The combined President’s Night & Five Clubs Dinner will take place at the Randolph Hotel on Friday 9th March 2018, at 7 for 7.30pm.
This will be a black tie dinner, and the guest speaker will be Sir Andrew Dilnot, Warden of Nuffield College.
Some information about our speaker is below.
Early life and education
Sir Andrew Dilnot was born in Swansea and attended Olchfa School, a local comprehensive school.He studied PPE at St John’s College, Oxford.
Career
Sir Andrew was Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies from 1991 to 2002.
He was a presenter on BBC Radio 4’s programme about statistics More or Less. Many of the items on the programme deal with the misuse and fabrication of statistics. Dilnot and Michael Blastland wrote The Tiger That Isn’t, which was based on More or Less.
Sir Andrew became Principal of St Hugh’s College in 2002, becoming the only principal of an Oxford College educated at a comprehensive school. He became a Pro Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University in 2005.
On 16 March 2011, it was announced that “with very mixed emotions” Sir Andrew will leave St Hugh’s College in September 2012 to become the Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford, “which will allow me to spend much more time doing economics again.”
In 2011, the government nominated Sir Andrew to be the Chair of the UK Statistics Authority. Parliament formally endorsed the appointment on 13 December 2011. He is the former chair of the UK Statistics Authority. He stood down in 2017.
Dilnot Commission
In June 2010, Sir Andrew was asked by the government to chair the Commission on Funding of Care and Support. He took a sabbatical from St Hugh’s College from March to July 2011.
The Commission published its report in July 2011. The Commission’s primary recommendation was to limit individuals’ contribution to social care costs to £35,000, after which the state would pay. Currently, individuals who do not fit means-tested criteria can be liable for unlimited costs.
The Commission’s report was welcomed by Health Secretary Andrew Lansley, and both David Cameron and Ed Miliband called for cross-party talks on the issue.
Honours
Sir Andrew was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2000 and knighted in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to Economics and Economic Policy.
He is an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, Queen Mary, University of London, the Swansea Institute of Higher Education and the Institute of Actuaries, and holds an Honorary Doctorate from City University and the Open University.