David Cannadine

Sir David Cannadine is Dodge Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University, a Visiting Professor of History at the University of Oxford, and editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, to which he has recently contributed the entries on Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth II. He has also taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Columbia and London, where he was Director of the Institute of Historical Research. He is the author of many books, including The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, Class in Britain, Ornamentalism: How the British Saw their Empire, In Churchill's Shadow, and The Undivided Past, as well as biographies of G.M. Trevelyan, Andrew W. Mellon, Margaret Thatcher and King George V. His most recent large scale work is a history of the Ford Foundation. He is the immediate past president of the British Academy, a former chair of the Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery, and is currently a trustee of the Wolfson Foundation and a Governor of the London Museum.