Key events in the history of St Antony’s: 2000-2025

• Celebration of College’s 50^th anniversary
• Publication of The History of St Antony’s College Oxford, 1950-2000 edited by Christine Nicholls
• Jubilee Antonians Weekend: 272 Antonians in attendance including all four Antonian Wardens – Bill Deakin, Raymond Carr, Ralf Dahrendorf and Marrack Goulding – who speak at the dinner
• Launch of the Argentine Studies Programme which is funded by the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• St Antony’s/Macmillan series publishes its 230^th book
• Aung San Suu Kyi is elected Honorary Fellow
• Derek Hopwood leaves the Governing Body and is elected Emeritus Fellow

• HRH Princess Royal inaugurates the Founder’s Building in presence of Chancellor, Vice Chancellor and 300 Antonians
• UN Secretary General Kofi Annan stays at the College and meets with students while collecting an Honorary Degree from the University
• College discusses strategic plan and determines that ‘there should be no major change in the College’s size and structure’
• Allan Taylor joins College as Bursar
• Establishment of the Management Executive Team (MET) and abolition of all other committees except Nominations Committee
• The women’s crew is deemed by The Times to be the most successful women’s crew in Summer Eights
• Theodore Zeldin leaves after 47 years the Governing Body, during which he had acted as Senior Tutor, Tutor for Admissions, Dean and Dean for Degrees. He is elected Emeritus Fellow
• Anthony (Tony) Nicholls leaves after 42 years the Governing Body, during which he acted as Library Fellow, Senior Tutor, Director of the European Studies Centre for 25 years, member of the North Commission of Inquiry. He is elected Emeritus Fellow
• Herminio Martins leaves after 30 years the Governing Body. He is elected Emeritus Fellow
• Cyril Lin, Pramila Krishnan, Richard Mash and Anand Menon all leave the Governing Body to take up positions elsewhere
• Walter Armburst, Andreas Busch, Raufu Mustapha and Allan Taylor all join the Governing Body
• Richard Ullman is elected Honorary Fellow

Speakers include:

• Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan
• Joaquim Chissano, President of Mozambique
• Jennifer Smith, Premier of Bermuda
• Don McKinnon, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth

• College writes to Chinese Premier, Jiang Zemin, to protest the detention of student Xu Zerong (David Tsui)
• JCR President, Andrew Zadel, won the title of World Universities’ Public Speaking Champion
• St Antony’s Boat Club most successful club on the river during Summer Eights
• Theme of the JCR Ball, Spies Like Us, draws the attention of the Sunday Telegraph
• Vivienne Shue joins the Governing Body
• Robert Mabro leaves after 32 years from the Governing Body. He is elected Emeritus Fellow
• Sadako Ogata is elected Honorary Fellow
• Deaths of Honorary Fellows, Léopold Senghor (former President of Senegal), Guido di Tella (former Foreign Minister of Argentina) and Sarvepalli Gopal

Speakers include:

• Prime Minister of Spain, José María Aznar
• President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Vojislav Koštunica
• President of Montenegro, Milo Đukanović
• President Elect of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe (first Antonian to be a
• Head of State)
• Former Prime Minster of Sudan, Sadiq al-Mahdi
• Former Prime Minister of Bosnia, Haris Silajdžić
• UK Foreign Secretary, Robin Coo
• Foreign Minister of East Timor, José Ramos-Horta
• High Representative in Bosnia, Paddy Ashdown

