Harkness Fellowship
Encyclopedia
The Harkness Fellowships (previously known as the Commonwealth Fund Fellowships) are a programme run by the Commonwealth Fund
Commonwealth Fund
The Commonwealth Fund is a private U.S. foundation whose stated purpose is to promote a high-performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, especially for society's most vulnerable.-History:...

 of New York City. They were established to reciprocate the Rhodes Scholarship
Rhodes Scholarship
The Rhodes Scholarship, named after Cecil Rhodes, is an international postgraduate award for study at the University of Oxford. It was the first large-scale programme of international scholarships, and is widely considered the "world's most prestigious scholarship" by many public sources such as...

s and enable Fellows from several countries to spend time studying in the United States. The many notable alumni listed below include the president of the International Court of Justice
International Court of Justice
The International Court of Justice is the primary judicial organ of the United Nations. It is based in the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands...

; a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...

; the controller of BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...

; the editor of the Sunday Times; directors of the Medical Research Council
Medical Research Council (UK)
The Medical Research Council is a publicly-funded agency responsible for co-ordinating and funding medical research in the United Kingdom. It is one of seven Research Councils in the UK and is answerable to, although politically independent from, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills...

, the London School of Economics
London School of Economics
The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...

 and the General Medical Council
General Medical Council
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; and, a vice-president of Microsoft
Microsoft
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.

History

The Commonwealth Fund
Commonwealth Fund
The Commonwealth Fund is a private U.S. foundation whose stated purpose is to promote a high-performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, especially for society's most vulnerable.-History:...

 is a philanthropic foundation
Philanthropy
Philanthropy etymologically means "the love of humanity"—love in the sense of caring for, nourishing, developing, or enhancing; humanity in the sense of "what it is to be human," or "human potential." In modern practical terms, it is "private initiatives for public good, focusing on quality of...

 established in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 by Anna Harkness in 1918. Her son, Edward Stephen Harkness, initiated the Commonwealth Fund Fellowships in 1925. These were intended to reciprocate the Rhodes Scholarship
Rhodes Scholarship
The Rhodes Scholarship, named after Cecil Rhodes, is an international postgraduate award for study at the University of Oxford. It was the first large-scale programme of international scholarships, and is widely considered the "world's most prestigious scholarship" by many public sources such as...

s by enabling British graduates to study in the United States. In 1927 the scheme was widened by the creation of Dominion Fellowships available to graduates from universities in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa. In 1929 a further category of Dominion Civil Service Fellowships was established. The awards were tenable from nine to fifteen months and candidates were to be under the age of 40.

In 1961 the Fellowships were renamed the Harkness Fellowships. In addition to the Civil Service Fellowships, a new category of General Fellowships was set up, open to people in the fields of business, banking, politics, creative arts and journalism. The maximum tenure period was extended to 21 months.

Since June 1997, the activities of the Harkness Fellowships have been limited to the field of health care. The Fellowships are now considered one of the most prestigious award programs in health policy, and accept Fellows from Australia, Canada (known as Harkness Associates), Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland (as of 2009) and the United Kingdom. They are tenable for twelve months.

The current Fellowship Programme

Harkness Fellows in Health Care Policy & Practice spend a year conducting research at American institutions such as Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

, Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

, Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

, Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...

, Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care consortium, based in Oakland, California, United States, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield...

, or the Veterans Health Administration
Veterans Health Administration
The Veterans Health Administration is the component of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs led by the Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health that implements the medical assistance program of the VA through the administration and operation of numerous VA outpatient clinics,...

. They gain an in-depth understanding of the U.S. health care system and policy challenges, enhance their research skills, and develop contacts and opportunities for ongoing international collaboration.

In addition, Fellows attend a programme of seminars during the year:
  • September: Orientation and Qualitative Research
    Qualitative Research
    Qualitative Research is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by SAGE Publications, focusing on qualitative research methods in social sciences and cultural studies. It publishes research articles and review articles.-References:*...

