Recent appointments of Rhodes Scholars

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The Rhodes community extends warm congratulations to Scholars listed below on their appointments (listed in chronological order, as best we know it). Click on the Scholar's name for further details.

2012

DAVID PHILLIP JONES (Alberta & Balliol 1970), who has been awarded the 2012 Distinguished Service Award for Legal Scholarship by the Law Society of Alberta and the Alberta branch of the Canadian Bar Association.

DOMINIC BARTON (British Columbia & Brasenose 1984), who is to be awarded an honorary degree from the University of British Columbia.

PATRICK COVENEY (Ireland & New College 1992), who has been elected President of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce.

MYRON ROLLE (Florida & St Edmund Hall 2009), who has been signed by the Pittsburgh Steelers NFL football team.

BILL BRADLEY (Missouri & Worcester 1965), who has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Activate Networks, Inc.

VIRANDER SINGH CHAUHAN (India & St Catherine's 1974), who has been awarded a Padma Shri, to be conferred by the President of India, for distinguished service in science and engineering.

SIR ROD EDDINGTON (Western Australia & Lincoln 1974), who has been made an Officer in the Order of Australia.

JOHN FENWICK (Queensland & New College 1967), who has been made a Member of the Order of Australia.

NAOMI WOLF (Connecticut & New College 1985), who has been appointed a weekly columnist by Guardian US.

PETER PAINE (New York & Christ Church 1957), who has been awarded the Ordre des Palmes Académiques for his contributions to French culture.

WAI HO CHENG (Hong Kong & University of Strathclyde 1989)
, who has been made Chief Financial Officer of Kosmopolito Hotels International Limited.

DAVID BOCK (Idaho & Jesus 1967), who has been appointed to the Board of Directors of New York Mortgage Trust, Inc.

JOHN HOOD (New Zealand & Worcester 1976), who has been appointed Chairman of Study Group.

JOHN ADAMS (New Brunswick & St Peter's 1965), who has been appointed Skelton-Clark Fellow in the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University, Canada.

REMZI CEJ (Newfoundland & St Antony's 2008)
, who has been appointed chairperson of the Human Rights Commission in Newfoundland.

KENJI YOSHINO (Massachusetts & Magdalen 1991), who has been apppointed a visiting professor at the University of Hawaii Manoa's William S. Richardson School of Law.

CRAIG SCOTT  (Maritimes & St John's 1984)
, who has been chosen as the NDP candidate for the Toronto-Danforth riding in the Canadian House of Commons.

JOHN NAGL (Nebraska & St John's 1988) who has been appointed the first Minerva Research Fellow at the U.S. Naval Academy, and has been appointed to the Board of Directors of VoicePlate.

REVD RONALD THWAITES (Jamaica & Campion Hall 1968)
, who has been appoined Minister for Education in Jamaica.


2011


SEAN RILEY (Nova Scotia & Exeter 1974), who has been named a Member of the Order of Canada.

JANE HARDING (New Zealand & Brasenose 1978)
, who has been appointed Distinguished Professor in the Liggins Institute at the University of Auckland.

JOHN ETTINGER (New York & Merton 1973)
, who has been appointed CEO of the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, with effect from January 2012.

SABIEH ANWAR (Pakistan & University 2001), who has been appointed Chair of the Physics Department at Lahore University of Management Sciences.

ANITA MEHTA (India & St Catherine's 1978), who has been appointed Science Ambassador for the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum.

RALPH KING (Victoria & Merton 1982), who has been appointed as the Australian Ambassador to Egypt, with effect from January 2012.

RACHEL KLEINFELD (Alaska & St Antony's 2000), who has been selected to serve on the new Foreign Affairs Advisory Board for the U.S. State Department.

STROBE TALBOTT (Ohio & Magdalen 1968), who has been appointed chair of the new Foreign Affairs Advisory Board for the U.S. State Department.

JARED COHEN (California & St John’s 2004), who is the recipient of a 2011 Top American Leaders award from The Washington Post’s ‘On Leadership’ section and the Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership.

NICHOLAS KRISTOF (Oregon & Magdalen 1981), who is the recipient of a 2011 Top American Leaders award from The Washington Post’s ‘On Leadership’ section and the Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership.

JOHN HOOD (New Zealand & Worcester 1976), who has been appointed Chairman-designate of the URENCO Group.

DAVID McBEAN (Jamaica & St John's 1988), who has been appointed to the Board of Lascelles, deMercado & Co Ltd.