• Conference on Russia and Europe to celebrate the 50^th anniversary of the Russian and East European Centre (now renamed the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre)
• Establishment of South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX) programme in the European Studies Centre funded by the Greek government
• Princeton-St Antony’s conference on the impact of the events of 11 September 2001 on the Muslim World
• Bermuda strategy options workshop attended by Premier of Bermuda, Jennifer Smith, senior members of her Cabinet and the Leader of the Bermudan Opposition
• College issues strongly worded statement about the detention of its Honorary Fellow, Aung San Suu Kyi, in Burma
• JCR Men’s basketball team champions of the Inter-College League, the first St Antony’s team to win a university-wide competition
• JCR publishes a brief History of the JCR on its website
• John Kuhn, Rhodes Scholar and student, dies in South Africa; a bench with a plaque and a tree are donated in his memory
• David Johnson joins the Governing Body
• Arthur Stockwin retires from the Governing Body after 22 years. He is elected Emeritus Fellow
• Andrea Busch leaves the Governing Body
• Election of Margaret MacMillan, David Marquand and Chris Patten as Honorary Fellows
• Death of Roy Jenkins, Honorary Fellow and Chancellor of the University of Oxford, who memorably once described St Antony’s as ‘a distinguished college in the Arctic wastes of North Oxford’.

Speakers include:

• President Karzai of Afghanistan
• Foreign Minister Georgios Papandreou of Greece
• President Juan José Ibarretxe of the Autonomous Government of the Basque Country

• College finances return to surplus for first time in several decades; surplus is £76K and not £76 million (as erroneously reported in some UK papers)
• Election of Hanan Ashrawi and Foulath Hadid as Honorary Fellows
• Jane Caplan, Knick Harley and Jan Zielonka join the Governing Body
• Death of Alan Bullock, Honorary Fellow, and Sara Carr, wife of Raymond Carr, former Warden

Speakers include:

• Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of Turkey
• President Abdoulaye Wale of Senegal
• Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, President of Latvia
• Lakhdar Brahimi, United Nations special representative for Afghanistan and Iraq
• Kristiina Ojuland, Foreign Minister of Estonia
• Pascal Lamy, European Union Trade Commissioner

• Establishment of the African Studies Centre which, like the Latin American Centre, is a university body located in a St Antony’s building, namely 22 Winchester Road. Director is William Beinart
• Election of Antonian Margaret MacMillan as new Warden from October 2007 (and Roger Goodman as Acting Warden for the academic year 2006/7)
• Pluscarden Programme for the Study of Global Terrorism and Intelligence launched
• St Antony’s International Review (STAIR), Oxford’s only peer-reviewed academic journal of international affairs, is launched; Editors are Alex Betts and Matt Eagleton-Pierce; Managing Editor is Noa Schonmann
• St Antony’s has its largest number of Blues and half-Blues ever in cricket, rowing, water-polo, basketball and ice-hockey
• Tony Kirk-Greene throws a party for all the College staff to mark his 80^th birthday
• Hilda Besse, with the exception of the Buttery, becomes a non-smoking building
• Ian Neary joins the Governing Body as does Michael Willis as King Mohammed VI Fellow in Moroccan and Mediterranean Studies, funded by benefaction from the Moroccan-British Society
• Archie Brown retires after 34 years from the Governing Body during which he was Sub-Warden and the co-founder of the Visiting Parliamentary Fellows’ Programme. He is elected Emeritus Fellow
• Richard Clogg retires after 15 years from the Governing Body during which he served as the Editor of the St Antony’s-Macmillan series. He is elected Emeritus Fellow
• Bridget Kendall is elected Honorary Fellow
• Bill Deakin, first Warden of St Antony’s, dies at age 91; death of Emeritus Fellow Harry Willetts and Honorary Fellow, Denis Wright.

Speakers include:

• Anwar Ibrahim, former Deputy Prime Minister (and future Prime Minister) of Malaysia (and Antonian)
• Tarō Asō, Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications (and future Prime Minister) of Japan
• Hans Blix, Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency
• Richard Dreyfuss, Oscar winning actor (first Antonian to win an Oscar)
• Bernard Bot, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands

• Tony Blair, UK Prime Minister, gives the Annual European Studies Centre lecture in the Hilda Besse dining hall
• College Gaudy, ‘Deakin Days’, for those in the College between 1950-1968
• Bennett’s Associations commissioned as architects for the Gateway Buildings
• Alan Angel retires from the Governing Body after 40 years during which he acted as Sub-Warden and Director of the Latin American Centre. He is elected Emeritus Fellow
• Paul Chaisty and David Pratten join the Governing Body
• David Faure leaves the Governing Body and is elected Emeritus Fellow
• Marrack Goulding’s ninth and last year as Warden. He is elected Honorary Fellow. Tom Friedman, Adam Roberts and Alfred (Al) Stepan are also elected Honorary Fellows
• Honorary Fellow Julian Bullard dies

