chronicles.

France, Paris Matriculation, 1996

Tariq Mahmoud

Tariq wondered why no one was designing interesting shoes for men while completing his legal training contract at Clifford Chance in 2002. He also realised he didn’t see himself in a City career come 2024.

Having read about budding women’s shoe designers graduating from the London College of Fashion, Tariq started attending short courses at UAL, sketching out ideas for men’s shoes and building a portfolio with the goal of applying there himself. He continued to work as a solicitor at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher (2004 to 2006) and as a relationship manager at Merrill Lynch (2006 to 2008).

When LCF accepted him in 2008, he took it as a sign. He spent a year learning shoemaking there before spending a year exposed to Northamptonshire shoemaking through London start up Lodger Footwear in 2009. In 2010 he was accepted to the menswear MA at the Royal College of Art where he spent 2 years relearning his design ethos.

On graduating in 2012 Tariq was offered a job as men’s shoes design assistant at Paris house Givenchy. Cue 3 intense years not believing where he was! In 2015 he moved back to London for Burberry. He progressed from assistant designer to designer and then senior designer. He is back in Paris at Louis Vuitton since 2023.

Germany, Taunusstein Matriculation, 1980

Alison Hartley

On the strength of her Classics B.A. from Lincoln and her experience in editing various Cherwell student publications in the University, Alison was recruited by Procter & Gamble to join their renowned marketing department in Newcastle. Three years later, she took the opportunity to start her international career in her first brand management role with P&G in Germany. She has since spent her career in international marketing and general management roles in consumer and healthcare brand companies. After 11 years with P&G around Europe, she worked for Sara Lee as Head of global coffee innovation, Boots Healthcare International as General Manager in Iberia and then France, Boehringer Ingelheim as Global Head of Marketing for the consumer healthcare division, Sanofi and HRA-Pharma as General Manager of a large number of European markets. She has lived and worked in Belgium, France, Germany and Spain and been responsible for building well-known brands worldwide. She has always devoted time to coaching and mentoring to support developing leadership skills and believes strongly that positive change is brought about by nurturing and developing the talents of others. She divides her time between Germany and France, and continues to be an active supporter of Lincoln.

Germany, Heidelberg Matriculation, 2017

Dr Arne Scheu

Arne is Co-Founder & CEO of Valink Therapeutics, a drug discovery spin-out of the University of Oxford. He completed his DPhil in Biochemistry at Lincoln College, which he attended from 2017 as a Rhodes Scholar. At Oxford, Arne was researching modular protein technologies.

Originally from Heidelberg, Germany, Arne had long sought to apply scientific progress to better lives – Valink Therapeutics combines this ambition with his fascination for protein engineering and drug discovery. By the beginning of 2024, the company had raised over $8M in priced equity with a team of 11 employees; their technology enables the rapid generation of “complex” drug candidates, ultimately facilitating the discovery of new cancer therapies.

Outside of healthcare and research, Arne has a special interest in the environment and sustainability; notably, he has been vegetarian for over a decade. On a regular day, you may find him on a run or on a bicycle. At Lincoln College, he especially enjoyed the welcoming graduate community and the occasional game of croquet. He welcomes any outreach regarding entrepreneurship, drug discovery research, or other matters.

Germany, Berlin Matriculation, 2018

Isabel Oakes

Isabel is a DPhil candidate in the Faculty of History. She is currently spending a year as a visiting doctoral researcher at the Free University in Berlin. Her research focuses on the ways in which ordoliberal thought engaged with concepts of nature and the environment and the ways in which this influenced environmental policy making in Germany in the twentieth century. She has published articles on the intellectual history of ordoliberalism and the ways in which ordoliberal competition theory can address power in the digital age. Prior to this, Isabel completed the MPhil in Economic and Social History at Oxford (which is when she fell in love with the charms of Lincoln College) and the BA in International Relations at King’s College London. She has also worked in the private sector, primarily analysing ESG ratings for publicly listed companies in the DACH region. She hopes to promote intellectual engagement with environmental issues across disciplines and institutions and enact real change. Isabel grew up in Luxembourg to British-German parents. In her free time, she enjoys upcycling clothes and making jewellery.

Germany, Berlin Matriculation, 1958

Jermyn Brooks

Jermyn Brooks left Lincoln to join the London office of Price Waterhouse and after qualification as a chartered accountant, transferred to PW Germany where he qualified as a German Wirtschaftspruefer and wrote a number of books with German/English language versions on key new EU legislation. He transferred to PW’s practice in Iran for tumultuous years before and during the Revolution, came back to Germany where he became its senior partner during the years of the Reunification of the country, he was then voted as Senior Partner Europe located in London. He participated in the merger between Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand, retiring as Global Managing Partner of the combined firm in the year 2000. Since retiring Jermyn worked for business as an independent director and took up leadership roles in a voluntary capacity in a number of international organisations and NGOs, including chairmanship of the Global Network Initiative, Washington DC, and particularly Transparency International (TI) in its Berlin secretariat. He helped to create one of the first anti-bribery standards for the business world. His work for TI resulted in his award of a Federal Service Cross (Bundesverdienstkreuz) by the German Government.

Germany, Munich Matriculation, 2017

Kerim Alyot

Born in Munich; raised in Paris then Istanbul, Kerim studied Sinology, graduating BA with Summa Cum Laude on Honour List, MA with Magna Cum Laude. Receiving scholarship of excellence from Taiwan for Chinese Historiography, Politics, there he forged a career. Teaching Chinese History, Philosophy, Art in Turkey, oversaw cooperation with institutes in Asia as Foreign Relations Coordinator. A translator until 2016, with publications in China, participated in High-Level Meetings, including with the Foreign Affairs Minister of China in Beijing.

Undertaking post-graduate courses, Kerim pursued his passion in archaeology. Awarded with the Mica-Ertegün Scholarship, Kerim joined Lincoln to study Classical Archaeology, with R.R.R. Smith, then Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art. Specialising in Greeks, Etruscans, Hellenistic Egypt; worked at I.Sicily Project as a research assistant and Halaesa under Prof. Jonathan Prag, prior to training at the Ashmolean and Palazzo Spinelli.

Awarded with scholarships by THMO to specialise in strategic management of cultural heritages in 2024, he is accepted to pursue Transmission of Knowledge and Development of Settlements in Germany. Lately, he received scholarship, to contribute to the excellence of a leading Research Centre, CEAACP at UALg in Portugal. Avid archer, Kerim gratefully upholds the honour and duties of being a Knight of the Blessed Mary and All Saints, Lincoln.

Germany, Munich Matriculation, 2012

Sophie (nee Evekink) of Bavaria

Since graduating from her Master's in 2013 at Lincoln, Sophie has worked in various development, political, and diplomatic roles. Most recently in Geneva at the WHO and in London at the Wellcome Trust. Prior to this, she spent eight years in New York at the United Nations, including at the Executive Office of Secretary-General António Guterres, and the WHO UN Office. There she supported mediation for country negotiations and Political Declarations of UN High-Level Meetings. She was also a Human Rights Advisor at the Permanent Mission of the Netherlands to the UN, and worked in External Relations at the Roll Back Malaria Partnership Office at the UN, particularly supporting Middle East engagement.

Sophie has now returned to Oxford, where she is a part-time doctoral candidate in the Centre for Criminology at the Law Faculty. Her work focuses on justice for victims of conflict-related sexual violence. Alongside her research, she is involved with the Nymphenburg Aid Association (https://hn-bavaria.org/) at home in Munich, in particular leading a new initiative which supports refugees in Bavaria.

Sophie is Dutch/Canadian and also holds a BA in Politics and East European Studies from University College London.

Germany, Freiburg Matriculation, 1991

Susanne Ebbinghaus

Susanne Ebbinghaus is the George M.A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art and head of the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art at the Harvard Art Museums. Born and raised in Freiburg, Germany, she came to Oxford with a scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to study with the late Sir John Boardman, then Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art. She ended up staying for M.Phil. and D.Phil. degrees, exploring cultural interconnections between Greece and the east and cherishing both the community of the Lincoln College MCR and the unique resources of the Ashmolean Library. A postdoctoral odyssey took her to Basel, Switzerland; Los Angeles, CA; Cambridge, MA; Ann Arbor, MI; Princeton, NJ; and Toronto, Canada—and ultimately back to New England. At the Harvard Art Museums, she has overseen the reinstallation of the museums’ ancient art galleries and (co)organized a number of exhibitions, including one on animal-shaped vessels from the ancient world, the topic of her D.Phil. thesis. She enjoys working with students and in the field, and is teaching in Harvard’s Classics Department and participating in the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis in Türkiye.

Hong Kong, Hong Kong Matriculation, 1962

Alistair Asprey

Alistair read P.P.E. at Lincoln and then joined the Administrative Service of the Hong Kong Government in 1965. After Cantonese language training he spent his early career in the Housing Department where he was responsible for the control and improvement of squatter areas and their subsequent clearance and rehousing. He later worked as a District Officer on land administration and the development of new towns.

He was private secretary to the Governor of Hong Kong from 1984 to 1986 during the negotiations between the British and Chinese Governments leading to the Joint Declaration on the future of Hong Kong.
He later worked on land use planning for the development of new towns, the expansion of the port and building of a new airport.

He attended the Royal College of Defence Studies in 1988. As Secretary of Security from 1990 to 1995 he was closely involved in the resettlement of Vietnamese refugees and the repatriation of non-refugees. He was a fixed wing and helicopter pilot in the Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force from 1967 to 1987.

He spends his retirement between Hong Kong, the UK and New Zealand. His interests are hiking, fly fishing, gardening and carpentry.

Hong Kong, Hong Kong Matriculation, 1978

David Graham

Having read Jurisprudence at Lincoln , David qualified as a lawyer in 1984 and worked for a "magic circle" law firm for the next nineteen years , becoming a partner in 1991.During that time , he worked in London , Paris , New York and Hong Kong.

Settling with his wife and two young daughters in Hong Kong at the beginning of 1999 , David lived there for much of the next 25 years and travelled extensively in and around Asia. He worked for a number of major investment banks in senior legal roles before joining the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2012 as the Chief Regulatory Officer and Head of Listing. In 2020 , he took on the role as Executive Director of the British Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong before retiring in May 2023. In retirement , David plans to divide his time between the UK, Hong Kong and Australia.

David's two daughters have both followed him ( and his wife) into the law and currently have legal roles in London.

In his spare time , David enjoys tennis, golf , hiking and skiing , all of which he hopes to do more of in retirement.

Hong Kong, Hong Kong Matriculation, 2018

Kenneth Chung

Kenneth Chung joined the London Symphony Orchestra as Music Librarian in 2023. He was brought up in Hong Kong and read Music at Lincoln College. During his studies, Kenneth worked at the Oxford University Press, and participated extensively in the Oxford music scene. Graduating during the pandemic, he immediately found administrative roles at the London Mozart Players and the Philharmonia.

At the LSO, Kenneth utilises his musicological training and concert experience from Oxford to support the orchestra's artistic aspirations. In the past few music seasons, Kenneth has had the privilege of working with revered conductors, including Herbert Blomstedt and Sir Antonio Pappano, as well as renowned soloists such as Yuja Wang and Janine Jansen. Furthermore, Kenneth tours with the orchestra and shares Britian's profound orchestral heritage with audiences in Europe, Asia, and the USA.

Beyond the LSO, Kenneth hones his musical knowledge by playing the violin in multiple amateur orchestras. Kenneth also loves experiencing foreign cultures. Having travelled to over a quarter of the countries in the world, he aims to visit 100 nations by the end of the decade.

Hong Kong, Hong Kong Matriculation, 2021

Dr. Ya Yuan Rachel Leung

Dr Rachel Leung is a clinical research physician from the UK and Hong Kong. She completed her medical studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong through the Global Physician Leadership program, during which she also received overseas research training in biostatistics and epidemiology at Brown University and the University of Oxford. Rachel's career includes stints in digital healthcare technology firms, where she delved into digital health solutions in the Asia Pacific Region. Her collaboration with international think tanks resulted in a regional health policy framework in conjunction with the World Health Organization. Her fervor lies at the confluence of clinical medicine, technology, and policy, all aimed at enhancing healthcare outcomes at large. She was honored as a Rhodes Scholar and currently pursues a DPhil in clinical neurosciences under the supervision of Professor Peter Rothwell and Mr Dominic Howard.

India, Kochi Matriculation, 2005

Captain Mathew B. Mazhuvanchery

Mathew. B. Mazhuvanchery lives in his home city of Kochi in the South West of India. He matriculated at Lincoln in 2005 and thoroughly enjoyed his time there rowing for M2 mostly in 5 seat in his alter ego as "Mighty Maus”. Three decades spent in the energy sector and as a Master Mariner have taken Mathew Mazhuvanchery many places — from oil tankers in Venezuela to offshore windfarms in the U.K. But it was an event closer to home — devastating floods in India’s Kerala region — that opened his eyes to the environmental impacts of the energy industry. “It became clear to me that we were fueling, literally, disastrous climate change,” Mathew says. He has since founded Distributed Energy (www.de.energy), which finances, installs, and monitors solar plants across Asia and Africa. He enjoys rowing and sailing on the backwaters and is very glad to see any Lincoln alumnus who venture down to Kerala.

India, Mumbai Matriculation, 2007

Dhruv lakra

Dhruv Lakra has a strong background in the social and finance space. He started his career in investment banking at Merrill Lynch and shifted to the social sector after the devastating Asian tsunami of 2004. After working for two years in this sector, he went on to pursue his MBA on a full scholarship as a Skoll Scholar from the University of Oxford with the intention of coming back to India. He started Mirakle couriers which is a last mile delivery provider in India that hires persons with disabilities.
 
Dhruv founded Mirakle couriers in Mumbai which is for profit courier service that employs low income deaf adults. The deliveries are done by deaf men, and the back office is run by deaf women. For his innovative work with the deaf at Mirakle couriers, Dhruv has been awarded the National Award from the President of India, the Helen Keller Award, CNN IBN Indians of the year and Times Now Amazing Indians, the prestigious Echoing Green Fellowship, more recently 40 under 40 and the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP)fellowship from the Govt of United States of America.

India, Delhi Matriculation, 2024

Mudit Shukla

Growing up in Delhi, the world's most polluted capital, Mudit developed a deep passion for tackling climate change and pollution. His desire to create a meaningful impact, paired with his love for automobiles led him to pursue a master’s degree in mechanical engineering in the US. As the sustainable materials lead at Rivian, an electric car company, he led projects like development of automotive-grade plastics from recycled yogurt cups and fishing nets. This experience deepened his understanding of material impacts and sustainability trends. After completing his MBA at Oxford, Mudit aims to launch a venture focused on decarbonising the environment and promoting a circular economy.

India, Dhanbad Matriculation, 2015

Ms. Nidhi Singh

Nidhi is an alumnus of Oxford, Harvard, Stanford and King’s College, London. A lawyer by profession, she has been practicing before the Supreme Court of India and is an empaneled lawyer with the Delhi High Court. She has recently been recognised as top individual lawyers of India by Forbes in 2022. A Louis- Dreyfus Weidenfeld Scholar, recipient of Chevening Scholarship and a prolific writer, Nidhi recently conducted an empirical work on Antitrust implications on Algorithmic Collusion & Pricing: Evidence from US, EU and India as part of her SPILS work at Stanford Law School. She was also awarded the Frédéric Bastiat Fellowship by Mercatus Center, George Mason University, USA for the year 2022-2023.

In the past, she has trained the diplomats of India, worked as an Investigating Officer with Competition Commission of India, served as Deputy Director for Centre for Competition Law & Policy. She is also a Visiting Faculty in leading National Law Schools of India viz. NLSIU, Bangalore, NALSAR, Hyderabad & NUJS, Kolkata. Currently, while working in the legal sector in US, she is qualifying to become an Attorney in New York & California.

India, Bangalore Matriculation, 2020

Prerna Wadikar

Prerna is a polymath with an impressive sustainability focused portfolio career in leadership roles in three continents with some of the most influential global thought leaders at reputed multinationals, government, and civil society organizations.

Prerna pioneered institutional ESG (Environmental Social & Governance) education in India and was recognised with the prestigious India UK Achievers Honours at the momentous occasion of the 75 years of India’s Independence for her initiatives, an honour shared with luminaries such as the ex-Prime Minister of India. Prerna is an ESG advisor to multinationals in the field of oil and gas, investments, electric mobility, and circular economy. She is also a board member at the Central British Fund for World Jewish Relief, operating in 23 countries on climate resilience and emergency response and Global Advisory Council Member of Tech India Advocates, a consortium of technology and business leaders in 43 countries.

Prerna is a Weidenfeld, Oxford, Hoffmann, Lincoln, and Saïd scholar; postgraduate in Public Policy from IIM Bangalore, MBA from Saïd Business School University of Oxford with specialization in Sustainable Finance from ESMT Berlin.

Prerna is recognised as the first female MBA recipient of the Oxford Vice Chancellor’s Social Impact Award and Asia Pacific Leading Lights among 30 countries for her impactful contributions.

India, New Delhi Matriculation, 1986

Rahul Roy-Chaudhury

Rahul is the Senior Fellow for South and Central Asian Defence, Strategy and Diplomacy at The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London. His research focuses on India’s foreign and security policy, India-Pakistan-Afghanistan regional security, the Indian Navy in the Indian Ocean and UK-India defence relations. He has written two books on the Indian navy and lectures annually at the Royal College of Defence Studies in London. His policy-related work focuses on security issues relating to India-Pakistan, intra-Afghanistan, India-China and UK-India, for which he hosts discreet annual ‘track 1.5’ meetings and dialogues in Muscat, Manama, New Delhi, Islamabad, Singapore and London. He is a Member of the UK-India Advisory Council, chaired by the Minister of State for South Asia in the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO); and a Member of the FCDO’s Advisory Board on South Asia. An Indian national, Rahul earlier worked in a think tank in New Delhi and in the National Security Council Secretariat in the Prime Minister’s Office in India.

