Professor Chase F. Robinson received a bachelor’s degree from Brown University and Ph.D. from Harvard University. From 1993 to 2008 he was a Fellow at Wolfson, teaching Islamic History. In addition to over thirty-five scholarly articles, he has authored and edited several monographs and collected works. He is a frequent contributor to such periodicals as the Times Literary Supplement, and he has won fellowships from the British Academy, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the American Research Centre in Cairo. Further he has received grants in support of his research from the Leverhulme Trust, the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the British Academy.

While at Oxford, Robinson also served in a variety of administrative capacities, including as Chairman of the Faculty of Oriental Studies. He was appointed Provost and Senior Vice President of the Graduate Center, City University of New York, in September, 2008. As Provost, he is the Graduate Center’s chief academic officer and he serves as deputy to the President. 

Prof Alex Wilkie is currently the Fielden Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Manchester. His research interests are in mathematical logic, and in particular the applications of model theory to number theory and analysis.

Prior to his appointment at Manchester in 2007, he was the Reader in Mathematical Logic at the University of Oxford, and a Wolfson Governing Body Fellow, for twenty years. Before that he held positions at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Paris, and Yale University. He was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society in 2001. 

Brigadier Alan Gordon was educated at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1959. He served in Kenya, Germany, Malaysia, Egypt/Israel and the UK, including operational tours in Borneo, Northern Ireland and the Sinai. He attended the Staff College in 1970/71 and taught at the Royal Military College of Science in 1980/81. MyHislast post was as Defence Adviser to the British High Commission in India and he retired from the Army in 1994.

Gordon was appointed Bursar and elected a Fellow of Wolfson College in 1995 and served the College until 2004 when he was elected an Emeritus Fellow. Thereafter, he has been Chairman of the National Committee of The Royal Artillery Association, a Trustee of the RA Charitable Fund, Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Army Cadet Force Association and am Chairman RA Widows Insurance Society Ltd, a Governor of Dorset House School, a Director of Sarasin Alpha Funds, Admiral of the Royal Artillery Yacht Club.