Honours and awards

New Year’s Honours

CBE

Professor Duncan Gallie, Professor of Sociology and Official Fellow of Nuffield College, for services to social science.
Professor Tony Venables, BP Professor of Economics, Director of the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies and Fellow of New College, for services as the former Chief Economist at the Department for International Development.

Rosemary Thorp, Reader Emeritus in the Economics of Latin America, Emeritus Fellow of St Antony’s College and Director of Queen Elizabeth House, the University's Department of International Development, in 2003–4, for services to education and to international development.

OBE

Professor Arthur Stockwin, founding Director of the Nissan Institute for Japanese Studies and Emeritus Fellow of St Antony’s College, for services to academic excellence and the promotion of UK–Japanese understanding.

Queen’s Birthday Honours

Knight Bachelor

Ian Brownlie, Chichele Professor Emeritus of Public International Law, Fellow of All Souls College and former member and Chairman of the UN International Law Commission, for services to public international law.

Knighthood

David Hendry, Professor of Economics
and Fellow of Nuffield College, for services to social science.
Christopher Ricks, Professor of Poetry 2004–9 and Professor of the Humanities, Boston University, for services to
scholarship.

CBE

Andrew Ashworth, QC, Vinerian Professor of English Law, Fellow of All Souls and Chairman of the Sentencing Advisory Panel, for services to the administration of justice.

OBE

Alan Milner, Emeritus Fellow of Trinity College and a member of the Faculty of Law, for his contribution to good governance in Africa, the Overseas Territories and the Crown Dependencies.

British Academy Fellows

William Beinart, Rhodes Professor of Race Relations and Professorial Fellow, St Antony’s College.

Robin Briggs, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College.

Jean Dunbabin, Senior Research Fellow, St Anne's College.

Malcolm Godden, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College.

Roger Pearson, Professor of French and Fellow and Praelector, The Queen's College.

Christopher Pelling, Regius Professor of Greek and Fellow of Christ Church.

David Womersley, Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature and Fellow of St Catherine’s College.

In addition, Professor Sir Adam Roberts, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for International Studies and Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, took up the position of British Academy President.

Royal Society Fellows

Nicholas Harberd, Sibthorpian Professor of Plant Sciences and Fellow of St John’s College.

Angela McLean, Professor of Mathematical Biology and Fellow of All Soul’s College.

Richard Passingham, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Fellow of Wadham College.

Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors

On 2 October 2008, 14 members were admitted in recognition of their outstanding acts of generosity to the collegiate University:

Professor Brian Bellhouse, Professor Emeritus of Engineering Science and co-founder of PowderJect Pharmaceuticals; Mr Julian Blackwell, President of Blackwell Ltd; The Hon Mr Andrew Fraser, investment professional and Chief Executive of Andrew Fraser Management; Sir Michael Kadoorie, Chairman of The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels Ltd, of CLP Holdings Ltd and of the CLP Research Institute; Mr George von Mallinckrodt, President of Schroders, plc; Mr Zvi Meitar, Lawyer and Director of Aurum London Ventures Ltd; Mr David Richards, investment professional; Dr John Spalding, Retired Consultant Neurologist; Mr Peter Clarke, Group Chief Executive and Chairman at Man Investments, as the representative for Man Group; Mr Harry Leventis, Trustee of the A G Leventis Foundation, as the representative for the A G Leventis Foundation; The Rt Hon the Viscount Chandos, Chairman of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, as the representative of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation; Mr Ian Davis, Managing Director of McKinsey & Co, as the representative of McKinsey & Co; Dr Andreas Hoeschen, Director of the London Office of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), as the representative of DAAD; and Mr Paul Ramsbottom, Executive Secretary of the Wolfson Foundation, as the representative of the Wolfson Foundation and Wolfson Family Charitable Trust.

Tony Venables

Professor Tony Venables, CBE.