Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
University of Warwick
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
==Notable people== {{See also|List of University of Warwick people|Category:Alumni of the University of Warwick}} <gallery class="center"> File:Nobel Laureates 0983 (31117127490).jpg|[[Oliver Hart (economist)|Oliver Hart]], Nobel Laureate in Economics File:StephenMerchantAltNov09.jpg|[[Stephen Merchant]], [[Emmy Award]] Winner File:Andy Haldane - Festival Economia 2013.JPG|[[Andy Haldane]], Chief Economist at the [[Bank of England]] File:John Cornforth 1975.jpg|[[John Cornforth|Sir John Cornforth]], Nobel Laureate in Chemistry File:Professor Susan Strange, c1980.jpg|[[Susan Strange]], developed the [[International political economy|International Political Economy]] as a field of study File:Luis Arce (23588020275) (cropped).jpg|[[Luis Arce]], President of the Plurinational State of [[Bolivia]] File:Valerie Amos DFID 2013.jpg|[[Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos]], former diplomat and first-ever black head of an [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] college File:Nicholas Herbert Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford.jpg|[[Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford]], former Chief Economist of the [[World Bank]] File:Official portrait of Baroness Morris of Yardley crop 2, 2019.jpg|[[Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley]], [[Privy Counsellor]]; former [[The Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] [[Secretary of State for Education]] File:George Saitoti (cropped).jpg|[[George Saitoti]], former [[Vice-President of Kenya]] File:Christopher Zeeman.jpeg|[[Christopher Zeeman|Sir Christopher Zeeman]], mathematician File:Sting in April 2018.jpg|[[Sting (musician)|Sting]], lead singer of [[The Police]] and solo artist File:Professor Martin Hairer FRS.jpg|[[Martin Hairer]], expert in stochastic partial differential equations; winner of the [[Fields Medal]] </gallery> Warwick has over 150,000 alumni<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.economist.com/media/wmba/war.pdf |title=Warwick | newspaper=The Economist}}</ref> and an active alumni network.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://warwick.ac.uk/alumni |title=University of Warwick Alumni & Friends |publisher=University of Warwick |date=5 August 2013 |access-date=16 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130816185211/http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/alumni |archive-date=16 August 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> Among the university's alumni, academic staff and researchers are two [[Nobel Laureate]]s, a [[Turing Award]] winner, and a significant number of fellows of the [[British Academy]], the [[Royal Society of Literature]], the [[Royal Academy of Engineering]], and the [[Royal Society]]. Former Warwick students active in politics and government include [[Guðni Th. Jóhannesson]], [[President of Iceland]]; [[Luis Arce]], [[President of Bolivia]]; [[Joseph Ngute]], [[Prime Minister of Cameroon]]; [[Yakubu Gowon]], former [[President of Nigeria]]; [[Gus O'Donnell|Sir Gus O'Donnell]], former [[Cabinet Secretary (United Kingdom)|Cabinet Secretary]] and head of the [[British Civil Service]]; [[Andy Haldane|Andrew Haldane]], Chief Economist at the [[Bank of England]]; [[David Davis (British politician)|David Davis]], former [[Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union]] and former [[Shadow Home Secretary]]; [[Baroness Amos|Baroness Valerie Amos]], the eighth UN [[Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator]] and former [[Leader of the House of Lords]]; [[Mahmoud Mohieldin]] the Senior Vice President of the [[World Bank Group]]; [[Bob Kerslake]], former Head of the Home Civil Service; [[Kim Howells]], former [[Foreign Office]] Minister; and [[Isabel Carvalhais]], Portuguese [[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]] (S&D Group); [[H. A. Hellyer|H.A Hellyer]], led the British government's Taskforce on Tackling Radicalisation and Extremism; [[George Chouliarakis]], Greek [[Minister of Finance (Greece)|Alternate Minister of Finance]]; and [[Sir Bob Kerslake]], [[Head of the Home Civil Service]]. In academia, people associated with Warwick include: [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] (1975) winner [[John Cornforth|Sir John Cornforth]] who was a professor at