• Roger Goodman is Acting Warden
• Governing Body endorses Master Plan which would see College develop around three large quads, two either side of the Hilda Besse Building and a third on the north side of Church Walk
• £1 million raised for the refurbishment of the Russia library
• Carlos Ghosn, President and CEO of Nissan Motor Company, speaks in the Nissan Institute and announces a gift of £1.5 million to mark the Institute’s 25^th anniversary
• Joe Foweraker joins the Governing Body
• Leslie Bethell, David Washbrook and Ann Waswo all retire from Governing Body and are elected Emeritus Fellows
• Norman Davies and Sir Michael Llewellyn-Smith are elected Honorary Fellows.

Speakers include:

• His Excellency Mr Seyed Mohammad Khatami, former Iranian President
• Ivo Sanader, Croatian Prime Minister
• Massimo D’Alema, Italian Foreign Minister
• His Royal Highness Prince Turki Al-Faisal, former Saudi Ambassador to the United States
• Adnan Pachachi, former President of the Governing Council in Iraq
• David Trimble, Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
• Judge Hisashi Owada, Japan’s former Ambassador to the UN and father of the Japanese Crown Princess (now Empress)

• Margaret MacMillan takes over as Warden
• St Antony’s win the MCR football league for the first time
• Sho Konishi and Rachel Murphy join the Governing Body
• Rosemary Thorp and Malcolm Deas retire from Governing Body and are elected Emeritus Fellows
• Emeritus Fellow, Geoffrey Lewis, dies

Speakers include:

• José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission
• Dora Bakoyannis, Foreign Minister of Greece
• Shlomo Ben-Ami, former Foreign Minister of Israel

• Completion of the new Russian Library
• In successive months, both the Investcorp Building and the Gateway Building projects are given planning permission on the casting vote of the chair of the committee after a tied vote
• Governing Body Fellow Philip Robins is admitted as Junior Proctor of the University for the year
• St Antony’s Summer School under Paul Chaisty in conjunction with the Department for Continuing Education runs for the first time with 48 students
• 80^th birthday party conference held in honour of former Warden, Ralf Dahrendorf, with Jürgen Habermas and Fritz Stern as keynote speakers
• The CCR (Combined Common Room) renamed GCR (Graduate Common Room)
• A new Women’s boat christened the ‘Margaret MacMillan’, joining the new men’s boat, the ‘Michael Bhatia’, named in memory of the alumnus who died in Afghanistan in May 2008 while working as the Social Science Advisor for the Human Terrain Team of the US Military
• Leigh Payne, Diego Sánchez-Ancochea, Takehiko Kariya and Ekaterina Hertog join the Governing Body
• Sir James Craig and Nemir Kirdar are elected Honorary Fellow
• James McMullen, Brian Powell and David Washbrook retired from the Governing Body and are elected Emeritus Fellow
• Death of Ralf Dahrendorf, Warden 1987-97, 3^rd Warden of the College
• Death of Emeritus Fellow John Campbell

Speakers include:

• Fernando Cardoso, former President of Brazil
• Carlos Salinas, former President of Mexico
• Ali Babacan, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister
• Franco Frattini, Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs
• Ahmed Chalabi, former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister
• Joschka Fischer, former Foreign Minister of Germany
• Ronald Dworkin, American legal theorist

• College Gaudy to celebrate its 60^th anniversary
• The Hilda Besse Building becomes Grade II listed; ‘It has special architectural interest for its skilful application of concrete in a modern interpretation of the traditional hall’ (Historic England report)
• College twins with Wolfson College, Cambridge
• Launch of The North American Studies Programme which is funded by Canadian donors
• Tariq Ramadan and Faisal Devji join the Governing Body
• Death of Emeritus Fellow Richard Kindersley and Honorary Fellow Sir Marrack Goulding (Warden, 1997-2006, 2^nd Warden of the College)