     Methodology Workshop
  • November: International Symposium on Healthcare Policy, bringing together Health Ministers from Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States
  • February: Washington Policy Briefing held on Capitol Hill with members of the United States Congress
    United States Congress
    The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C....

     and senior government officials
  • May: Canadian Policy Briefing on Federal and provincial health
  • June: Final Reporting Seminar and the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting

Administration and funding

The programme is funded and administered by the Commonwealth Fund
Commonwealth Fund
The Commonwealth Fund is a private U.S. foundation whose stated purpose is to promote a high-performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, especially for society's most vulnerable.-History:...

 of New York City
New York City
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, with additional support for some Fellows coming from external bodies, namely:
  • B. Braun Stiftung and Robert Bosch Stiftung
    Robert Bosch Stiftung
    The Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH is one of the major German foundations associated with a private company. It holds 92% of the capital stock from Robert Bosch GmbH of 1.2 billion euros. Established in 1964, it represents the philanthropic and social endeavors of founder Robert Bosch .The purpose of...

     (Germany)
  • Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (Canada)
  • Careum Foundation (Switzerland)
  • Nuffield Trust
    Nuffield Trust
    The Nuffield Trust is a charitable trust based in London, whose aim is to produce independent analysis and debate on UK healthcare policy.Its principal activities include:*Holding meetings, workshops and seminars for people interested in UK healthcare...

     and the National Institute for Health Research
    National Institute for Health Research
    The National Institute for Health Research is a UK government body that coordinates and funds research for the National Health Service . Its tagline is "Improving the health and wealth of the nation through research". It supports individuals, facilities and research projects, in order to help...

     (UK)
  • The Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (Netherlands)

Notable alumni

  • Professor Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby
    Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby
    Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby FRS was a British botanist and educator.Born in Leytonstone in Essex, he was educated at the City of London School and the Royal College of Science, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science. He was then demonstrator at the Imperial College from 1926 to 1929...

    , British botanist and educator[
  • Professor Peter Atkins
    Peter Atkins
    Peter William Atkins is a British chemist and former Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Lincoln College. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Quantum Mechanics...

    , professor of chemistry at Oxford University
  • Professor Jonathan Bate
    Jonathan Bate
    Jonathan Bate CBE FBA FRSL is a British academic, biographer, critic, broadcaster, novelist and scholar of Shakespeare, Romanticism and Ecocriticism...

    , Shakespeare scholar and biographer
  • Professor Patrick Bateson
    Patrick Bateson
    Sir Patrick Bateson, FRS is an English biologist and science writer. Bateson is emeritus professor of ethology at Cambridge University and president of the Zoological Society of London since 2004....

    , emeritus professor of ethology
    Ethology
    Ethology is the scientific study of animal behavior, and a sub-topic of zoology....

     at Cambridge University
  • Professor Tim Beaglehole
    Tim Beaglehole
    Timothy Holmes Beaglehole is a New Zealand academic and former Chancellor of Victoria University of Wellington.Born in Lower Hutt, Wellington, he is the son of the renowned historian John Beaglehole....

    , chancellor of the Victoria University of Wellington
    Victoria University of Wellington
    Victoria University of Wellington was established in 1897 by Act of Parliament, and was a former constituent college of the University of New Zealand. It is particularly well known for its programmes in law, the humanities, and some scientific disciplines, but offers a broad range of other courses...

  • Sir Harrison Birtwistle
    Harrison Birtwistle
    Sir Harrison Paul Birtwistle CH is a British contemporary composer.-Life:Birtwistle was born in Accrington, a mill town in Lancashire some 20 miles north of Manchester. His interest in music was encouraged by his mother, who bought him a clarinet when he was seven, and arranged for him to have...

    , composer
  • Professor Colin Blakemore
    Colin Blakemore
    Professor Colin Blakemore, Ph.D., FRS, FMedSci, HonFSB, HonFRCP, is a British neurobiologist who is Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford and University of Warwick specialising in vision and the development of the brain. He was formerly Chief Executive of the British Medical...

    , neurobiologist and former chief executive of the Medical Research Council
    Medical Research Council (UK)
    The Medical Research Council is a publicly-funded agency responsible for co-ordinating and funding medical research in the United Kingdom. It is one of seven Research Councils in the UK and is answerable to, although politically independent from, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills...

  • Sir Ronald Bottrall
    Ronald Bottrall
    Ronald Bottrall was a Cornish poet. He was praised highly by F.R. Leavis and Martin Seymour-Smith.Education: Redruth Grammar School; Pembroke College, Cambridge.- Career :...

    , Cornish poet
  • Professor Hugh Brogan
    Hugh Brogan
    Denis Hugh Vercingetorix Brogan , known as Hugh Brogan, is a British historian and biographer.-Early life:The son of Sir Denis Brogan, he was educated at St Faith's School, Cambridge, Repton School, and St John's College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1959 and MA in 1964...

