Paul Flather
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The Honourable Dr Paul Flather |
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| Secretary of The Europaeum | |
| Chairman of The Vicky Noon Educational Foundation | |
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| Born | 28 December 1954 |
| Spouse(s) | Anne Willcocks |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
Dr Paul Charles Ram Flather (born 28 December 1954) is a British academic. He currently serves as the Secretary-General of the Europaeum, an association of leading European universities, and is Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford. He is the son of Shreela Flather, Baroness Flather. He was formerly a journalist working for the BBC, Times newspapers and the New Statesman where he was deputy editor. He has written for many publications on education and politics.
Flather attended Fox Primary School in London from 1962 to 1963, Hurst Court School in Hastings from 1963 to 1968, and won a scholarship to attend Rugby School from 1968 to 1972.
From 1973 to 1976, he took his BA in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with a first-class Honours B.A. After working as a journalist and in politics for several years, Flather returned to Oxford and Balliol in 1985 for the completion his MA and DPhil (PhD) research degree on modern Indian politics. He received the Political Studies Association annual award for the best dissertation in any field of political studies for his doctoral thesis in 1991. His research interests focus on Indian democracy since 1947 and more recently on anti-corruption strategies.
From the mid-1970s and throughout the 1980s, Flather worked as a journalist, first as a freelancer and film, art and book reviewer and later for a number of established regional, national, and international newspapers and media houses. Inter alia, he worked as reporter, correspondent, and editor on media such as the Sheffield Morning Telegraph, Yorkshire TV, BBC Television News, The Times, The Sunday Times, and Times Higher Education, where he worked as feature writer and correspondent, including foreign coverage, specialising in research and social sciences. In 1989, he served as deputy-editor on the New Statesman & Society magazine, commissioning, planning, editing, and writing editorials.
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