As vice chancellor at Oxford, Andrew Hamilton is afforded privileged access to policy and politics at home and abroad, although rarely seen engaging with the internal politics of the higher education sector. Perhaps running one the best universities in the world lets him sit apart from all that unpleasantness. But he can pick up the phone and speak to the Prime Minister if he needed to – a claim few could make. Hamilton is off next year to run New York University so this might be his first and last inclusion on the Power List.
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Andrew Hamilton
As vice chancellor at Oxford, Andrew Hamilton is afforded privileged access to policy and politics at home and abroad, although rarely seen engaging with the internal politics of the higher education sector. Perhaps running one the best universities in the world lets him sit apart from all that unpleasantness. But he can pick up the … Continued
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