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Featuring masterpieces from the Ashmolean Museum

north american reunionS AT U R DAY 14 A PR I L

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Networking Breakfast with Oxford Alumni8:30 am – 9:30 am, East Foyer

Welcoming Remarks9:45 am – 10:00 am, Grand Ballroom

Leadership in the 21st Century10:00 am – 11:15 am, Grand Ballroom

MODERATOR:

Dr. Ngaire Woods

SPEAKERS:

The Chancellor, Lord Patten of BarnesMr. Leonard BlavatnikMr. Nicholas KristofDr. Eric Schmidt

The Genetic Revolution11:45 am – 12:45 pm, Astor Salon

SPEAKER:

Professor Peter Donnelly

Black Holes & Spin Offs11:45 am – 12:45 pm, Basildon Room

SPEAKER:

Professor Katherine Blundell

From Poetry to Politics: How Has Imaginative Literature Influenced the Way We Think About Society?11:45 am – 12:45 pm, Jade Room

SPEAKER:

Professor Seamus Perry

Brush Up Your Career Skills11:45 am – 12:45 pm, West Foyer

SPEAKERS:

Mr. Jonathan BlackMs. Polly Metcalfe

Lunch 12:45 pm – 2:15 pm, Grand BallroomAttendees will have the opportunity to sit with representatives from their College (if present), fellow alumni and guests. College crests will be located on each

table. The Chancellor, Lord Patten of Barnes, will present the Distinguished Friend of Oxford award. Mr. Sewell Chan will speak to the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Andrew Hamilton, about the past year at Oxford.

Educating Leaders? Changing the Game2:15 pm – 3:15 pm, Astor Salon

SPEAKERS:Professor Peter TufanoMr. Peter BisanzMr. Sanjay GuptaMs. Rachael Wagner

From Molecule to Malady: New Research and New Therapies for Neonatal Diabetes2:15 pm – 3:15 pm, Jade Room

SPEAKER:Professor Frances Ashcroft

How Can Alumni Help Current Students’ Careers?2:15 pm – 3:15 pm, West Foyer

SPEAKERS:Mr. Jonathan BlackMs. Polly Metcalfe

The Ashmolean: The World’s Finest University Museum3:45 pm – 4:45 pm, Grand Ballroom

MODERATOR:Dr. Paul Levy

SPEAKERS:Dr. Christopher Brown, CBEMr. Henry KimProfessor Shearer West

Closing Remarks4:45 pm – 5:00 pm, Grand Ballroom

Drinks Reception5:00 pm – 6:00 pm, East Foyer

Open Ashmolean Viewing (see Page 8 for details)5:00 pm – 6:00 pm, Louis XVI Suite, 4th Floor

Program in Brief

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University Careers Service at the North American Reunion!The University Careers Service works with all current undergraduate and postgraduate students in Oxford, thousands of employers worldwide and supports alumni for life.That support includes access to our web site (www.careers.ox.ac.uk) and to CareerConnect (an extensive jobs board), to all fairs and events in Oxford, to skills workshops (e.g., Update Your Résumé, Find Your Dream Job, Kick-Start Your Career) and to 1:1 meetings with experienced Careers Advisors.

Mr. Jonathan Black, Director, and Ms. Polly Metcalfe, Careers Advisor, will offer two breakout sessions and 1:1 discussions throughout the day in the West Foyer and Silver Corridor.

Networking Breakfast with Oxford Alumni8:30 am – 9:30 am, East FoyerPlanning your next career move? Want to get your foot in the door? Maybe a cup of coffee is the answer! Get an early start to the day and rub shoulders with Oxonians who have made their mark in fields such as finance, law, journalism and the arts. The Networking Breakfast is the perfect opportunity to develop a new relationship and engage with other alumni.

Welcoming Remarks9:45 am – 10:00 am, Grand Ballroom

Leadership in the 21st Century10:00 am – 11:15 am, Grand BallroomGovernment leadership is under pressure everywhere. Paralysis in the US government, uprisings across the Middle East, a crisis in the European Union, and unprecedented demonstrations against governments in Russia and China, all underscore the need for informed and inspired leadership across the world. The panel will consider what this means for the US.

MODERATOR:

Dr. Ngaire Woods is the inaugural Dean of Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government and Director of the Global Economic Governance Programme at University College, Oxford. She is a recognized authority on international relations, global economic governance and globalization. Her

books include Networks of Influence? Developing Countries in a Networked Global Order (with Leonardo Martinez-Diaz, 2009), The Politics of Global Regulation (with Walter Mattli, 2009), The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank and their Borrowers (2006) and The Political Economy of Globalization (2000).

