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Sir Michael Charles Scholar KCB (born
3 January 1942) is President of
St John's College, Oxford. He was educated at
St Olave's Grammar School,
St John's College, Cambridge (
BA Classics and Moral Sciences
1964,
MA,
PhD,
Research Fellow,
Honorary Fellow 1999). He held positions at
Harvard University, the
University of California, Berkeley, and the
University of Leicester.
He joined
HM Treasury in 1969 and was appointed Assistant Principal in
1970. He was Private Secretary to the
Chief Secretary to the Treasury 1974-
76. From
1979 until
1981 he worked for
Barclays Bank. He was then Private Secretary to the
Prime Minister (
1981-
83), Under Secretary
HM Treasury (
1983-
87), and Deputy Secretary (
1987-
93). He was
Permanent Secretary of the
Welsh Office 1993-
96 and of the
Department of Trade and Industry 1996-
2001.
He became President of
St John's College, Oxford on 1 August 2001. He is by
incorporation a
Master of Arts and
Doctor of Philosophy of the
University of Oxford. He is also a
Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Chairman of the
Conference of Colleges, and Chairman of the
Oxford University Careers Service, and a member of the Audit Committee. He is also a non-executive Director of Legal and General Investment Management (Holdings). In
1996 he was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the
University of Wales, Aberystwyth and 14 July
2003 he became an Honorary Fellow of
Cardiff University. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the
University of Glamorgan in 1999. He was appointed
Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath in
1991 and advanced to
KCB in
1999.
Sir Michael is a keen musician and received the Associateship Diploma of the
Royal College of Organists in
1965. He was Honorary Secretary of the
Royal Opera House from
1988 to
1993.
Sir Michael's son,
Tom Scholar is a civil servant who was appointed Chief of Staff at 10 Downing Street when
Gordon Brown became
Prime Minister. He has since returned to
HM Treasury as a managing director and is the government's representative on the board of
Northern Rock following its
nationalization.
On 17 July 2007, Sir Michael was nominated by the government to be the 3 day-a-week non-executive chairman of the new
Statistics Board through which the
National Statistician will from
2008 be accountable to Parliament. The board will oversee the
Office for National Statistics, following the "independence" which it obtained from ministers in the
Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007. It will also have a duty to assess all UK government statistics from other departments. Following
Gordon Brown's announcement of new constitutional arrangements for public appointments, Sir Michael became, on 18 July, the first such nominee to appear for vetting before the House of Commons Treasury Committee and to have his nomination subject to confirmation by the House . In February 2008, it was announced that the board, which takes on its powers on 1 April 2008 will be known as the
UK Statistics Authority (UKSA).
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