India, Delhi Matriculation, 2011

Ms. Rimali Batra

Rimali graduated with a First Class BCL Degree at the University of Oxford. True to her dreams, she pursued both academics and legal policy work in India, right after. She is presently an Associate Partner with a top-tier law firm in India and works with various ministries, and government organisations designing policies, and regulations for various niche areas such as Infrastructure, Railways, Energy, Electricity, Oil & Gas, and Space among many others. She frequently takes credit courses and lectures at various universities, including Symbiosis Law School, and Jindal Global Law School among others. With a professional career spanning over 13 years, she has established herself as an expert in Policy work and Regulatory Litigation, demonstrating extensive proficiency in handling arbitrations and dispute resolution. She represents and advises a wide range of government and non-government organizations. A mother of beautiful twins, aged 6 years, she manages her work and life with ease while still making some time for her favorite sport, Basketball.

India, Delhi Matriculation, 2014

Dr. Saroj Saurya

Dr. Saroj Saurya , a 2019 Lincoln College graduate, is an outstanding Research Scientist specializing in cell biology with a focus on environmental sustainability. She is currently the Lab Manager at Raff Lab and serves as Chair of the Dunn School Green Group at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology. A driving force in promoting sustainable lab practices, Saroj has led initiatives that earned the Dunn School 35 LEAF accreditations and the coveted Gold Green Impact Award.

An MSc graduate from the University of Delhi and a DPhil from the University of Oxford, Saroj began her career in sales and marketing before plunging into academic research. Her journey took her through renowned labs and research institutes such as the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge and the Jenner Institute in Oxford. She has extensive experience working on projects ranging from EGF receptor pathways in Drosophila to the development of vaccines and cancer diagnostic kits.

Recognized for her commitment to environmental sustainability, Saroj was honored with the 2023 VC Environmental Sustainability Staff Award. Her tireless efforts have not only elevated the status of Raff Lab but have also positively impacted both the academic community and sustainable practices within and beyond Oxford.

Italy, Rome Matriculation, 1999

Dr. Chitra Deshpande

Chitra Deshpande is an expert in strategic planning, evaluation and gender in agriculture. A national of the USA, Dr Deshpande is currently Lead Advisor, Results and Resources at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialized agency of the United Nations. In 2016, she founded the Women’s Informal Network and remains a global leader of this professional network for women working in the international development sector. During her tenure at IFAD, she has served as Senior Evaluation Officer, the Special Adviser to the Vice-President of IFAD, Portfolio Adviser and Operational Policy Economist in the Asia and Pacific Division and as Programme Officer of Quality Assurance in the Office of the President and Vice-President. Dr Deshpande has also worked for the Food and Agriculture Organization as Strategy and Planning Officer in the Office of Strategy, Planning and Resource Management and as a gender and development expert, most notably on the Gender in Agriculture Sourcebook. She also has worked closely with large multinational companies in developing growth and efficiency strategies as a management consultant at Booz-Allen & Hamilton in New York. Dr Deshpande received her DPhil in Geography and MPhil in Development Studies from Oxford University. She also received an M.A. in Food Research and B.A. in History from Stanford University.

Italy, Naples Matriculation, 2013

Diletta Lauro

Born and raised in the Southern Italian city of Naples, Diletta’s career has spanned both academic and policy roles in the field of refugee studies and practice.

Trained as a scholar and researcher of forced migration through her DPhil and MSc at the Oxford Department for International Development, Diletta currently works for the British Red Cross as a specialist on the UK response to displacement from Ukraine. In this role, she advocates for the needs of the over 200,000 Ukrainians who live in the UK, and is working on what can be learned from this generous response to strengthen refugee protection more widely.

Previously, she worked for the Refugee, Asylum and Migration Policy (RAMP) project, and did consulting for the Overseas Development Institute. She holds an undergraduate degree in International Relations with a specialization in political philosophy from the University of St Andrews.

Throughout her career, she has sought to understand the complex dynamics of displacement and shape a policy response that is both just and effective.

Outside work, she has been active volunteering for local refugee charities. She is passionate in telling stories of refugee resilience and the coming together of communities.

Italy, Florence Matriculation, 2020

Lucrezia Rizzelli

Lucrezia is a Research Officer within the Death Penalty Research Unit (DPRU) at the Centre for Criminology. She earned her Bachelor degree in Psychological Sciences and Techniques at the University of Florence, specializing in social and organizational psychology. Then, she completed her MA in Forensic Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, where she joined Professor Saul Kassin's false confessions laboratory and conducted research on the linguistic style of false confessions. Lucrezia volunteered at the Innocence Project, and was an investigative intern at the New York City Department of Investigation. In 2017, she received the award of "Best Psychology Student" of the year.
Her doctoral thesis focused on criminal decision-making amongst Indonesian drug offenders and its links to the state's punitive stance against narcotic crimes. This project was supervised by Professor Carolyn Hoyle and supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Doctoral Training Partnernship (DTP) and Lincoln College's Kingsgate Scholarship. In 2023, she co-organised the art exhibition ‘Voices from Death Row’ showcasing artwork created by death row inmates the world over.
Currently, Lucrezia is working for the DPRU, analysing interviews conducted with drug offenders in Indonesia, both in the community and on death row.

Italy, Abbadia Lariana Matriculation, 2012

Matteo Aldeghi

Matteo obtained a DPhil in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford in 2017, after having studied Chemistry at the University of Insubria (Como, Italy) and Drug Design at University College London. After his DPhil, Matteo won a Humboldt Fellowship to carry out research at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany. There, he continued the research he started in Oxford on the use of computer simulations for the discovery of new therapies. In 2019, he moved to Toronto to join the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, where he developed machine learning algorithms for chemistry applications, including autonomous experimentation. After spending a year at MIT as a Research Scientist in 2021-2022, Matteo joined Google Research in Mountain View, California, where he continued working on the application of machine learning to chemistry and drug discovery. In 2023, Matteo was appointed Director of Machine Learning Research at the Bayer Research and Innovation Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he now leads a team focusing on the development of machine learning algorithms to accelerate pharmaceutical R&D.

Italy, Milan Matriculation, 1998

Tania Viarnaud

Tania has been living and working in Milan since 2005. She is French / Danish / Filipina and travels regularly to the UK to visit family and friends together with her daughter, who is half Italian.

Tania has matured over twenty years of strategy, project management and communication experience in multiple industries. Upon graduation, she joined the Deloitte Consulting Business Analyst Graduate Programme in London, with customer-facing roles on client sites across Europe and an extended period as Chief of Staff for the UK practice. She moved to Barclays in 2005: International Business Development, based in London. She moved to Milan with Barclays as Senior Financial Controller in 2005, progressing to Head of Strategic Planning & Corporate Affairs, on the Executive Committee member for the Italy business.

She moved to the UniCredit headquarters in 2014, first as Head of Project Management in Group Clients Internationalisation, then as Head of Executive Communication (within the Chief of Staff team). She was appointed Co-Head of Group Media Relations in 2019, also managing Group Internal Communication for six months, before being appointed Business Manager to the Head of Group Stakeholder Engagement in 2021 and, from 2023, also Head of Group Cultural Affairs.

Latvia, Riga Matriculation, 2017

Benjamin Musachio

Benjamin still has fresh memories of his time at Lincoln College. Since graduating in 2019, he has pursued a doctoral degree in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. Teaching Russian language and literature in addition to research in the history of 20th-century literature has kept him busy. He trades his time between Princeton, New Jersey and Riga, Latvia. Latvia has become a second home for Benjamin thanks to familial and professional ties. Benjamin is most grateful to Lincoln College and Oxford as a whole on multiple counts: it was there that he deepened his faith, explored the Anglican choral tradition, and became convinced that cask ales are commendable alternatives to lagers.

Latvia, Riga Matriculation, 2020

Nikita Sergejevs

Nik obtained his BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Warwick, during which he received a prestigious Amgen scholarship to undergo summer internship at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Munich, Germany. There, he got introduced to the field of protein folding and quality control and this area of scientific research immediately caught his attention. Exposure to cutting-edge, dynamic and diverse scientific community motivated him to continue his academic journey and apply for a DPhil studies at the University of Oxford. In October 2020, Nik joined Sir William Dunn School of Pathology on a Departmental Prize Scholarship to pursue his DPhil studies in the laboratory of Professor Pedro Carvalho. He is investigating mechanisms of membrane protein recognition for quality control. In particular, he is focusing on studying the fate of misfolded proteins that are efficiently eliminated from the cell through the process called ER-associated degradation (ERAD). In his spare time, Nik is an avid athlete – he was a President of Oxford University Judo Club and won Gold at the National University Championship, receiving Half Blue status in 2021.

Mexico, Mexico City Matriculation, 2017

Dr. Diego Aguilar-Ramirez

Diego grew up in Mexico City. After finishing medical school (Universidad Panamericana, 2015) Diego moved to Oxford in 2017, where he obtained an MSc in Global Health Science (Kellogg, 2018) and a DPhil in Population Health (Lincoln, 2021). Since 2022, Diego has been a Research Fellow at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford. His research as an epidemiologist in the Mexico City Prospective Study focuses on understanding the influence of genetic and environmental exposures on the development of chronic diseases such as diabetes, kidney disease, and heart disease in the Mexican population. Besides research, Diego is involved in postgraduate teaching and tutoring in epidemiology and public health. He also leads outreach and research capacity-building efforts in Mexico, with the aim of strengthening links between Oxford and Mexico, and increasing the opportunities for Mexican students to come to study or do research at Oxford.

Mexico, Cuautitlán Izcalli Matriculation, 2022

Dr. Luis Felipe Cardiel Castro

Dr Luis Felipe Cardiel Castro is a global health scientist and epidemiologist with a passion for using data to diversify approaches to health across diverse populations. Dr Cardiel earned his medical degree from the Escuela Superior de Medicina of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional in Mexico City. At Oxford, he completed his MSc in Global Health Science and Epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Population Health.

Through his degree at Oxford, Dr Cardiel got the chance to work on the world’s largest Latin American genetic consortia, where he specialised in the study of genetic associations of adiposity and blood pressure in Mexican adults.

After completing his Master’s, Dr Cardiel pursued a career as a global project manager in biotech, where he is currently managing the development of imagining solutions with a novel AI approach for medical diagnosis.

In addition to his academic and professional achievements in the medical field, Dr Cardiel is also an accomplished graphic designer and marketer. He draws on his interdisciplinary background to modernise approaches to public engagement in global health and advocate for more nuanced approaches to public engagement. He is a strong supporter of interdisciplinarity, a skilled communicator, and a passionate advocate for health equity.

Netherlands, The Hague Matriculation, 2010

Gijsbert Werner

Gijsbert is currently a senior research fellow and project leader at the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy, the foremost advisory body to the Dutch government and Parliament. Some of the themes Gijsbert has worked on are the future of health care, global demographic shifts and just climate policies. Not only these topics, but also Gijsbert’s working days are diverse. Speaking to experts from all fields of science and policy, preparing advice, sharing insights with media, civil society or parliamentary briefings – every day is different. The skills Gijsbert acquired during his MSc in Biology at Lincoln – analytical skills, synthesising information, writing clearly, presenting – are indispensable on all these days. And of course, learning to manage the time pressures of those short Oxford terms! After a great time at Lincoln, Gijsbert moved to Amsterdam in 2011 to pursue a PhD in evolutionary biology studying the evolution of cooperation, with a focus on symbioses between plants and soil fungi. Afterwards, Oxford called again and in 2016 Gijsbert returned for a Junior Research Fellowship at Balliol College and a Royal Society Newton International Fellowship in the Department of Zoology. His following position was his current job in The Hague, so extrapolating this pattern who knows the next step will be in Oxford again!

Netherlands, Amsterdam Matriculation, 2024

Olivia Schootstra

Olivia Schootstra is a corporate sustainability professional with strong experience in renewable energy. At General Electric (GE) Wind she worked to decabonise the company’s operational emissions, procure renewable energy and lead energy efficiency projects. Later she transitioned to decarbonising GE’s upstream supply chain emissions, ensuring sustainability standards were upheld by suppliers. In parallel, she sits on the advisory committee of the private equity impact fund Wire Group, where she is responsible for assessing impact. Olivia holds a BA in Liberal Arts and Sciences from University College Maastricht and a MSc in Sustainability and Social Innovation from HEC Paris. At Oxford Olivia is pursuing an MBA at the Saïd Business School, and following graduation aims to advance environmental sustainability through global strategy or consulting.

New Zealand, Wellington Matriculation, 1998

Iona Thomas OBE

Iona Thomas is a diplomat currently serving as British High Commissioner to New Zealand and Governor of the Pitcairn Islands.

She was previously Political Counsellor at the British High Commission Islamabad where she was responsible for domestic and regional politics and counter terrorism. Prior to this she was Additional Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa at the then Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London. She served as Deputy Head of Mission Tripoli from 2015-2017 with responsibility for re-establishing the UK’s permanent presence in Libya for which she was awarded an OBE in 2018. From 2012-2015 she was Spokesperson at the UK Mission to the United Nations in New York.

Previous roles in London include Ministerial Private Secretary and Head of the Afghan Political Team. Before joining the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Iona worked at the Department for Communities and Local Government as Private Secretary to the Secretary of State.

She received a Masters from the London School of Economics and a Bachelors in Literae Humaniores from Oxford University. Iona is married to Matt Thoume who also works for the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office and has served in Afghanistan, New York and Pakistan.

New Zealand, Martinborough Matriculation, 1966

Neil Keith McCallum

Neil commenced his doctoral thesis in 1966 with Dr Gordon Lowe as supervisor, and was awarded his DPhil in 1970. He returned to New Zealand, marrying Dawn in 1971 and working in the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research for sixteen years, mostly on marihuana metabolism. There were interludes of postdoctoral research at Jerusalem (including the period of the Yom Kippur War) and Nottingham.

In 1979 Neil and Dawn bought land in Martinborough to produce grapes and wine. He resigned his research post in 1987 to become a full-time wine producer. Martinborough expanded rapidly as a wine region and Dry River Wines won a strong international reputation including being nominated as one of the ten best emerging wineries in the world (Jances Robinson ca. 2006). Selling the winery, Neil retired from winemaking in 2011. By then Neil was a qualified gemmologist and travelled on holiday to places such as Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Namibia, Tanzania, Kenya and Vietnam sourcing rough, coloured precious gem material to cut as bespoke gems for sale to jewellers and private clients.

Dawn and Neil had two children, Tristan and Shoshana, in the 1980's and they now have two grandchildren, Jack and Ada.

Now 80, Neil remains very active: walking regularly, swimming, doing pilates and playing table tennis. He reads mainly general science and philosophy.

Nigeria, Lagos Matriculation, 2016

Abiodun Awosusi

Abiodun Awosusi is a physician and researcher with international experience in health policy reforms, market analyses, and public-private partnerships. He is a Brock Scholar and Doctoral Candidate at the Ivey Business School - Western University in Canada. Previously, he worked for the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Oxford Policy Management, IntraHealth International, ACF USA, and Management Sciences for Health. Abiodun holds master’s degrees from the Quantic School of Business and Technology, the University of Oxford, and the University of Liverpool. He contributed to the report of the Trust CoLab co-hosted by the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence and the United States Pharmacopeia on the future of health innovations.

Nigeria, Lagos Matriculation, 2014

Ademola Adeku CEng FIChemE

Ademola is a Project and Engineering Leader at Shell., currently stationed in Nigeria. Ademola holds a Chemical Engineering degree from Imperial College London. He completed his MBA at Oxford University.

Ademola is an energy professional and he has had varied engineering career spanning Upstream, Downstream, and Midstream arms of the business. He has been involved in a number of multi-billion-dollar flagship onshore and offshore projects in Nigeria and Gulf of Mexico.

Ademola has lived and worked in Africa, North America, and Europe in the past twenty-five years. He is a Fellow of the UK Institution of Chemical Engineers (FIChemE) and a Chartered Chemical Engineer registered with UK Engineering Council. He is also, a member of Association of Project Managers UK, and a Senior Member of American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).

Nigeria, Ibadan Matriculation, 2021

Dr. Boluwatife Ikwunne

Boluwatife is a medical doctor who graduated with numerous prizes and honours from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria in 2019. It was here that she discovered her passion for Psychiatry. Her journey into mental health research at the University of Oxford began when she won the 2021 Rhodes Scholarship for West Africa. She now holds a Master’s degree in Clinical and Therapeutic Neuroscience, after which she has gone on to pursue a DPhil in Psychiatry. Her research focuses on the impact of adversity on decision-making and mental health in adolescence, attempting to use computational methods to predict at-risk individuals and identify new targets for intervention.

Her overarching goal is to address mental health problems, particularly in children and adolescents, as a clinician-scientist. She aspires to contribute to the development of mental health services across Africa.

Boluwatife is happily married and enjoys teaching, classical music and travelling in her spare time.

Nigeria, Benin City Matriculation, 2017

Dr Edobor Efosa Trevor

Trevor is a health professional with extensive experience in resource-poor settings and developed nations. Starting from promoting community and population health in the hard-to-reach areas in rural Nigeria, Trevor continued to the United Kingdom, where he first obtained a degree in Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. After Oxford, Trevor returned to Nigeria, working with the State Government to implement initiatives like the State Community Health Insurance Scheme that targets vulnerable people, especially those with reduced financial access to healthcare, improving their access to health. To address health infrastructure problems in the state, Trevor worked to implement one Primary Healthcare Centre in every ward to bring healthcare closer to the people.

At the end of his political appointment in Nigeria, Trevor returned to the UK to pursue a master of public health in addition to training as a General Practitioner (GP). Trevor expects that these would improve his understanding of the determinants of health in the developing and developed world and how he can apply lessons learnt to improve global health.