Dr. Woods was educated at Auckland University (BA in Economics, LLB Honors in Law). She studied at Balliol College, Oxford as a New Zealand Rhodes Scholar, completing an MPhil in International Relations with Distinction and a DPhil. From 1990 to1992, Dr. Woods was a Junior Research Fellow at New College, Oxford and subsequently taught in Harvard University’s Government Department, before taking up her Fellowship at University College. She serves as a Rhodes Trustee, a Governor of the Ditchley Foundation and World Economic Forum GAC Chair.

SPEAKERS:

The Chancellor, Lord Patten of Barnes, read Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was elected a Domus Exhibitioner. From 1992 to 1997, Lord Patten was Governor of Hong Kong, overseeing the return of Hong Kong to China. He also served as Chairman of the Independent Commission on Policing for

Northern Ireland, European Commissioner for External Relations, and in January 2005, took his seat in the House of Lords. Lord Patten’s other government appointments have included: Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office; Minister of State at the Department of Education and Science; Secretary of State for the Environment; and Minister for Overseas Development at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. He was appointed to the Privy Council in 1989, named a Companion of Honour in 1998 and a Life Peer in 2005.

Lord Patten was elected Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 2003, after serving as Chancellor of Newcastle University from 1999 to 2009. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, and an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. Lord Patten is currently Chairman of the BBC Trust and Co-Chair of the UK India Round Table. His publications include, What Next? Surviving the 21st Century (2008), Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths About World Affairs (2005) and East and West (1998), about Asia and its relations with the rest of the world.

Reunion Schedule

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Mr. Leonard Blavatnik is an American citizen who lives in London and New York. As Chairman of Access Industries, which he founded in 1986, Mr. Blavatnik is a leading American industrialist with global interests in natural resources and chemicals, media and telecommunications, and real estate. He has long taken a close

interest in higher education.

He holds advanced degrees from Columbia and Harvard Universities, and serves on academic boards at Harvard, Cambridge, and Tel Aviv Universities, and the New Economic School in Moscow. He is also a member of the Board of Governors at the New York Academy of Sciences, where he sponsors the annual Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists.

An active philanthropist, Mr. Blavatnik and the Blavatnik Family Foundation have been generous supporters of many philanthropic organizations in the United States, Britain, Russia and Israel. In 2010, Mr. Blavatnik’s visionary gift of £75 million enabled the creation of the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. He is personally committed to the success of the School.

Mr. Nicholas Kristof is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and New York Times columnist focused on global health, poverty and gender issues in the developing world. A graduate of Harvard University, he read Law as a Rhodes Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford before joining The New York Times in 1984. He has since been a

New York Times correspondent in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Beijing and Tokyo. In 1990, Mr. Kristof and his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, became the first married couple to win a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of China’s Tiananmen Square democracy movement. They also co-authored Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a New York Times best-selling book. Nicholas Kristof won a second Pulitzer in 2006 for his graphic coverage of the genocide in Darfur.

Dr. Eric Schmidt joined Google in 2001 and has helped grow the company from a Silicon Valley startup to a global leader in technology. As Executive Chairman, he is responsible for the external matters of Google: building partnerships and broader business relationships, government

outreach and technology thought leadership, as well as advising the CEO and senior leadership on business and policy issues. From 2001-2011, Dr. Schmidt served as Google’s Chief Executive Officer.

Prior to joining Google, Dr. Schmidt was Chairman and CEO of Novell and Chief Technology Officer at Sun Microsystems, Inc. and held roles at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Bell Laboratories and Zilog. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University, as well as a Master’s degree and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Schmidt is a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and the Prime Minister’s Advisory Council in the UK. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as a Fellow in 2007. He also chairs the Board of the New America Foundation, and has served as a Trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey since 2008. In 2012, Dr. Schmidt joined the International Advisory Board for the Blavatnik School of Government in Oxford.

The Genetic Revolution11:45 am – 12:45 pm, Astor SalonDiscussion on how genetic factors are responsible for a substantial part of the susceptibility to all of the common diseases afflicting humans, including heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, depression, and many cancers and infectious diseases. The talk, aimed at a general audience, will give a sense of the excitement of the science, and the opportunities and challenges they create for our health and society.

SPEAKER:

Professor Peter Donnelly is Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics and Professor of Statistical Science and Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford.