• Paola Mattei joins the Governing Body as well as Halbert (Hal) Jones to lead the North American Studies Programme
• Retirements of Celia Kerslake, Carol Leonard, Avi Shlaim and Allan Taylor from the Governing Body who are all elected Emeritus Fellow
• Death of Emeritus Fellows Ronald Hingley and John Bailey (former Bursar)

Speakers include:

• Nigel Lawson (former Chancellor of the Exchequer)
• Malcolm Rifkind, MP (Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee)
• Patricia Hewitt (Former Secretary of State for Trade and Industry)
• Alistair Darling (Chancellor of the Exchequer, 2007–2010)
• Sherard Cowper-Coles (former Ambassador to Afghanistan, to Saudi Arabia and to Israel)
• HRH Prince Turki al Faisal, former Director General of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence agency Al Mukhabarat Al A’amah

• Rosemary Foot is Acting Warden while Margaret MacMillan completes her book The War That Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War
• Governing Body convenes a working group (chaired by Rachel Murphy) to consider and make recommendations on the College’s size and shape in the years ahead
• Sigrid Rausing Trust funds five-year Senior Research Fellowship in Burmese Studies
• Kirsten Gillingham joins Governing Body as Bursar in succession to Allan Taylor
• Other new Governing Body Fellows are Ramón Sarró, Douglas Gollin, Dominic Johnson, Paul Betts and Roy Allison
• Robert Barnes, Jane Caplan, Jenny Corbett, Alex Pravda, Mark Rebick and Vivienne Shue retired from Governing Body and are all elected Emeritus Fellow
• Death of Emeritus Fellows, Mustafa Badawi and Harry Shukman and Honorary Fellow, Foulath Hadid

• Gateway Buildings open, giving the College 54 en-suite study bedrooms, offices for college staff, meeting and workspaces, a new porters’ lodge and a new entrance. One of the buildings is named after the main benefactor His Excellency Ghassan I Shaker. The buildings provide the College with an enclosed quadrangle for the first time and receives an award from the Oxford Preservation Trust
• Ground-breaking ceremony is held for the Investcorp Building designed by Zaha Hadid. The Building is named after the alternative investment firm that funded the project
• Getin Noble Bank funds the Programme on Modern Poland
• Burmese Studies and Polish Studies programmes inaugurated and Matthew Walton and Mikołaj Kunicki join the Governing Body to lead them respectively
• A new record of 10 students win blues or half-blues in Rowing, Golf, Basketball, Rugby Union, Ice Hockey and Cricket
• The newly formed St Antony’s College Drama Society perform ‘Dangerous Liaisons’ by Christopher Hampton, at the St Antony’s Dining Hall and Shakespeare’s ‘Titus Andronicus’ at the English Faculty
• Honorary Fellow Aung San Suu Kyi visits the College and meets with students
• Joe Foweraker and Robert Service retire from the Governing Body and are elected Emeritus Fellow

Speakers include:

• His Majesty King Letsie III of Lesotho
• Ivo Josipović, President of Croatia
• Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia
• Hammadi Jebali, Tunisia’s first democratically elected prime minister
• Yaşar Yakış, former Foreign Minister of Turkey
• Navanethem Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
• Guy Scott, Vice President of the Republic of Zambia
• Sadiq as-Siddiq, former prime minister of Sudan
• David Steel, former leader of the Liberal Party in the UK

• New Senior Research Fellowship in International Relations of the Middle East established which is funded by the Nestar Foundation
• European Studies Centre Annual Lecture given in the Hilda Besse Hall where Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg speaks about Britain’s place in the EU
• Dan Healey, Miles Larmer, Cathryn Costello, Timothy Power (transferring from St Cross College) join the Governing Body
• Alan Knight and Valpy Fitgerald leave the Governing Body and are elected Emeritus Fellow
• Death of Emeritus Fellow Tapan Raychaudhuri

Speakers include:

