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==People associated with St Antony's== {{Further|List of honorary fellows of St Antony's College, Oxford}} ===Wardens=== The first [[Warden (college)|Warden]] of the college was [[William Deakin|Sir William Deakin]] (1950–1968), a young Oxford academic who in the Second World War became an adventurous soldier and aide to [[Winston Churchill]]. He won [[Antonin Besse]]'s confidence and played the key role in turning his vision into the centre of excellence that St Antony's has become. [[Raymond Carr|Sir Raymond Carr]] (1968–1987), a distinguished historian of Spain, expanded the college and its regional coverage and opened its doors to visiting scholars from all over the world. [[Ralf Dahrendorf|Sir Ralf Dahrendorf]] (later Lord Dahrendorf) (1987–1997) came to St Antony's after a distinguished career as a social theorist and politician in Germany, a [[European Commissioner]] and Director of the [[London School of Economics]]. He further enlarged the college and developed its role as a source of policy advice. The previous Warden, Sir [[Marrack Goulding]] (1997–2006), served in the British [[Diplomatic Service]] for 26 years before becoming an [[Under Secretary-General]] at the [[United Nations]]. His appointment underlined the international nature of the college and its links with government and business. Following the retirement of the fifth Warden of the College [[Margaret MacMillan]] in October 2017, social anthropologist [[Roger Goodman (academic)|Roger Goodman]] was elected Warden, having previously served in an acting capacity between 2006 and 2007.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/about/news/sixth-warden-st-antonys-college|title=Sixth Warden of St Antony's College {{!}} St Antony's College|website=www.sant.ox.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-01-07}}</ref> * Sir [[William Deakin]], 1950–68 * Sir [[Raymond Carr]], 1968–87 * Sir Ralf Dahrendorf (1987–1993), later [[Lord Dahrendorf]], 1987–97 * Sir [[Marrack Goulding]], 1997–2006 * Roger Goodman, (acting), October 2006–July 2007 * [[Margaret MacMillan]], 2007–17 * [[Roger Goodman (academic)|Roger Goodman]], 2017– ===Former students=== {{further|:Category:Alumni of St Antony's College, Oxford}} <gallery class="center"> File:Mohamed A. El-Erian at the World Economic Forum Summit on the Global Agenda 2008.jpg|[[Mohamed A. El-Erian|Mohamed El-Erian]] File:Sir Richard Evans.jpg|[[Richard J. Evans|Richard Evans]] File:Chrystia Freeland in Ukraine - 2017 (cropped).jpg|[[Chrystia Freeland]] File:Thomas Friedman 2005 (5).jpg|[[Thomas Friedman]] File:Gary Hart Senator in 1987.jpg|[[Gary Hart]] File:President Gudni Thorlacius Johannesson September 2016.jpg|[[Guðni Th. Jóhannesson|Guðni Jóhannesson]] File:International Women's Day (16579994330) (cropped).jpg|[[Bridget Kendall]] File:Profpaulkennedy.jpg|[[Paul Kennedy]] File:Rt Hon Dr Julian Lewis MP.jpg|[[Julian Lewis]] File:2017 Halifax International Security Forum (37604059155) (cropped)Dr. Margaret MacMillan.jpg|[[Margaret MacMillan]] File:Official portrait of Rt Hon John Redwood MP crop 2.jpg|[[John Redwood]] File:Olli Rehn by Moritz Kosinsky 2.jpg|[[Olli Rehn]] File:Nemat Shafik Portrait.jpg|[[Nemat Shafik]] File:Kolumbianischer Präsident Alvaro Uribe 2004.jpg|[[Álvaro Uribe]] File:Prince Moulay Hicham.jpg|[[Prince Moulay Hicham of Morocco]] </gallery> St Antony's alumni (Antonians) have achieved success in a wide variety of careers; these include writers, politicians, academics and a large number of civil servants, diplomats and representatives of international organisations. Former students with careers as politicians and civil servants include [[Guðni Th. Jóhannesson]], the 6th [[President of Iceland]], [[Álvaro Uribe]], who was [[President of Colombia]] from 2002 to 2010 and his Minister of Foreign Affairs [[Jaime Bermúdez]], [[Yigal Allon]], a deputy and acting [[Prime Minister of Israel]], former Vice President of the European Commission and current Finnish Minister of Economic Affairs [[Olli Rehn]], the Dutch Minister of Finance and former Minister of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation and former UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon [[Sigrid Kaag]], the former Secretary of State for Wales [[John Redwood]], former EU Commissioner [[Jean Dondelinger]], the Canadian politician [[John Godfrey]], [[Gary Hart]], a former US Senator and presidential candidate, and US Rep. [[Tom Malinowski]] (D-NJ), a former US [[Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor]]. Diplomats [[Joseph A. Presel]], [[Gustavo Bell]] and [[Shlomo Ben-Ami]] are also Antonians. Furthermore, [[Minouche Shafik]], Deputy Governor of the [[Bank of England]] and former managing director of the [[International Monetary Fund]], is an Antonian, as are