Professor Donnelly’s early research focused on mathematical and statistical problems in genetics, with many of the analytical methods he developed now widely

used in the field. He has played a central role in numerous international studies, including the International HapMap project, the successor to the Human Genome Project which studied patterns of genetic variation in global populations, and the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortia, which he chairs. A Fellow of the Royal Society and the Academy of Medical Sciences, Professor Donnelly has received a number of prizes and academic awards for his work.

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A native of Australia, Professor Donnelly matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar to undertake doctoral work in Mathematics. He returned to teach at Oxford in 1996, and in 2007, Professor Donnelly took post as Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics.

Black Holes & Spin Offs11:45 am – 12:45 pm, Basildon RoomThis talk will shed a different light on the popular notion that black holes “suck in everything from its surroundings,” and discuss how they actually give rise to many remarkable phenomena such as extragalactic quasars and microquasars in our own galaxy.

SPEAKER:

Professor Katherine Blundell is Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford, Research Fellow of St John’s College, and was until recently a Royal Society University Research Fellow. Her research interests include extreme energy phenomena in the Universe such as astrophysical jets, and extragalactic radio galaxies and

quasars. Professor Blundell has lectured Oxford Physics undergraduates for a number of years on Cosmology, and now lectures on Special Relativity. She co-edited the Oxford University Press book Energy... Beyond Oil and published, also with OUP, a textbook for Physics undergraduates co-written with Stephen Blundell called Concepts in Thermal Physics. In addition, Professor Blundell has published over 100 papers in academic publications and speaks frequently at conferences and institutes around the world. In 2005, she was awarded a Leverhulme Prize for her research in astronomy and astrophysics and in 2010, Professor Blundell received the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Prize for research achievements.

From Poetry to Politics: How Has Imaginative Literature Influenced the Way We Think About Society?11:45 am – 12:45 pm, Jade RoomA discussion focusing on how writers such as William Wordsworth influenced the thinking of John Stuart Mill and others, which led to changes in the political landscape and society. The attendees have been encouraged to read J.S. Mill’s On Liberty in preparation.

SPEAKER:

Professor Seamus Perry is Massey Fellow at Balliol College, where he is Tutor in English Literature and Vice-Master of Development. A member of the English Faculty at Oxford since 2003, he lectures on English Literature and Thought from 1660 to the present with a focus on English Romantic and post-Romantic poetry. Professor Perry’s

books include studies of Coleridge and Tennyson, editions of Coleridge’s notebooks and criticism, and numerous essays on nineteenth and twentieth century poetry and ideas. He is Editor, with Christopher Ricks, of the quarterly Oxford journal Essays in Criticism.

Brush Up Your Career Skills11:45 am – 12:45 pm, West FoyerA practical workshop to review your résumé, discuss tools to find your dream job, provide a refresher about information interviewing, and review tips for 1:1 interviews.

SPEAKERS:

Mr. Jonathan Black joined University of Oxford Careers Service as Director in March 2008. Over the last four years, he transformed the department to be one of the most innovative, transparent and engaged teams serving students, employers, alumni and academic colleagues. He previously held corporate positions in California and London, including

Senior Associate at the management consulting firm Booz & Co., Director of Strategy at Times Mirror Co., Senior Vice President of Finance and Operations at two international academic publishing companies and Co-Founder of an Internet start-up. Mr. Black has also served as Director of Corporate Affairs at Oxford’s Saïd Business School. He is currently Chair of Minervation (an Oxford University spin-out company), and is a Director of Modern Art Oxford. Mr. Black holds an Engineering degree from Cambridge University.

Ms. Polly Metcalfe is a careers advisor at Oxford Careers Service, where she primarily advises students on the banking, finance, HR and publishing industries. In addition to advising, Ms. Metcalfe also runs the Careers Service Student Consultancy Programme and serves as a trainer for the Springboard Assertiveness Programme for undergraduates.

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She read for her BSc in Economics at university and went on to work at J. P. Morgan as a financial analyst in emerging markets and credit hybrids. Ms. Metcalfe has also worked as Graduate Manager for the Finance Development Programme.

Lunch12:45 pm – 2:15 pm, Grand Ballroom

Attendees will have the opportunity to sit with representatives from their College (if present), fellow alumni and guests. College crests will be located on each table. The Chancellor, Lord Patten of Barnes, will present the Distinguished Friend of Oxford award. Mr. Sewell Chan will speak to the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Andrew Hamilton, about the past year at Oxford.

