Professors and Speakers

Gresham College has a consistent set of eight professors that give free lectures every year. We also have visiting professors and guest speakers giving up to five lectures a week.

Gresham Professor of Astronomy

Outreach Officer at the Instituteof Astronomy and Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, Professor Carolin Crawford is one of Britain's foremost science communicators...

Gresham Professor of Commerce

Professor Ken Costa is the former Chairman of Lazard International.

Ken Costa studied philosophy and law at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, where he became President of...

Gresham Professor of Divinity

Professor the Rt Revd Lord Harries was the Bishop of Oxford from 1987 to 2006. He was previously the Dean of King's College London, where he is now a Fellow and an Honorary Professor of Theology....

Gresham Professor of Geometry

Professor John D Barrow FRS has been a Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge since 1999, carrying out research in mathematical physics, with special interest in...

Gresham Professor of Law

Professor the Baroness Deech of Cumnor DBE received her Bachelors and Masters degrees from St. Anne's College, Oxford, before going on to further legal studies in the U.S.A. and the Netherlands....

Gresham Professor of Music

Christopher Hogwood CBE is a world-renowned conductor, keyboard player, musicologist, writer, editor and broadcaster.  Having been the director of the Academy of Ancient Music for over thirty...

Gresham Professor of Physic

Professor William Ayliffe is a Consultant Ophthalmologist in the NHS and at the Lister Hospital in London.  As well as being a practising clinician and teacher, he also continues to carry out...

Gresham Professor of Rhetoric

Professor Richard J. Evans FBA is Regius Professor of Modern History and President of Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge. 

He has lectured extensively all over the world at...

Visiting Professor of the Built Environment

Dr Simon Thurley is a leading architectural historian, a regular broadcaster on television and radio and is the Chief Executive of English Heritage, the Government's principal advisor on the...

Visting Professor of Psychology

Glenn D. Wilson is one of Britain's best-known psychologists. He has appeared on numerous television and radio programmes and has published more than 150 scientific articles and 33 books. He is an...