HOLLY WALKER (New Zealand & University 2007)
, who has been elected to the New Zealand Parliament on the Green Party list.

MARNIE HUGHES-WARRINGTON (Tasmania & Merton 1992), who has been appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the Australian National University, with effect from early 2012.

REBECCA RICHARDS (Australia-at-Large & Magdalen 2011), who has been announced as South Australia's Young Australian of the Year for 2012.

JOHN FINNIS (South Australia & University 1962), who has been appointed Visiting Professor in the fields of Philosophy, Law, and Bioethics at the University of Notre Dame Australia.

EBOO PATEL (Illinois & Lady Margaret Hall 1998), who has been awarded Hofstra University's Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize for 2012, and has also recently been appointed to the Lund-Gill Chair for 2011-12 at Dominican University.

JUAN SEPULVEDA (Kansas & Queen's 1985), who has been appointed Senior Advisor for Latino Affairs at the U.S. Democratic National Committee.

PETE BUTTIGIEG (Indiana & Pembroke 2005), who has been elected Mayor of South Bend, Indiana.

DAYNE WALLING (Michigan & St Peter's 1996), who has been re-elected Mayor of Flint, Michigan.

BOBBY JINDAL (Louisiana & New College 1992), who has been re-elected Governor of Louisiana.

JOHN McCALL MacBAIN (Quebec & Wadham 1980), who has become a member of the Chancellor's Court of Benefactors at the University of Oxford, and been awarded an honorary degree by Brock University in Canada.

ALAN GAYER (Massachusetts & Balliol 1965), who has been appointed to the board of directors of Fallon Community Health Plan.

NGAIRE WOODS (New Zealand & Balliol 1987), who has been appointed inaugural Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government in the University of Oxford.

GILBERT STRANG (Massachusetts & Balliol 1955), who has been appointed the first MathWorks Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

MAURICE A. JONES (Virginia & St John's 1986)
, who has been nominated by President Obama for the position of deputy secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

SYLVIA MATHEWS BURWELL (West Virginia & Worcester 1987), who has been appointed president of the Walmart Foundation.

JONATHAN WILKINSON (Prairies & Exeter 1988), who has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of BioteQ Environmental Technologies, Inc., and a member of the Board of BioteQ. 

ALBERT CHO (Arizona & Jesus 2002), who has been awarded a White House Fellowship at the U.S. Department of State.

MARK MARTINS (Maryland & Balliol 1983), who has been appointed chief prosecutor, Office of Military Commissions, U.S. Department of Defense, and earlier received the Medal of Freedom from the Harvard Law School.

DEBRA SLADE (Prairies & Magdalen 1981), who has been appointed Director of Spiritual Care at Norwalk Hospital, Connecticut.

BRIAN ROLFES (Prairies & Wadham 1989), who has been recognised with a Future Leader Award by the organisation 'Out on Bay Street'.

PETER HESSLER (Missouri & Mansfield 1992), who has been awarded the MacArthur Fellowship.

MICHAEL A. McFAUL (Montana & St John's 1986), whose nomination to be the United States Ambassador to Russia has been sent by President Obama to the U.S. Senate.

TREVOR MUNDEL (South Africa-at-Large & Balliol 1984), who has been appointed President of the Global Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

JACKIE SHEPPARD (Newfoundland & St Hilda's 1977), who has been reappointed Chair of the Board of Directors of the Research & Development Corporation (RDC) in Newfoundland and Labrador.

JANE SARGISON (Tasmania & Jesus 1998), who has been appointed to the Board of Southern Water in Tasmania, and was earlier named Tasmanian Professional Engineer of the Year (2011).

DAVID MORGAN (Newfoundland & Oriel 1950), who has been awarded an honorary Doctorate of Science by Memorial University, Canada.

AARON OLVER (Wisconsin & Brasenose 1997), who has been appointed Director of Economic Development for the City of Madison, Wisconsin.

JAN DURAND (Paul Roos Gymnasium, Stellenbosch & Templeton 1990), who was appointed a non-executive director of Discovery Holdings Ltd and related companies.

JAMES BELICH (New Zealand & Nuffield 1978), who has been awarded the New Zealand Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement for non-fiction.

SARAH KASS (Illinois & Magdalen 1989)
, who has been appointed Chief Programme Officer at Yad Hanadiv.

