School Leadership Team for the Academic Year 2025-26

School Leadership Team for academic year 2025-26

Head of School: Professor Diego Sánchez-Ancochea

Head of Administration and Finance: Dr Elizabeth Hodges

Deputy Head of School: Professor Rebekah Lee

Director of Graduate Studies & Director of DPhil Studies: Professor Paul Irwin Crookes

Research Director: Professor Yaacov Yadgar

REF Coordinator: Professor Rachel Murphy

Chair of OSGA Examinations Board: Professor Eduardo Posada-Carbo

 

Programmes & Institutes Directors

African Studies: Dr Miles Tendi 

Contemporary Chinese Studies: Professor Denise Van Der Kamp

Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme: Professor Nayanika Mathur

Global and Area Studies: Dr Chigusa Yamaura

Latin American Centre: Professor Eduardo Posada-Carbo

Middle East Studies: Professor Yaacov Yadgar

Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies: Professor Sho Konishi

Russian and East European Studies: Professor Michael Rochlitz

 

Disability Team

OSGA Disability Lead: Professor Paul Irwin Crookes

OSGA Disability Coordinator: Eliza Flindall (helps ensure that adjustments necessary to meet the day-to-day needs of students are put in place)

EDI Lead

Professor Rebekah Lee

Harassment Advisors

Mandy Wassell and Millie Oates

Professor Nicolette Makovicky and Dr Miles Tendi 

OSGA Welfare Lead

Professor Anna Lora-Wainwright