United States, New York Matriculation, 2010

"Wendy" Changyong Li

Hon. Wendy C. Li is an elected New York City Civil Court judge. She is the first immigrant from Mainland China who holds a judicial position in the United States. Wendy went to America after obtaining her first law degree at Peking University. After receiving her second law degree in the United States on a full merit-based scholarship, Wendy attended Oxford University, Lincoln College, where she obtained her Master of Science in Law and Finance degree, and then Harvard University where she received a graduate certificate in International Relations.

As a law partner before taking the bench in 2019, Wendy had worked on a wide array of matters at several prestigious international law firms in Manhattan. Throughout her legal career, she had continuously made it her duty to engage in pro-bono work and public service. On the bench, Wendy has authored thousands of judicial decisions and presided over hundreds of jury and bench trials. Her judicial decisions are regularly published in the New York Law Journal and the New York State Reporter. She is a lifetime member of National Association of Women Judges and mentors young lawyers through local bar associations. Wendy loves skiing, fencing, oil painting and travel.

United States, Buffalo, New York Matriculation, 2023

Adam Kluge

Adam is a first-year DPhil Criminology student, whose research offers a theoretical consideration of stigma as a political tool operated by state actors to systematically shame the families of offenders via criminal legal mechanisms. He is the current President of the Lincoln MCR. Prior to starting his DPhil, Adam completed the MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Oxford (Distinction). His master's dissertation was awarded the Routledge Prize for Best Dissertation in his graduating cohort. He holds a dual BA in Political Science and History from Columbia University, where he graduated with interdepartmental honours and conducted research with the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Vera Institute of Justice, and the Southern Poverty Law Center. His DPhil is generously funded by the ESRC Grand Union DTP and Lincoln's Kingsgate Graduate Scholarship.

United States, New York Matriculation, 2008

Dr Ashley E. Dunn

Following her MSt. in history of art and visual culture at Lincoln, Ashley pursued a doctorate in art history at Northwestern University with a dissertation on “Urban Etching: The Printmaking of Modern Paris, 1850-80.” During graduate studies, she contributed to exhibition projects and publications at the Block Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and RISD Museum. She joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2016 as an assistant curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints. Now an associate curator, she oversees the collection of nineteenth-century French drawings, prints, and illustrated books. Her exhibition projects at The Met include Rodin at The Met (2017), Devotion to Drawing: The Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix (2018) and most recently, Manet/Degas (2023), co-organized with the Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

United States, Washington DC Matriculation, 1982

Bruce Reed

Bruce Reed is President Biden’s Deputy White House Chief of Staff. He was a senior adviser in the Obama and Clinton White Houses as well – as Chief of Staff to Vice President Biden and Domestic Policy Advisor to President Clinton. He has also served as the first president of the Broad Foundation; executive director of the Bowles-Simpson commission on fiscal responsibility; and CEO of Civic, a bipartisan ideas firm. He began his career as chief speechwriter for then-Senator Al Gore, policy director for then-Governor Bill Clinton, and deputy campaign manager for policy of the 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Lincoln College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Reed is a native of North Idaho, the son of a former Idaho Senate Minority Leader, and a member of the Idaho Hall of Fame.

United States, Washington DC Matriculation, 2012

Chelsea Souza

Chelsea Souza is the Head of Special Events at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.. She completed an M.St. in the History of Art and Visual Culture while at Lincoln College and joined the National Gallery of Art shortly after. Souza now leads the planning of over 100 events a year, including black tie dinners, donor receptions, and official travel by the museum’s board and executive team. Among the most notable events have been the opening reception of the exhibition Afro-Atlantic Histories, coordinating attendance and remarks by Vice President Kamala Harris, and the organization of a tour with First Ladies Melania Trump and Brigitte Macron of France during President Macron’s 2017 state visit. She has also had the great privilege of giving tours of the museum for Lincoln College alumni groups and serving as the Washington, D.C. Alumni Chapter leader.

United States, Needham, Massachusetts Matriculation, 1982

Craig T. Basson

Craig T. Basson graduated from Washington University in 1982 and then was awarded a Marshall Scholarship at Lincoln College, Oxford (1984, MSc Physiological Sciences). Craig completed an MD and PhD at Yale (1990) and trained in Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital (1990-1992). He completed his clinical cardiology and genetics research fellowships at Harvard and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Craig moved to Cornell Medical College in 1997, where he was promoted to Professor (tenure) in 2004 and was named Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Medicine in 2008. He was also the Director, Center for Molecular Cardiology and Director of Cardiovascular Research. Craig joined Novartis in 2010 as Vice President, Global Translational Head for Cardiovascular and assumed the leadership of the combined Cardiovascular and Metabolism team in 2014. Craig joined Boston Pharmaceuticals as Chief Medical Officer in 2020 and additionally served as interim co-Chief Executive Officer. In 2022, Craig joined Bitterroot Bio as Chief Medical Officer. Craig also continues as Senior Lecturer at Harvard Medical School and attending physician at Brigham & Women’s Hospital where he maintains an active clinical cardiology practice. Craig is the proud father of his two daughters and son and is married to his wife Sara.

United States, Washington DC Matriculation, 1978

Daniel B. Poneman

In 2015 Daniel B. Poneman became president and CEO of Centrus Energy Corp., where he led the restoration US-technology-based uranium enrichment capability in the United States.

Under President Obama, Mr. Poneman was Deputy Secretary of Energy, responsible for energy policy, cybersecurity, project management, national security, and international cooperation. He led Department responses to emergencies ranging from Fukushima to Hurricane Sandy.

Earlier he served as a White House Fellow and Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Nonproliferation and Export Controls at the National Security Council under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

His private sector experience included tours as a principal of the Scowcroft Group, partner at Hogan & Hartson, and associate at Covington & Burling.

He authored books on nuclear power, Argentine democracy, and the dual threats of climate change and nuclear annihilation. He coauthored Going Critical: The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis, the 2005 Douglas Dillon Award winner for Distinguished Writing on American Diplomacy. Mr. Poneman is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun.

In addition to his M.Litt. in Politics from Lincoln, Mr. Poneman received A.B. and J.D. degrees with honors from Harvard University.

United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts Matriculation, 1991

David C. Parkes

David Parkes is the John A. Paulson Dean of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Parkes started his academic career at Lincoln College, Oxford, graduating with an M. Eng. in Engineering and Computing Science. Having received a Thouron Award to study at the University of Pennsylvania, he earned a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science, joining the Harvard faculty in 2001. He previously chaired the computer science area and served as inaugural co-director of both the Harvard Business Analytics Program and Harvard’s Data Science Initiative. His research focuses on questions of artificial intelligence and machine learning, especially as this relates to multi-agent systems, economics, and society. His honors include election as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. He was a member of the inaugural panel of the Stanford 100 Year Study on Artificial Intelligence and the CRA’s Computing Community Consortium, and was the chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce. Parkes has also served on numerous international scientific advisory boards and as a technical advisor to various start-ups.

United States, Washington DC Matriculation, 2015

David Tedone

David Tedone has worked in various roles across multiple companies since 2009. David began his career at Lockheed Martin as an Engineering Planner. He was later accepted and graduated from Lockheed Martin’s two-year Operations Leadership Development Program where he later served as Lead Manufacturing Engineer, and Program Manager for Advanced Manufacturing. During his MBA at the University of Oxford, he completed an internship as a Strategy Consultant in Ghana for strategic entry of Siemens medical diagnostic equipment into West Africa. As a Managing Consultant at IBM, David held multiple roles in Program Management and Business Process Optimization/Re-engineering across several organizations in the public sector. He is currently the COO at TalentUp Africa, where he has played an instrumental role in scaling operations and securing their Series A investment. David also develops and teaches multiple corporate training courses and simulations and is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.

United States, Washington DC Matriculation, 2004

Delavane Diaz

Dr. Delavane Diaz is the Principal Team Lead for Climate Resilience Analysis at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). Currently she leads research on climate resiliency and risk management strategies for the energy system, including modeling the impacts of climate change on energy supply and demand and conducting localized vulnerability assessments. She is a Lead Author of “Key Climate Risks across Sectors and Regions” in the 2022 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (WGII Ch 16), as well as the U.S. National Climate Assessment’s forthcoming Economics chapter and Climate Risk chapter in 2019. Delavane completed her Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University, focused on climate change impacts and costs in integrated assessment models, including coastal impacts and adaptation to sea level rise. Dr. Diaz is a distinguished graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy with a B.S. in Astronautical Engineering. She earned her M.Sc. in Environmental Change and Management at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar at Lincoln College. While at Oxford Delavane was part of the winning Osiris reserve crew against Cambridge in the 2006 Women’s Boat Race at Henley-on-Thames, and twice defeated Cambridge in the Volleyball Varsity Match.

United States, New York Matriculation, 2002

Dilshad Marolia

Dilshad spent the first seven years of her career practicing law at large law firms in New York and at courts in The Hague. More often than not, she thought her clients had jobs that were more interesting and engaging than her own and began to consider switching to a career that was more operationally oriented. In 2010, she began working at an academic medical center in New York City. She has been energized and invigorated by the institutional mission of serving patients, teaching and scientific research. In the thirteen years since, she has started innumerable clinical programs, helped evacuate patients after Hurricane Sandy, and been a front line witness to the early horrors of the Covid pandemic. The academic medical center she joined is now a large health system in the New York region, and her days are a happy mix of operational and regulatory challenges. Dilshad feels privileged to have had a small role in the lives of so many patients and to find work that is consistently engaging and fulfilling. When she left Lincoln two decades ago, she certainly didn’t see herself walking the halls of a hospital, but is ever grateful to do so.

United States, New York Matriculation, 1990

Emily Mortimer

Emily Mortimer is an actor, director, screenwriter and producer. She most recently wrote and directed an adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s novel THE PURSUIT OF LOVE for the BBC and Amazon. Mortimer’s currently co-writing a script with Noah Baumbach, is set to direct her first feature film for A24 and is performing in the film PADDINGTON IN PERU. She runs King Bee Productions with her husband Alessandro Nivola. Together they produced DOLL & EM, the award winning feature TO DUST and the art documentary I AM A TOWN.

Mortimer’s break-out performance came in Nicole Holofcener’s critically acclaimed, LOVELY AND AMAZING which won her an Independent Spirit Award. She has been nominated by the London Film Critics Circle for her performance in YOUNG ADAM, the Goya awards for her role in THE BOOKSHOP, and the Baftas for THE PURSUIT OF LOVE.

Mortimer’s television credits include two seasons of HBO’s DOLL & EM, co-written by and co-starring her friend Dolly Wells. She starred opposite Jeff Daniels in THE NEWSROOM and had a recurring role on 30 ROCK. She’ll next appear in THE NEW LOOK for Apple opposite Juliette Binoche.

United States, Wallingford, Connecticut Matriculation, 1987

Fiona McPhee

The organic chemistry education Fiona acquired at Lincoln College, along with two international post-doctoral fellowships studying viruses, provided her with the foundation for a successful drug discovery career in Virology. Her studies focused on the identification of agents that inhibit different viruses, such as HIV, HBV, HCV, HPV and SARS-CoV2. Early in her career, she proposed and drove a project that resulted in the first potent, novel agent that inhibited HCV replication in human cells. These efforts resulted in her co-leading a multidisciplinary discovery team for the identification of potential HCV drug candidates for clinical development. Her team demonstrated that combining these drug candidates, each with unique ways of inhibiting viral replication, could enhance their effectiveness. Subsequently, she led clinical discovery efforts evaluating the efficacy of these novel drug combinations in HCV-infected patients, resulting in the first reported all-oral regimen demonstrating the ability to cure the disease. The team’s next drug combination was the first reported all-oral regimen to demonstrate high HCV pan-genotypic cure rates in infected patients. All subsequent generations of HCV regimens employed agents based on these efforts. Consequently, Fiona enjoyed international recognition as an expert in HCV drug discovery and viral drug resistance.

United States, Warren, Vermont Matriculation, 2015

Glenn Cahilly-Bretzin

Growing up in rural Vermont, Glenn was exposed to heritage crafts like stonemasonry, carpentry, and traditional maple sugaring before pursuing an interdisciplinary degree in medieval studies at the University of Toronto. Alongside his studies, Glenn dedicated himself to academic and social communities, be it through organising hands-on public workshops on calligraphy or volunteering as stone mason for the Château de Chevreaux. He then came to Oxford for a MSt in Medieval Studies in 2013 before stepping out of academia to apprentice in woodworking with J.S. Barkhausen Co. and to restore his family’s maple orchard in Warren, Vermont.

Glenn returned to Oxford for DPhil at Lincoln College, completing his study of competing Anglo-Saxon perspectives around militant Christianity in 2020. From throwing himself into LCBC, to collaborating with the Domestic Bursary as MCR President, to supporting student welfare as Warden, or fostering new medievalists as a college Lecturer in English, Glenn fell in love with the Lincoln community: student, staff, and fellow. He is now a postdoctoral researcher on the Human Remains Project at the University of Liverpool, but makes his way back to the mountains each spring to run the West Hill Sugar Orchard’s maple syrup harvest, where all are most welcome to visit for some maple goodness.

More info at: https://www.westhillsugarorchard.com/

United States, Lambertville, New Jersey Matriculation, 2020

Hannah Klim

Hannah is a final year DPhil student studying Clinical Medicine. After completing her bachelor’s degree in biochemistry with honours at Wellesley College (MA, USA), she came to Oxford on the Future of Humanity DPhil scholarship. Hannah’s research focuses on improving our understanding of where and how infectious diseases will spread from animals into humans. She integrates laboratory research with statistical methods to model the role of environmental changes on emerging high consequence pathogens. As part of her DPhil studies, Hannah has undertaken fieldwork in Malaysian Borneo supported by Lincoln College and travelled to the United Nations to attend the Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention Meeting of States Parties, as well as several national and international conferences to present her research.

Outside of her research, Hannah has enjoyed her work on local public engagement projects, as a tutor for biology undergraduates, a copy editor for the Oxford Scientist, and has worked on University-level access efforts (UNIQ+). Hannah is also a keen runner and cook and will be a part of the Lincoln Telethon in MT 2023.

United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts Matriculation, 1997

Dr Heidi Vollmer-Snarr

Heidi Vollmer-Snarr completed her DPhil in Organic Chemistry from Oxford in 2000. She is now the Director of Advanced Undergraduate Laboratories and a Senior Preceptor on Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University. She collaborates with other faculty to develop and teach research courses on the synthesis of molecular glue candidates and ion-selective electrode systems to detect environmental toxins and medical biomarkers. She received the Faculty Curricular Innovation Award when she initiated a science advocacy program to engage with members of the U.S. Congress and their staff to develop and pass legislation. She serves on Harvard’s Standing Committee on Public Service and was elected to the Faculty Council and Committee on Undergraduate Education. Dr. Vollmer-Snarr was a Lecturer at Stanford University and an Assistant Professor at Brigham Young University, where she conducted research on age-related macular degeneration and cancer drug delivery. She is a co-author of Organic Chemistry with Biological Topics and serves on the American Chemical Society’s Committee on Chemistry and Public Affairs. She has also served on the National Institutes of Health study sections Small Business Sensory Technologies and Visual Systems. When not working, Heidi enjoys spending time skiing and traveling with her husband and three children.

United States, Washington DC Matriculation, 2000

Jayme Johnson

Public service on both sides of the Atlantic characterises Jayme’s career. Born in London, schooled in Kent, he studied history at Lincoln, and joined the Metropolitan Police Service in London. His most rewarding work included investigating violence against women and policing large events and protests. He also led the Police Desk in the National Olympic Coordination Centre in 2012. A Fulbright Scholarship took Jayme to Washington, DC, where, on a now-remarkable Monday, he met his future American wife. After that meeting, his path changed. He completed a Master’s in Public Administration as a Frank Knox Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and emigrated permanently to Washington, DC, where he joined the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. There, building on his experience of operations, he established a new Strategic Initiatives team to drive organizational change and innovation. As Senior Vice President of Safety, Jayme now leads the safety team, preventing and responding to safety incidents and providing oversight of all functions of the second largest public transit agency in North America. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife, Molly, and three children, Harry, Bridget and Jack.

United States, Washington DC Matriculation, 1951

John W. Mellor

John W. Mellor is currently Professor Emeritus, Cornell University and President of John Mellor Associates, Inc. a policy consulting firm. Prior to that he was founding Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute, Chief Economist of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID/Washington,) and Vice-President of Abt Associates. At Cornell University he was Professor of Agricultural Economics, Economics, and Asian Studies, Director of the Comparative Economics Program and Associate director and Acting Director of the Center for International Studies. He received degrees from Cornell University and Oxford University. He was the recipient of the Wihuri Prize (Finland) and the Presidential Award (The Reagan White House, USA) for efforts to alleviate hunger in the World and is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Agricultural Economics Association. He is the recipient of numerous awards for the quality of his research, the author and co-author of nine books, and hundreds of journal articles and conference papers (largely on economic and agricultural development.)

United States, Boston, Massachusetts Matriculation, 2019

Kushal Kadakia

Kushal is a M.D. Candidate at Harvard Medical School. He earned an M.Sc. in Epidemiology and M.St. in US History at Lincoln College, where he was funded by the Rhodes Scholarship. Kushal aspires for a career as a physician-leader, integrating clinical medicine and public policy to advance patient care and population health.

During his time at Oxford, Kushal received the Faculty Prize as the top-ranked student in his cohort. He also published over a dozen papers on clinical medicine and health policy, and completed internships at Cleveland Clinic London, Google Health, and the National Academy of Medicine.

Beyond his studies, Kushal’s fondest memories at Lincoln include rowing for LCBC, and exploring his interests in art and history with the support of Lincoln’s Vivian Green Fund, including a trip to Lincolnshire to visit the Lincoln Cathedral.