BEN CANNON (Missouri & Corpus Christi 2000)
, who has been appointed by Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber as Education Policy Advisor. 

WESLEY K. CLARK (Arkansas & Magdalen 1966), who has been appointed to Prairie Nutrition's Strategic Advisory Board. 

SIMON HOLLINGSWORTH (Tasmania & Exeter 1997)
, who has been appointed Chief Executive of the Australian Sports Commission.

ERICA BORGGREN (Illinois & Oriel 2002), who has been nominated by Governor Quinn to be director of the Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs.

ASHTON B. CARTER (Connecticut & St John's 1976), who has been nominated by President Obama to be Deputy Secretary of Defense.

ARTHUR MOTYER (Bermuda & Christ Church 1945), who will be posthumously awarded the Bermuda Arts Council 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award in September 2011.

GOODWIN LIU (California & Lady Margaret Hall 1991), who has been nominated by Governor Brown to the Supreme Court of California.

EDWARD M. IACOBUCCI (Ontario & St John's 1991), who has been appointed as Competition Policy Scholar at the C.D. Howe Institute.

JOHN HOOD (New Zealand & Worcester 1976), who has been appointed Chair of the Rhodes Trustees, in succession to Lord Waldegrave, with effect from 1 December 2011.

SABIEH ANWAR (Pakistan & University 2001), who in June 2011 was selected by the Pakistan Council for Science and Technology for the Research Productivity Award for the year 2010-11, and who had previously been appointed Acting Chair of the Physics Department at Lahore University of Management Sciences.

S
ANDRA FREDMAN (South Africa-at-Large & Wadham 1979), who has been appointed Rhodes Professor of the Laws of the British Commonwealth and the United States at the University of Oxford, with effect from 1 September 2011.

DELROY CHUCK (Jamaica & St Catherine's 1973), who has been appointed Minister of Justice of Jamaica.

PROSSER GIFFORD (Connecticut & Merton 1951), who has been honoured with an Alumni Award by the Hotchkiss Alumni Association.

GRAEME DAVISON (Victoria & Balliol 1964)
, who has been appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia.

JOHN WYLIE (Queensland & Balliol 1983), who has been appointed a Director of Climate Bridge.

DANNY WILLIAMS (Newfoundland & Keble 1969), who has been appointed club President and CEO of the new American Hockey League franchise which is moving from Winnipeg to St John's, Newfoundland.

TRACY ROBINSON (Jamaica & Balliol 1992), who has been elected to serve on the Inter American Commission on Human Rights.

KARL MARLANTES (Oregon & University 1967), who has been awarded the 2011 W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction.

KAREN BAKKER (Ontario & St John's 1995), who has been named one of the 'Top 40 Under 40' in Canada.

TERRENCE MALICK (Oklahoma & Magdalen 1966)
, who has been awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his film 'The Tree of Life'.

KATHERINE (HUBBARD) MICHELMORE (Bermuda & Magdalen 1995), who has been appointed to the Senate of Bermuda.

KNUTE BUEHLER (Oregon & Merton 1988), who has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Ford Family Foundation, with effect from 1 January 2012.

NOTHANDO NDEBELE (Zimbabwe & Wadham 1998), who has been appointed Head of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) Research at Renaissance Capital, Johannesburg.

NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF (Oregon & Magdalen 1981)
, who has been awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by Brown University.

JULIAN HARRIS (Georgia & Balliol 2000), who has been appointed Director of the Office of Medicaid in Massachusetts.

STEPHEN FERRUOLO (Rhode Island & St John's 1971)
, who has been appointed Dean of the University of San Diego School of Law, commencing 1 August 2011.

ROBERT RAWSON (Ohio & New College 1966), who has been awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by Princeton University.

MICHAEL A. McFAUL (Montana & St John's 1986), who is to be nominated by President Obama to be the United States Ambassador to Russia.

MARC TESSIER-LAVIGNE (Québec & New College 1980)
, who has been awarded an honorary degree by McGill University.

STEPHEN CLARKSON (Ontario & New College 1959), who has been invested as a Member of the Order of Canada.

BOB RAE (Ontario & Balliol 1969), who has been appointed as interim Leader of the Liberal Party in Canada.

VIVIAN S. LEE (Oklahoma & Balliol 1986), who has been appointed Senior Vice-President for Health Sciences at the University of Utah, commencing July 1, 2011.