Mr. Sewell Chan is Deputy Op-Ed Editor at The New York Times. He was previously a Washington economic correspondent and founding Bureau Chief of the City Room news blog for the paper. Before joining the Times in 2004, Mr. Chan was a staff writer at The Washington Post, where he wrote about local government, social

services and education in the District of Columbia. He has also written for The Wall Street Journal and The Philadelphia Inquirer. A native of New York City, Mr. Chan graduated from Harvard University and earned an MPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford while on a Marshall Scholarship at Merton College. He is a member of the Harvard Magazine Board of Incorporators and the National Advisory Board of the Poynter Institute, a nonprofit journalism education organization.

Professor Andrew Hamilton was admitted as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford on 6 October 2009.

Professor Hamilton was previously Benjamin Silliman Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University,

where he served as Provost from 2004 to 2008. Achievements during his time as Provost included the acquisition of the West Campus, the re-establishment of the Yale School of Engineering after a 40-year hiatus, a reform of the tenure process and the significant enhancement of the Yale undergraduate curriculum. Professor Hamilton has also held academic appointments at Princeton University and the University of Pittsburgh. He read Chemistry at the University of Exeter, studied for a Master’s degree at the University of British Columbia and received his PhD from Cambridge University in 1980

before doing post-doctoral work at the Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg. His research interests focus on the use of synthetic design for the understanding, mimicry and potential disruption of biological processes. Professor Hamilton’s academic achievements have been recognized internationally. In 1999, he received the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society, and in 2004, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Professor Hamilton was elected a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010 and received the International Izatt Christiansen Award in Macrocyclic Chemistry in 2011.

Educating Leaders? Changing the Game2:15 pm – 3:15 pm, Astor SalonA panel will discuss the role and purpose of business education in light of critical challenges including the financial crisis, environmental threat, and the shifting balance of economic power. They will recount their own attempts to change the rules of the game through innovation and the challenges they’ve faced.

SPEAKERS:

Professor Peter Tufano is the Peter Moores Dean and Professor of Finance at Saïd Business School, and a Professorial Fellow at Balliol College. Since joining Oxford in July 2011, Professor Tufano has led the development of the new Oxford 1+1 MBA Programme, a two-year customized management education that combines an MBA with one of

Oxford’s many specialized Master’s programs. His research currently focuses on how innovation in consumer finance can improve the delivery of services to low-income families. During his career, Professor Tufano has developed courses on consumer finance, founded a non-profit R&D lab for new financial product development (d2dfund.org), and served on advisory groups in the US and UK addressing the issue of financial inclusion. Before joining Oxford, he spent 33 years at Harvard University, most recently serving as Professor and Senior Associate Dean at Harvard Business School, as well as co-founding the Harvard University Innovation Lab.

Mr. Peter Bisanz is Director and Founder of Entropy Films in New York, a socially relevant media company that produces documentaries on global issues. His upcoming film, Islam and the West, will be produced in conjunction with the World Economic Forum, and provides a platform for

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key Islamic and Western leaders to explore this complex relationship and promote a new spirit of understanding. While completing his MBA with an emphasis on social entrepreneurship at St Cross College, Oxford, Mr. Bisanz obtained an internship with the Central Tibetan Administration in Dharamsala, India, where he developed the concept for his last film, Beyond Our Differences. Prior to this, he had over 10 years of experience in the film industry. His academic background includes a BFA in Film and Television from New York University and a MPA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government as a Reynolds Fellow for Social Entrepreneurship.

Mr. Sanjay Gupta is an investor and serial entrepreneur with specific interests in disruptive innovation, health care, sustainability and stimulating entrepreneurship among marginalized economic participants. Previously, he served as a Senior Vice President of Abraxis BioScience, where he

advised billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong on the company’s (US) $2.9 billion sale in late 2010. Prior to Abraxis, Mr. Gupta served as Director of Social Enterprise at Intel Corporation and as Chief Financial Officer and Director of Strategy for Dossia, a social-enterprise developing a personal health information system. Mr. Gupta earned his MBA as a member of Merton College, Oxford. He also studied Philosophy at Georgetown University and Bioethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. In 2010, Mr. Gupta was honored by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader.

Ms. Rachael Wagner is a Principal at Lion Capital, a London-based private equity firm specializing in the retail and consumer sectors. She joined Lion Capital in 2008 to help open the firm’s New York office. Previously, Ms. Wagner worked in Blackstone’s Private Equity Group, where she focused on

energy and telecom investments. She received her BA from Harvard University and her MBA and MSc from Oxford University, where she studied on a Rhodes Scholarship at Balliol College.

From Molecule to Malady: New Research and New Therapies for Neonatal Diabetes2:15 pm – 3:15 pm, Jade RoomA description of ground-breaking work on diabetes and promising trends in the development of new treatments.

