The President
Michael Scholar
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Sir Michael Scholar KCB
St John's College
Oxford
OX1 3JP
I have been President of St John's since August 2001. Before that I was Permanent Secretary of the Department of Trade and Industry, and before that Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Office, after a civil service career in HM Treasury. I had previously been a Research Fellow at St John's College, Cambridge, and an assistant Lecturer in Philosophy at Leicester University.
My PhD thesis was on Aristotle's Metaphysics Z, which I approached through philosophical work following lines of enquiry suggested by John Wisdom and Elizabeth Anscombe on some of the issues discussed in Aristotle's text. I am currently a Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. I am also Chair of the UK Statistics Authority, which came into existence in April 2008.