RAYMOND LIM SIANG KEAT (Singapore & Balliol 1984)
, who has been re-elected as a Member of Parliament in Singapore, representing the People's Action Party.

CHEN SHOW-MAO (Singapore & Corpus Christi 1986), who has been elected as a Member of Parliament in Singapore, representing the Workers' Party.

JAMES BELICH (New Zealand & Nuffield 1978), who has been appointed to the Beit Professorship of Commonwealth and Imperial History at the University of Oxford, commencing October 2011.

ROBIN MARGO (South Africa & Balliol 1967), who has been appointed as the inaugural chair of the New Israel Fund’s Australian branch, a new organisation which officially launches in June 2011.

DANNY WILLIAMS (Newfoundland & Keble 1969), who has been awarded an honorary degree from the University of Prince Edward Island.

MAURA ABELN SMITH (New York & Lady Margaret Hall 1977), who was appointed executive vice president of government affairs, general counsel and corporate secretary at PepsiCo, effective May 5.

PETER BUTTIGIEG (Indiana & Pembroke 2005), who has won the Democratic nomination for Mayor of South Bend, Indiana.

STUART B. MUNSCH (North Dakota & Hertford 1985), who has been appointed to the rank of Rear Admiral (Lower Half) in the United States Navy.

BOB RAE (Ontario & Balliol 1969), who has been re-elected to represent Toronto Centre in the Canadian Parliament (Liberal).

KATE COCHRANE (Ontario & St John's 1991), who will be inducted into the University of Toronto Sports Hall of Fame on June 2.

SUSAN BILLINGTON HARPER (Maryland/DC & Balliol 1981), who has been appointed Provost and Dean of Faculty at Westmont College, with effect from August 2011.

LISETTE NIEVES (New York & Corpus Christi 1992), who has been appointed Belle Zeller Distinguished Visiting Professor in Public Policy at the City University of New York (CUNY), and a 'Social Entrepreneur in Residence' at the Blue Ridge Foundation.

JOHN GAVENTA (Tennessee & Balliol 1971), who has been appointed director of the Coady International Institute at St. Francis Xavier University, with effect from August 2011.

JAMES EDELMAN (Western Australia &  Magdalen 1998), who in April 2011 was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, with effect from July 2011.

MARSTON GIBSON (Commonwealth Caribbean & Keble 1977), who has been appointed Chief Justice of Barbados.

WENDY CARLIN (Western Australia & Wadham 1979), who has been appointed to the UK Office of Budget Responsibility expert advisory panel.

PETER PAINE (New York & Christ Church 1957), who has been elected an Honorary Student (i.e. Honorary Fellow) of Christ Church, and is to be recognised by the University of Oxford as a Distinguished Friend of Oxford.

ROBERT HARRISON (New Jersey & St John's 1976), who has been elected chair of the Cornell University Board of Trustees.

CHRISTOPHER HOWARD (Texas & St Anne’s 1991), who has been nominated by President Obama as a member of the National Security Education Board.

EDWIN CAMERON (South Africa-at-Large & Keble 1976), who is to be awarded the degree of Doctor of Civil Law, honoris causa, by the University of Oxford.

VIRGINIA SEITZ (Delaware & Brasenose 1978), who was confirmed in June 2011 to be Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, in the U.S. Department of Justice, having been nominated by President Obama on 5 January 2011.

MYRON ROLLE (Florida & St Edmund Hall 2009), on his appointment to the Board of Trustees of Hampden-Sydney College.

DANIEL WILNER (Quebec & Brasenose 2007)
, on his election to the Board of The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Connecticut.

BRADLEY HOSMER (North Dakota & Exeter 1959), who was nominated by New Mexico Governor Susana Mar­tinez to the Board of Regents of the Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico.

MICHELLE GAVIN (Arizona & Lincoln 1996), who has been nominated by President Obama to be the U.S. Ambassador to Botswana.

DAVID PHILLIP JONES (Alberta & Balliol 1970), who has been re-appointed for his fourth term as the Conflict of Interest Commissioner for the Legislative Assembly of Yukon.

DANIEL ESTY (Massachusetts & Balliol 1981)
, who has been announced as head of Connecticut's proposed Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

CAROLINE HOXBY (nee MINTER) (Ohio & Magdalen 1988), who was appointed to give the Clarendon Lectures in Economics at the University of Oxford in February 2011.

LOIS QUAM (Minnesota & Trinity 1983), who has been appointed Executive Director of the Global Health Initiative in the U.S. State Department.