SPEAKER:

Professor Frances Ashcroft is a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, Fellow of Trinity College and Fellow of the Royal Society of London. She holds a BA, PhD and ScD from Cambridge University. Professor Ashcroft’s research aims to understand how changes in blood glucose levels regulate insulin secretion from the pancreatic islets of

Langerhans and how diabetes impairs this process. Approximately 25 years ago, she discovered that the ATP-sensitive potassium (KATP) channel serves as the molecular link between glucose elevation and insulin secretion.

Professor Ashcroft is a Director of OXION, a large training and research programme on the integrative physiology of ion channels. She has received many awards, most recently, the L’Oréal/UNESCO For Women in Science award. Professor Ashcroft has also written a best-selling book for the general reader, Life at the Extremes. Her latest book, The Spark of Life, will be published in 2012.

How Can Alumni Help Current Students’ Careers?2:15 pm – 3:15 pm, West FoyerA workshop with Mr. Jonathan Black, Director of University Careers Service, and Ms. Polly Metcalfe, Careers Advisor, to explore practical and realistic ways that North American alumni can engage to help current students and recent graduates.

The Ashmolean: The World’s Finest University Museum3:45 pm – 4:45 pm, Grand BallroomThis panel will discuss the Ashmolean treasures on display at the Reunion and how these relate to the Museum’s wider collections in Oxford. The curators will also discuss what application these collections have in cross-disciplinary teaching at Oxford, and examine more widely the role of today’s university museums.

MODERATOR:

Dr. Paul Levy is an award-winning author and journalist. Born in Lexington, Kentucky, he attended the University of Chicago, University College London, and took a PhD at Harvard University, before being elected to a Scholarship at Nuffield College, Oxford in 1969. From 1974 to 1991, he was a critic for the British Sunday newspaper The Observer,

where he pioneered non-recipe food journalism and was

The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology in Oxford is the world’s first public museum, founded in

1683. Today, as a department of the University of Oxford, and with world-class collections, it is widely regarded as one of the finest university museums in the world.

The 2012 North American Reunion features treasures from the Ashmolean Museum including ancient coins and

Ashmolean at the Reunion

works by Michelangelo and Raphael. Attendees of the Reunion will be able to view (and in some cases handle) these works with curators from the Museum on hand.

Limited viewings of the Ashmolean pieces will be offered on Saturday 14 April at the Waldorf=Astoria. There will also be an open viewing at 5:00 pm. Tickets required (excludes open viewing). n

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twice commended at the British Press Awards.

Between 1991 and 2001, Dr. Levy wrote weekly art and food and wine columns for The Wall Street Journal Europe and remains a regular contributor to the ‘Weekend Journal’ pages, writing about the visual arts, opera, theatre and books. He also writes about wine for The Mail on Sunday and reviews books for The New York Times and the Times Literary Supplement. Dr. Levy is the author of a number of books, including G.E. Moore and the Cambridge Apostles, Finger-Lickin’ Good: a Kentucky Childhood and, with Ann Barr, the best-selling Official Foodie Handbook.

Dr. Levy is a Trustee of the Jane Grigson Trust and Chairman of the Trustees of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery.

SPEAKERS:

Dr. Christopher Brown, CBE has been Director of Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum since June 1998. He graduated from St Catherine’s College, Oxford, receiving a BA with Honors in Modern History and a Diploma with Distinction in the History of Art. Dr. Brown obtained his Doctorate from the Courtauld Institute of Art

London in 1986. Appointed Assistant Keeper at the National Gallery, London, in 1971, he held responsibility for seventeenth century Dutch and Flemish paintings before being named Deputy Keeper in 1979 and Chief Curator in 1989.

Dr. Brown has lectured and written extensively on seventeenth century Dutch and Flemish art and is the author of numerous books including: Bruegel (1975), Rembrandt: The Complete Paintings (1980), Carel Fabritius – Complete Edition with a Catalogue Raisonne (1981), Van Dyck (1982), Anthony Van Dyck: Drawings (1991), Rubens’s Landscapes (1996) and Anthony Van Dyck

1599-1641 (1999). In June 2002, he was appointed a Commander in the Order of Oranje, Nassau for his services to the study of Dutch art. In January 2011, Dr. Brown received a CBE for his service to museums.

Mr. Henry Kim is a Project Director at the Ashmolean Museum, where he leads 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. He was also the Project Director for the Ashmolean Redevelopment

Project, completed in November 2009, and the redevelopment of the Egypt Galleries, completed in November 2011.