United States, Annapolis, Maryland Matriculation, 1957

Laban (Ted) E. Lesster

Ted came to Lincoln on an ICI scholarship to transfer from Classics to Science. A year after graduation he had the chance to join the Westinghouse Research Centre in the USA and this led to a successful career in the new technologies of Deep Submersible Vehicles and Electronic Power Conversion at the Westinghouse Oceanic Division. With a Westinghouse Scholarship in 1971 he returned to the UK for a year of study at Imperial College for a DIC. Electric Vehicle propulsion was a natural technology transfer and the last 10 years with Westinghouse saw him heavily involved in US and European Auto Industry opportunities. Retiring in 1999 as Division Engineering Director, he joined an MIT offshoot company along with his Electric Vehicle power electronics team and retired for good in 2014. He keeps active on the board of a small technical company and recently gave a lecture series titled “Energy in Perspective” to the local Community College Peer Learning Group. He lives near Annapolis in Maryland on a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay where he sailed for many years in his Gemini 34ft Catamaran.

United States, Montclair, New Jersey Matriculation, 2000

Lauren Clabby Moore

For over two decades Lauren Clabby Moore has been producing live news broadcasts in the United States, most recently for CNN.

Her work has brought viewers important events as they happen, insightful interviews with major newsmakers, and smart analysis of critical topics. Clabby Moore has covered every U.S. presidential election since 2004, including from the battleground state of Pennsylvania in 2020 when Joe Biden secured enough votes to defeat Donald Trump and win the presidency. She has worked to launch new content and new platforms, from CNN International’s first show on U.S. politics to original podcasts to CNN’s first streaming service.

At Lincoln, Clabby Moore earned an M.Phil in 20th Century English Literature and earned fellowships from both Rotary International and the British Schools and Universities Foundation. Before Lincoln, she graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with an A.B. in English Language and Literature.

Clabby Moore lives in Montclair, New Jersey with her husband Jimmy Moore, an attorney, and their three sons, Jackson, Roger and James.

United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts Matriculation, 2013

Leah Rand

Leah Rand completed her DPhil in population health with a focus on bioethics in 2017. She is now a Lecturer at Harvard Medical School and a Research Scientist with the Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law (PORTAL) at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.

Her work focuses on ethics and prescription drug policy and regulation with a particular focus on fair pricing, health technology assessment, and healthcare access. She also works on ethical issues in public and patient involvement in research and policy. Prior to joining PORTAL, Leah staffed a consensus study at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on public health emergency preparedness and response. Leah graduated from the University of Chicago and received an MA in philosophy from University College London, where she was a Marshall Scholar, before coming to Oxford.

While at Lincoln, Leah learned to row and was LCBC President. She still loves rowing and has continued to row and race as a member of a competitive club team.

United States, Washington DC Matriculation, 1987

Mark Sandy

As a civil servant in the U.S. Government, Mark Sandy has leveraged his studies in Politics and Economics at Lincoln College throughout his career. He has worked across multiple Administrations and with numerous agencies, including the Department of Defense, the Department of State, the Intelligence Community, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. He currently serves as Deputy Associate Director for National Security at the Office of Management and Budget in the Executive Office of the President, where he was awarded the rank of Distinguished Executive in the Senior Executive Service for “sustained extraordinary accomplishment in management of programs of the United States Government and for leadership exemplifying the highest standards of service to the public, reflecting credit on the career civil service.”

Mark simultaneously served for over 21 years in the U.S. Navy Reserve, including as a Military Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense and as Intelligence Operations Officer-in-Charge at the NATO Training Mission in Afghanistan.

Mark attended Lincoln College as a George C. Marshall Scholar. He subsequently earned his Master’s in Public Affairs specializing in international relations at Princeton University as a Harry S. Truman Scholar. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Naval War College.

United States, Bethesda, Maryland Matriculation, 1999

Dr Meena Seshamani

Meena Seshamani, MD, DPhil is a Hopkins-trained surgeon and Oxford-trained health economist and Marshall Scholar who understands how health policy impacts the real lives of patients. As Director of the Center for Medicare at the US Department of Health and Human Services, Dr. Seshamani is responsible for the health care coverage of more than 64 million Americans in the Medicare program, with an annual budget of roughly $1 trillion. Dr. Seshamani has led her nearly 1,000 person team through historic transformation, including standing up the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program – the first time in history that Medicare will negotiate directly with pharmaceutical companies.

Dr. Seshamani previously served as Vice President of Clinical Care Transformation at MedStar Health, where she served on the senior leadership of the 10 hospital, 300+ outpatient care site health system and cared for patients as a head and neck surgeon.

Prior to MedStar Health, Dr. Seshamani was Director of the Office of Health Reform at the US Department of Health and Human Services, where she drove strategy and led implementation of the Affordable Care Act across the Department, including coverage policy, delivery system reform, and public health policy.

United States, Ridgewood, New York Matriculation, 2023

Mika Deshmukh

Mika Deshmukh is a brand strategist working in the pharmaceutical advertising world, where she gets to realize her passion for improving the patient experience and bringing life-changing therapies to market. She also freelances for early-stage biotech and femtech ventures, helping founders refine their pitch decks, identify their target customers, and put together a go-to-market strategy.

Mika matriculated at Lincoln College in 2023, when she came to Oxford for her MBA. Her favorite part about studying at Lincoln was attending the Christmas Dinner and giving novice rowing a go during Michaelmas term. During her Oxford year, she was accepted into the 2024 Global Leadership Initiative cohort, where she enjoyed discussing the nuances of leadership with a group of students across graduate degrees. Mika also holds a B.A. in Visual and Media Studies from Duke University.

United States, New York Matriculation, 2004

Natalie Gibralter (née Gourvitch)

Since graduating from Lincoln, Natalie's career has been largely focused on entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial pursuits in technology and social impact. She joined both KIND (www.kindsnacks.com) as well as Squarespace (www.squarespace.com) when they were early stage startups and helped build them both to multi-billion dollar public companies. She also founded and ran a non-profit in Tel Aviv focused on developing skills and opportunities for cross-cultural connection for young Israeli backpackers traveling abroad. Natalie is currently a Vice President of Product at Microsoft, leading a 'startup' called Azure Communication Services. Natalie lives in New York City with her husband, Aaron, and children, Leo (6) and Rachel (4).

United States, Washington DC Matriculation, 2006

Dr Paul J. Angelo

Paul J. Angelo, PhD, currently serves as Director of the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies at the National Defense University in Washington, DC. His previous work at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) included roles as the fellow for Latin America studies and as an International Affairs Fellow. Dr. Angelo serves as a Commander in the US Navy Reserve, supporting the US Naval Forces Southern Command as the executive officer of a Puerto Rico-based unit. In 2022, President Biden appointed Dr. Angelo to the US Naval Academy Board of Visitors in Annapolis, Maryland. Dr. Angelo holds a BS in political science (with honors) from the US Naval Academy, where he was awarded the Harry S. Truman Scholarship, an MPhil in Latin American studies (with distinction) from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and a PhD in politics from University College London. His written commentary has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, New York Times, Washington Post, and the Miami Herald. He is also the author of From Peril to Partnership: US Security Assistance and the Bid to Stabilize Colombia and Mexico (Oxford University Press, 2023).

United States, Seattle, Washington Matriculation, 1990

Rebecca Woodgate

Rebecca Woodgate, (BA, Physics, Christ’s College, Cambridge; DPhil, Oceanography, Lincoln College, Oxford), is Senior Principal Oceanographer and Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. After Oxford, five years of postdocing in Germany (at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research) took her on German, Norwegian and British research/navy ships to study the physics of ocean currents and sea-ice in both the Arctic and Antarctic. Her speciality is in year-round oceanographic moorings, (i.e., strings of instruments, moored to the seafloor, held up-right by subsurface floatation), and in particular the deployment and recovery of these strings in ice-covered waters. She specializes in teasing from the data from these moorings an understanding of the ice-ocean system, locally and globally. Since moving to the USA in 1999, she has sailed on US, Canadian and Russian ships, including leading science teams on the US Coastguard Icebreakers, Polar Star and Healy. She was part of an ice-camp placing a 2.5mile-long mooring at the North Pole and leads the 34-year long mooring project in the Bering Strait. Her sanity break is change-ringing, and she helped install the Gordon Stuart Peek Memorial Bells in the University of Washington in 2008, the first set of change-ringing bells on the west coast of the USA.

(photo credit to Max Showalter)

United States, Montclair, New Jersey Matriculation, 1982

Richard Webster

Originally hailing from Rotherham, Richard’s tutors dubbed him the Stakhanovite of the physics students at Lincoln. After graduation, he joined VSO as a physics teacher in the West Indies, where he met his wife. Post VSO, he completed a Master’s degree, then joined an environmental consultancy in London followed by Hong Kong. Thereafter, he moved to the USA, advised environmental non-profits, and was the primary caregiver of his two children for four years. When his son went to kindergarten, Richard went to Columbia Law School. After a brief stint on Park Avenue, he moved to Rutgers Law School and helped to close the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant. After taking a position at Public Justice in Washington DC, his cases closed America's largest coal ash dump, improved working conditions at the Hanford nuclear site, and reduced earthquake risk from fracking waste in Oklahoma. Finally, he moved to Riverkeeper, where he now watchdogs the clean-up of the shuttered Indian Point nuclear reactor among other things.

His education at Lincoln gave him the confidence to try to improve the world, but he still maintains he learned more in the bar than he did in class.

United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Matriculation, 1961

Roger Allen

In June 2011 Roger Allen retired from his position as the Sascha Jane Patterson Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania, where, from 1968, he was Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature in the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations. He served as Chair of the Department, 2005-11.

Among his published studies are: The Arabic Novel: an historical and critical introduction, and The Arabic Literary Heritage [1998], (in paperback: Introduction to Arabic Literature [2000]). From 2007 to 2022, he served as Sub-editor for modern Arabic literature of the Encyclopedia of Islam 3rd ed. (Brill, Netherlands). He co-edited the “Post-Classical”: volume of the Cambridge History of Arabic Literature series (2006).

He has also translated a number of fictional works by modern Arab writers, including the Egyptian Nobel Laureate, Naguib Mahfouz, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Yusuf Idris, `Abd al-rahman Munif, Mayy Telmissany, BenSalim Himmich, Ahmad al-Tawfiq, Hanan al-Shaykh, and, most recently, Reem Bassiouney.

Roger Allen also served as organist-choirmaster of All Saints Cath3edral in Cairo, Egypt, 1966-67, and of St. Mary’s Church, Hamilton Village, Philadelphia, 1974-2000.

United States, Baltimore, Maryland Matriculation, 1991

Thomas Dineen

Since becoming President of the American Jujitsu Association (AJA) in 2023, Tom has sought to export the benefits of jujitsu training beyond the U.S. Founded in 1972, the AJA promotes competitions and provides insurance and certificates of rank to hundreds of martial artists.

Under Tom's leadership, the AJA has enlisted schools from Ontario and South Africa as new members, with its international impact best exemplified at the Kodokwan Jujitsu Dojo in Kitwe, Zambia. Here Tom initiated a project that supplied dozens of new, high-quality jujitsu uniforms to students.

Founded in 1928, Kodokwan is among the oldest martial arts schools in Southern Central Africa and Head Instructor Jonathan Kruger said his students were “profoundly grateful.” Kodokwan’s local involvement transcends martial arts training: Jonathan teaches 100+ orphans free of charge, helps children pay school fees, and provides sleeping nets to prevent malaria.

Tom sums up the impact: “For nearly a century, Kodokwan has helped underprivileged youths become strong community leaders by learning martial arts. Providing them with uniforms reflects AJA’s core value of ‘Community Spirit,’ as we foster international cooperation among martial artists."

At Lincoln, Tom has served on the Murray Society Steering Committee since 2018 and taught a Zoom-based self-defense class to College students and staff in 2020.

United States, New York Matriculation, 2013

Dr Ti Xu

Originally from Westfield, New Jersey, Tianyou ‘Ti’ Xu is a physicist and entrepreneur. Ti studied Physics at New York University as a Presidential Honors Scholar and earned his DPhil at Lincoln College, Oxford, focusing on Magnetic Resonance Imaging Physics. As an Oxford Clarendon Scholar and Sloane Robinson Fellow at Lincoln College, he balanced an immensely fulfilling academic and athletic life during his tenure. In sport, he represented Oxford cycling at both the collegiate and national levels in the UK. After graduation, Ti ventured into entrepreneurship, founding Cibus Health, a digital and hardware health startup, together with Oxford University Innovation. He later redirected his focus to StudyStream, a virtual study platform for students, which gained significant traction during the 2020 pandemic. He and his co-founders led StudyStream through YCombinator in Summer 2021, successfully raising $9 million in venture capital funding. After exiting StudyStream in 2023, Ti founded and currently serves as CEO of Turl Street Group, an intelligence service for capital markets, political, educational, and real estate stakeholders, aptly named after the street where Lincoln College is located.

United States, Gibsonia, Pennsylvania Matriculation, 1970

Timothy Robert Austin

Shortly before he left Lincoln, Tim Austin earned a travel scholarship from the English Speaking Union and was accepted as a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts. In 1978, he earned his Ph.D. in linguistic stylistics. The first twenty-five years of Tim’s academic career were spent at Loyola University Chicago, where he taught in the English Department, moving up to serve as department chair, associate director of Research Services and an associate dean of the Graduate School. Accepting more senior administrative roles, Tim became Dean of Arts and Sciences at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska; then Dean of the College and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts; and finally Provost of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Tim’s other responsibilities have included terms as Vice Chairperson of the Nebraska Humanities Council and as a trustee of St. Anselm College in New Hampshire. Tim published two books that explore from a theoretical linguist’s perspective the works of selected British Romantic poets: Language Crafted: A Linguistic Theory of Poetic Syntax (Indiana University Press, 1984) and Poetic Voices: Discourse Linguistics and the Poetic Text (University of Alabama Press, 1994). He retired in 2018.

Norway, Tromsø Matriculation, 1991

Hans Olav Melberg

Prof Hans Olav Melberg is currently Professor of Health Economics at The Arctic University of Norway. He has also been a Commonwealth Fellow at The Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (UPenn) and a visiting scholar at The Data Science Institute at Vanderbilt University. He has participated in several government commissions on priority setting in health care, regulation of pharmacies, and taxation of sugar products. He started a journal (Nordic Journal of Health Economics) and is a regular columnist in a medical newspaper. His soccer career peaked at Lincoln, but he still fools himself into believing that he is a cyclist. Evidence to the contrary is often supplied by his two daughters and publicly available at Strava - where he is also most easily reached.

Norway, Fetsund Matriculation, 2000

Marius Emberland

Marius Emberland got his basic law degree from the University of Oslo, Norway in 1996, and holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School (1999). Prior to and shortly after his years in Oxford, where he worked on a doctorate thesis on the protection of corporate interests under the European Convention on Human Rights (published as "The Human Rights of Companies: Exploring the Structure of ECHR Protection" by Oxford University Press in 2006), he worked in research at the University of Oslo. In 2008 he moved on to legal practice: Between 2008 and 2022 he worked as advocate at the Office of the Attorney General for Civil Affairs, where he litigated civil cases on behalf of various Norwegian Government ministries in domestic courts as well as the Court of Justice and the EFTA Court. From 2012-2022 he was the Norwegian Government's Agent before the European Court of Human Rights, defending Norway's interests in cases at that Court. He was then Chief Analyst at the Ministry of Justice in Norway from 2022-2023, and from October 2023 full tenured professor of law at BI Norwegian Business School. Emberland has published extensively on human rights issues as well as civil procedure and administrative law.

Norway, Oslo Matriculation, 1993

Ylva Lindberg

Ylva´s career has been built on a conviction that the business and investment community is key to solving social and environmental problems. She is currently Executive Vice President of Strategy and Communication at Norfund, the Norwegian development finance institution, investing for impact in some of the world´s most difficult markets. Prior to this, she founded and led SIGLA, a boutique consultancy, worked for McKinsey&Company, as an equity analyst at the life insurance company KLP and marketing professional with the FMCG company Orkla. She is currently a non-executive director at the global medical equipment company Lærdal Medical, senior associate at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and member representing the public on the Norwegian Press Complaints Commission. Previous positions of responsibility include Member of Council on Ethics for the Norwegian oil fund, the world´s largest sovereign wealth fund, board chair of the World Wide Fund for Nature – Norway, board member of the family office CentraGruppen and member of the BMO GAM Responsible Investment Advisory Council. She is based in Norway, but currently living in Kenya with her husband and three children.

United Kingdom, Edinburgh Matriculation, 1988

Dr Helen Wright (Kendal)

Dr Helen Wright is a highly regarded global educational leader with an energetic career spanning over 3 decades in UK and international education. She led schools and held national and international roles in education in the UK and Australia for over 13 years until 2014, before embarking on an independent career in international leadership recruitment, executive leadership coaching and governance advisory. She is regularly asked to contribute to international conferences and symposia about the future of education. She recruits and coaches CEOs and educational leaders in countries from the Gulf Region to Europe, SE Asia and the USA. She was Vice-Chair of the Oxford Alumni Relations Board for several years, and has an active NED portfolio which includes chairing boards of UK financial membership organisations and educational charities, as well as supporting EdTech start-ups and early-stage companies. She is passionate about pushing educational boundaries to ensure that every young person can become a strong and unique contributor to society. She is based in Edinburgh, with her husband Brian (Lincoln, 1989) and 3 children, of whom she is intensely proud. Her father, Dr Gordon Kendal (Mansfield, 1970) was Chaplain of Lincoln (1979-1983); her son is reading Materials Science at St Anne’s.

