Professor Andrew Hamilton, BSc, MSc, PhD, FRS, has taken up post today, ahead of his formal installation on Tuesday 6 October as the 271st Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.

Professor Andrew Hamilton has joined the University from Yale, where he was Provost from 2004 until late 2008.

Professor Hamilton said: “Oxford is one of the world’s greatest universities and the opportunity to serve as its Vice-Chancellor is both inspiring and energising. With the support and help of colleagues in every part of the collegiate University, I intend to play my part in ensuring that Oxford’s outstanding reputation as a pre-eminent centre of teaching, learning and research is safeguarded and enhanced for generations to come. I will strive to repay the trust that has been placed in me and to ensure that a great University has an even better future.”

Professor Hamilton begins his new responsibilities on 1 October and on Tuesday 6 October he will be formally admitted to office at a ceremony in the Sheldonian Theatre. The ceremony witnesses the change-over of Vice-Chancellors and takes place at a meeting of Congregation (the University’s ‘parliament of dons’). The occasion will begin with an Oration by the outgoing Vice-Chancellor, Dr John Hood, followed by the admission of Professor Hamilton as the new Vice-Chancellor and his inaugural address.

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