• Morgan Tsvangirai, the former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
• Kgalema Motlanthe, Deputy President of South Africa
• Sam Kutesa, Ugandan Foreign Minister
• John Reid, former Defence Secretary and Home Secretary
• Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel Prize laureate for Literature
• Aleksander Kwaśniewski, former President of Poland
• Javier Solana, former Secretary General of NATO
• Laura Bates, Founder of the Everyday Sexism Project

• The College opens the new Investcorp Building, designed by the world-leading architect Zaha Hadid. The opening of the building celebrated with speeches by Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser of Qatar, Dame Zaha Hadid, Mr Nemir Kirdar, CEO of Investcorp, and Margaret MacMillan
• Latin American Centre holds an alumni event to celebrate its 50^th anniversary and establishes the Malcolm Deas Fund in honour of its first Latin American Centre fellow
• Thomas Hale, Toby Matthiesen and Hugh Whittaker join the Governing Body
• William Beinart and Rosemary Foot retire from the Governing Body and are elected Emeritus Fellow; Ekaterina Hertog also leaves the Governing Body
• Nayef al-Rodhan is elected Honorary Fellow
• Deaths of Raymond Carr (Honorary Fellow and the College’s second Warden, 1968-87), Mark Rebick (Governing Body Fellow) Herminio Martins (Emeritus Fellow), Terence Ranger (Emeritus Fellow), Richard Ullman (Honorary Fellow), Richard von Weizsäcker (Honorary Fellow)

• 40th anniversary year for the ESC which organises a day of activities to mark the event. The keynote speaker was Chris Patten, Chancellor of the University and Honorary Fellow. The original ESC Director Tony Nicholls gives a stirring speech on the ESC past, present and hopes for the future
• Oxford Restaurant Awards 2016 awards the prize for Best College Dining Room to St Antony’s
• Robert Mabro, Emeritus Fellow, dies

In one particular week, the College hosts:

• John Kerry, US Secretary of State
• Svetlana Alexievich, Belarussian Nobel Prize Winner for Literature
• Noam Chomsky, American theoretical linguist

Speakers include:

• José Ramos Horta, Noble Prize Laureate, former Prime Minister and President of East Timor (and Antonian)

• College admits 262 new students from a record 67 different countries, evenly split between men and women
• 68 Woodstock Road named the Kirdar Building in honour of Nemir Kirdar, Honorary Fellow
• Event held to celebrate publication of 100^th volume in Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies series
• Debate held between Michael Howard, former Conservative Party leader, and Neil Kinnock, former Labour Party leader, on leadership in politics
• Wale Adebanwi and Miles Tendi join the Governing Body
• Paola Mattei leaves the Governing Body
• Michael Ignatieff, Romila Thapar, Paul Kennedy, Minouche Shafik are elected Honorary Fellow
• Death of Raufu Mustapha, Governing Body Fellow; Sir Alistair Horne and Sir James Craig, Honorary Fellows

• Antonian Roger Goodman becomes 6^th Warden of the College
• Unveiling of portrait by Ben Sullivan of Margaret MacMillan
• Launch of the Associate Member scheme, offering college attachments to academics on the payroll of departments from which the College takes students but who do not have any other college attachment
• Decision taken to close the Hilda Besse Building for 20 months to undertake major refurbishment
• First College Summer Ball held in 8 years
• Launch of Mental Health Awareness Week (MHAW) in Trinity Term. A 34ft yurt erected in the middle of the quad, complete with rugs and floor cushions, and over 35 events held within a seven-day period
• Matt Walton leaves the Governing Body
• Chris Gerry and Tim Vlandas join the Governing body
• Deaths of Anthony (Tony) Kirk-Green and Jack Hayward, Emeritus Fellows; Sir John Swire (Honorary Fellow)

Speakers include:

• Dilma Rousseff, former President of Brazil
• Eduardo Rodriguez Veltzé, former President of Bolivia
• Nasir El-Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State, Nigeria
• Sigmar Gabriel, former German Foreign Minister
• Michael Gove, MP, one of several MPs who participates in a term-long seminar series on BREXIT under the Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship programme