    , historian and biographer
  • Sir George Malcolm Brown
    George Malcolm Brown
    Sir George Malcolm Brown, FRS was one of the most respected geologists of the second half of the Twentieth century...

    , geologist
  • Professor Sir Roy Calne
    Roy Calne
    Sir Roy Yorke Calne, FRS, is a British surgeon and pioneer in organ transplantation; he performed the first liver transplantation operation in Europe in 1968. His surgical procedures also laid claim to many other pioneering successes in his career: the world's first liver, heart, and lung...

     British surgeon who performed the world's first liver, heart, and lung transplant
  • Sir Graeme Catto
    Graeme Catto
    Sir Graeme Robertson Dawson Catto, MB ChB , MD , DSc, FKC, FRCP, FRCGP, FRCSE, FFPM, FMedSci, FRSE is a Scottish doctor who was President, later Chair, of the General Medical Council until April 2009...

    , president of the General Medical Council
    General Medical Council
    The General Medical Council registers and regulates doctors practising in the United Kingdom. It has the power to revoke or restrict a doctor's registration if it deems them unfit to practise...

  • Reverend Professor Sarah Coakley
    Sarah Coakley
    Sarah Coakley is an Anglican systematic theologian and philosopher of religion with wide interdisciplinary interests.-Life and work:...

    , Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Professor of Divinity at the Harvard Divinity School
    Harvard Divinity School
    Harvard Divinity School is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. The School's mission is to train and educate its students either in the academic study of religion, or for the practice of a religious ministry or other public...

  • Alistair Cooke
    Alistair Cooke
    Alfred Alistair Cooke KBE was a British/American journalist, television personality and broadcaster. Outside his journalistic output, which included Letter from America and Alistair Cooke's America, he was well known in the United States as the host of PBS Masterpiece Theater from 1971 to 1992...

     KBE, journalist and broadcaster of Letter from America
    Letter from America
    Letter from America was a weekly 15-minute radio series on BBC Radio 4, previously called the Home Service, which ran for 2,869 shows from 24 March 1946 to 20 February 2004, making it the longest-running speech radio programme in history...

  • Dr Nigel H Croft
    Nigel Howard Croft
    Nigel Howard Croft was appointed as Chairman of ISO’s Technical Committee TC 176/SC 2 in February 2010, with overall responsibility for the ISO 9001 standard, used worldwide as a basis for certification of quality management systems.- Education :Nigel Croft attended Oakwood Comprehensive School,...

    , Chairman of ISO Technical Committee TC176
    ISO/TC 176
    ISO/TC 176 is Technical Committee 176 of the International Organization for Standardization , responsible for Quality management and quality assurance - the ISO 9000 family of standards.- Overview :...

    /SC2 for Quality Systems (ISO 9001)
  • Professor Nicholas J. Cull
    Nicholas J. Cull
    Professor Nicholas J. Cull is a historian and the director of the Master's in Public Diplomacy program at the University of Southern California.-Biography:...

    , historian
  • Professor Marcus Cunliffe
    Marcus Cunliffe
    Marcus Cunliffe was a British scholar who specialized in American Studies, especially military and cultural history. Cunliffe stressed the powerful influence of Americans' cultural beliefs about their own natural military capacity, reinforced by a latent dislike of military professionals, on the...

    , former visiting professor of American studies at Harvard University
    Harvard University
    Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

  • Mark Damazer
    Mark Damazer
    Mark Damazer CBE is the Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, and a former controller of BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 7 in the United Kingdom.He is the son of a Polish-Jewish delicatessen owner in Willesden in North London....

    , controller of BBC Radio 4
    BBC Radio 4
    BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...

     and BBC 7
    BBC 7
    BBC Radio 4 Extra, formerly known as BBC 7 and BBC Radio 7, is a British digital radio station broadcasting comedy, drama, and children's programming nationally 24 hours a day. It is the principal broadcasting outlet for the BBC's archive of spoken-word entertainment...

  • Sir Howard Davies, director of the London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
    Peter Maxwell Davies
    Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, CBE is an English composer and conductor and is currently Master of the Queen's Music.-Biography:...

    , composer, conductor and Master of the Queen's Music
    Master of the Queen's Music
    Master of the Queen's Music is a post in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. The holder of the post originally served the monarch of England.The post is roughly comparable to that of Poet Laureate...