Mr. Kim is a specialist on archaic and classical Greek coins and European medals. Educated at Harvard University and Lincoln College, Oxford, he has been a curator at the Ashmolean Museum and University Lecturer in Greek Numismatics at the University of Oxford since 1994. Mr. Kim’s publications include a number of articles on early money, particularly regarding the development of small change in Greece, the development of numismatics in the seventeenth century and the use of classical coins as sources for Renaissance medals.

Professor Shearer West took up post as Head of Humanities at the University of Oxford in August 2011. She was previously Director of Research at the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), on secondment from a professorship in the History of Art at Birmingham University. Professor West has served as Head of the Department

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of Art History, Head of the School of Historical Studies and Acting Head of the College of Arts and Law at Birmingham University. She became Professor of Art History at Birmingham in 2000. Prior to this, Professor West was a Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer at Leicester University. She has also been Chair of the Association of Art Historians, member of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise sub-panel and held two Visiting Fellowships at Yale University. Professor West is the author or editor of nine books and many articles on aspects of eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth century European art.

Closing Remarks4:45 pm – 5:00 pm, Grand Ballroom

Drinks Reception5:00 pm – 6:00 pm, East Foyer

Open Ashmolean Viewing 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm, Louis XVI Suite, 4th Floor

College Gatherings

Balliol College Saturday 14 April: Reception and Dinner for Old Members and partners at the University Club, One West 54th Street.

Brasenose College Saturday 14 April: Brasenose Members and their guests are warmly invited to attend a Reception at McKinsey & Co., Manhattan, New York at 6:00 pm. Contact the Alumni Office on development.office@bnc.ox.ac.uk or call 011-44-1865-287275 for more information.

Christ Church Saturday 14 April: 7:00 pm Dinner at the Anglers Club, 101 Broad Street (near the corner of Broad and Water Streets in the Wall Street area). Prior reservations are necessary as the capacity of the club is limited. Contact Mr. Peter Paine Jr., President, The American Friends of Christ Church at 518-963-7518 or pspaine@champlainbank.com.

Corpus Christi College Saturday 14 April: Corpus will be holding a Dinner for Old Members and their partners at the Harvard Club. RSVP required. Contact Sarah Salter at sarah.salter@ccc.ox.ac.uk or call 011-44-1865-276738.

Exeter College Saturday 14 April: the Rector will be hosting a lunch table for Exeter alumni attending the Reunion. Time: 12:45 pm –Waldorf=Astoria. Exeter Alumni Dinner: The Rector invites you to join her for Dinner at the close of the day’s Reunion program (whether or not they have attended the Reunion). Contact Kinsey Forsdyke at development@exeter.ox.ac.uk or view further details at: www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/alumni/events.

Green Templeton College Saturday 14 April: Green Templeton, Wolfson and St Cross Colleges are jointly hosting a graduate college Reception at the Harvard Club

of New York from 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm. Speaker: Richard G. Frank, Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, “Politics and Perspectives on US Health Reform.” For further information please contact: rachel.lindenbaum@gtc.ox.ac.uk or 011-44-1865-284556.

Hertford College Saturday 14 April: Thanks to the generosity of Mike Thorne (1966, Physics) and his wife Leila Shakkour, there will be a Reception in their Manhattan home for Hertfordians and partners from 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm. As this will be Will Hutton’s first visit as Principal to the US, he very much looks forward to meeting as many Old Members as possible. For more information please contact Hertford College Members’ and Development Office at development.office@hertford.ox.ac.uk.

Keble College Saturday 14 April: Reception for Keble Alumni to meet the Warden and Director of Development at a venue on West 74th Street, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm. $50 per person. Please contact Philip Clarke at philip.clarke@keble.ox.ac.uk or call 011-44-1865-282303 for full details.

Kellogg College Kellogg College’s President, Professor Jonathan Michie and Bursar, Ms. Donna Lipsky will be delighted to host you at lunch.

Lady Margaret Hall Although unable to be present at this year’s North American Reunion, LMH sends its best wishes for a very successful reunion to all those attending. The Principal Dr. Frances Lannon and Development Director Peter Watson were very pleased to see alumni and friends during their recent visits to Boston, New York and San Francisco in late March and early April.

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Linacre College Saturday 14 April: Linacre College will hold Dinner in a university club at 6:00 pm for 6:30 pm. The Principal, Dr. Nick Brown, will preside; cost will be $100 inclusive of dinner and drinks, a price subsidized by the College. We hope many of you will be able to attend. Bookings to Dr. Clifford Peterson, gageslake@yahoo.com or 802-899-4999.