United Kingdom, Edinburgh Matriculation, 1994

Kate Smurthwaite

In 2004 Kate Smurthwaite gave up a career in finance to become a comedian and campaigner. Her work talks about left wing politics, atheism, feminism and polyamory and she is the host and star of the News at Kate video series.

She has toured nineteen solo shows around the UK, to the Edinburgh Fringe and around the world. She was the house MC at London’s iconic Soho Comedy Club for over a decade.

In 2013 she won a Three Week's Editor's Choice Award naming her one of the ten best things about the Edinburgh Fringe. In 2014 she was nominated for the Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize for campaigning against violence against women.

Kate has appeared on over 2000 TV and radio shows including Question Time, The Big Questions, This Morning, Woman's Hour, The Today Program, The Moral Maze and Newsnight.

She has written for The Guardian, The Independent, The Mirror, New Statesman and New Internationalist and for TV shows including Have I Got News For You and BBC3’s BAFTA-winning The Revolution Will Be Televised.

Kate's campaigning work has included being the spokesperson for Abortion Rights UK and volunteering with Women Asylum Seekers Together.

United Kingdom, Edinburgh Matriculation, 1983

Mark Kent CMG

Mark was born and grew up in rural Lincolnshire, attending Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School Horncastle. After studying jurisprudence at Lincoln (1983-1986), Mark was awarded a Weiner-Anspach scholarship to study European law at Brussels University. Mark joined the UK diplomatic service in 1987, latterly serving as Ambassador to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (2007-2010), Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand (2012-2016) and Ambassador to the Argentine Republic (2016-2021). Highlights included agreement of the UK-Vietnam Strategic Partnership in 2010, and the joint communique resetting UK – Argentine relations in 2016, including unprecedented humanitarian work involving the Red Cross and governments of Argentina, UK and the Falkland Islands to identify Argentine soldiers buried in Darwin Cemetery in the Falklands. Mark was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to British foreign policy. In January 2022 Mark became the ninth Chief Executive of the Scotch Whisky Association, the trade association which represents Scotland’s biggest export industry, and the UK’s biggest food and drink export.

United Kingdom, St Andrews Matriculation, 1963

Peter Berry CMG

Peter Berry spent his first 7 post-graduate years working as a trader in Brunei and Indonesia and the next 9 as CEO of a London-listed Agriculture and Agricultural Engineering Group investing in South and SE Asia, Africa, South America and UK.

In 1982 he joined Crown Agents (CA), a not-for-profit leader in working with governments and aid donors to implement global development programmes. CA was also the world’s largest international public sector procurement organisation and owned a bank and a fund management company working exclusively for around 100 governments. CA also led in the delivery of a wide range of expertise to countries in development and transition (including many in the former Soviet Union) and was the UK’s first responder to international disasters and emergencies.

Peter became CEO in 1988 and subsequently Chairman, leading “privatisation” of CA into the ownership of a Foundation guaranteed by global businesses, NGOs and government clients.

In 1993, Peter helped found the international NGO Transparency International (now in 100+ countries) and was UK President until 2022. He was a director or trustee/chair of several quoted companies and charities, including Charities Aid Foundation, Charity Bank and the Scottish Crop Research Institute.

He was awarded CMG for services to Humanitarian Aid and the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun for services to international development cooperation.

Singapore, Singapore Matriculation, 1997

Agnes Kwek

Agnes had 20 years of career in the Singapore Administrative Service, serving in diverse portfolios ranging from defence, labour policy, community organisation and social welfare, public service innovation, transport and creative industry. She is a policy-wonk-designer, whose niche is in large-scale organisational transformation and systems changes, with more than a decade of experience in public sector transformation. Agnes is skilled in design thinking, futures thinking and systems thinking. Since 2018, she has been living in Paris and is the founder and CEO of MindTheSystem, a consultancy on complex systems problems. She continues to work with clients all over the world to train governments and advice on large-scale systems projects.

Singapore, Singapore Matriculation, 2000

Johanna Lim

Johanna has had a 15+ year London-based career primarily in strategy and business development. She currently leads Amazon’s Corporate Business Development team for EMEA. Previous to Amazon, she was Director of Strategic Partnerships for British Telecom (BT), responsible to the BT Group CEO and Board for pan-BT partnerships. Prior to that, she spent nearly a decade with NBCUniversal (part of the Comcast group of companies) in roles spanning leading the international Corporate Business Development group as well as leading the international Digital Home Entertainment business. Outside of work, Johanna sits on the Corporate Advisory Board of Save the Children UK. Johanna started her career as a strategy consultant in London followed by a memorable stint working for Richard Branson in his personal investment fund – Virgin Management Limited. Johanna was born and raised in Singapore and moved to the UK when she started her PPE degree at Lincoln. She stayed for an additional two years to complete an MPhil prior to moving to London. Johanna has two young sons at home who provide her with daily negotiation practice.

Singapore, Singapore Matriculation, 1986

Su Shan Tan

Su Shan is the Global Head of Corporate and Commercial Banking at DBS, and will take over as CEO in 2025. DBS is the largest bank in Southeast Asia with a market capitalisation of US$64b (Aug 2023). Prior to leading the corporate banking business, she was Group Head of Consumer Banking and Wealth Management for close to a decade.

Su Shan served as a Nominated Member of Parliament in Singapore from 2012 to 2014. She is a board member of the Singapore Central Provident Fund Board (CPF), which is the compulsory retirement plan in Singapore. She also sits on the advisory board of Dyson’s family office, Weybourne Holdings .

In 2018, she was nominated by Forbes Magazine as a “Top 25 emergent Asian Woman Business leader”. In the same year, she was also named “Retail Banker of the Year” by the Digital Banker in their inaugural Global Retail Banking Innovation Awards. In October 2014, Su Shan became the first Singaporean to be recognised as the world’s “Best Leader in Private Banking” by PWM/The Banker, a wealth publication by the Financial Times Group.

Su Shan graduated with a Master of Arts from Lincoln college, Oxford University where she studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics. She has also completed executive leadership courses in Harvard Business School, Stanford Business School and Singularity University.

Singapore, Singapore Matriculation, 2007

Dr Xin Hui Chan

Xin Hui read clinical medicine at Lincoln, the college of her mentor Prof David Vaux with whom she had worked at the Dunn School of Pathology studying viral entry mechanisms into mammalian cells and the immunopathogenesis of dengue fever, the infection which had nearly taken her sister's life a few years earlier. A grant from the college Graduate Research Fund enabled research in tuberculosis immunology at the Medical Research Council Laboratories in The Gambia where she also wrote her final year extended essay on tools for malaria control. These experiences paved the way for infectious diseases subspecialty training in Oxford, London, and Southeast Asia. She went on to earn a DPhil (with no corrections) on the cardiovascular safety of antimalarials for malaria elimination in collaboration with the WHO Global Malaria Programme while based in the Greater Mekong Subregion. She has recently returned to Oxford on an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturership in Infectious Diseases where she works to accelerate the equitable development and deployment of treatments for high-threat and emerging viruses, starting with dengue, the infection which inspired her career in infectious diseases.

South Africa, Cape Town Matriculation, 2016

Claire Keene

Claire is a clinical doctor from South Africa. In 2016 she came to Lincoln College to complete her masters in International Health and Tropical Medicine. After the masters, she went on to work for the Oxford Health Systems Collaboration (OHSCAR), helping to develop recommendations for newborn levels of care in Nairobi, Kenya. She then managed a large HIV and tuberculosis project for Médecins Sans Frontières in Khayelitsha, South Africa, including the project’s COVID response in 2020: supporting the local Department of Health’s efforts and setting up the first COVID field hospital in South Africa. She has experience in clinical trial management, programme strategy and policy development, and has contributed to work that spans different contexts. She currently co-leads the ‘Leading Change for Impact’ series and coordinates the Vaccinology Module for Oxford’s MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine.

Claire also completed her PhD at Oxford as part of the Health Systems Collaborative under the NDM Centre for Global Health Research – a group conducting health systems research in resource-limited settings. Her research now focuses on HIV services and people's engagement with care.

South Africa, Pietermaritzburg Matriculation, 1960

Clive Henderson

After graduating from Natal University, South Africa, with a BSc Agriculture, Clive continued his studies at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he obtained his MA in Forestry. Clive was a member of the College rowing, rugby and cricket teams, and was elected to the Goblin Society.

Under the auspices of the prestigious Lord Beaverbrook Scholarship, he then obtained his MsF at the University of New Brunswick in Canada.

Clive has operated his own Forestry and Agricultural consultancy for the past 60 years, assessing land claims, land disputes, fire damages with associated liability and quantum of damages, amongst many other interesting assignments. Most of his work culminates in High Court appearances.

Clive’s wealth of experience and knowledge gained over the years has ensured that his work continues well past retirement age.

Clive has been an active member of the community in many spheres. He was a Rotarian for over 30 years, being a recipient of the Paul Harris Award for Service Above Self.

Clive’s elder brother, the Late Dr Derek Henderson, and his niece Margaret Kenyon (née Henderson), were both Rhodes Scholars and Alumni of Lincoln College. Derek Henderson became Vice-Chancellor of Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa.

Clive has 5 children and 12 grandchildren, and lives on his family estate, Briar Ghyll, in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

South Africa, Johannesburg Matriculation, 1990

David Everatt

Everatt completed his D Phil just as South Africa entered its transition from apartheid to democracy. He returned, and became heavily involved in policy research to equip the new government, including serving on Nelson Mandela’s polling team. He went on to work in the NGO and consulting fields, focusing on development issues including poverty, youth and governance. In 2007, Everatt returned to the academy where he was founder director of the Gauteng City-Region Observatory, a partnership between government and two universities in Johannesburg. In 2015 he became Head of School at the School of Governance, University of the Witwatersrand. During his term he was also elected deputy chair of Senate, and Chairperson of the National Statistics Council. In 2020, after his term, Everatt set up the first health & demographic surveillance site in the Johannesburg region. He was also elected to the Academy of Sciences of South Africa. He has published widely in academic journals, and has authored or edited seven books.
A second generation of Everatts will be joining Lincoln, as his daughter Josie Everatt starts her DPhil in human genetics in 2023.

South Africa, Cape Town Matriculation, 1965

Glenn Babb

School: St John’s College, Johannesburg. Universities: Stellenbosch, Oxford, University of South Africa. Advocate (barrister) at Transvaal Local Division. Joined Foreign Affairs in Pretoria 1967. Career as Secretary/Counsellor Embassies Paris and Rome. Training Officer at Foreign Affairs. Author of guide 'Training for the Diplomatic Service'. Served as Head East, North, West Africa desk. Accredited 1985 Ambassador to Canada. Head of the Africa Division. Joined Parliament as MP. Accredited Ambassador to Italy 1991. Order of Merit of Italy as Consigliere di Gran Croce. Resigned 1995. Chairman of AGIP Lubricants South Africa. Accredited Honorary Consul General of Turkey 1996 – 2021. Owner of business for office management Babrius cc. Director Board of Cape Town Symphony Orchestra 1997 – 1999. Chairman Owl Club 2006-2007. Chairman of the Muizenberg Historical Society 2016.

Married to Tracey Dibb. Two daughters, two sons.

Author of several monographs (including 'Abu Bakr Effendi – A Young Turk in Afrikaans' and 'The Hollowness of the National Party’s Foreign Policy and the Man who Pursued it, Pik Botha)'. Author of 'In One Era and out of the Other' (2022) and 'My Joburg Family' (2023).

Business: translation of sworn documents from French, Afrikaans and Italian into English.

South Africa, Johannesburg Matriculation, 2022

Dr Joshua (Yifan) Li

Josh is a specialist registrar medical doctor from South Africa. He graduated with his intercalated MBChB/BMedSci (Hons) with First Class Honours in 2018 from the University of Cape Town, and completed his medical internship and community service in South Africa before working as a registrar doctor in Ireland.

As a Keith Murray Scholar and with the support from the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust fund, he matriculated towards a DPhil in Medical Sciences at Lincoln College in 2022. He is also a Non-Stipendiary Lecturer (NSL) in Clinical Medicine at the college and is a passionate medical educator. Outside of medicine, Josh is an avid amateur violinist and is the recipient of the Friedmann Endowed Prize in Music, having led the string quartet for Lincoln’s 600th Anniversary Campaign Launch Event. He was also the Treasurer for the Lincoln College Salsa Society.

South Africa, Johannesburg Matriculation, 2013

Mr. Melvyn Lubega

Melvyn Lubega is a trained actuary and accomplished technology entrepreneur; he has cultivated a rich career that spans global business ventures. Melvyn's insatiable thirst for knowledge set him on a remarkable trajectory. He secured scholarships that paved the way for his education at institutions like St John’s College, University of Cape Town, and Oxford, where he distinguished himself in actuarial science, graduating with honours in statistics.

Melvyn's journey led him to significant roles in investment banking and business consulting, culminating in his distinction as the first associate in Sub Saharan Africa for the prestigious Boston Consulting Group. His entrepreneurial spirit flourished through endeavours like Go1, a transformative platform that seamlessly connects organizations with premium learning content. Go1 empowers businesses with world-class resources, embodying Melvyn's vision of unlocking African potential.

An influential thought leader, he shares his expertise on global stages, addressing digital transformation and strategic business paradigms. Acknowledged as a Forbes 30 Under 30 honouree, Melvyn's journey exemplifies not only technological innovation but also his role as a catalyst for Africa's advancement and worldwide influence. Through his endeavours, including the ongoing global expansion of Go1, Melvyn champions innovation and the pivotal role of interconnected networks in propelling progress.

South Africa, Cape Town Matriculation, 1988

Michael Stein

Dr. Michael Stein, MB ChB, B Sc (Hons), D Phil is an entrepreneur in health and passionate about being an impactful healer. He earned a doctorate in Physiological Sciences from the University of Oxford (Lincoln College) as a Rhodes Scholar before becoming a JRF in Medicine at Trinity College,

Between 1988-96 he described the alternative pathway of macrophage activation, which defined a new cell phenotype, taught medical students as a p/t lecturer at Balliol College, and co-wrote a handbook called the Hands-on Guide for House Officers (Blackwell Science) for first-time doctors (selling 100,000+ copies over 5 editions).

His later entrepreneurial career includes:
Creating the first nationally licensed set of clinical algorithms, called the Map of Medicine, now called NHS Pathways after the software platform was sold to Hearst Inc. (2008).
Founded a novel telemedicine platform called Doctor Care Anywhere (2012 –15) before fully exiting at IPO in 2020.
Helping the University of Helsinki spin out a biotech company (2015) called Valo Therapeutics , which promises to deliver new cancer therapies.
In 2020, Michael founded Added Health in memory of his friend and colleague, Dr Satish Keshav, and is dedicated to transforming the way every one of us manages our health.

South Africa, Johannesburg Matriculation, 2017

Saul Musker

Saul Musker is the Director of Strategy and Delivery Support in the Private Office of the President in South Africa, where he works on economic reform, climate finance and other strategic policy initiatives. He was involved in South Africa’s response to COVID-19, including an unprecedented expansion of social protection in the wake of the pandemic, and has played a key role in reform of the energy, logistics, and telecommunications sectors. He has been a contributor to the Daily Maverick since 2014, and has written widely on South African and international politics.

After studying at the University of the Witwatersrand as an undergraduate, he completed an MSc in Global Governance and Diplomacy and a Master of Public Policy as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. The Lincoln College library remains among his favourite places in the world.

United States, Charleston, South Carolina Matriculation, 1984

Darren Marshall

Darren is a pioneer in the field of sports marketing research. He created the first model to accurately measure and predict ROI for an individual sponsorship and this has become the gold standard for sponsors and sports leagues in the US. He was a founding Partner of leading independent sports marketing agency rEvolution in 2001. He started his career with ISL, the marketing agency for the Olympics and World Cup. He rowed in the first VIII in 1987 and rEvolution has for many years been the proud sponsor of Lincoln College Boat Club. The current men’s 1st VIII row in the Mary Garrett, a boat funded by Darren and named for his wife. He is also a Master Scuba Diver, keen cyclist, gardener, amateur chef and lifelong Arsenal fan.

United States, Atlanta, Georgia Matriculation, 1992

Henry S. Kim

Henry S. Kim is a museum professional who has led museums in the US, UK and Canada. A classical archaeologist and ancient historian by training, he is known for his work in developing museum display strategies that highlight cultural connections and encourage cross-cultural dialogue.

He is currently Associate Vice Provost and Director of the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University. He was previously the Director and CEO of the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto from 2012 to 2020 where he was responsible for its construction and opening, and for leading it through its initial history. He managed its teams of experts and practitioners, and personally led major gallery, education and new creation artistic projects.

He began his career at the University of Oxford where he served as curator of Greek coins and university lecturer in Greek numismatics from 1994 to 2012. From 2004 to 2011, he was the Project Director for the Ashmolean Redevelopment Project, a £70 million redevelopment and transformation of the museum. He then created the University Engagement Programme, a three-year project sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation aimed at expanding the use of the museum’s collections in teaching across the university.

United States, Houston, Texas Matriculation, 1972

Michael Zilkha

Immediately after graduation Michael moved to New York, where he worked as a journalist and then founded Ze Records in 1977. He built it into a popular and admired record label. In 1985, realising that if he stayed in that business, he would one day be twice the age of his artists, he decided on a career change. He spent one year in publishing under Harry Evans at Atlantic Monthly Press, and in 1986 he moved to Houston TX and went into the energy business with his father. They developed Zilkha Energy Company, which explored for oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico, into the largest acreage holder there with 1.5 million acres under lease. After selling Zilkha Energy in 1998 they built Zilkha Renewable Energy into a major developer of wind projects from New York to Washington State. They sold it, along with partner Goldman Sachs, to Energias de Portugal in 2007. A third energy venture, Zilkha Biomass Energy, ended in failure. . Retiring from that business in 2018 Michael has started a literary publishing company, Ze Books, based out of Houston. Michael’s daughter Lucinda matriculated at Lincoln in 2002.