NANCY-ANN MIN DePARLE (Tennessee & Balliol 1979), who has been appointed Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy at the White House, Washington, DC.

CATHERINE SANDOVAL (California & St Antony's 1984), who has been appointed to the California Public Utilities Commission.

CARLA PETERMAN (Maryland/DC & New College 1999), who has been appointed to the California Energy Commission.

BRUCE REED (Idaho & Lincoln 1982)
, who has been appointed Chief of Staff to U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden.

GORDON WASSERMAN (Québec & New College 1959), who has entered the House of Lords as a Conservative Party peer.

GINA M. RAIMONDO (Rhode Island & New College 1993), who has taken office as General Treasurer of Rhode Island.

NGAIRE WOODS (New Zealand & Balliol 1987), who has been appointed a non-executive director on the Arup Group Board.


2010


DAVID BARAGWANATH (New Zealand & Balliol 1964), who was appointed as a Knight Companion in the New Zealand Order of Merit.

SCOTT MATHESON (Utah & Magdalen 1975), who was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in December 2010 to be a judge of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver, having been nominated by President Barack Obama in March 2010 (click here for details).

RICHARD W. TSIEN (New Jersey & Wadham 1966) , whose appointment as the first director of the Neuroscience Institute and the Druckenmiller Professor of Neuroscience at the New York University (NYU) Langone Medical Center, effective January 2012, was announced in December 2010.

H.E. MR FESTUS G. MOGAE, a Rhodes Trustee, who has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Mastercard Foundation.

MARK MOSHINSKY, Q.C. (Australia-at-Large & Magdalen 1989)
, whose election as Chairman of the Victorian Bar Association was announced on 1 December 2010.

DAVID PHILLIP JONES, QC (Alberta & Balliol 1970)
, who has been elected Chancellor of the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada, and appointed a Canon of the Diocese of Edmonton.

CAROLYN EVANS (Victoria & Exeter 1995)
, who has been appointed Dean of the University of Melbourne Law School, commencing 1 February 2011.

JOSEPH M. TORSELLA (Pennsylvania & New College 1986), who has been nominated by President Barack Obama to be U.S. Representative to the United Nations for U.N. Management and Reform.

WILLIAM CRONON (Wisconsin & Jesus 1976) , who was elected president of the American Historical Association.

DAVID VITTER (Louisiana & Magdalen 1983)
, who was re-elected to represent Louisiana in the U.S. Senate as a Republican.

JAMES ('JIM') COOPER (Tennessee & Oriel 1975), who was re-elected as a Congressman from Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat.

JAMES ('JIM') HIMES (New Jersey & St Edmund Hall 1988), who was re-elected as a Congressman from Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat.

DESIREE COX (Commonwealth Caribbean & Pembroke 1987), who has been appointed a Distinguished Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow.

DAVID BARAGWANATH (New Zealand & Balliol 1964), who has been appointed as Appeals Chamber Judge at the UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon.

JOHN McCALL MacBAIN (Quebec & Wadham 1980), who has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Dalhousie University.

RICHARD L. KLASS (New York & Trinity 1963), who has been appointed by President Obama as a member of the American Battle Monuments Commission.

LEONARD P. STARK (Delaware & Magdalen 1991),
who has been nominated by President Obama to be a Federal District Judge for Delaware.

BEN SHERWOOD (California & Magdalen 1986), who has been appointed as President of ABC News in the US, commencing in 2011.

JOHN POYNTER (Victoria & Magdalen 1951), who has been appointed a Senior Fellow at Trinity College, University of Melbourne.

CHISANGA PUTA-CHEKWE (Zambia & Exeter 1976), who was awarded a Mwape Peers Award for Leadership in October 2010.

KENNETH MWENDA (Zambia & Exeter 1992), who was awarded a Mwape Peers Award for Law in October 2010.

RICHARD ('RICKY') SKERRITT (British Caribbean & Keble 1980), was elected as Chairman of the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) Council of Ministers in October 2010.  

SARA KREINDLER (Manitoba & Pembroke 1999), who received a Harkness Fellowship in Health Care Policy and Practice.

GORDON WASSERMAN (Quebec & New College 1959), who has been appointed by the British Prime Minister as Advisor to HM Government on Policing and Criminal Justice.

ROBERT O'NEILL  (Victoria & Brasenose 1961)
, who has been elected a Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs.