Lincoln College Saturday 14 April: Dinner for Lincoln alumni, preceded by a talk from Dr. Susan Brigden on ‘Friendship (in the Renaissance)’. Talk and pre-dinner drinks at 6:30 pm followed by dinner at 7:30 pm at The Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street. Open to all Lincoln alumni and one guest – prior reservations necessary. Cost: $100 per head; Dress code: jacket and tie; Contact: susan.davison@lincoln.ox.ac.uk or call 011-44-1865-287421.

Magdalen College Saturday 14 April: 7:00 pm: Black Tie Reception and Dinner hosted by The President. Venue: Penn Club, 30 West 44th Street, New York. Speaker: Pulitzer prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee (1993). Pre-dinner talk: ‘Treasures of Magdalen College’ by Fellow Librarian, Dr. Christine Ferdinand. Tickets: $50 (matric post 2002) and $100 (matric pre 2002 and all guests). Further details: Dr. Marilyn Bowler 011-44-1865-286682 or marilyn.bowler@magd.ox.ac.uk.

Merton College Saturday 14 April and Sunday 15 April: Details of the Merton Weekend, including the Saturday AM annual meeting; Saturday PM pre-Opening Visit, FDR Four Freedoms Park, Roosevelt Island; a Saturday evening Reception and Dinner at The Century Association and Sunday Brunch at the Kirby/ Cullman’s, were posted to Merton members in late February. For more information visit www.mc3na.org or contact Robert McKelvey/Susan Stukane at sstukane@georgemckelveyco.com or 732-449-5323 or Helen Kingsley at helen.kingsley@merton.ox.ac.uk.

New College Saturday 14 April: The Warden will be hosting a table at the Reunion lunch. Please email jonathan.rubery@new.ox.ac.uk for details.

Oriel College Friday 13 April: Join Provost Sir Derek Morris and Director of Development Sean Power for Dinner at the Cosmopolitan Club, 122 East 66th Street, east of Park Avenue, at $95 per person. For further details, and to book your place, please contact Amy Kay in the Oriel Development Office at amy.kay@oriel.ox.ac.uk or 011-44-1865-276585.

The Queen’s College Saturday 14 April: Cocktail Reception in NYC, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm. For full details of the events please contact Emily Downing at oldmembers@queens.ox.ac.uk or call 011-44-1865-279214.

Regent’s Park College Regent’s Park’s Principal, Revd. Dr. Robert Ellis, and Development Manager, Tim Pottle, will be delighted to host you at lunch.

Somerville College Saturday 14 April: Evening reception and buffet for all Somervillians at Cindy Gallop’s iconic New York `Black Apartment’. Please contact Clare Finch for further information at clare.finch@some.ox.ac.uk or 011-44-1865-280626.

St Anne’s College Sunday 15 April: New York – 10:30 am brunch for Senior Members and friends. This will kindly be hosted for us by Glenda Rosenthal (Modern History, 1955), Central Park West, New York. We are pleased to welcome to the brunch Dr. Gareth Davies, our Fellow in American History who will give a talk entitled “Understanding Hurricane Katrina: A Historical Perspective”. Washington, DC – 6:00 pm Drinks at the house of Jessica Townsend (PPE, 1959) and dinner at 7:00 pm at Bistro Français (http://www.bistrofrancaisdc.com/) in Georgetown. Please contact Kate Davy at kate.davy@st-annes.ox.ac.uk.

St Catherine’s College Saturday 14 April: The Master, Professor Roger Ainsworth, warmly invites Alumni, Friends and Parents to join him in celebrating the 50th Anniversary of St Catherine’s at a Drinks Reception & Dinner at the Harvard Club of New York. RSVP required. The Master shall also be hosting a 50th Anniversary Dinner in California at The Fig Restaurant, Santa Monica, on Monday, 23rd April to which he extends this invitation. Please email development.office@stcatz.ox.ac.uk or call 011-44-1865-281596 for more information.

St Cross College Saturday 14 April: St Cross, Wolfson and Green Templeton Colleges are jointly hosting a graduate college Reception at the Harvard Club of New York from 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm. Speaker: Richard G. Frank, Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, “Politics and Perspectives on US Health Reform.” For further information please contact: alumni@stx.ox.ac.uk or 011-44-1865-278480.

St Edmund Hall Saturday 14 April: The Principal, Professor Keith Gull, invites all Aularians (plus guests) to join him at a private cocktail reception from 6:00 pm–8:00 pm at the Penn Club on West 44th Street, kindly hosted by James Lyle (1980). This event is free of charge but please RSVP to sally.smith@seh.ox.ac.uk to register.