Spain, Barcelona Matriculation, 1976

John Carlin

John Carlin (graduated English Language and Literature, 1979) has been a foreign correspondent successively for the Times, BBC, the Independent and El País (Spain) in Mexico, Central America, South Africa and Washington, filing reports down the years from over 60 countries for the aforementioned plus numerous other publications such as the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Observer and the Sunday Times. An award winner in the US, UK, Spain and Italy, he has written half a dozen books and made a dozen documentaries on sport and politics. In 2004 he was selected, to his surprise, as the British Press Awards' “Food and Drink Writer of the Year”. An expert on Nelson Mandela, whom he knew well, his book 'Playing the Enemy' was made into the Clint Eastwood film 'Invictus'. He also wrote the authorised biography of the tennis player Rafa Nadal and was writer and executive producer on the Amazon Prime series 'This is Football'. He now lives in Barcelona where he is working on more books and documentaries and writes a regular column for the newspaper La Vanguardia.

Spain, Alicante Matriculation, 1948

John Rewcastle MBE

Born in 1927, the elder son of Judge Rewcastle QC and Dr A. G. Rewcastle OBE, John was educated at Ampleforth. After military service from 1944-48 (Irish Guards, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers), he came up to Lincoln in 1948. A keen oarsman, he recorded 15 bumps in College boats including 6 in the Torpid that went sixth on the river in 1950.
In 1951 he entered the Colonial Service and held appointments in Sarawak, Brunei and British North Borneo. Appointed MBE in 1968, he retired from the Colonial Service in that year. In 1969 he took up an appointment in newly independent Mauritius with a remit to train, expand and modernise the Special Branch of that country’s police force. In 1972 he was appointed national security adviser. From 1982 to 2007 he was engaged in private security consultancy which took him to a number of European countries, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Central and South America. In his later years he assisted his daughter in her campaign to expose corruption in Malaysia. Rewcastle was twice married - in 1951 to Elisabeth Pryce Jones, who died in the same year, and in 1958 to Karis Hutchings with whom he lived happily until her death in 2014. They had a daughter Clare and a son Patrick.

Spain, Barcelona Matriculation, 2007

Dr Maria Bruna

Maria is a Professor at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, where she holds a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. Her research focuses on developing mathematical methods to study collective behaviour in interacting particle systems, with applications in industry and biology. She has worked on air filtration optimisation in collaboration with Dyson Ltd and on efficient transport in crowded environments, such as ant colonies, alongside entomologists.

Before joining Oxford, Maria was a Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and held a Humboldt Research Fellowship at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. She has been recognised with prestigious awards, including the Whitehead Prize from the London Mathematical Society, a L’Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science Fellowship, and a Woman of the Future Award.

Maria completed her DPhil in Applied Mathematics and MSc in Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing at Lincoln College. She holds undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Industrial Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in her hometown of Barcelona.

Outside of academia, Maria enjoys hiking, playing hockey, and travelling with her partner Stéphane Reissfelder (whom she met while at Lincoln!) and their three children.

Spain, Lleida Matriculation, 2001

Mario Buil-Merce

Mario Buil-Merce was born in Lleida, Spain, in 1973. His academic background includes undergraduate degrees on political science and journalism at the Autonomous University of Barcelona -UAB (1996); a Master of Science in Foreign Service at Georgetown University (1999) and an Master of Philosophy in European Politics and Society at the University of Oxford (2003).

Mr. Buil-Merce’s currently serves as Senior Political Affairs Officer / Chief of Office at the United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect, since 2021, with base at United Nations Headquarters, in New York. Prior to this position, he served as Political Affairs Officer in the same Office from 2010 to 2021. This built upon previous Political Affairs Officer assignments at the United Nations, including at the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs’ Mediation Support Unit (2007-2010), the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate (2006-2007) and the Office of Constitutional Support of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) (2004-2006).

Previous professional experience also includes advisory and consultancy services at the Committees of Foreign Affairs, Constitutional Affairs and Development of the European Parliament (2003-2004); the Democracy Program at The Carter Center (2002) and the Office of External Relations of the Pan American Health Organization (1999-2001).

Mr. Buil-Merce lives in New York, United States of America.

Spain, Madrid Matriculation, 2004

Paul Clark

Paul is Director of Trade & Investment at the British Consulate Barcelona, leading a team that champions UK commercial interests in Spain on behalf of the Department for Business and Trade. Prior to his current role, he held the position of Economic Attaché at the British Embassy in Madrid, where as part of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office he helped to build closer economic relations with Spain through bilateral engagement and collaboration with Spanish government officials, authorities and the business community.

Paul spent the first part of his Civil Service career as an economist in Whitehall, undertaking analysis and advising ministers across a range of policy issues, from laying contingency plans to protect the economy from future financial crises as part of HM Treasury's Financial Stability Group, to modelling the impact of reforms to the welfare system in the Department for Work and Pensions. Paul has a Masters in Specialised Economic Analysis from the Barcelona School of Economics and is a guest lecturer at ESCI-UPF School of International Business in Barcelona.

Sri Lanka, Colombo Matriculation, 2003

Dr Asha de Vos

Dr. Asha de Vos is an internationally acclaimed Sri Lankan marine biologist renowned for her groundbreaking research on blue whales in the Northern Indian Ocean. As Sri Lanka’s first deep-sea explorer and a fervent advocate for marine conservation diversity and equity, she has made significant contributions to ocean science and education.

Dr. de Vos holds degrees from prestigious institutions including the University of St. Andrews, the University of Oxford, and the University of Western Australia. She transitioned from academia to
establish Oceanswell, Sri Lanka’s first marine conservation research and education organisation. Her work has garnered international attention, being featured by prominent media outlets such as the BBC, the New York Times, TED, and National Geographic.

Dr. de Vos was recognised on the BBC 100 Women 2018 list and named Sri Lankan of the Year by Lanka Monthly Digest the same year. Her notable awards include the inaugural Maxwell-Hanrahan award in field biology in 2020, Scuba Diving Magazine’s Sea Hero of the Year, and the Vanithaabimani Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021. In 2024, Dr. de Vos was invited to join the UN Secretary-General’s 7-member Scientific Advisory Board, underscoring her global influence and commitment to advancing marine conservation and social equity.

Sri Lanka, Colombo Matriculation, 2015

Samantha de Silva

Samantha de Silva, a University of Maryland and University of Oxford graduate, has managed a portfolio of global safety net programs, leading policy dialogue, developing strategy and ensuring technical quality of World Bank-financed programs for over two decades. She has worked closely with senior leadership of government, the private sector, bilateral and multilateral agencies including the European Union, the United Nations, AFDB, USAID, etc., to deliver programs in over 20 countries and technical advice to over 40 countries. Most recently she led the Public Expenditure Review for Social Protection in Ethiopia as part of an agreement between the Government of Ethiopia, the World Bank and the Gates Foundation. She has lived and worked primarily in post conflict countries, most recently as Country Sector Coordinator in Afghanistan for five years. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Samantha led the USD 700 million Eastern Recovery Program, the largest response to the Ebola epidemic. Samantha is fluent in Sinhala and English and proficient in French. Before joining the World Bank, Ms. de Silva managed microfinance programs for FINCA International including setting up the first microfinance program for disadvantaged women in Malawi, Central Africa financed by the US Agency for International Development.

Sri Lanka, Colombo Matriculation, 1994

Dr Siri Walt

Siri Walt was born in 1967 in Bergen, Norway. She has studied at the University of Bern and at Lincoln College, Oxford, and has earned a PhD in Classics from the University of Bern in 1997.

After joining the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in 1997 and her training in Bern and Cairo she was posted at the OSCE Section in Bern from 1999-2002. Subsequently she served as Deputy Head of Mission in the Swiss Embassy in Seoul from 2003-2005 and in the Division for Asian Affairs in Bern from 2005-2008. After that she worked in Africa as Deputy Head of Mission in the Swiss Embassy in Nairobi from 2008-2012 and in the Swiss Embassy in Tunis from 2012-2016.

From 2016-2019 she served as Ambassador of Switzerland to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Congo and Gabon and from 2019-23 as Head of the Africa Division of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in Bern. She took up her duties as Ambassador of Switzerland to Sri Lanka and the Maldives in 2023.

Siri Walt is married and has one son.

Sweden, Stockholm Matriculation, 2011

Catherine Edwards

Catherine is a journalist and digital growth expert. She worked for six years in Sweden, where she became known as an expert on Swedish and European news and culture, as well as on how digital journalism can serve marginalised groups, in her role as Europe Editor at news organisation The Local. She has received multiple awards for her work and has been invited to speak at journalism conferences and on TV and radio about Swedish news. Catherine co-wrote a book on Swedish language and lifestyle.

Since 2021, she has worked as a consultant supporting independent newsrooms operating in environments of restricted media freedom on six continents, focusing on strategies to make journalism sustainable and build trust in the media in polarised environments. Catherine is an accredited journalism trainer by the Solutions Journalism Network and has led training for over 150 journalists and students in more than 20 countries. Catherine recently returned to the UK to work for the BBC World Service.

Sweden, Västerås Matriculation, 2017

Dr Miglė Stankaitytė

In 2021, Miglė Stankaitytė graduated from Oxford with a D.Phil in Particle Physics. Since then, she has continued her journey to leverage data in creative and exciting ways. Dr Stankaitytė is now a Data Scientist at Northvolt — a breakout Swedish battery manufacturer aspiring to make the world's greenest batteries. Here, she uses statistics and machine learning to supercharge factory processes, solve messy real-world problems, and hopefully, help our planet in the process. She is very grateful to be a part of the worldwide Lincoln College community. If you'd like to have a chat, you can find Dr Stankaitytė on LinkedIn!

Sweden, Eskilstuna Matriculation, 2006

Dr Naieya Eriksson (née Madhvani)

Naieya Eriksson began studying Medicine at Lincoln College in 2006. Her interests at the time were far and wide and it was somewhat unclear where her future career might take her - deciding on a speciality was, simply put, a difficult one. That said, during her preclinical years, she decided to focus on Infection and immunity - an area that was pivotal to creating a firm base for her future career pathway.

Whilst at Oxford Naieya met Oscar, a fellow Lincolnite whom she later married and moved back to Sweden with. This transition forced Naieya to adapt any thoughts on her professional career to a slightly different Swedish system.

In Sweden, Naieya studied for a Masters in Global health at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and thereafter pursued foundation training at the Regional Hospital in Eskilstuna. During foundation training Naieya finally decided that her ambition was to become a Specialist in Clinical microbiology; and thankfully a position seemed to be waiting just for her! In October 2022 Naieya finally completed her training and qualified as a Specialist in Clinical microbiology.

Naieya lives with her husband Oscar and her three children who help to create a great balance in life.

Switzerland, Bern Matriculation, 2008

Annemarie Nussbaumer

After completing her MJur at Oxford in 2009, the doctor of law worked as an attorney in a law firm in Zurich. Since 2012, she has worked in various roles for the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA. Initially as a senior specialist in the area of disclosure of shareholdings in listed companies and takeover law, and from 2016 as head of International Cooperation. In 2015/2016, Annemarie completed the ESSEC & Mannheim Business School Weekend Track EMBA. From 2019, she served as head of FINMA's Banking Licensing Department. Since the end of 2022, Annemarie has been heading the Supervision of Small Banks and Securities Firms Department. Annemarie was elected to FINMA's Executive Board as of 1 November 2023; she heads the Supervisory Policy and Legal Expertise Division.

Switzerland, Zurich Matriculation, 2014

Dr. Benjamin Dodsworth MBiolSci, DPhil

Dr Ben Dodsworth has taken an impactful journey in the healthcare field, always striving for innovation and better patient care. With a notable background that includes tenure at industry giants Pfizer and Roche, he brings a wealth of experience that seamlessly transitions into his entrepreneurial pursuits. As a co-founder and Chief Scientific/Technical Officer of the MedTech startup PIPRA, he is addressing the challenge of neurocognitive complications after surgery. His achievements have resonated beyond healthcare, earning him recognition as being named one of Switzerland's top digital shapers by BILANZ, Handelszeitung, and digitalswitzerland.
Ben is committed to always learning. After graduating from his DPhil and starting a successful business, he chose to step back into an intern's shoes once again to understand hospitals from a nurse's perspective to fully understand the customers his startup was serving.
As Lincoln University commemorates its 600th Anniversary, Ben's inclusion among the select group of 600 individuals underscores his contributions to healthcare and shaping a brighter future, reflecting the university's values.

Switzerland, Geneva Matriculation, 2021

Dr. Brenda Tanyi Mpeh Efeti epse Tal MD, MSc

Brenda has got over 10years of experience in civic engagement working with varied Governmental & Non-Governmental Organisations, as well as the private sector to create, advocate for, and strengthen health practices for the better health of the communities that require these. She is a Medical Doctor (General practitioner) originally from Cameroon, and has worked in clinical medicine for the Ministry of Public Health Cameroon within its urban and rural settings. In her free time, she volunteers as a mentor at Open Dreams, a medical consultant at WASPITO, and an International Instructor of Advanced-Life-Support-in-Obstetrics under the American-Academy-of-Family-Physicians to train maternity care teams on efficacious management of obstetrical emergencies.

Brenda is a Lincoln College alumna who received a full-scholarship from the Weidenfeld-Hoffmann-Trust(WHT) to study International Health and Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford. She has had the opportunity to deliver policy briefs at the UK Houses of Parliament since then and recently completed some work as Health Adviser with the NHS, England(South-Central-Ambulance). She served as project lead on an ‘Ending Workplace Diseases’ project with ROCHE, a pharmaceutical company, at their Headquarters in Basel-Switzerland, and currently works as Researcher and Speaker for the WHO(World Health Organisation) / ITU(United Nations) Global Initiative on Artificial Intelligence for Health, in collaboration with the Global Health Policy Partnerships (University of Oxford).

Switzerland, Basel Matriculation, 2013

Dr Elena Gross

Dr. sc. med. Elena Gross has a BSc in Psychology (University of York), an MSc in Neuroscience (Oxford) and PhD (Dr. sc. med) in Clinical Research (Basel). She is the founder and CEO/CSO of KetoSwiss AG. Elena used to be a chronic migraine patient and due to the lack of tolerable and efficacious treatment options, she pursued an MSc in Neuroscience (Oxford), where she discovered the key role of metabolism in migraine, which changed her life. She initiated & funded the first ever clinical trial using exogenous ketone body salts in the world as her PhD project at the University of Basel and partly University of Harvard Medical School. She later founded KetoSwiss to bring side-effect free and efficacious preventative solutions to other patients, with the first migraine medical food product called MigraKet (as part of the www.brainritual.com brand). Elena is particularly passionate about the therapeutic benefits of ketosis and other nutritional interventions, mitochondrial functioning and energy metabolism, brain health and neurological diseases (migraines in particular) and increasing health span via disease prevention. Her start-up KetoSwiss has been awarded several prizes, she has publications in high-ranking journals (such as Nature Neurology) and she is the inventor of four patents.

Switzerland, Geneva Matriculation, 2020

Mr. Kengo Shibata

Kengo is a DPhil candidate in Clinical Neurosciences at Lincoln College, funded by the Berrow Foundation Scholarship. He studies the interdependence of learning and memory in healthy adults and cognitive decline in neurological conditions. He is driven to help understand and improve brain health by combining his experience in cellular, cognitive, and clinical neuroscience, obtained through his education in the UK, Switzerland, and Japan.

During his time at Oxford, Kengo has been awarded the Senior Scholarship and was a Global Leadership Fellow of the Oxford Character Project. These opportunities at Oxford and Lincoln have fuelled his aspirations to provide tangible solutions and innovations to healthcare and life sciences.

Beyond academia, Kengo has played Varsity for the Oxford University Baseball Club and the Oxford University Lawn Tennis Club. He also captained Lincoln Tennis and has enjoyed the strong community surrounding this college.

Switzerland, Zurich Matriculation, 2023

Nathalie Nick

Nathalie Nick, a Berrow Foundation Lord Florey Scholar at Lincoln, dedicates her academic journey to advancing the field of Aerospace Engineering.

Pursuing a DPhil in Engineering Science, Nathalie's research focuses on Hypersonics within the University's renowned Hypersonics Group, specifically utilizing the T6 Stalker Tunnel – Europe's highest-speed wind tunnel. Her work delves into the re-entry of space capsules into atmospheres of various planets, emphasizing the critical role of heat shields in preventing damage to spacecraft due to extreme heat loads during planetary entry.

Nathalie's experimental approach aims to quantify electron number densities in the plasma, a vital parameter for predicting thermal loads during atmospheric entry. Her multi-technique approach contributes to scientific advancements and the outcomes can be utilized by agencies such as NASA and ESA, with a high potential for impact on heat shield development and spacecraft design, ultimately shaping the future of space exploration.

Before joining the University of Oxford, Nathalie completed her MSc and BSc in Mechanical Engineering at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Her professional experiences include Airbus Defense & Space in Germany, the French Space Agency CNES on Europe’s Space Port in French Guiana, and the University of Tokyo in Japan collaborating with JAXA.

Nathalie is an avid skier and ski instructor in the Swiss Alps, and enjoys rowing for the Lincoln College Boat Club, where she serves as this year's women's co-captain.

Switzerland, Zurich Matriculation, 1991

Philipp Hildebrand

Philipp Hildebrand, Vice Chairman of BlackRock, is a member of the firm’s Global Executive Committee and oversees the BlackRock Investment Institute (BII).