  • Professor Glyn Davis
    Glyn Davis
    Glyn Conrad Davis, AC is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne.- Early life :Professor Davis was educated at Marist Brothers College, Kogarah...

    , vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne
    University of Melbourne
    The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...

  • Stuart Devlin
    Stuart Devlin
    Stuart Devlin is a significant contemporary gold and silversmith. Australian-born, he has designed coins for countries around the world, and became especially well known as London-based designer of gold and silver collector's items in the 1970s and 80s.Devlin was born in Geelong, Australia, and...

    , goldsmith and jeweller to Her Majesty the Queen
    Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
    Elizabeth II is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize,...

  • Professor John Montfort Dunn, emeritus professor of political theory at King's College, Cambridge
    King's College, Cambridge
    King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college's full name is "The King's College of our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge", but it is usually referred to simply as "King's" within the University....

  • Professor John Dupré
    John Dupré
    John Dupré is a professional philosopher of science. He is the director of the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society and professor of philosophy at the University of Exeter. Dupré was educated at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge and taught at Oxford, Stanford University and...

    , philosopher
  • Sir Harold Evans
    Harold Evans
    Sir Harold Matthew Evans is a British-born journalist and writer who was editor of The Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981. He has written various books on history and journalism...

    , former editor of the Sunday Times
  • Sir Terry Farrell
    Terry Farrell (architect)
    Sir Terry Farrell, CBE, RIBA, FRSA, FCSD, MRTPI is a British architect.-Life and career:Farrell was born in Sale, Cheshire. As a youth he moved to Newcastle upon Tyne, where he attended St Cuthbert's High School. He graduated with a degree from Newcastle University, followed by a Masters in urban...

    , architect of the MI6 Building
  • Professor Pamela Gillies
    Pamela Gillies
    Professor Pamela Gillies BSc PGCE MEd MMedSci PhD FRSA FFPH was appointed as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University in March 2006.-Education:...

    , principal and vice-chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University
    Glasgow Caledonian University
    Glasgow Caledonian University is a public university in Glasgow, Scotland.The university was constituted by an Act of Parliament on 1 April 1993 as a result of a merger between Glasgow Polytechnic and The Queen's College, Glasgow....

  • Lawrence Goldman
    Lawrence Goldman
    Lawrence Goldman is an historian and current editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He has an M.A. from the University of Oxford and a M.A. and PhD. from University of Cambridge...

    , historian and editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  • Anthony Green
    Anthony Green
    Anthony Green may refer to:*Anthony Green , current lead vocalist of Circa Survive and ex-vocalist for Saosin*Anthony Green *Anthony Green *Anthony Green *Antony Green, election commentator...

     FRA
    FRA
    Fra is a variant of Friar.FRA may refer to:* Forward Rate Agreement , a financial instrument* Federal Railroad Administration, a division of the United States Department of Transportation...

    , painter
  • Professor Jonathan Harvey (composer)
    Jonathan Harvey (composer)
    Jonathan Harvey is a British composer. He has held teaching positions at universities and music conservatories in Europe and the USA and is frequently invited to teach in summer schools around the world.-Life:...

  • Alastair Hetherington
    Alastair Hetherington
    Hector Alastair Hetherington was a British journalist, newspaper editor and academic. For nearly twenty years he was the editor of The Guardian, and is regarded as one of the leading editors of the second half of the twentieth century.-Early years:Hetherington was the son of Sir Hector...

    , editor of The Guardian, 1956–1975
  • Tony Hey
    Tony Hey
    Anthony John Grenville Hey CBE FREng FIET FInstP FBCS is a researcher and educator across a range of science and engineering fields....

     CBE
    CBE
    CBE and C.B.E. are abbreviations for "Commander of the Order of the British Empire", a grade in the Order of the British Empire.Other uses include:* Chemical and Biochemical Engineering...

    , academic and corporate vice-president of technical computing at Microsoft
    Microsoft
    Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

  • Dame Rosalyn Higgins
    Rosalyn Higgins
    Dame Rosalyn Higgins, DBE, QC is the former President of the International Court of Justice. Higgins was the first female judge to be appointed to the ICJ, and was elected President in 2006. Her term of office expired on 6 February 2009...

    , president of the International Court of Justice
    International Court of Justice
    The International Court of Justice is the primary judicial organ of the United Nations. It is based in the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands...

  • Ronald Hilton
    Ronald Hilton
    Ronald Hilton was a British-American academic, reporter and think-tank specialist, specializing in Latin America and, in particular, Fidel Castro's Cuba....

