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Previously, Richard was part of the Development Office at the University of Reading, where he was responsible for a campaign to raise £100 million for the university. He greatly admires what recent Development Directors, Alastair James and Judy Longworth, have accomplished at Balliol and is proud to build on their achievements with the Development Office team. ‘It is such an inspiring moment to join the College’, says Richard, ‘as we look beyond the success of the 750th Anniversary Campaign. Balliol’s Old Members and friends have helped the College to achieve a far more secure financial base, and this continuing generosity has gone a long way towards ensuring that the College can survive in its current form.’ The challenge now, he says, ‘is to ensure that Balliol not only survives, but continues to thrive and lead the way in teaching, in research and in the support we offer to our students’.
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‘Each day I am struck by what a great privilege it is to be part of Balliol,’ says Richard Norman, who came to the College as the new Development Director in June last year. He returns to Oxford having read History and Politics at Magdalen. ‘Like many’, he says, ‘I was well aware of Balliol’s distinguished academic record, its reputation for public service and, first-hand from my own time at Oxford, the outstanding calibre of its students.’ Since he arrived, Richard has enjoyed meeting Old Members in the UK and overseas and looks forward to meeting many more in the near future. He says he has found Balliol’s alumni to be ‘people with a diverse range of views, often with an unexpected perspective and a distinctive brilliance in their chosen field’. It is clear from the response to the appeal to mark Balliol’s 750th anniversary, Richard says, ‘that Old Members understand that what Balliol represents is very special and to be cherished’.
Distinguished Friend of Oxford Richard Salter Qc (1970) received a distinguished friend of oxford award in June 2014 from the Vice-chancellor, andrew Hamilton (right).
New Year Honours Recognition of Distinction The following people received awards in the New Year Honours list 2015:
Five Balliol Fellows have received a Recognition of Distinction award from the University, and with it the title of Professor:
cressida Dick (1979), appointed CBE for services to policing
Martin Burton (Research Fellow in Clinical Medicine and Director of the UK Cochrane Centre): Professor of Otolaryngology
David Bostock (1966), appointed KCMG for services to public administration and accountability
Martin conway (MacLellanWarburg Fellow and Tutor in History): Professor of Contemporary European History
Seamus Perry (Massey Fellow, Tutor in English and Chair of the English Faculty): Professor of English Literature
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Panagis Filippakopoulos (Junior Research Fellow in the Sciences): Professor of Structural Biology rob Judges
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David Wallace (Fairfax Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy): Professor of the Philosophy of Physics