Mr. Hildebrand joined BlackRock in 2012. Prior to that, he served as Chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank (SNB). In that capacity, he was also a Director of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the Swiss Governor of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and a member of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), of which the Leaders of the G20 appointed him Vice Chairman in 2011. He was also Chairman of the Administrative Committee of the Board of Directors of the BIS, and part of the Steering Committee and the Plenary of the Financial Stability Board (FSB). Previously, Mr. Hildebrand was Chief Investment Officer of a Swiss private bank and a partner at Moore Capital Management in London.

Mr. Hildebrand is a Trustee of the British Museum, Chair of the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft, a member of the Group of Thirty and an Honorary Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. He sits on the International Leadership Council for Europe for the University of Toronto. He was awarded the Legion d’Honneur and Ordre National du Mérite by the President of France.

Mr. Hildebrand earned a BA from the University of Toronto, an MA from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, and a DPhil from the University of Oxford.

Switzerland, Geneva Matriculation, 1991

Sabine J. Jaccaud

Sabine first stood outside the Lodge, suitcases in hand gasping at the autumnal ivy, in October 1991. She arrived at Lincoln as a Berrow Scholar, having completed her degree in Humanities at the Université de Genève. She grew up under the Swiss flag in a diplomatic family that lived across Asia, Africa and Europe, before settling in Geneva. Coming to Lincoln meant reconnecting with a global community that felt familiar, surrounded by peers who moved new places to grow. Since then, her life follows the work, and home is where the most impact can be made.

Following her D.Phil. in Modern English Literature, and working as a teacher during her studies, Sabine moved to London where she built her career in Corporate Communications and Public Affairs, in organisations including JP Morgan, PA Consulting, ABN AMRO and AstraZeneca. She has worked in leadership roles, as a consultant, business owner, advisor and non-executive director, most notably at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge. This has helped expand what she values the most: a wide network of contacts, partners and friends across all continents, including artists, activists, educators, C-Suite executives and entrepreneurs. She mentors early career professionals, and the three areas that occupy her focus right now are our climate emergency, education and the cultural sector.

Switzerland, Zurich Matriculation, 2013

Dr Sebastian A. Brunemeier

Sebastian A. Brunemeier is a biotech VC and company builder focused on longevity & regenerative medicine. He is Co-Founder and General Partner of Healthspan Capital, and CEO and Founder of ImmuneAGE Bio (stealth), focused on immune system rejuvenation. Over the last 5 years, he has co-founded 4 longevity biotech (“LongBio”) companies. He was Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer at Cambrian Biopharma, Co-Founder and COO of Samsara Therapeutics, and Principal at Apollo Health Ventures (the first and largest aging-focused venture capital fund in the world with $200M AUM). He was a Fulbright Fellow on the biology of aging, a Skaggs-Oxford Scholar at the Scripps Research Institute, and a SENS Foundation Scholar at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging. His education includes partial DPhil (PhD) training in biochemistry of aging at the University of Oxford as a Clarendon Scholar, a Master’s in Life Science Business Management and Molecular Neuroscience from the University of Amsterdam as an Amsterdam Excellence Scholar. He served as trustee of the British Society for Research on Aging, a mentor at The New York Academy of Sciences, and as an advisor or board member to: VitaDAO/Molecule.to, Equator Therapeutics, Revivo Therapeutics, and McKinsey & Company.

Switzerland, Berne Matriculation, 1996

Dr Thomas Hidber

Thomas is a senior Swiss Higher Education Professional with an academic background in Classics.

Born and raised in the Alpine Rhine Valley, Thomas studied Classics and Ancient History at the University of Berne. His doctoral thesis was on the History of the Roman Empire since the death of Marcus Aurelius, written by the Greek author Herodianus. Much of the research, which explored literary form and its function in explaining a turbulent period of imperial history, was carried out at the Bodleian and Ashmolean Libraries while Thomas was a visiting student and Berrow Scholar at Lincoln (1996/97).

After completing his PhD in Berne, he went on to the University of Göttingen in Germany to pursue a postdoc and then moved into academic management. Thomas became the first coordinator of the new Göttingen Graduate School of Humanities and he also worked in the President's team on the University's institutional strategy.

Back in Switzerland, he became Head of Academic Programme Development at the University of Zurich (UZH) in 2007, before being appointed Head of Educational Development in 2022. He has also been a Senior Policy Advisor to the VP Education for many years and represents UZH in various roles in international networks and alliances.

Switzerland, Geneva Matriculation, 1993

Mr Wolf R. Meier-Ewert

After graduating, Mr Meier-Ewert went on to study law at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität in Munich (Germany) and subsequently practised as a qualified attorney in an international law firm in London and Munich, focusing on intellectual property law in international corporate transactions and in cross-border infringement litigation. As an academic researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich he concentrated on copyright law and private international law.

In 2004 he joined the Secretariat of the Word Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva (Switzerland) as a Counsellor in the Intellectual Property, Government Procurement and Competition Division, which is responsible for the Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement), one of the pillars of the multilateral trading system administered by the WTO. Mr Meier-Ewert advises WTO member and observer governments on the TRIPS Agreement and on intellectual property law and policy, and works on TRIPS-related disputes between governments in the context of the WTO's dispute settlement mechanism. His team organizes WTO members' meetings and negotiations in the Council for TRIPS, the governing body of the agreement. He lectures and publishes on the TRIPS Agreement and WTO-related matters.

Switzerland, Geneva Matriculation, 2007

Xavier Droux

Xavier is the curator of the collection of Egyptian archaeology at the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art in Geneva, Switzerland. He has collaborated with museums in the UK and other countries and organised exhibitions dedicated to the ancient Egyptian civilisation he’s so passionate about. He co-directs Geneva University's Swiss-French-Sudanese archaeological mission at Kerma – Doukki Gel in northern Sudan, a project initiated over 60 years ago, where he uncovers the tantalising remains of an ancient city at the crossroad between Egypt and Africa. He also takes part in Oxford University’s Hierakonpolis Expedition in Egypt, one of the country’s earliest capitals. He has created the successful digital platform Ponda.org, an open access resource where you can find the most comprehensive information about the material culture produced during the fourth millennium BC in Egypt. It is a vast endeavour and Xavier leads a team of international specialists to keep developing this cutting-edge platform. Archaeology is not all about mud and sand!

Tanzania, the United Republic of, Dar es Salaam Matriculation, 1990

Dr. Bonaventure Sylvand Rutinwa

Bonaventure Rutinwa studied at Lincoln College between 1990 and 1992 and 1997 and 2000 earning the degrees of Bachelor Civil Law (BCL) and Doctor of Philosophy in Law (DPhil) of the University of Oxford. Since leaving Oxford, he has worked mainly with the University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania where he presently serves as the Deputy-Vice Chancellor responsible for academic affairs. Previously he served as Dean of the School of Law, Chief Corporate Counsel, Chairman of the University Tender Board, Director of the International Migration Programme, and Coordinator of the Centre for the Study of Forced Migration.

Dr. Rutinwa, whose doctorate was on refugee law, has served as a full time consultant with UNHCR at its different offices including Regional Bureau for Southern Africa, Pretoria (Drafting the SADC Declaration on Refugees) in 1996, and Tanzania Country Office, Dar es Salaam as Protection Capacity Consultant (2004-2007), Senior Advisor on Naturalisation (2007-2009) and as Operational Solutions and Legal Consultant (2015). He also served in the Conflict Management Division of the African Union, Addis Ababa, as Information Analyst (1999-2001) and the East African Community (EAC) as consultant for drafting the EAC Common Refugee Management Policy (ongoing). He is currently the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Tanzania Regional Immigration Academy (TRITA).

Tanzania, the United Republic of, Dodoma Matriculation, 1980

Reggie Heyworth

After three happy years reading History with Vivian Green, Paul Langford and Susan Brigden as his wonderful tutors, Reggie was employed by S.G.Warburg & Co. from 1983 to 1990, when he heard of a job running safaris in Tanzania. Never having set foot in East Africa before, he threw in the City and thus began a 5 year career in Africa which has been defining his life since. After 18 months running camping safaris, Reggie found himself working for the Tanzanian Government sponsored by Frankfurt Zoological Society as the Tanzania Rhino Conservation Project leader, at a time when Tanzania was emerging after 20 years of self-imposed isolation and its wildlife had been decimated by poaching. The project has been through various iterations in the intervening decades but from a very low base when Reggie first got involved, the rhino population in Tanzania stabilised and is now increasing. Reggie returned to UK in 1995 to take over the Cotswold Wildlife Park, founded by his father in 1970, where he remains closely involved in conservation through the Park’s efforts and charitable outputs, and through his long association with Tusk, the African conservation charity.

Tanzania, the United Republic of, Dodoma Matriculation, 1985

Sue Coe (Lindley)

Sue came to study PPE from a State school, single-parent, lower-income background in Romford, Essex. Her first international travel was aged 20 in Summer break. Since graduating Sue has dedicated her working life to the international humanitarian aid and development sector, travelling to 31 countries and remote-supporting work in 31 more (so far). For 21 years Sue worked for international NGOs in large-scale programme delivery and fundraising roles at World Vision, Intermediate Technology and VSO Tanzania. She lived in East Africa periodically from 1989-2003. She was a Tanzanian resident from 2000-2003 working with a wide range of Government and civil society organisations, especially in Dodoma region. In 2003 she managed RNID UK's Sign Language Training Programme for 2 years. Since 2005 Sue has passionately focused on rights-based inclusion of persons with disabilities in development and humanitarian programmes - a massively neglected area despite comprising 15% of the world's population. She is a successful innovator and has supported huge numbers of programmes in wide-ranging organisations (Governments, corporate, voluntary sector) to achieve practical, meaningful inclusion in their work. Publications include “Travelling Together: how to include disabled people in development” – still regarded as transformative training 18 years on from first delivery. Since 2011 Sue has successfully completed over 140 freelance consultancy assignments across the world for more than 50 organisations, increasingly in training and mentoring support.

Türkiye, Istanbul Matriculation, 2020

Mehmet Tatoğlu

Born in the southern coast of Turkey in Antalya, Mehmet was raised in Istanbul and attended the American Robert College of Istanbul during his high school years. Moved by the weight of his hometown’s history and wishing to find a way to honor his love for it, he found himself in Oxford and Lincoln for what proved to be a welcoming home away from home. Mehmet started his Undergraduate studies in Lincoln College in 2020 for a BA in History, and is now studying for a MSt in Medieval History, also at Lincoln. In his time in college he involved himself with the History Society and was the CRED Representative in the JCR, and was a member of the Anti-Racism Commission in that capacity. He further found himself representing Lincoln College with a brief but quite joyful spell on University Challenge. His research interests are nowadays focused on the writing history of during the Middle Ages and its relation to the building of communal identities.

Türkiye, Aphrodisias Matriculation, 1995

Roland R. R. Smith

Smith is from Scotland (Edinburgh); studied Classics and Classical Archaeology at Oxford; taught Hellenistic and Roman Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (1986-95); was Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art in Oxford (1995-2022). He started fieldwork in Turkey in the mountainous southwest of the country (at Oinoanda and Balboura in 1983) and has worked at Aphrodisias in Caria since 1984.

Smith has been Director of the New York University Excavations at Aphrodisias in Türkiye since 1991, overseeing a wide-ranging research programme of excavation, building conservation, and interpretative publication of the site’s remarkable monuments and carved marble statuary. His own research, much of it embedded in the material from Aphrodisias, is concerned with the historical and social interpretation of the art and abundant monuments produced by Greek and Roman cities around the Mediterranean.

Smith’s largest piece of published research is The marble reliefs from the Julio-Claudian Sebasteion at Aphrodisias (2013). His shortest is a small book on the archaeology and image of Hadrian’s favourite, Antinous: boy made god (2018). His best known and most translated (including a Turkish edition) is Hellenistic Sculpture (1991).

Ukraine, Vinnytsya Matriculation, 2022

Denys Karlovskyi

Denys came to study Public Policy at Oxford from Ukraine amidst an ongoing full-scale war. Working as a journalist at Ukrainska Pravda, the flagship online news agency in Ukraine, he covered battlefield dynamics, negotiations and atrocities committed by the Russian military in the initial five months of the war.

Thanks to the generous award of Weidenfeld-Hoffmann/Sloane Robinson, Denys could afford his relocation to the UK and obtain a degree in Public Policy at Blavatnik School of Government.

His interests are primarily international relations and security policy, especially in the context of the changing security environment in Europe after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

After his studies in Oxford, Denys went on to assume the position of Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute with an applied focus on the Russia-Ukraine war. Denys’s ambition is to enhance the scope of policy analysis in the UK government and business circles to bring about long-lasting security in Europe.

Ukraine, Kyiv Matriculation, 2022

Diana Zhuromska

Diana Zhuromska is a professional with a background in public policy and law. She earned her Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree from Lincoln College and the University of Oxford, where she was elected as a class representative. Prior to her graduate studies, Diana completed her Bachelor of Laws at Taras Shevchenko National University in Ukraine. Diana currently serves as a Policy and Advocacy Advisor at Save the Children UK, where she leads initiatives to develop child-centric development finance policies. She also worked at the World Bank Group and was a policy advisor at the Israel Diplomatic Mission to Ukraine.

Ukraine, Odesa Matriculation, 2023

Mykhailo Kiktenko

Mykhailo is a Master of Public Policy graduate from Lincoln College, where he studied as an Oxford-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann-Hope Scholar. He currently works at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, supporting the transition of developing economies. With a background in law, he previously worked on justice and digital transformation policy reforms with an EU integration focus for the Ukrainian government and served as a strategic and legal advisor at the United Nations Development Programme in Ukraine amidst the Russian invasion, supporting the country’s emergency response and driving long-term sustainable development change. He also co-developed a strategic foresight study for the Ukrainian parliament.

At the Blavatnik School of Government, Mykhailo explored how AI, govtech, and sustainability can shape effective public policy and actively contributed to the School’s Sustainability and Technology Clusters. Outside academics, he represented Lincoln College in rowing in Michaelmas and participated in an Oxford Union debate. Mykhailo's global perspective was further enriched by his participation in the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he engaged with global leaders on AI governance, sustainable development, and innovations at their intersection.

Passionate about good governance and digital innovation, Mykhailo is committed to supporting Ukraine's post-war recovery and sustainable development globally. In his free time, he enjoys hiking, skiing, and travelling the world.

Ukraine, Odesa Matriculation, 2023

Yuliia Shaipova

Yuliia completed an MSt in Diplomatic Studies at Lincoln College, sponsored by the Clarendon Fund. She is the first student in this programme to be awarded this prestigious scholarship, given to the top 2% of Oxford graduate applicants.

Yuliia is a Ukrainian EU integration professional advancing her country’s accession to the European Union. She contributed to Ukraine obtaining EU candidate status, and her efforts were recognised by the Prime Minister of Ukraine. She co-authored a policy publication with the European Liberal Forum on EU Enlargement Methodology and during her time in Oxford she continued to work on the enlargement agenda through her dissertation and collaboration with the Oxford University Charlemagne Institute, having prepared a publication on Enlargement prospects.

As Vice President of the Oxford University Ukrainian Society, Yuliia has organised events raising awareness of Ukrainian culture and the fight for freedom, engaging over 600 people over the course of the academic year. She also helped organise a Cultural Highlight Night at her college, showcasing Ukrainian cultural diplomacy.

After completing her studies, Yuliia returned to Kyiv, Ukraine and now supports the government in advancing EU integration. She coordinates reform implementation under the EU's Ukraine Facility as a Senior Project Manager of the Reform Support Team at the Ministry of Economy.

United Kingdom, Cardiff Matriculation, 1982

Mr. Chris Jones CBE BA

Chris was a co-founder of Glas Cymru, which acquired Welsh Water for £1.7 billion in 2001 to create the UK’s only not for profit, utility company. He was Finance Director of Welsh Water from 2001 to 2013 and then Chief Executive until he stepped down in May 2020. During that period, Welsh Water returned over £400 million of value to its customers through reduced bills and higher investment.

He is currently Senior Independent Director of S4C (Channel Four Wales), a non-executive director of Xoserve Limited (the Central Data Services Provider for Britain’s gas market) and is a former non-executive director of The Principality Building Society. He is also a Lay Member of the Council of Cardiff University, a Board Mentor at Criticaleye and has had a range of trustee and advisory roles with third sector organisations, including The Prince’s Trust, The Institute of Welsh Affairs, WaterAid and CBI Wales.

Chris is married with three children and learned Welsh as an adult. He was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2020.

United Kingdom, Cefn Cribwr Matriculation, 1980

Claire Carless (nee Smith)

Claire left Lincoln in 1983, and went on to qualify as a solicitor, spending her early years working in the City, and then in Hong Kong. She returned to the UK in 1991, and started her in-house career, with National Power and then Vodafone (with whom she spent a year in New Zealand) and culminating with a role as UK General Counsel for Siemens. A first career step change led to 4 years as GC with a large UK mental health charity. Plans to travel and volunteer in 2020 with her husband Chris when her two sons were “off the payroll” were delayed by COVID but eventually took them to Jamacia and Peru, where they worked with local NGOs. Frustrated by the challenges of development work, and keen to learn more, on her return to the UK Claire undertook an MSc in Development at SOAS in London. Claire is now enjoying a second career step change, using her legal and governance experience to support INGOs. A keen volunteer, she has been a NED with the South Central Ambulance Service and a member of the Audit and Scrutiny Committee of Oxford University. She is currently the Chair of Home-Start West Berkshire.

United Kingdom, Cardiff Matriculation, 1975

Michael Fitton KC

Michael was born in 1957 in Kenya where his father was a civil servant, but in 1963 the family moved back to the UK. He was educated in the state system, attending KGV Grammar School, Southport.

He read Jurisprudence at Lincoln College, graduating in 1978. He wanted a career involving direct contact with ordinary people, and after general articles in Bristol, qualified as a solicitor in 1981. He later moved to specialise in criminal defence, and became a partner in a Legal Aid practice.