Warwick; mathematicians [[Ian Stewart (mathematician)|Ian Stewart]], [[David Preiss]], [[David B. A. Epstein|David Epstein]] and [[Fields Medal]]list [[Martin Hairer]]; computer scientists [[Mike Cowlishaw]] and [[Leslie Valiant]]; and neurologist [[Oliver Sacks]]. In arts and the social sciences: [[Nobel Laureate]] [[Oliver Hart (economist)|Oliver Hart]]; economist and President of the [[British Academy]] [[Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford]]; academic and Provost of [[Worcester College, Oxford|Worcester College]] [[Jonathan Bate|Sir Jonathan Bate]]; academic and journalist [[Germaine Greer]]; literary critic [[Susan Bassnett]]; historians [[J. R. Hale|Sir J. R. Hale]] and [[David Arnold (historian)|David Arnold]]; economist [[Andrew Oswald]]; economic historian [[Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky]]; [[Margaret Archer|Lady Margaret Archer]], theorist in [[Critical realism (philosophy of the social sciences)|critical realism]], former Warwick lecturer and accelerationist philosopher [[Nick Land]], former President of [[International Sociological Association]], current president of [[Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences]]; [[George Bain (academic)|Sir George Bain]], former Principal of [[London Business School]]; [[John Williamson (economist)|John Williamson]], English economist who coined the term [[Washington Consensus]]; [[Susan Strange]], British scholar of international relations who was almost single-handedly responsible for creating [[international political economy]]; [[Avinash Dixit]], former President of the [[Econometric Society]] and [[American Economic Association]], elected to the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1992 and the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]] in 2005; [[Robert Calderbank]], winner of the [[IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal]] and the [[Claude E. Shannon Award]]; and [[Upendra Baxi]], winner of the [[Padma Shri]] award. Warwick graduates are active in business. In the automotive industry, this includes [[Linda Jackson (businesswoman)|Linda Jackson]], CEO of [[Citroën]]; [[Andy Palmer]], CEO of [[Aston Martin]]; [[Ralf Speth]], CEO of [[Jaguar Land Rover]]; Sudarshan Venu, MD of [[TVS Motor Company]];<ref>{{cite web|date=12 March 2019|title=Venu Srinivasan's son Sudarshan to focus on TVS Motor; exits Sundaram-Clayton|url=https://www.financialexpress.com/industry/venu-srinivasans-son-sudarshan-to-focus-on-tvs-motor-exits-sundaram-clayton/1512848/|access-date=12 June 2020|website=The Financial Express}}</ref> Others include [[Bernardo Hees]], former CEO of both the [[H. J. Heinz Company|Heinz Company]] and of [[Burger King]]; [[Nigel Wilson (businessman)|Nigel Wilson]], CEO of [[Legal & General]]; and [[Ian Gorham]], CEO of [[Hargreaves Lansdown]]; [[Ness Wadia]]. Notable Warwick alumni in media, entertainment and the arts include [[Emmy]] and [[BAFTA]] Award-winning [[Stephen Merchant]], best known for being the co-writer and co-director of the sitcoms ''[[The Office (UK TV series)|The Office]]'' and ''[[Extras (TV series)|Extras]]''; [[Academy Award|Oscar]]-nominated screenwriter [[Tony Roche (writer)|Tony Roche]], known for co-writing and co-producing ''[[Veep (TV series)|Veep]]'' and ''[[The Thick of It]]''; [[Emmy Awards|Emmy]] and [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|BAFTA]]-winner [[Brett Goldstein]]; [[Olivier Award]]-winning director and writer [[Dominic Cooke]], who is also artistic director at the [[Royal Court Theatre]]; actress [[Ruth Jones (actress)|Ruth Jones]]; comedian and actor [[Frank Skinner]]; ''[[The Guardian|Guardian]]'' columnist [[Dawn Foster]]; blacksmith turned comedian and comedy writer [[Lloyd Langford]]; actors [[Matt Stokoe]] and [[Adam Buxton]]; science fiction and fantasy author [[Jonathan Green (speculative fiction writer)|Jonathan Green]]; actor [[Julian Rhind-Tutt]]; [[Olivier Award]]-winning actor, [[Alex Jennings]]; author [[Anne Fine]]; author [[A.L. Kennedy]]; [[Tony Wheeler]], creator of the [[Lonely Planet]] travel guides; [[Camila Batmanghelidjh]]; [[Merfyn Jones]], governor of the [[BBC]]; and electronic dance music artist [[Gareth Emery]]. [[Grammy Award|Grammy]]-and-[[Emmy Award]]-winning musician [[Sting (musician)|Sting]] enrolled at Warwick, but left after a term.
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
University of Warwick
(section)
Add topic