St Hilda’s College St Hilda’s Principal, Ms. Sheila Forbes, Dr. Selina Todd, Fellow in Modern History and Development Director, Bronwyn Travers, will be delighted to host you at lunch.

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St Hugh’s College Saturday 14 April: 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm: St Hugh’s College warmly invites all Senior Members of the College (with one guest) to a private cocktail reception with canapés at the Ocean and Sea Room, W Hotel, 541 Lexington Avenue (beside the Waldorf=Astoria). RSVP required. Please contact the St Hugh’s Development Office at 011-44-1865-274958 or development.office@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk.

St John’s College Saturday 14 April: Drinks Reception (7:00 pm) and Dinner (8:00 pm) at The Princeton Club of New York, (15 W. 43rd Street). Alumni who have registered for this event will have received further details. Please contact sophie.petersen@sjc.ox.ac.uk to see if there are any remaining places.

St Peter’s College Saturday 14 April: 6:00 8:00 pm. The Master Mark Damazer, CBE, invites St Peter’s College alumni, family and friends to a Drinks Reception in the Park Avenue North Suite at the Waldorf=Astoria. This event is graciously hosted by Patrick Turner (1978). If you would like to attend please contact Natasha Denness at natasha.denness@spc.ox.ac.uk.

Trinity College Saturday 14 April: The Yale Club for Old Members and Friends. Events are also happening in Boston and Washington either side of the weekend. For more information, please email hannah.cox@trinity.ox.ac.uk, or call 011-44-1865-279942.

University College Saturday 14 April: Reception and Dinner at the Soho House New York with guest speaker Professor Ngaire Woods, the inaugural Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government. Please email julie.monahan@univ.ox.ac.uk for further details.

Wadham College Saturday 14 April: Alumnus Nat Rothschild (History, 1990) invites all Wadham alumni who have made charitable donations to the college to attend a party at his home in Manhattan. The party is from 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm and further details will be sent to those attending. Please RSVP to events@wadh.ox.ac.uk.

Wolfson College Saturday 14 April: Wolfson, Green Templeton and St Cross Colleges are jointly hosting a graduate college Reception at the Harvard Club of New York from 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm. Speaker: Richard G. Frank, Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, “Politics and Perspectives on US Health Reform.” For further information please contact: jan.scriven@wolfson.ox.ac.uk, tel: 011-44-1865-274103.

Worcester College Saturday 14 April: Reception and Dinner at the University Club, One West 54th Street. Please contact coleen.day@worc.ox.ac.uk or call 011-44-1865-278346 for details.

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saturday LGBT Rhodes Scholars Drinks Event9:00 pmJoin LGBT Scholars for an informal post-dinner drinks reception in the Soho Grand Hotel’s Grand Salon, 310 West Broadway (between Grand and Canal), New York, NY 10013. For more information and to RSVP, please contact Andrew Park at park14@gmail.com. Partners and guests are warmly welcome.

sundayOxford Business Alumni Brunch and Forum11:00 am – 2:00 pmWe warmly welcome graduates of Saïd Business School, and Oxford alumni interested in business to join us, Dean Peter Tufano, Amy Ambrose, Director of Development and Alumni Relations in the Trumbull Room at the Yale Club for our Oxford Business Alumni Brunch. RSVP required. Direct questions to ladd.thurston@sbs.ox.ac.uk. This event is organised by the OBA New York and Eastern US Chapter. For information on our upcoming events, please join our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/obany.us.

Oxford Medical Alumni Brunch11:00 amThis will be a wonderful opportunity to meet, mingle and enjoy a sumptuous brunch with past and present members of the medical sciences research and teaching community who will have travelled from all over North America and beyond. We will discuss medical education in North America and the UK and hear from two distinguished speakers: Professor Donald Chambers and Dr. Peggy Frith, President of OMA, who will discuss medical education in North America and at the University of Oxford. Please meet in the Princeton Club of New York, 15 West 43rd Street, (between 5th and 6th Avenues), New York. RSVP required.

Rhodes Scholars Brunch and Forum9:00 am – 11:00 amJoin fellow Scholars and the Warden of Rhodes House, Dr. Donald Markwell, in the Empire Room at the Waldorf=Astoria hotel for brunch and a forum to discuss progress and planning for the future of the Rhodes Scholarships in the 21st

century. For more information and to register, please visit http://rhodesevents2012northamericanreunion.eventbrite.co.uk/ or contact rsvp@rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk. Partners are warmly welcome.

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Special thanks to Morgan Stanley for their sponsorship of the University of Oxford 2012 North American Reunion.