    , British-American academic who helped uncover the CIA’s clandestine preparations for the Bay of Pigs invasion
    Bay of Pigs Invasion
    The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful action by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba, with support and encouragement from the US government, in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. The invasion was launched in April 1961, less than three months...

  • The Hon. Shane Jones
    Shane Jones
    Shane Geoffrey Jones is a New Zealand politician. He was a cabinet minister in the Fifth Labour Government of New Zealand.-Early life:Jones is Māori, of Te Aupōuri and Ngai Takoto descent, as well as having Dalmatian ancestry...

    , New Zealand politician
  • Bridget Kendall
    Bridget Kendall
    Bridget Kendall MBE is an English radio and television correspondent.-Early life:Kendall is a daughter of statistician David George Kendall and Diana...

     MBE, diplomatic correspondent for the BBC
    BBC
    The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

  • Graeme Koehne
    Graeme Koehne
    Graeme Koehne is an Australian composer and music educator. He is best known for his orchestral and ballet scores, which are characterised by direct communicative style and embrace of triadic tonality...

    , Australian composer and chair of the Australia Council
    Australia Council
    The Australia Council, informally known as the Australia Council for the Arts, is the official arts council or arts funding body of the Government of Australia.-Function:...

    's music board
  • Professor Nicola LeFanu
    Nicola LeFanu
    Nicola LeFanu is a British composer, academic, lecturer and director.-Life:Nicola LeFanu was born in England to William LeFanu and Elizabeth Maconchy . She studied at St Hilda's College, Oxford, before taking up a Harkness Fellowship at Harvard. In 1972 she won the Mendelssohn Scholarship...

    , composer
  • Professor Koen Lenaerts
    Koen Lenaerts
    Koen Lenaerts is a Belgian Professor of European Law at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a Judge of the European Court of Justice. He was a member of the Coudenberg group, a Belgian federalist think tank.-Education:...

    , professor of European Law and judge at the European Court of Justice
    European Court of Justice
    The Court can sit in plenary session, as a Grand Chamber of 13 judges, or in chambers of three or five judges. Plenary sitting are now very rare, and the court mostly sits in chambers of three or five judges...

  • Sue Lenier
    Sue Lenier
    Susan Jennifer Lenier is an English writer. She published two books of poetry and a number of plays.-Biography:Sue Lenier was born in Birmingham, schooled in Tyneside, and attended Clare College, Cambridge...

    , English poet and playwright
  • Anthony Lester, Baron Lester of Herne Hill
    Anthony Lester, Baron Lester of Herne Hill
    Anthony Paul Lester, Baron Lester of Herne Hill, QC is a British politician and member of the House of Lords, and a member of the Liberal Democrats....

    , politician
  • Michael L'Estrange
    Michael L'Estrange
    Michael Gerard L'Estrange AO is an Australian public servant, and worked as the secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade form 2005 to 2009....

     AO
    AO
    -Science and technology:* .ao, top-level Internet domain code for Angola* Adaptive optics, an astronomical imaging technology* Arctic oscillation, a climate pattern* The AMSAT-OSCAR satellite naming convention...

    , Australian public servant and former Australian High Commissioner
    High Commissioner
    High Commissioner is the title of various high-ranking, special executive positions held by a commission of appointment.The English term is also used to render various equivalent titles in other languages.-Bilateral diplomacy:...

     to the United Kingdom
  • Gwyneth Lewis
    Gwyneth Lewis
    Gwyneth Lewis is a Welsh poet, and was the first National Poet for Wales.-Biography:Born into a Welsh speaking family, Lewis's father started teaching her English when her mother went into hospital to give birth to her sister....

    , Welsh poet, the first National Poet for Wales
    National Poet for Wales
    The post of National Poet of Wales was established in May 2005 by Academi – the Welsh National Literature Promotion Agency and Society for Writers. The post is supported by the Arts Council of Wales’ Lottery fund....

  • Professor David Lodge
    David Lodge (author)
    David John Lodge CBE, is an English author.In his novels, Lodge often satirises academia in general and the humanities in particular. He was brought up Catholic and has described himself as an "agnostic Catholic". Many of his characters are Catholic and their Catholicism is a major theme...

    , British author
  • Piers Mackesy
    Piers Mackesy
    Piers Gerald Mackesy is a British military historian who taught at the University of Oxford.-Early life and education:...

