Roderick Floud

Sir Roderick Castle Floud FBA (born 1 April 1942) is an economic historian and a leader in the field of anthropometric history. He has been Provost of the London Guildhall University, Vice-Chancellor and President of the London Metropolitan University, Acting Dean of the School of Advanced Study at the University of London, and Provost of Gresham College (2008-2014). He is the son of Bernard Floud, M.P.

Educated at Brentwood School in Essex, Sir Roderick gained his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Oxford (where he was also Treasurer of the Oxford Union), attending Wadham College. He gained his Doctorate in 1966 from Nuffield College, Oxford.

Having been an assistant lecturer in Economic History at University College London, he became a Fellow, Tutor and Director Studies in History at Emmanuel College, Cambridge (1969–1975). Between 1975 and 1988 he was the Professor of Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London, with a year as the Kratter Visiting Professor of European History and Visiting Professor of Economics at Stanford University (1980–1981).

He was the Provost of the London Guildhall University (then called the City of London Polytechnic) between 1988 and 2002. Following that, he was the first Vice-Chancellor of the London Metropolitan University after it was formed out of the merger of the London Guildhall University and the University of North London and attracted controversy over the destruction of a history of London Guildhall University that he had commissioned. In 2004 he moved to become the President of the London Metropolitan University, a position he held until March 2006. He was knighted in 2005.

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