2003 - Exeter College - University of Oxford

COLLEGE
NEWS
5 November 2003
Exeter College elects distinguished journalist as next Rector
Frances Cairncross
PROFESSOR
HIDDLESTON
RETIRES
Having taught and conducted
research at the College since
1966, Jim Hiddleston retired
this year. A full profile will appear
in the The Register.
ROYAL SOCIETY
FELLOWSHIP
John Brown, Professor of Chemistry
and Fellow at Exeter. A highresolution
spectroscopist with a
special interest in the study of
short-lived free radicals, he is
highly regarded for his work in
both theoretical and experimental
aspects of this field and has an
international reputation for his
ability to interpret the complicated
spectra involved.
EXETER STUDENT WINS
FILM PRIZE
The winning film of Filming
Literature 2003 was made by
Maja Kominko.
Frances Cairncross has been elected to the Rectorship of Exeter College.
She will take up office in October 2004, on the retirement of the
distinguished scholar of English Literature, Professor Marilyn Butler.
Professor Butler was the first female Rector of a formerly all male
College at Oxford.
Ms Cairncross has been Management Editor of The Economist
for five years. She has worked at The Economist since 1984 –
during which time her editorial responsibilities have covered Britain,
the environment, media and communications and, currently, management.
She was economics correspondent of The Guardian from 1973­
84, and prior to that spent periods on the financial staff of The Times,
The Banker and The Observer. She has published a number of books
on themes linked to her journalistic specialisms.
In addition to being a distinguished journalist, she is the chair
of the Economic and Social Research Council, a non-executive director
of Alliance & Leicester plc and Senior Fellow at the School of
Public Policy, UCLA. She holds an honorary fellowship at St Anne’s
College – where she read Modern History as an undergraduate in the
mid-1960s – and a visiting fellowship at Nuffield College. She holds
honorary degrees from Glasgow, Birmingham, City and Loughborough
Universities and an MA in Economics, Brown University, Rhode
Island, in addition to her first degree from Oxford.
The Sub-Rector Professor Helen Watanabe said: “The Fellows
of Exeter College are delighted to have been able to elect such a distinguished
successor to Marilyn Butler. We are looking forward to
Frances Cairncross leading the College during this crucial time in our
history, and in the build up towards our 700th anniversary in 2014”
Frances Cairncross said: “I’m looking forward enormously to being
part of the evolution of Oxford at this important time in its history
and to joining a College with such a high reputation for harmony and
academic achievement.”
EXON - Autumn 2003 - www.exeter.ox.ac.uk/alumni