• Gaudy for all those in the College before 1980 is last event in the Hilda Besse Building before it is closed for renovations during which college services are provided via a temporary building affectionately dubbed the ‘Hilda Box’
• A celebration of the first twenty-five years of the Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship held in the House of Commons
• Simukai Chigudu joins the Governing Body
• Paul Collier, Ian Neary, Philips Robins all leave the Governing Body and are elected Emeritus Fellow
• Kirsten Gillingham (Bursar) leaves the Governing Body too
• Death of Roger Owen, Emeritus Fellow

• College in lockdown twice due to COVID pandemic
• Men’s football team wins MCR Cuppers for the first time
• Tanya Baldwin joins the Governing Body as Bursar
• Jan Zielonka leaves Governing body and is elected Emeritus Fellow. Toby Matthiesen also leave the Governing Body
• Deaths of Derek Hopwood, Anthony (Tony) Nicholls and Ann Waswo (Emeritus Fellows); Nemir Kirdar and Sadako Ogata (Honorary Fellows)

Speakers include:

• Danny Faure, President of the Seychelles
• Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former President of Brazil

• Hilda Besse Building renovations completed (on time and on budget) and awarded the Oxford Preservation Society Prize for the best building conservation project in 2021. The renovation if funded by nearly 800 Antonian donors
• Establishment of a Standing Committee on Equality and Diversity chaired by Anand Menon (Antonian)
• David Johnson acts as University’s Junior Proctor
• A record five Governing Body Fellows serve on the University Council
• Deaths of Michael Kaser and David Washbrook (Emeritus Fellows), Geoffrey Elliott and Monna Besse (Honorary Fellows); and Estelle Hussain (College Housekeeper from 1978-2000)

• College dining hall renamed Wahba Dining Hall in honour of Dr Magdi Wahba whose family made possible the completion of the works on the Hilda Besse Building
• Maryam Alemzadeh, Lenka Buštíková and Zbigniew Wojnowksi join the Governing Body
• Margaret MacMillan, Antonian, Honorary and Emeritus Fellow and former Warden made a member of the Order of Merit
• Dan Healey and Chris Gerry leave the Governing Body. Dan Healey is elected Emeritus Fellow

• 1990s Gaudy reunion attended by 160 alumni
• Lenka Buštíková, Cathryn Costello, Doug Gollin, Miles Larmer, Simon Quinn all leave the Governing Body to move to positions elsewhere
• Timothy Garton Ash and Kalypso Nicolaïdis also leave the Governing body and are elected Emeritus Fellow
• Deaths of Malcolm Deas and Mark Elvin (Emeritus Fellows)

• Nandini Gooptu is Acting Warden while Roger Goodman is in Japan on sabbatical leave
• Record 287 new students from 57 countries; 36 academic visitors from 14 countries
• Catherine Briddick, Federica Genovese, Raihan Ismail, Amir Lebidoui, Jonathan Lusthaus, Michael Rochlitz join the Governing Body
• Takehiko Kariya leaves the Governing body and is elected Emeritus Fellow
• Death of Celia Kerslake, Emeritus Fellow

Speakers include:

• President of Iceland, Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson (Antonian)

• Launch of 75^th Anniversary celebrations with 42 members of the extended Besse family attending the Governing Body and Honorary Fellows’ Dinner
• Launch of Margaret MacMillan North American Visiting Lectureship; first lecturer is Richard Haass (Antonian)
• Launch of the Tunisia Exchange Programme, funded by Hazem Ben-Gacem
• Launch of Artist-in-Residence programme; first artist is Karen Aarre (Antonian)
• Men’s football team win MCR Cuppers for a second time
• Janaki Srinivasan, Kristi Govella, Michael Odijie, Gregory Thaler join the Governing Body
• Rashid Khalidi is elected Honorary Fellow
• Faisal Devji leaves the Governing Body and is elected Emeritus Fellow
• Deaths of Robert (Bob) Barnes (Emeritus Fellow), Allan Taylor (former Bursar and Emeritus Fellow) and David Marquand (Honorary Fellow)

Speakers include

• President of Montenegro, Jakov Milatović
• EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Joseph Borell