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Andrew Graham (economist)

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Andrew Graham (born 20 June 1942)[1] is a British political economist. From 2001 to 2011 he was master of Balliol College, Oxford. He is currently chair of trustees of the Europaeum (2024),[2] a member of the Advisory Board of Ethics in Technology, Hamburg University of Technology (2023–),[3] and senior fellow of the Oxford Internet Institute (2011–).[4]

He is an honorary fellow of Balliol College and of St Edmund Hall, and an honorary doctor of Civil Law, awarded by the University of Oxford in 2003.[5]

Early life and education

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Andrew Graham was born in Perranporth, Cornwall. He is the son of the novelist Winston Graham. He was educated at Truro Cathedral School and Charterhouse School before reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University.

Career

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On graduation, Graham joined the National Economic Development Office (1964) followed by the Department of Economic Affairs (1964–1966). From the DEA, he moved to No.10 as economic assistant to Thomas Balogh (1966–1967), then economic adviser to the Cabinet, but de facto adviser to the Prime Minister, Harold Wilson. From 1968 to 1969, Graham was economic advisor to the Prime Minister.

Graham was appointed fellow and tutor in Economics at Balliol College, Oxford (1969–1997). In 1974–1976, on leave of absence from Balliol, he was a member of the No. 10 Policy Unit as economic advisor to the Prime Minister, Harold Wilson.[6] In 1988 he became economic advisor to John Smith MP (Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and later Leader of the Labour Party), until Smith's death in 1994. During this time Graham was also consultant to the BBC (1989–1992), putting forward the case for public service broadcasting. Working initially with Gavyn Davies, he has published extensively on this theme.[7]

In 2001, Graham raised £15 million and founded the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), the first multidisciplinary research centre at a major university examining the effects on society of the internet.[8] He was OII acting director (2001–2002) and chair of its advisory board (2002–2012). During his tenure as master, Balliol extended its fundraising (being the first college to raise £1 million from its annual fund), lowered its costs, improved its overall finances[9] and in 2010 set up the Balliol Interdisciplinary Institute.[10] In 2008 Balliol obtained the most first class degrees in finals while the men’s and, later, the women’s rowers became Head of the River (men in 2008, women in 2010 and 2011). In 2011 the establishment of the Balliol Historic Collections Centre in the fully renovated St Cross Church was completed, aided by a donation of £1 million from the Shirley Foundation.

He was acting warden of Rhodes House (2012–2013) and a Rhodes Foundation trustee (2013–2016).[11] Other posts include member of the media advisory committee of the Institute for Public Policy Research (1994–97); board member of Channel 4 Television (1998–2005); consultant to the BBC (1989–1992), writing extensively on the case for public service broadcasting;[12] trustee of the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation (2003–2005); and director of the Scott Trust (2005–2016). From 2014, he was consultant to Mammoth Screen for the BBC series Poldark, based on his father's novel cycle. At the Europaeum, where he is now chair of trustees, having previously served inter alia as the chair of its academic committee, he has led a major restructuring, including increasing the number of full member universities from eleven in 2016 to 17 now,[when?] raising the regular income by more than 70 per cent and launching a Europaeum Scholars' Programme.[13][14]

Academic offices
Preceded by Master of Balliol College, Oxford
2001–2011 		Succeeded by

References

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  1. ^ "Birthday's today". The Telegraph. 20 June 2013. Archived from the original on 20 June 2013. Retrieved 19 June 2014. Mr Andrew Graham, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, 2001–11, 71
  2. ^ "Press release" (PDF). europaeum.org. 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 May 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  3. ^ https://www.tuhh.de/ethics/advisory-board
  4. ^ "OII | Dr Andrew Graham". www.oii.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 February 2025.
  5. ^ "Honorary Fellows". Balliol College, University of Oxford. 28 August 2009.
  6. ^ McNally, T (1 January 2009). "Downing Street Diary: Volume Two. By Bernard Donoughue". Twentieth Century British History. 20 (3): 415–419. doi:10.1093/tcbh/hwp021.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: year (link)
  7. ^ Graham, Andrew. Graham, A. and G. Davies (1990) Why Private Choice Needs Public Broadcasting, Royal Television Society Graham; A. and G. Davies (1997) Broadcasting, Society and Policy in the Multimedia Age (John Libbey, London) (shortlisted for the Krazna-Kraus prize); Graham, A. (1998); “Broadcasting Policy and the Digital Revolution” in Jean Seaton (ed.) Politics and the Media: Harlots and Prerogatives at the Turn of the Millenium (Blackwell Publishers); Graham, A. et al (1999) Public Purposes in Broadcasting: Funding the BBC (University of Luton Press); Graham, A. (2000) “Public Policy Issues for UK Broadcasting” in Steven Barnett et al. e-brittania: the communications revolution (University of Luton Press); Graham, A. (2003) “The BBC is under Siege – and with it democracy itself?” The Guardian, 1 September; Graham, A. (2005) “It’s the Ecology, Stupid” in Dieter Helm (ed.) Can the Market Deliver: Funding Public Service Television in the Digital Age (Indiana University Press); Graham, A. (2011) “Is there still a place for Public Service Television?” in Robert G Picard and Paolo Sicialani (eds.) Effects of the Changing Economics of Broadcasting (Reuters Institute for Journalism and the BBC Trust); and Graham, A (2021) “When Fake News is growing, why kill a Truth-teller?” in Is the BBC in Peril? John Mair (ed.) Bite sized Books.
  8. ^ "OII | Our History". www.oii.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
  9. ^ "Balliol is in a much better [financial] position than it has been for many years" (PDF). Richard Collier, Finance Bursar of Balliol, Balliol College Annual Report 2012/13
  10. ^ "OII | Dr Andrew Graham". www.oii.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
  11. ^ "Trustees & Governance - Rhodes House". Rhodes House - Home of The Rhodes Scholarships.
  12. ^ Graham, A. and G. Davies (1997) Broadcasting, Society and Policy in the Multimedia Age (John Libbey, London); Graham, A. (1998) 'Broadcasting Policy and the Digital Revolution' in Jean Seaton (ed.) Politics and the Media: Harlots and Prerogatives at the Turn of the Millennium (Blackwell Publishers); and Graham, A. et al (1999) Public Purposes in Broadcasting: Funding the BBC (University of Luton Press)
  13. ^ "Press release" (PDF). europaeum.org. 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 May 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  14. ^ Gasser, Brian, ed. (October 2018). "Section 2: reports on the year, News from the Senior Common Room" (PDF). St Edmund Hall Magazine. Vol. XVIII, no. 9. Oxford. p. 27. OCLC 1274769145. Retrieved 10 February 2025. Dr Andrew Graham, Honorary Fellow, has spent much of the last two years substantially reforming and reinvigorating the Europaeum.
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