DANIEL BOTSMAN (Queensland & Merton 1992), who has been appointed Professor of History at Yale University.

PETER KOCH (Diocesan College, Rondebosch & Mansfield 1995)
, who has been appointed to the Board of the Cooperative Banks Development Agency in South Africa.

STEVEN B. HARRISON (Idaho & Queen's 1988), who has been appointed as President of National Airlines.

MARC TESSIER-LAVIGNE (Québec & New College 1980), who has been appointed as the tenth President of Rockefeller University in New York, commencing in March 2011.

LILLIAN PIERCE (California & Magdalen 2002)
, who was appointed as Marie Curie Fellow at the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford, and is also a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College.

BRYAN HORRIGAN (Queensland & University 1986)
, who has been appointed the Louis Waller Chair of Law and Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Law at Monash University.

ROBERT MCCALLUM (Tennessee & Christ Church 1968), who joined Fulbright & Jaworski in Washington in September 2010, handling complex commercial litigation and international trade cases.

CHRISTOPH LOENARZ (Germany & Merton 2007), who was appointed as William R. Miller Junior Research Fellow at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, commencing in September 2010.

JARED COHEN (California & St John's 2004), who was appointed to be director of Google Ideas.

TONY ABBOTT (New South Wales & Queen's 1981)
, who was re-elected Leader of the Liberal Party, and so Leader of the Opposition, in the Australian federal parliament in September 2010.

MALCOLM TURNBULL (New South Wales & Brasenose 1978), who was appointed as Shadow Minister for Communications in Australia in September 2010.

DAVID McBEAN (Jamaica & St John's 1988), who has been appointed Managing Director of LIME Customer Solutions.

DAVID WHITE (Missouri & Queen's 1990), who was named 'Entertainment, Sports & Art Law Section Attorney of the Year' by the National Bar Association in August 2010.

PAT HADEN (California & Worcester 1975), who became the Athletic Director at the University of Southern California on 3 August 2010.

SHAYNA STROM (Pennsylvania & New College 2002), who has been appointed Advisor to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Executive Office of the President, Washington, D.C. (July 2010).

FRANK LARKINS (Victoria & Wadham 1966), who is serving as Chief Scientist Energy for the Victorian Department of Primary Industries in Australia.

PETER RATHJEN (South Australia & New College 1985), who was appointed as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Tasmania, commencing in March 2011.

ANDREW MURRAY (Rhodesia & University 1970), who was appointed Chair of the Western Australian Regional Development Trust in June 2010. 

JACKIE SHEPPARD (Newfoundland & St Hilda's 1977)
, who was appointed a non-executive director of Cairn Energy in May 2010.

CORY BOOKER (New Jersey & Queen's 1992), who was re-elected Mayor of Newark, New Jersey, in May 2010.

ANTHONY PREUS (Iowa & Trinity 1959), who was appointed Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University, in May 2010

GAMINI PEIRIS (Ceylon & New College 1968), who was appointed as Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka in April 2010.

AARON OLVER (Wisconsin & Brasenose 1997), who was appointed by Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle as Secretary of the Department of Commerce in April 2010.

DAVID FERREIRA (South Africa-at-Large & Magdalen 1986), who became Managing Director for Innovative Finance and head of the Washington, D.C., office of GAVI Alliance in April 2010.

PHILIP MANN (Colorado & Christ Church 2001), who has been appointed music director of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra.

ALAN D. BERSIN (New York & Balliol 1968), who was nominated by President Barack Obama in March 2010 to serve as Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security.

CHRYSTIA FREELAND  (Prairies & St Antony's 1991),  who was appointed Global Editor-at-Large at Reuters.

GOODWIN LIU (California & Lady Margaret Hall 1991), who was nominated by President Barack Obama in February 2010 to be a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

KEN BRECHER (Illinois & New College 1967), whose appointment as President of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles was announced in February 2010.

JAN DURAND (Paul Roos Gymnasium, Stellenbosch & Templeton College, 1990), who was appointed a non-executive director of RMB Holdings in February 2010.

EMERY SEVERIN (South Australia & St Catherine's 1978), whose appointment as CEO of Nuplex Industries was announced in February 2010.

GILES WHITE (Diocesan College, Rondebosch & University 1976), who became a Director of Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited on 1 January 2010.

BRYAN HILLIS (Prairies & Keble 1979), who was appointed president of Luther College at the University of Regina in Canada.