three-time Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist [[Thomas Friedman]] and Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent [[Dexter Filkins]]. Further Antonians include [[Anne Applebaum]], former editor at The Economist, [[Jorgo Chatzimarkakis]], Member of the European Parliament, book author [[Agnia Grigas]], the Bulgarian communist [[Lyudmila Zhivkova]], Indian journalist [[Sagarika Ghose]] and Rhodes scholar [[Chrystia Freeland]], Canada's [[Deputy Prime Minister of Canada|Deputy Prime Minister]] and [[Minister of Finance (Canada)|Minister of Finance]], and a former director at Thomson Reuters. In academia, [[Christopher Alan Bayly|Sir Christopher Bayly]] was [[Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History]] at the [[University of Cambridge]], whilst [[Wm. Roger Louis]] is Kerr Chair in English History and Culture at the [[University of Texas at Austin]], [[Craig Calhoun]], current president of the [[Berggruen Institute]] is the former director of the [[London School of Economics]], where he remains Centennial Professor, [[Frances Lannon]] is the principal of [[Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford]]. [[Richard J. Evans|Richard Evans]] is the Regis professor of Modern History at Cambridge, [[Anthony Venables]] holds Oxford's BP professorship in Economics and was Chief Economist at the UK's [[Department for International Development]]; [[Paul Kennedy]] is the Dilworth professor of British History at Yale, [[Rashid Khalidi]] a professor at Columbia and [[Michael T. Benson]] is the president of [[Coastal Carolina University]]. The college also counts the Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer [[Davis Tarwater]], violinist and conductor [[Joji Hattori]], screenwriter [[Julian Mitchell]] and the historian [[Margaret MacMillan]] amongst its alumni. ===Academics=== * [[Timothy Garton Ash]], journalist and author on European matters * [[Mats Berdal]], Professor of Security and Development at the [[Department of War Studies, King's College London]]. * [[Archie Brown (historian)|Archie Brown]], historian of the end of the Cold War and author of ''The Gorbachev Factor'' * [[Paul Collier]], Director of the [[Centre for the Study of African Economies]] at Oxford * [[Michael Kaser]], economist and author of ''Soviet Economics'' * [[Homa Katouzian]], literary critic and scholar of Iranian studies * [[Paul Kennedy]], J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History; Director, International Security Studies, [[Yale University]] * [[Alan Knight (historian)|Alan Knight]], post-critical historian, Director of the Latin American Centre, and author of the two-volume award-winning book ''The Mexican Revolution'' (1986) * [[Wm. Roger Louis]], historian and scholar of the British Empire, especially Decolonization. * [[Kalypso Nicolaïdis]], Professor of International Relations and Director of the European Studies Centre * [[Tariq Ramadan]], Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies * [[Oliver Ready]], translator of Russian literature * [[Eugene Rogan]], historian of the Modern Middle East and author of ''The Arabs: A History'' * [[Robert Service (historian)|Robert Service]], historian of the USSR and biographer of [[Vladimir Lenin]] and [[Joseph Stalin]] * [[Avi Shlaim]], historian writing on the Arab-Israeli conflict. * [[Vivienne Shue]], FBA, sinologist and author of "The Reach of the State" * [[Omer Bartov]], historian writing on genocide focused on the Holocaust; author of seven books. * [[Arnab Goswami]], Journalist, Editor-in-Chief(Republic Media Networks) ===Former fellows=== * [[Michael Herman (intelligence officer)|Michael Herman]], founder of the Oxford Intelligence Group<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Phythian|first1=Mark|title=Profiles in intelligence: an interview with Michael Herman|journal=Intelligence and National Security|date=2017|volume=32|issue=1|pages=1–8|doi=10.1080/02684527.2016.1199529|hdl=2381/39688|s2cid=156393867|url=https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/10203065 |hdl-access=free}} {{subscription required|via=[[Taylor & Francis]]}}</ref> * [[Foulath Hadid]], Honorary Fellow * [[Albert Hourani]], Founder-Director, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford * [[James Joll]], historian, fellow (1950–67) * [[Sudipta Kaviraj]], Professor of Political Sciences, [[Columbia University]], New York * [[Frank McLynn]], historian and biographer * [[Tapan Raychaudhuri]], Emeritus Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford * [[Giulio Angioni]], Italian writer and anthropologist * [[José Cutileiro]], Portuguese diplomat, historian, and author * [[Michael Aris]], leading Western authority on Bhutanese, Tibetan and Himalayan culture, Husband of Burmese opposition leader [[Aung San Suu Kyi]]
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