    , military historian
  • Sir Deryck Maughan
    Deryck Maughan
    Sir Deryck C. Maughan is a British businessman and philanthropist. He graduated from King's College London with a BA in 1969, and earned a MS from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1978, where he was a Harkness Fellow....

    , former Chairman and CEO of Salomon Brothers
  • Keith Milow
    Keith Milow
    Keith Milow is a British artist, born in London , lived in New York , now lives in Amsterdam. He is an abstract sculptor, as well as a painter and printmaker. His work can be characterized as architectural, monumental, and minimal....

    , artist
  • Jan Morris
    Jan Morris
    Jan Morris CBE is a Welsh nationalist, historian, author and travel writer. She is known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy, a history of the British Empire, and for portraits of cities, notably Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Hong Kong, and New York City.With an English mother and Welsh father,...

     CBE
    CBE
    CBE and C.B.E. are abbreviations for "Commander of the Order of the British Empire", a grade in the Order of the British Empire.Other uses include:* Chemical and Biochemical Engineering...

    , historian and travel writer
  • Professor Geoff Mulgan
    Geoff Mulgan
    Geoff Mulgan is Chief Executive of the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts and Visiting Professor at University College, London, the London School of Economics and the University of Melbourne...

    , former director of policy at 10 Downing Street
    10 Downing Street
    10 Downing Street, colloquially known in the United Kingdom as "Number 10", is the headquarters of Her Majesty's Government and the official residence and office of the First Lord of the Treasury, who is now always the Prime Minister....

     and director of the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit
    Prime Minister's Strategy Unit
    The Prime Minister's Strategy Unit was an elite unit based in the UK Cabinet Office between 2002 and 2010...

  • Baron Murray of Newhaven, British academic
  • Sara Nathan OBE, Broadcast Journalist and regulator
  • Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger
    Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger
    Julia Babette Sarah Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger, DBE is a rabbi, social reformer and member of the House of Lords, where she takes the Liberal Democrat whip, although she will be resigning from the party and joining the Crossbenches from September 2011, once she becomes the full-time Senior...

    , rabbi and social reformer
  • Peter Nicholls (writer)
    Peter Nicholls (writer)
    Peter Nicholls is an Australian literary scholar and critic. He is the creator and a co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ....

    , Australian literary scholar and critic
  • Professor Claus Offe
    Claus Offe
    Professor Claus Offe is a political sociologist of Marxist orientation. Once a student of Jürgen Habermas, the left-leaning German academic is counted among the second generation Frankfurt School...

    , political sociologist
  • Professor Derek Parfit
    Derek Parfit
    Derek Parfit is a British philosopher who specializes in problems of personal identity, rationality and ethics, and the relations between them. His 1984 book Reasons and Persons has been very influential...

    , philosopher
  • Baron Penney, physicist responsible for the development of British nuclear technology
  • Peter Phillips
    Peter Phillips (artist)
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    , artist and pioneer of pop art
    Pop art
    Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art...

  • Professor Randolph Quirk, British linguist, former Quain Professor
    Quain Professor
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     at University College, London
  • Professor Anne Marie Rafferty
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     CBE, British nurse, currently Dean of the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery
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    , King's College London
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    , Group Chief Executive of Standard Chartered plc
  • Malcolm Singer, composer, conductor and Director of Music, Yehudi Menuhin School
  • Randolph Stow
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    Julian Randolph Stow was an Australian writer.-Life:Born in Geraldton, Western Australia, Randolph Stow attended Guildford Grammar School and the University of Western Australia. He lectured in English Literature at the University of Adelaide, the University of Western Australia and the...

    , Australian writer
  • Professor Barry Trimmer
    Barry Trimmer
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    , biologist and creator of the world's first soft-bodied robot
  • Professor Rudolf G. Wagner
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    , sinologist
  • Professor Sir David Wallace
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    , director of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge and master of Churchill College, Cambridge
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  • Professor Denis Weaire
    Denis Weaire
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    , Irish physicist
  • Brett Whiteley
    Brett Whiteley
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  • Professor Sir David Glyndwr Tudor Williams
    David Glyndwr Tudor Williams
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    , former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
  • Professor Jonathan Wolff, former chair of philosophy at University College, London
  • Adrian Wooldridge
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  • Professor Esmond Wright
    Esmond Wright
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    , historian
  • Hugo Young
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  • Professor Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman
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