Although initially trained as a theoretical physicist, Mr Colin Maltby pursued a career in investment management. He was Head of Investments at BP from August 2000 to June 2007 and previously Chief Investment Officer of Equitas Limited from its formation in 1996. His career in investment management began in 1975 with NM Rothschild & Sons and included 15 years with the Kleinwort Benson Group, where he was Chief Executive of Kleinwort Benson Investment Management from 1988 to 1995.

Maltby holds an Oxford MA and MSc in Physics, and also studied at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and he was President of the Oxford Union in 1973. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Great Britain and of the Royal Society of Arts; a member of the RSA ‘Tomorrow’s Company’ Inquiry team in 1993-5; and a founder advisor to the Carbon Disclosure Project. 

Maltby has served as a non-executive Director of various public companies and agencies, and as an adviser to numerous institutional investors, including pension funds and insurance companies, and to private equity and venture capital funds in both Europe and the United States. Currently, he is a non-executive director of several listed investment companies.

Catherine Quinn is the Chief Executive and Under Treasurer of Middle Temple. She is responsible for Middle Temple’s historic estate on the banks of the Thames as well as the training of students and award of degrees of the Bar, and the Inn’s property and events management businesses. Previously, Quinn headed the grant-giving operations of the Wellcome Trust, where she led the redesign of the Trust’s business processes and systems.

Before working at the Trust, Quinn established and ran an Oxford-based consultancy, prior to which she was Director of Research Services at the University of Oxford, where her remit covered responsibility for research funding, sponsor relations, commercial contracts, and intellectual property rights.

Quinn holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from UK and US universities, and an MBA from the Saïd Business School, Oxford. She is a Governor of the Contemporary Dance Trust and a Trustee of London Children’s Ballet.  

Professor Müller is Managing Director of Oxford Climate Policy (a not-for-profit company aimed at capacity building for developing country climate change negotiators), and Director of the European Capacity Building Initiative (ECBI), an international initiative for sustained capacity building in support of international climate change negotiations. In the context of the UN climate change negotiations, Müller is an Adviser to the Least Developed Country Group Chair (2011-12) and the Africa Group Chair (2012-13). He participated in the deliberations of the Transitional Committee (TC) for the Green Climate Fund (GCF) as Adviser to the LDC TS members, and is also advising on the Green Climate Fund Board.

At Oxford University he is Convener International Climate Policy Research at the Environmental Change Institute (ECI), Visiting Professor at the Social Sciences Division, and a Member of the Faculty of Philosophy.

Müller received a doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Oxford and was formerly a Research Fellow at Wolfson College and a Lecturer in Logic at the Queen's College, Oxford.  He has a Diploma in Mathematics from the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland. 

Professor Sir Richard Sorabji is a fellow and member of the British, American and Royal Flemish Academies.

He is the author of Aristotle on Memory; Necessity Cause and Blame; Time, Creation and the Continuum; Matter, Space and Motion; Animal Minds and Human Morals; Emotion and Peace of Mind; Self; Gandhi and the Stoics; Moral Conscience through the Ages; Freedom of Speech and Expression; a biography Opening Doors: The Untold Story of Cornelia Sorabji; a 3-volume Sourcebook on the philosophy linking late antiquity to the middle ages; Electrifying New Zealand, Russia and India: The three lives of engineer Allan Monkhouse; editor of 117 volumes of translation from the period, and co-editor with a fellow-Wolfsonian of The Ethics of War: Shared Problems in Different traditions - based on a Wolfson conference.

Sir Arnold Burgen was a Lecturer in Pharmacology, Middlesex Hospital Medical School; Professor of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada and Professor of Pharmacology, Cambridge University.He was formerly the Director of the National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, Fellow and Honorary Fellow, Downing College, Cambridge, and Master of Darwin College, Cambridge.

Burgen holds Honorary Degrees from McGill, Zurich, Liverpool, Surrey, Utrecht, and Leeds. His work focused on the mechanisms of drug recognition and action at receptors and Cholinergic neurotransmission.

Professor Andrew Miller became a Research Fellow of Wolfson in 1967, a Governing Body Fellow in 1975, and an Honorary Fellow in 1995. He was also Wine Steward of the College from 1980-83.

Professor Andrew Hamilton has been Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 6 October 2009.

Hamilton read Chemistry at the University of Exeter, after which he studied for a MA at the University of British Columbia and DPhil from Cambridge University. He also spent a post-doctoral period at the Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg.  

In 1981 Hamilton was appointed Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University, then in 1988 served as a department chair and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh. He joined Yale in 1997 and was Provost of Yale from 2004 until October 2008, where he combined a wide-range of administrative duties with teaching and research. 

Hamilton's research interests lie at the interface of organic and biological chemistry, with particular focus on the use of synthetic design for the understanding, mimicry and potential disruption of biological processes. His academic achievements have been widely recognized internationally. In 1999 he received the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society;  he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2004 and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2010; and received the International Izatt Christiansen Award in Macrocyclic Chemistry in 2011.

Since retiring from Wolfson in 1999, Sir Tony Hoare has been employed as a full time researcher at Microsoft Research Ltd. in Cambridge. He continues his research interests in a Unifying Theory of Programming. Hoare hopes that it will be comprehensible to secondary school pupils of A-level mathematics, and useful to professional programmers in writing commercial software. 

In addition, Hoare hopes to publish a popular science book on computing, which traces the basic ideas of the subject back to logicians and philosophers of the past.

Professor Richard Gombrich taught Indian religions and languages for 40 years at Oxford University and was Boden Professor of Sanskrit from 1976-2004.  In particular, Gombrich is interested in Buddhism and Pali (the language of Theravada Buddhist scripture); he has been President of the Pali Text Society and has lived in a Sinhalese village.

Gombrich's main research has been into the anthropology and the early history of Buddhism, publishing ten books and over 100 articles. In 2004, when he reached mandatory retirement, he founded the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies which is based at Wolfson.

In addition to his Professorship, Jim Mann is also a Consultant Physician (Endocrinology) in Dunedin Hospital.  He is also the Director of the Edgar National Centre for Diabetes and Obesity Research (ENCDOR) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Human Nutrition. Mann is a principal investigator for the Riddet Institute, a national Centre of Research Excellence at Massey University, Palmerston North.

Mann has over 300 publications and is the recipient of a great many awards.