University Leadership

In 2008, Vickers was elected Warden of All Souls, which he had joined as a Prize Fellow twenty-nine years before, and to which his Drummond Chair was attached. He was only the second economist to head the College, which had been founded almost six centuries earlier. In the past, he has served Oxford as a Trustee of Rhodes House, and as a Delegate of the University Press and Chair of its Finance Committee. Beyond Oxford, he has been President of the Institute of Fiscal Studies and of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (Section F), as well as of the RES. At the time of writing, he is President of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics. Moreover, his academic research and publications continue unabated. His is a career of rare distinction.