In 1991 he transferred to the Bar, joining Albion Chambers in Bristol, and developed a wide-ranging criminal practice, prosecuting and defending. In 2000 he was appointed as a Recorder of the Crown Court. In 2006 he became a QC, and conducted numerous homicide cases around the Western Circuit. In 2009 he became Head of Albion Chambers. In 2012 he was appointed to the Mental Health Review Tribunal in Wales conducting Restricted Patient cases. In 2015 he was appointed as a Circuit Judge in Cardiff. At the end of 2022 he retired to spend more time with his family, and enjoy walking and sport in Wales.

United States, Los Angeles, California Matriculation, 2018

Dr Bethan Swift

Bethan Swift is an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the USA. She is stationed in California at a local health department as part of her two-year fellowship. EIS officers serve on the front lines of public health protecting the community. Bethan’s role involves investigating disease outbreaks, designing and conducting epidemiological analyses and implementing public heath strategies.

In 2023 she completed her DPhil in Women’s and Reproductive Health at Lincoln College, where she worked on the first women’s health study in Northern Cyprus which investigated prevalence of endometriosis and its effect on women (symptoms, quality of life, economic burden) as well as risk factors. Prior to this she completed her MSc in Global Health Science and Epidemiology also at Lincoln college where she spent time in Guangzhou, China investigating the role of maternal weight gain velocity in relation to infant anthropometric outcomes. Bethan has previously worked in the Nutrition section at UNICEF and at the UK Health Security Agency in HIV/AIDS surveillance. She holds a BSc in Biology from the University of Leeds.

United States, Los Angeles, California Matriculation, 1979

Fenton Bailey

Fenton Bailey read English at Oxford and attended NYU's Graduate film program where he met Randy Barbato. Together, they founded independent media powerhouse World of Wonder. Along with RuPaul — Bailey and Barbato are behind the global “Drag Race” franchise. The landmark show — and its multiple spin off formats — have won a record-breaking 30 Emmys over 15 seasons, growing to 24 versions of the show available in 17 countries.

In addition to their work on “Drag Race,” the pair have produced more than 250 projects and claim nearly three dozen credits as directors and producers including award-winning, critically acclaimed films “Party Monster,” “Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures,” “Monica in Black and White,” and “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” — a feature documentary directed and produced by Fenton and Randy that was adapted for the screen by Jessica Chastain and won two Oscars. WOW also owns and operates global subscription network WOW Presents Plus, home to the “Drag Race” Universe and WOW originals.

Fenton has written two books: “Fall From Grace,” documenting the trials of Wall Street titan Michael Milken at the hands of Rudolph Giuliani, and, most recently — Polari Prize nominated “ScreenAge” — a spotlight on television’s transformational impact on society from public access to reality, home shopping to televangelism. Fenton also hosts weekly pop culture countdown “The WOW Report” on SiriusXM.

United States, Los Angeles, California Matriculation, 2008

Dr Hattie Huston-Paterson

Dr. Hattie Huston-Paterson is a surgeon and health justice advocate. After completing her undergraduate degree at Lincoln College, she trained as a medical doctor at the University of Pennsylvania before undertaking specialty training as a general surgeon at UCLA. A strong advocate for health justice, she was appointed to the prestigious National Clinician Scholars Program, where she worked on research and advocacy around health inequities across the rural-urban divide, and innovations to mitigate the impact of structural violence and structural racism on surgical outcomes.

She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Duncan Huston-Paterson (Lincoln College DPhil, 2011) and their daughter. They stay connected with many Lincoln friends in the UK and South Africa.

United States, Menlo Park, California Matriculation, 2006

Jason Chang

Jason is currently the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of CSBio. CSBio is a life science company focused on drug manufacturing in the San Francisco Bay Area for peptide therapeutics. With 15+ years of experience as a senior executive, Chang has played an integral role in the growth of CSBio and oversees key company initiatives in both science and new business verticals. His most recent endeavors center around the establishment of a new manufacturing facility dedicated to patient-specific neoantigen cancer vaccines and the development of a life science incubator in Menlo Park, California.

Outside the realm of his professional commitments, Chang is a fervent enthusiast of both cars and motorcycles, often showcasing his passion at the racetrack. A dedicated sports fan, he is a regular attendee at San Francisco 49ers and Golden State Warriors games. His diverse interest also encompasses travel, golf, poker, and spending time with his 2-year-old daughter.

He is also a Board Member of the Golden State Warriors Community Foundation, the Jaime Leandro Cancer Foundation, and a member of the Rector’s Council at Lincoln College.

United States, Bellevue, Washington Matriculation, 2003

Jennifer Caine Provine

Jennifer Caine Provine, violinist, is Associate Concertmaster of the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra and violinist of the Volta Piano Trio, with whom she has performed extensively throughout the Northwest and abroad, been heard on national radio stations, and recorded three discs on the Con Brio label to critical acclaim. She also performs with Seattle-based chamber ensembles including Frequency and Kokopelli, and has appeared on several chamber music series and at national and international summer music festivals. From 2007-2010, she was Assistant Director and Resident Violinist at the Icicle Creek Center for the Arts in Leavenworth, WA, focusing on both performance and education. A recipient of several awards and grants including first prize in the Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe competition, Jennifer has concertized throughout the U.S. and Europe in venues including the Phillips Collection, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and the Glinka Philharmonic Hall in St. Petersburg. During her studies at the Royal College of Music, she performed with the London Symphony Orchestra as part of their String Experience program. She has also written freelance reviews for Strings magazine’s In Print column. Jennifer holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and master’s degrees from the Royal College of Music in London (M.Mus.) and Oxford University (M.St.).

United States, San Francisco, California Matriculation, 2008

Jochai Ben-Avie

Jochai Ben-Avie’s career has been centered at the intersection of technology and human rights, as a leader in global policy, advocacy, and philanthropy. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Connect Humanity, a nonprofit fund to accelerate digital equity. He is also a Truman National Security Fellow, a Non-Resident Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s DFR Lab, a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, and a Code for Science & Society Board Member. He was previously Mozilla’s Head of International Public Policy and led the Firefox maker’s open source funding arm (MOSS), where he spearheaded Mozilla’s work on global connectivity. Prior to Mozilla, he was the inaugural Policy Director at Access Now, which under his leadership grew to become one of the largest digital rights organizations in the world and where he co-founded RightsCon (the premier global conference on human rights and tech). Earlier in his career, Jochai worked in educational policy, affordable housing, terrorism and reconciliation, and as an advisor to some of the largest foundations in the world. He was privileged to receive his education at Bard College at Simon’s Rock where he graduated summa cum laude and at the University of Oxford’s Lincoln College where he read PPE.

United States, San Diego, California Matriculation, 1972

John M. Newsam

After completing his DPhil in Chemistry at Oxford, John pursued a research career in the materials sciences, before becoming an entrepreneur. After Oxford and a 2-year Royal Society/JSPS Research Fellowship in the Physics Department of Tohoku University in Japan, he joined ExxonMobil Corporate Research Laboratories in New Jersey. Author of over 150 scientific publications, he has lectured extensively, both nationally and internationally, and been recognized by awards such as the Corday-Morgan medal. A career shift into technical management coincided with a move to San Diego, and a period applied to molecular simulation. John has since served as a founder of more than ten companies (directed variously to businesses in the telecoms, materials and biotech fields) of which six have to date been acquired. An Adjunct Professor at both UC Santa Barbara and UC San Diego, he has mentored more than 100 interns directed to a broad range of business projects. He has also contributed strategic consultative input to several Fortune500 companies and to enterprises in the US, UK, Korea and France, as well as serving on numerous academic advisory committees. He is president of the San Diego Oxbridge Society, and past president of his local community council.

United States, Seattle, Washington Matriculation, 2023

Lily Laesch

Lily Laesch is a recent alumna of the M.Sc. in Migration Studies in the Oxford Department of International Development and the School of Anthropology and Museum Studies. Her thematic specialisations include reproductive healthcare, gender-based violence, the politics of statelessness, and cartographic analysis. Her dissertation “At the Intersection of Resistance and Exile: U.S.-to-Mexico Abortion Mobility in the Post-Roe Era” received a distinction and was selected for publication within the Bodleian Social Science Library Catalogue. She currently volunteers as a teacher for refugee youth and is interested in working across the intersection of immigration reform and youth advocacy. Originally from Seattle, USA, she is currently based in South London.

United States, San Francisco, California Matriculation, 1968

Loren Kieve

He is the principal of Kieve Law Offices in San Francisco. He was previously a partner with major international law firms. He attended Stanford and has law degrees from Oxford and the University of New Mexico. He was a law clerk for two federal judges on three courts. Since 1994, he has been a trustee and, for most of the time, chair of the Institute of American Indian Arts, a U.S. Presidential appointment (by President Clinton, whom he knew at Oxford, and then by President Obama). He was inducted into Stanford’s Multicultural Alumni Hall of Fame. The University of New Mexico honored him with its Rodey Award (to someone who has “devoted an unusual amount of time in a leadership capacity and whose efforts have contributed significantly to the field of education”). In 2022, the American Bar Association gave him its Pickering Award (for a career of outstanding legal ability and a distinguished record of service to the profession and the community at large). He is listed as a “Best Lawyer” in commercial litigation. For the 22nd year in a row, he has been named a “Super Lawyer” in commercial litigation. His full resume can be found at www.kievelaw.com.

United States, Los Angeles, California Matriculation, 1998

Marguerite de Bourgoing

Marguerite de Bourgoing, a Parisian transplant in Los Angeles, is a filmmaker with a diverse background in media production and cultural exploration, . Armed with a Master's degree in Communication and film studies from USC, complemented by studies at Oxford University and the Sorbonne, with experiences ranging from the Cinémathèque française in Paris to Discovery Channel in London,her foundation spans philosophy, art history, and cinema.

As the founder of LA Stereo TV, Marguerite documented the urban music scene, producing 200+ videos featuring interviews with notable figures like Issa Rae, Future, and Wiz Khalifa. Her directorial debut, "The World is Yours," aired on France Télévision in 2014, delving into the blog rapper scene in the U.S. and France.

Marguerite's subsequent projects, including the indie documentary "IT'S YOURS" and "Hip-Hop & the internet" for ARTE, showcase her commitment to exploring the intersection of music, technology, and society. Her innovative web series "Hip-Hop & the Metaverse" for PBS's Digital Voices earned her a nomination for a Golden Mike Award in 2023.

United States, Seattle, Washington Matriculation, 2015

Molly Hassell

Molly pursued an MSt in Classical Archaeology at Lincoln aiming to thwart terrorist organizations illegally trafficking artifacts for funding. Following her undergraduate degree in Classics from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, she gained valuable experience at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in New York City as an Investigative Analyst in Special Victims. Here, Molly discovered a unit committed to combating this terrorist revenue scheme and was compelled to action. She sought to deepen her expertise in the field at Oxford, searching for opportunities to make a positive impact.

While at Lincoln, Molly actively participated in the MCR, Lincoln Rowing Club, and the Boxing Club. Additionally, she contributed to efforts preserving artifacts threatened by terrorism, smuggling 3-D cameras to at-risk sites.

Post-Oxford, Molly served in the United States Air Force, deploying multiple times to Afghanistan and Iraq with Special Operations, combating terrorist organizations from the air. Transitioning from operational flying, she joined SpaceX, aiming to provide Starlink internet for regions vulnerable to terrorist recruitment.

Outside of her professional pursuits, Molly is a pilot and passionate traveler. She will attend Harvard Business School this fall, aspiring to further national security efforts through technological innovation.

United States, Los Altos, California Matriculation, 1979

Neil Wolff

Neil luckily landed, after Oxford and law school, in Silicon Valley just as it was just starting a 40-year growth spurt. The law firm he joined grew geometrically giving him the opportunity to help hundreds of startups raise venture money, go public or be sold, and to work on thousands of transactions.

He’d always been fascinated by the investor side of Silicon Valley’s success, so he jumped ship in 2006 when one of his clients offered him a job as general counsel, with a seat on the firm’s investment committee.

Neil has always venerated the entrepreneur, whom he views as the engine for innovation and economic growth. Neil raised the first Oxford Angel Fund because he’d written “angel” investment checks to several Oxonians who told their startup stories to the local Oxford Entrepreneurs Network. He saw an opportunity for Oxonians to support Oxford alumni entrepreneurship, a story that continues.

Neil’s married with one child working for NVIDIA in Silicon Valley, and another graduating from Georgetown Law School in 2024. At his decade birthdays he skis his age x 1,000 feet in a day (66,000+ feet for his 60th). With his brother Neil is cycling in stages from Land’s End to Jerusalem.

United States, San Francisco, California Matriculation, 1998

Mr Roy Bahat

Roy Bahat is the head of Bloomberg Beta, an early-stage venture firm backed by Bloomberg L.P. that invests in North American startups making work better. Bloomberg Beta treats founders as its customers and was the first venture capital firm to focus on the future of work and the first to focus on artificial intelligence. Bloomberg Beta has invested in Replit, MasterClass, Slack, Flexport, Codecademy, and Textio, among other companies.

Roy was a commissioner on the California Governor's Future of Work Commission. He was named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business, has served in government, and led a non-profit in addition to his work at established corporations and day zero startups.

Roy serves on the faculty at U.C. Berkeley where he teaches two courses, one on media and a first of its kind in the country course on organized labor, at the Haas School of Business. He was named one of the favorite MBA professors of the class of 2023. He hosts #thisisnotadvice, a community-edited guide on how to work.

Roy graduated from Harvard College. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Lincoln College.

United States, Santa Monica, California Matriculation, 1996

Shawn Landres

Shawn Landres PhD works across the nonprofit, philanthropic, academic, and public sectors in service of diverse and inclusive democratic civil society. His research and impact in social innovation and community development have earned attention in the U.S., Europe, and beyond. Shawn has served on and led numerous local government commissions in Southern California, where he has been credited for nurturing public access to and trust in government. Most recently he founded a multinational grassroots volunteer humanitarian network providing responsive case management for Ukrainians and Ukrainian refugees.

Shawn holds degrees in religious studies and social anthropology from Columbia, Oxford, and UC Santa Barbara, where he earned a PhD. He has co-edited four books: on the practice of ethnography; the interreligious impact of a controversial film; the intersection of religion, violence, memory, and place; and a campaign biography of Bill Clinton. He also has co-authored groundbreaking research on religion and household charitable giving, alongside influential reports on social startup ecosystems and on civic leadership in Los Angeles.

Shawn and his family live in Santa Monica and maintain strong ties as well in the Slovak Republic. At Lincoln, he was a Keith Murray Senior Scholar, served on the MCR Committee and played Old Capulet in Pascale Aebischer ‘96’s production of the first quarto of Romeo and Juliet.

United States, Pasadena, California Matriculation, 1966

Simon K. C. Li

After his Oxford B.A. in English Language and Literature, Li was graduated with an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University, New York, where both school and university later awarded him alumni medals. He held editing positions at the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper (1971-1984) and the Los Angeles Times (1984-2007) where he was Foreign Editor and later an assistant managing editor.

On retirement, he serves on a number of boards, among them the college’s Rector’s Council; Columbia Journalism’s Board of Visitors; the Huntington Hospital in Pasadena; and the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, where he serves on the 7-member Board of Trustees. He is a long-time supporter of the Vienna-based press freedom group, the International Press Institute, which elected him a Fellow, and of the Asian American Journalists Association, which recognised him with a special recognition award, and later with awards for leadership in diversity and then lifetime achievement.

He and his art historian wife of more than 50 years, June, are both Fleming Fellows of the College.

United States, Los Angeles, California Matriculation, 2017

Sophie Lena Salmore

Sophie has dedicated her career to catalyzing transformative change to protect and empower refugees, women, children and youth, including those displaced by conflict and crisis. She received a MSc in Global Governance and Diplomacy from Lincoln College and a BA from Wesleyan University. Sophia is committed to advancing human rights practice and policy. She has held positions with Human Rights First, the Rachel Maddow Show MSNBC, the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the U.S. Department of State. She currently works with Global Citizen in New York City. In her spare time, she enjoys live music and art and culture.

Zambia, Lusaka Matriculation, 2005

Laura Brown

Laura Brown is an education and international development expert. After graduating from Lincoln College she qualified as a teacher through the Teach First programme. She then moved to Uganda and Zambia for a number of years where she worked with non-profits to design and deliver education programmes in disadvantaged communities. She is now the CEO of PEAS, a sector-leading non-governmental organisation which works on expanding access to secondary education across Africa. PEAS educates tens of thousands of children each year and has a particular focus on adolescent girls where they experience additional gendered barriers to enrolling and succeeding in school.

Zambia, Lusaka Matriculation, 2009

Dr Natasha Phiri-Munalula

Dr. Natasha Phiri- Munalula is a social psychologist and Co-Founder/ Research Lead at Media 365. Alongside her three siblings, she established one of Zambia’s leading strategic creative agencies in 2008. Media 365 utilizes evidence-based strategies and behavioural insights to drive impactful initiatives such as enhancing HIV prevention awareness, empowering adolescent girls through multi-platform programs, and promoting financial literacy among vulnerable communities. She is passionate about leveraging data for strategic planning and content creation.

Prior to founding Media 365, Natasha worked on innovative mobile technology solutions at AfriConnect Zambia, as SMS Business Development Manager. She also has a strong background in youth sexual reproductive health through her work with the youth magazine, Trendsetters.

Complementing her professional work, Natasha is committed to community service, actively serving and volunteering as a Board member for Habitat for Humanity Zambia, and was previously Deputy National Secretary for the Rhodes Scholarships in Zambia.

Natasha attended Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and read for a MSc in Experimental Psychology, before pursuing her DPhil in Experimental Psychology. Her DPhil focused on cultural variations in emotions. Natasha also holds a BA in Psychology with Sociology (Distinction) from the University of Zambia.