About Us
Steering Committee
The Steering Committee provides strategic oversight to the Institute's activities and is made up of a number of experts in the field from around Oxford. You can read about them here, and find out how to get in touch.
Tim Gardam (Chair)
Tim Gardam was elected Principal of St Anne's College, Oxford, in March 2004. His previous career was in broadcasting. He was Director of Television at Channel 4, where he was in charge of all programme output, from 1998 to 2003...
Dr David Levy
Dr David Levy holds degrees from the Universities of York, LSE and a doctorate in 20th century French history from Nuffield College, Oxford. In addition to his role as Director of the RISJ, Dr Levy is an Associate Fellow of the Saïd Business School...
Mark Damazer
Mark Damazer CBE, has been Master of St. Peter’s College, Oxford since October 2010. He was Controller of BBC Radio 4 and Radio 7 for six years from 2004...
Professor Timothy Garton Ash
Timothy Garton Ash is the author of eight books of political writing or ‘history of the present’ which have charted the transformation of Europe over the last quarter-century...
Geert Linnebank
Geert Linnebank was appointed Senior Advisor to Tom Glocer, CEO of Reuters, in January 2007, and is now Trustee of the Reuters Foundation - the company’s charitable arm...
John Lloyd
John Lloyd is a contributing editor to the Financial Times, to which he contributes features, analysis, book reviews and a weekly column on UK TV in the Weekend FT. For the Financial Times, he has been Labour Editor, Industrial Editor, East European Editor and Moscow Bureau Chief...
Professor MacMillan became the fifth Warden of St Antony's College in July 2007. Prior to taking on the Wardenship, Professor MacMillan was Provost of Trinity College and professor of History at the University of Toronto...
Monique Villa
Monique Villa, Chief Executive of the Reuters Foundation, is a business leader with broad international media industry experience and a strong record of success in launching high profile initiatives and growing revenues...
David Watson took office as the second Principal of Green Templeton College in October 2010. He was previously Professor of Higher Education Management at the Institute of Education, University of London (2005-2010)...
Professor Stephen Whitefield is Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations, Professor of Politics, University Lecturer in Politics and Rhodes Pelczynski Tutorial Fellow in Politics, Pembroke College...
Professor Jan Zielonka
Jan Zielonka is Professor of European Politics at the Univeristy of Oxford and Ralf Dahrendorf Fellow at St Antony's College. He studied Law at the University of Wroclaw, Poland, and Political Science at the University of Warsaw where he received his Ph.D. in 1981...
Contact the Committee
Contact the Committee by emailing reuters.institute(at)politics.ox.ac.uk